1. Fabrication and High Heat Flux Tests of Plasma Sprayed Tungsten Coated Carbon and TZM
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Tokunaga, Kazutoshi, Kubota, Yusuke, Noda, Nobuaki, Imamura, Yoshio, Kurumada, Akira, Yoshida, Naoaki, Sogabe, Toshiaki, Kato, Toshiyuki, and Schedler, Bertram
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Coating ,High heat flux ,Fusion device ,Tungsten ,Diver-tor - Abstract
High density tungsten is coated by vacuum plasma spraying technique (VPS) on tiles, 20mn x 20mn x 10mm. Substrate materials are carbon/carbon composite (CX-2002U), isotropic fine-grained graphite(IG-430U). Thickness of the tungsten-coating layer is 0.5 mm. The tungsten-coated tiles are jointed by Ti brazing on the OFHC surface with a cooling tube. In addition, VPS-W coated TZM also has been brazed. Thermal response and thermal fatigue lifetime tests using an electron beam facility have been carried out on the tungsten coated mock-ups under the active cooling condition. Heat flux is changed from 1 to 10 MW/m^2. The heat flux experiments have been carried out under the condition that the water flow velocity, pressure and temperature are 15.0 m/s, 0.5 MPa and 293 K, respectively. The use of high density VPS-W improves the performance of mock-ups under steady state heat flux condition. In addition, in the case of high density W coated CX-2002U on OFHC and W coated TZM on OFHC, it is demonstrated that the mock-up successfully withstood 100 cycles of heat loads at 10 MW/m^2 at steady state.
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- 2005