DOUBLE STAGE HYDROGEN PELLET INJECTOR

New double stage pellet injector was designed for deep plasma fuelling. A distinguishing feature of the injector is a cryogenic piston inside a pump tube. Such a piston should be used as an element of the shot for maintaining propellant gas pressure behind a pellet. Large xenon piston have been formed and accelerated in the pump tube. The helium pressure in the pump tube by acting of xenon piston increased from 0.05-0.25 MPa up to 100 MPa. This approach let us avoid piston wearing in double stage pellet injectors operating in repetitive mode.