Impurity Transport and Control in ASDEX Upgrade

Abstract Impurity transport parameters of Si and Ne have been determined for H-mode and improved H-mode plasmas with and without central wave heating. The diffusion coefficient D is always anomalous in the edge region and about neoclassical in the centre, when central heating powers are low. Sufficient central wave heating increases the central D and leads also to a flattening of the central density profile. Accumulation of W has been studied in improved H-mode discharges. It strongly depends on the density peaking, and can become severe for purely NBI heated discharges with peaked density profiles, while for flat density profiles, which are achieved with sufficient central wave heating, the W concentrations are flat. Extrapolations of the found impurity behaviour were used to guide a case study of particle transport for the ITER-FEAT inductive operation reference scenario. It suggests sufficient anomalous transport and thus negligible impurity accumulation in the inner plasma region. 1.