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  • FOM awards 2.3 million euros to tame fusion reactor exhaust

    … protect the reactor wall from contact with the fusion plasma (hot, charged gas), except at the reactor's exhaust. Here, the plasma and the wall come into direct contact under … experiments in Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Go to the News page. … protect the reactor wall from contact with the fusion plasma (hot, charged gas), except at the reactor's exhaust. …
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  • World record plasma exposure in Magnum-PSI

    … World record plasma exposure in Magnum-PSI Published on March 27, 2018 On … of France and will start experiments in 2025. ITER is the first fusion experiment ever designed to produce more power … , looks forward to analyzing the results: "We will gain the first detailed look at how ITER's wall materials will evolve …
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  • Van varen op gevoel naar strak onder controle: Hittebeheersing in fusiereactoren in Nature Communications

    … DIFFER-onderzoekers ontwikkelden met het EPFL Swiss Plasma Center een strakke meet- en regelmethode om deze hete ontsnapte deeltjes uit het fusieplasma extreem gecontroleerd te kunnen koelen. De mijlpaal … zijn gedaan. Credit A. Herzog / EPFL   Go to the News page. …
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  • Bifurcation Models for Improved Confinement Regimes

    … Models for Improved Confinement Regimes In a tokamak plasma, increased heating usually enhances turbulence, so … in the figure to the left, the increased pressure in the plasma core arises entirely thanks to a steep gradient near … after heating power is increased to a degree such that the plasma jumps from L-mode into H-mode (right figure, red …
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  • How do we protect the wall of a fusion reactor? ‘By simply looking with a camera we can learn a whole lot’

    … under the extreme conditions that accompany a hot fusion plasma?’ PhD student Tijs Wijkamp’s answer is: simply by … the wall upon impact. At the English tokamak experiment MAST-U (UKAEA, Culham) the heat-reducing capabilities of … en TU/e . Auteurs: Tijs Wijkamp, Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • Zonnebrandstoffen uit plasmolyse

    … van het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde. De plasmafase biedt mogelijkheden die zeer aantrekkelijk zijn … CO 2 emissies van onderzeeboten. In 2008 kwam het boek over plasmachemie uit van A. Fridman [1], zelf betrokken bij het … formaat van de plasmareactor past bij het formaat van de mast. Verder zijn er geen zeldzame materialen nodig en kan …
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  • Research

    … and development of commercially viable reactor concepts for plasma-based conversion of CO 2 into solar fuels. The work … grid infrastructure sector. The research revolves around plasma source development, characterization of its … The research of PSFD relies on a solid basis of microwave plasma engineering and diagnostics and combines fundamental …
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  • Simulations for JET deuterium-tritium campaign

    … group at DIFFER. His group contributed so called “Predict First” tokamak simulations to the JET deuterium-tritium … temperatures, densities, and rotation in the tokamak plasma core. First we have validated the models on reference … Modeling and Transport Qualikiz website Go to the News page. …
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  • First plasma in the Upgraded Pilot-PSI facility

    … First plasma in the Upgraded Pilot-PSI facility Published on April … Analysis Station for internal and external users. Go to the News page. … at DIFFER achieved an important milestone by igniting the first plasma in the experimental facility Upgraded Pilot-PSI (UPP). With this new facility, research …
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  • Integrated Modelling

    … science. Central to the IM group’s activity is to develop plasma transport modelling integration concepts for the … device. The regions of interest span across the central plasma-core, with plasma temperatures of the order … of the plasma-facing components (e.g. with tungsten as first wall material). The remaining heat-flux densities are …
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  • Machine learning highly speeds up the modelling of nuclear fusion reactors

    … is a promising trend in modelling the behaviour of the plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor. DIFFER-researchers … are pioneering very fast neural network models for plasma turbulence. Jonathan Citrin. Photo: DIFFER On the … high-energy-density physics   Text by Bennie Mols Go to the News page. …
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  • Charging up: a plasma electrode for high throughput sustainable electrochemistry

    … Charging up: a plasma electrode for high throughput sustainable … on September 01, 2020 DIFFER is going to research a novel plasma-aided electrochemical reactor concept to … Floran Peeters: “To our knowledge, this will be the first time a merger between these two technologies is …
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  • PhD defense: Modeling of Plasma-Driven Electrified Chemical Conversion Processes by Non-Equilibrium Kinetics by Qinghao Shen

    … PhD defense: Modeling of Plasma-Driven Electrified Chemical Conversion Processes by … synthesis mechanisms in microwave-driven nitrogen fixation. First, an enhanced approach for calculating vibrationally … The generalized Fridman–Macheret (GFM) method is first validated on CO₂ dissociation, a system with complex …
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  • Summer school on plasma chemistry

    … Summer school on plasma chemistry Published on July 03, 2015 3 July 2015 From … PhD candidates and post-docs in a summer school on plasma chemistry as part of the 22nd International Symposium … Energy Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands       Go to the News page. …
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  • Breakthroughs in Fusion R&D Webinar Series: EAST, W7-X and MAST-U

    … Breakthroughs in Fusion R&D Webinar Series: EAST, W7-X and MAST-U    Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to … Ian Chapman (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, UK) First results from MAST Upgrade and status of STEP 12:30-13:00: Q&A and Panel …
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