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  • PhD defense Thomas Bosman: Density profile and heat-exhaust control in nuclear fusion devices: Development of control methods in view of the operation of fusion power plants

    … in view of the operation of fusion power plants Differ researcher Thomas Bosman will defend his PhD thesis titled: … Co-promotor : Matthijs van Berkel Summary: Nuclear fusion energy stands as a promising contributor to a sustainable … device, currently leads as the most advanced approach for a commercial fusion reactor. However, several challenges …
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  • Plasma Material Interactions

    … the blanket and create electricity, but around 20% of the energy is given to the alphas. This energy remains confined … Huge amounts of heat and plasma particles are therefore concentrated in a confined exhaust region. This leads … of the EUROfusion consortium, which comprises 30 fusion research organisations and universities from 26 European …
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  • Girls discover DIFFER during Girls' Day: ‘Working in STEM is fun and fascinating’

    … During the visit, the girls got a glimpse of working at a research institute like DIFFER. After a plunge into the … Educational set-ups made the story concrete and tangible. For example, the girls learned more about magnetism, the … © DIFFER/Bart van Overbeeke Loes Jansen, researcher in the Energy Systems and Control group at DIFFER, was one of the …
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  • Integrated Tokamak Simulation

    … radial transport, thus affecting the kinetic profiles For both W transport and NTM evolution, many successful predictions have been achieved for given static plasma conditions. The fully integrated … panel: location of the magnetic surface where the NTM forms (blue), and location where the CD is deposited (red); …
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  • NEVAC day

    … (and announce your poster) by filling out this online form (before April 22) Industrial exhibition participants: … layer deposition processing for perovskite solar cells: research status, opportunities and challenges 14.20 Cor … In-situ transmission electron microscopy study of battery nanomaterials 16.10 Conclusion (Richard van de Sanden) 16.20 …
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  • Control of the heat and particle exhaust

    … and carefully control the injection of gas accordingly. Unfortunately, it is unclear how fast detachment evolves, i.e. … preemptively using control-oriented predictive models. The Energy Systems and Control group focusses on the systematic … of what drives the detachment dynamics. Back to Research . … The extreme conditions in a nuclear fusion …
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  • Magnum-PSI zet wereldrecord plasma-blootstelling voor ITER

    … onderzoeksfaciliteit Magnum-PSI bij DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) een nieuw wereldrecord gezet voor de langste test …
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  • Challenge: control beam in fusion reactor fans out further than expected

    … Published on March 16, 2023 A Dutch-American team of researchers has discovered that the beam to suppress plasma … beam is much weaker, and there isn't always extra energy to make a stronger beam. The researchers published … broadening in more detail so he can make better predictions for ITER. Meanwhile, the researchers are considering other …
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  • New calculations reveal what’s happening in plasma

    … molecules, only by heating it to a plasma with a microwave. Researchers at DIFFER can, but nobody really understands the … do an MC simulation of the motion of the electrons but only for a very short time. Then I use a deterministic method, … I solve a system of linear equations to obtain the full energy distribution of the electrons. Since I use no …
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  • Successful first experiment with Upgraded Pilot-PSI

    … Pilot-PSI (UPP), DIFFER’s new facility, has been performed in September by master student Parwez Rasulyaar and … of Magnum-PSI, Pilot-PSI. With this new facility, research can be performed on what occurs in the top several … out as shiny silver.” However, further examinations with Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy turned out that only …
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  • New approach simplifies fusion physics

    … complex problems. That is exactly what happened when DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel used a systems engineering … can be explained with a much simpler model than assumed before. In order to make fusion occur, the hydrogen fuel has … image: iter.org Toward reasonable price ‘To make fusion energy a success, ultimately we will have to develop a …
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  • DIFFER Seminar: Navigating Stress: Insights from Halide-Perovskites on Diverse Stress Responses

    … Responses    Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Halide perovskites are a promising candidate for the next generation energy-harvesting technologies owing to their excellent …
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  • Fusiewetenschappers stuwen grondwateronderzoek vooruit

    … Foto: DIFFER Matthijs van Berkel , jij bent groepsleider Energy Systems and Control bij DIFFER. Hoe kom je erbij om … in semi-infinite and bounded domains , Water Resources Research 58 (2022) e2021WR030886, DOI (open access) Meer informatie   DIFFER-groep Energy Systems and Control Go to the …
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  • Seminar: Robust distributed passivity based control and optimisation for smart energy systems

    … Robust distributed passivity based control and optimisation for smart energy systems    Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Abstract: In this talk we focus on the …
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  • Start-up of nuclear fusion reactors

    … high currents in coils are generated. These coils create a force field – similar to gravity – which cause gassy fuel to … easy to start-up the tokamak. Thus, the broader aim of our research is to make this start-up process, just as reliable … buttons sounds simple: it may even be easier ;) Back to Research . … Similar to starting your car engine, we have to …
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