
BIG SCIENCE – MAIN PROJECTS
Consorzio RFX is a research organization promoted by CNR, ENEA, Padua University, Acciaierie Venete S.p.A. and INFN, under the patronage of Euratom – ENEA Association. Reversed Field eXperiment (RFX) is an experiment carried out in the facilities of Institute for Ionized Gas (IGI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Padova. The experiment studies the confinement of a plasma for a controlled nuclear fusion, by the use of a magnetic field in a Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) configuration. Historically RFX is a step forward in the RFP configuration to higher plasma currents. EEI supplies to RFX experiments includes four power supply units DC bus, each of them containing four section, for a total of:
Main features of the equipment are:
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR RESISTIVE WALL MODE CONTROL
EEI has provided the power supply system for the resistive wall mode control of the JT-60SA (advanced superconducting tokamak, Japan). The system comprises a rectifier (fed from a 6.6 kV line) and 18 fast inverters, rated at 300 Apk, 240 Vpk.
The inverters feature a high bandwidth (3 kHz) and low latency (less than 50 μs). SiC power semiconductors were employed.