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Coordinates: 34.0606°N 118.4493°W. The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device ( ETPD) is an experimental physics device housed at the Basic Plasma Science Facility at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It previously operated as the Electric Tokamak ( ET) between 1999 and 2006 and was noted for being the world's largest tokamak [1] before ...
The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device (ETPD) is an experimental physics device housed at the Basic Plasma Science Facility at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It previously operated as the Electric Tokamak (ET) between 1999 and 2006 and was noted for being the world's largest tokamak before being decommissioned due to the lack of ...
A stellarator in which a helical coil is used to confine the plasma, together with a pair of poloidal field coils to provide a vertical field. Toroidal field coils can also be used to control the magnetic surface characteristics. The Large Helical Device in Japan uses this configuration. Modular stellarator.
When ITER becomes operational, it will be the largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment in use with a plasma volume of 840 cubic meters, surpassing the Joint European Torus by a factor of 8.
- Pietro Barabaschi
- 24 October 2007; 15 years ago
ETPD: The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device (ETPD) The ETPD device is housed on the main floor of the STRB building. The device was originally constructed as a tokamak and if run in that mode, it would still be the physically-largest tokamak in the world. Figure 1, left: Photograph of the ETPD device.
A. The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device. Figure 1 shows the device itself, consisting of a toroidal vacuum chamber with major radius 10 meters and rect-angular cross section: 2 meters horizontally by 3 meters vertically. The plasma chamber maintains a dynamic vacuum in the range 1 4 mTorr.
(Top) See also. References. Bibliography. Compact toroids are a class of toroidal plasma [1] configurations that are self-stable, and whose configuration does not require magnet coils running through the center of the toroid.
