
doi: 10.2172/654183
Net erosion rates of carbon target plates have been measured in situ for the DIII-D lower divertor. The principal method of obtaining this data is the DiMES sample probe. Recent experiments have focused on erosion at the outer strike-point of two divertor plasma conditions: (1) attached (Te > 40 eV) ELMing plasmas and (2) detached (Te 10 cm/year, even with incident heat flux 10%. In ELM-free discharges, this erosion rate can account for the rate of carbon accumulation in the core plasma. Divertor plasma detachment eliminates physical sputtering, while spectroscopically measured chemical erosion yields are also found to be low (Y(C/D{sup +}) {le} 2.0 {times} 10{sup {minus}3}). This leads to suppression of net erosion at the outer strike-point, which becomes a region of net redeposition ({approximately} 4 cm/year). The private flux wall is measured to be a region of net redeposition with dense, high neutral pressure, attached divertor plasmas. Leading edges intercepting parallel heat flux ({approximately} 50 MW/m{sup 2}) have very high net erosion rates ({approximately} 10 {micro}m/s) at the OSP of an attached plasma. Leading edge erosion, and subsequent carbon redeposition, caused by tile gaps can account for half of the deuterium codeposition in the DIII-D divertor.
Plasma Impurities, Divertors, Erosion, Experimental Data, Doublet-3 Device, Heat Flux, Deposition, 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion, Carbon, Environmental Transport, Edge Localized Modes
Plasma Impurities, Divertors, Erosion, Experimental Data, Doublet-3 Device, Heat Flux, Deposition, 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion, Carbon, Environmental Transport, Edge Localized Modes
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