Assessment of Metal Foil Pump Configurations for EU-DEMO

Author:

Luo Xueli1ORCID,Kathage Yannick1,Teichmann Tim1ORCID,Hanke Stefan1,Giegerich Thomas1,Day Christian1

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Technical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Abstract

It is a challenging but key task to reduce the tritium inventory in EU-DEMO to levels that are acceptable for a nuclear regulator. As solution to this issue, a smart fuel cycle architecture is proposed based on the concept of Direct Internal Recycling (DIR), in which the Metal Foil Pump (MFP) will play an important role to separate the unburnt hydrogen isotopes coming from the divertor by exploiting the superpermeation phenomenon. In this study, we will present the assessment of the performance of the lower port of EU-DEMO after the integration of the MFP. For the first time, a thorough comparison of three different MFP (parallel long tubes, sandwich and halo) designs is performed regarding conductance for helium molecules, the pumping speed and the separation factor for deuterium molecules under different physical and geometric parameters. All simulations were carried out in supercomputer Marconi-Fusion with our in-house Test Particle Monte Carlo (TPMC) simulation code ProVac3D because the code had been parallelized with high efficiency. These results are essential for the development of a suitable MFP design in the vacuum-pumping train of EU-DEMO.

Funder

European Union

Publisher

MDPI AG

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