Fusion fuel purification during the Tritium Systems Test Assembly 3-week loop experiment

During the time period from 4/19 - 5/5/89, the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) conducted its longest continuous integrated loop operation to date. This provided an opportunity to test some hitherto unproven capabilities of the TSTA Fuel Cleanup System (FCU). Previous FCU tests were reported in [1]. The purpose of the FCU is to remove impurities from a stream of hydrogen isotopes (Q2) representative of torus exhaust gas. During this run impurities loadings ranging from 60 to 179 sccm of 90% N2 and 10% CH4 were fed to the FCU. Each of the two FCU main flow molecular sieve beds (MSB's) were filled to breakthrough three times. The MSB's were regenerated during loop operations. 2 refs., 6 figs., 2 tabs