Passive coolant management
OwnerRobert Bamber, Patrick Bunting +1inventors
InventorsRobert Bamber, Patrick Bunting, Jack Taylor
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Abstract
A cooling management system for a plasma-facing assembly in a magnetic confinement plasma chamber, the cooling management system comprising: a plurality of coolant unit groups, each configured to provide cooling to a respective part of the plasma-facing assembly and being fluidly connected to a coolant source line; and a valve arrangement operable to control a flow rate of coolant from the coolant source line to each of the coolant unit groups dependent on the temperature at that coolant unit group.
Claims21
A cooling management system for a plasma-facing assembly in a magnetic confinement plasma chamber, the cooling management system comprising:
- a plurality of coolant unit groups, each configured to provide cooling to a respective part of the plasma-facing assembly and being fluidly connected to a coolant source line;
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- a valve arrangement operable to control a flow rate of coolant from the coolant source line to each of the coolant unit groups dependent on the temperature at that coolant unit group.
The cooling management system according any preceding claim, wherein the plurality of groups are fluidly connected in series.
The cooling management system according to any preceding claim, wherein the plurality of groups are fluidly connected in parallel.
The cooling management system according to any preceding claim, wherein the plasma-facing assembly is a divertor assembly.
The cooling management system according to any preceding claim, further comprising one or more coolant source lines operable to provide coolant in parallel to a different set of the groups of the coolant unit assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.