• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1098-1102
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• 2003

Vacuum vessel of the KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) tokamak is a fully welded structure with D-shaped cross-section. According to the requirements of the physics design, sixteen horizontal ports, sixteen slanted ports, sixteen baking and cooling ports, and twenty-four top and bottom vertical ports are designed for the diagnostics, plasma heating, vacuum pumping, and baking and cooling. Bellows on these ports are used for flexible components to absorb the relative displacement due to the vacuum vessel thermal expansion and the electromagnetic force between the vacuum vessel and the cryostat ports. Fatigue strength evaluation was performed to decide the dimension of the bellows. In order to assure the quality of the bellows, a prototype bellows for the neutral beam injection port has been fabricated and tested prior to main fabrication. It was conformed that the prototype bellows has sufficient fatigue strength and vacuum reliability in the expected load conditions.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.181-194
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• 1992

Deformations of a prototype vacuum chamber for the Storage Ring of the Pohang Light Source Project, due to both welding and baking, have been measured using the Optical Tooling Technique. The measurements aim for the acquisition of data for inspection of the chamber design and for the establishment of positional relationship with the components surrounding the chamber. The effectiveness of the Optical Tooling Technique, as a replacement for the conventional mechanical precision measurement, has been proved by the successful measurements of the vacuum chamber deformations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.221-221
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.28-31
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• 1992

초고진공 시스템을 구성할 때 고려할 요소는 진공용기의 세척과 표면조도, 진공용 기의 재질, 기타 방출기체의 요인이다. 초고진공용기를 전해연마 처리하였으며, 처리한 진공 용기의 표면조도를 표면 조도기(surface profiler)로 측정하였다. 진공용기는 직경 300mm이 고 높이는 720mm로 하였다. 설치한 초냉각 펌프로 18시간 배기후 2.9 $\times$ 10-10Torr를 얻었 으며, 계속해서 초고진공용기를 250에서 60시간 baking 후 최저도달 압력이 3.08 $\times$ 10-11torr에 도달하였다 누드 이온게이지를 이용하여 초고진공용기의 최저도달압력과 누출비 를 측정하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.334-338
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• 2013

In this study, the outgassing effects of selected vacuum materials on the vacuum characteristics were simulated by the $VacSim^{Multi}$ simulation tool. This investigation examined the feasibility of reliably simulating the outgassing characteristics of common vacuum chamber materials (aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel plated steel, Viton A). The optimum design factors for these vacuum systems were suggested based on the simulation results. The baking-out effects of the modeled systems and materials on the performance of the vacuum system were also analyzed. The simulation predicted that the overall outgassing effect was more significant in the turbomolecular pump system than in the diffusion pump system and that the utilization of a booster pump has a greater effect on the evacuation time than on the ultimate pressure.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2009

The outgassing effects of selected vacuum materials on the vacuum characteristics were simulated by the $VacSim^{Multi}$ simulation tool. This investigation examined the feasibility of reliably simulating the outgassing characteristics of common vacuum chamber materials (aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel plated steel, Viton A). The optimum design factors for these vacuum systems were suggested based on the simulation results. The baking-out effects of the modeled systems and materials on the performance of the vacuum system were also analyzed. The simulation predicted that the overall outgassing effect was more significant in the TMP system than in the DP system and that the utilization of a booster pump has a greater effect on the evacuation time than on the ultimate pressure.

• Vacuum Magazine
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2017

Recently, KSTAR, Korea's superconducting fusion energy research and development device, has succeeded in driving the high performance plasma for 70 seconds for the first time in the world. Continuous plasma operation technology is an essential factor for commercialization of fusion energy power generation. Therefore, this achievement is expected to play a major role in the research of fusion technology required for future fusion power plants. In order to operate the KSTAR, the discharge process in which the neutral gas is turned into the plasma should be preceded in the start-up (breakdown) phase of tokamak operation. This process essentially involves the vacuum environment in the tokamak device. KSTAR has successfully operated a vacuum pumping system to achieve the target level of the vacuum environment through a high temperature baking operation, a discharge cleaning process and boronization.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.237-243
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• 1992

Two gaskets of Al 2024-T4 and annealed al 2024-T4 were made. We had acquired 2 $\times$ 10-12torr in a chamber using them. Microstructures, hardness and stress concentration of the gaskets were examined before and after baking. Knife edge damages such as decrease of edge height(H) and increase of edge angle() were found on knife edges when the Al 2024-T4 gasket was used. But no damage was found with the annealed Al 2024 gasket.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.8 no.4B
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• pp.497-506
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• 1999

Carbon has been widely used for the material of plasma facing components in fusion experiment devices like a tokamak, because carbon has good thermal and mechanical properties. However carbon gas a relatively high ougassing rate. Therefore the amount and the surface area of the carbon material used in the vessel will determine the background pressure of the vacuum vessel. In this experiment influences of carbon on the vacuum performance was investigated by measuring chamber pressure, ougassing rater and gas spectrum of carbon fiber composite (CFC) samples in various situations, pumping out, chamber baking, carbon heating (250~$500^{\circ}C$), exposure to atmosphere for maintenance of in-vessel components, etc., occurring routinely during tokamak operations.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.325-330
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• 2001

One of the principal components of the KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) tokamak structure is the vacuum vessel, which acts as the high vacuum boundary for the plasma and also provides the structural support for internal components. Hyundai Heavy Industries Inc. has performed the engineering design of the vacuum vessel. Here the overall configuration of the KSTAR vacuum vessel was briefly described and then the design methodology and the analysis results were presented. The vacuum vessel consists of double walls, several ports, leaf spring style supports. Double walls are separated by reinforcing ribs and filled with baking/shielding water. The overall external dimensions of the main body are 3.39 m high, 1.11 m inner radius, 2.99 m outer radius, and made of SA240-316LN. The vacuum vessel was designed to be capable of achieving the base pressure of $1\times10^{-8}$ Torr, and also to be structurally capable of sustaining the vacuum pressure, the electromagnetic and thermal loads during plasma disruption and bakeout, respectively. The vacuum vessel will be baked out maximum $150^{\circ}C$ by hot pressurized water through the channels formed between double walls and the reinforcing ribs. A 3-D temperature distribution and the resulting thermal loads in the vessel were calculated during bakeout. It was found that the vacuum vessel and its supports were structurally rigid based on the thermal stress analysis. The maximum electromagnetic loads on the vacuum vessel induced by eddy and halo currents resulting from the engineering plasma radial and vertical disruption scenarios have been estimated. The stress analyses have been performed based on these electromagnetic loads and the resulting stresses at he critical locations of the vacuum vessel were within the allowable stresses.