Investigation on power supply operation for the helias stellarator fusion reactor

Author

Buchner, Christian ; Harmeyer, Ewald ; Haller, Rainer ; Mühlbacher, Jan ; Wieczorek, Andreas ; Wobig, Horst

Author_Institution

SIEMENS AG, Erlangen

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Investigations on operation of the power supply for the auxiliary system of the fusion power plant were made using the SIMPLORER, EFFI and NEPLAN codes. The new approach was to use an additional 80 MW, 1.2 GJ energy storage unit with the magnetic confinement system (superconducting magnet system, multiconverter unit and STATCOM) as a SMES to reduce network loadings to 80 MW instead of 160 MW in the power plant start-up operation during plasma heating. This reduction of the active power pulsed loads reduces the risk of oscillating power frequency changes. These oscillations produce transient power flows which can danger the grid stability.

Keywords

fusion reactors; nuclear power stations; plasma heating; power grids; static VAr compensators; stellarators; EFFI codes; Helias stellarator fusion reactor; NEPLAN codes; SIMPLORER codes; STATCOM; active power pulsed loads; auxiliary system; energy 1.2 GJ; fusion power plant; grid stability; multiconverter unit; plasma heating; power 80 MW; power supply operation; superconducting magnet system; transient power flows; Automatic voltage control; Energy storage; Fusion reactors; Magnetic confinement; Plasma confinement; Plasma stability; Power generation; Power supplies; Samarium; Superconducting magnets; Energy storage; Nuclear fusion; Power supply; SMES(Superconducting Magnetic Energy storage; Simulation; Static Synchronous Compensator(STATCOM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2007 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-92-75815-10-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-92-75815-10-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2007.4417249

Filename

4417249