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US 12,451,260 B2Granted
Planar coil stellarator including removable field shaping units
AssigneeThea Energy, Inc.
InventorsDavid Allen Gates, Charles Pendleton Stuntz Swanson, Andrew Thomas Cote
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to stellarators or assemblies including a stellarator including removable and/or replaceable components, such as removable field shaping units and/or removable shaping coils. In some embodiments, the stellarators of the present disclosure include a toroidal sector, which includes one or more removable field shaping units.
Claims20
A stellarator comprising:
- (a) a structural scaffold comprising a set of poloidal ribs, a set of toroidal ribs, and one or more mounting members;
- (b) at least two field shaping units removably coupled to the one or more mounting members, wherein each of the at least two removable field shaping units comprise (i) one or more structural mounting elements;
- and (ii) one or more shaping coils disposed on a surface of the one or more structural mounting elements;
- (c) a plurality of encircling coils which encircle the field-shaping coil system, wherein a ratio of toroidal ribs to the plurality of encircling coils ranges from 1:1 to 5:1;
- wherein a first of the at least two removable field shaping units is at least partially surrounded by a first encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils;
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- wherein a second of the at least two removable field shaping units is positioned entirely between the first encircling coil and a second encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils;
- (d) a neutronic blanket comprising a plurality of blanket units.
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A stellarator adapted to confine a toroidal plasma comprising:
- (a) a structural scaffold comprising one or more curved plates and/or planar plates which conform to the boundary of the toroidal plasma;
- (b) at least two field shaping units removably coupled to the one or more curved plates and/or planar plates, wherein each of the at least two removable field shaping units comprise (i) one or more structural mounting elements;
- and (ii) one or more shaping coils disposed on a surface of the one or more structural mounting elements;
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- b) a plurality of encircling coils which encircle the field-shaping coil system;
- wherein a first of the at least two removable field shaping units is at least partially surrounded by a first encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils;
- and
- wherein a second of the at least two removable field shaping units is positioned entirely between the first encircling coil and a second encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils.
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A stellarator adapted to confine a toroidal plasma comprising:
- (a) a structural scaffold;
- (b) at least two field shaping units removably coupled to the structural scaffold, wherein each of the at least two removable field shaping units comprise (i) one or more structural mounting elements;
- and (ii) one or more shaping coils removably coupled to the one or more structural mounting elements, wherein each of the at least two field shaping units include one or more fluid-carrying carrying conduits and/or one or more electrical leads, wherein the one or more fluid conduits include one or more removable connections and wherein the one or more electrical leads include one or more disconnectable couplings;
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- b) a plurality of encircling coils which encircle the field-shaping coil system;
- wherein a first of the at least two removable field shaping units is at least partially surrounded by a first encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils;
- and
- wherein a second of the at least two removable field shaping units is positioned entirely between the first encircling coil and a second encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.