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Plasma Facing Components in Wendelstein 7-X at GLADIS A. Ali, 2, ∗ M. Jakubowski, H. Greuner, B. Böswirth, V. Moncada, A. Puig Sitjes, R. Neu, 3 T. S. Pedersen, and the W7-X Team Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Wendelsteinstraße 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany TUM, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching, Germany Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching, Germany Thermadiag, 100 Impasse des Houilléres, ZA Le Pontet, F-13590 Mayreuil, France Abstract One of the aims of stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), is to investigate steady state operation, for which power exhaust is an important issue. The predominant fraction of the energy lost from the confined plasma region will be absorbed by an island divertors, which is designed for 10 MWm−2 steady state operation. In order to protect the divertor targets from overheating, 10 state-of-the-art infrared endoscopes will be installed at W7-X. In this work, we present the experimental results obtained at the high heat flux test facility GLADIS (Garching LArge DIvertor Sample test facility in IPP Garching) [1] during tests of a new plasma facing components (PFCs) protection algorithm designed for W7-X. The GLADIS device is equipped with two ion beams which can generate a heat load in the range from 3 MWm−2 to 55 MWm−2. The algorithms developed at W7-X to detect defects and hot spots are based on the analysis of surface temperature evolution and are adapted to work in near real-time. The aim of this work was to test the near real-time algorithms in conditions close to those expected in W7-X. The experiments were performed on W7-X pre-series tiles to detect CFC/Cu delaminations. For detection of surface layers, Carbon Fiber Composite (CFC) blocks from the divertor of Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator were used to observe temporal behavior of fully developed surface layers. These layers of re-deposited materials like carbon, boron, oxygen and iron were formed during the W7-AS operation. A detailed analysis of the composition and their thermal response to high heat fluxes (HHF) are described in [2] . The experiments indicate that the automatic detection of critical events works according to W7-X PFC protection requirements.