… Steering Committee for external use of Magnum-PSI Published on May 23, 2019 During the Plasma Facing Components Conference PFMC2019 , DIFFER has … installed a Steering Committee for its research facility Magnum-PSI . Greg De Temmerman (ITER Organization), Dmitry …
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… imaging for the mitigation of tokamak damage by plasma exhaust and runaway electrons DIFFER researcher Tijs … imaging for the mitigation of tokamak damage by plasma exhaust and runaway electrons'. Date: 22 March 2024, … particle dissipation processes at play between a hot fusion plasma and the reactor-wall. In this research, a MANTIS …
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… Cover article Physics Today diagnoses plasma instabilities Published on October 26, 2015 26 … confinement and the hottest Helium nuclei in the fusion plasma (charged gas) and make special mention of recent measurements by plasma diagnostics expert Ivo Classen at DIFFER. The …
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… control for optimal CO2 dissociation in microwave plasmas In the energy transition, there is a need for (new) … corner stones of our future renewable energy mix. Microwave plasma reactors can be used to produce CO from pure CO 2 … carbon-based fuels. To maximize the potential of microwave plasma reactors, optimization is crucial. Explicitly, the CO …
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… award for his project ‘Cooperative control for fusion’. Plasma in a tokamak is rotating, it has some movement when … around in the donut shaped fusion plant. To ensure the hot plasma isn’t too hot when it reaches the wall of the fusion … puffing impurity gases near the divertor wall. However, the plasma may not get too cold, because then it might suddenly …
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… Perek worked on the MANTIS camera system that monitors the plasma within a fusion reactor. It helps controllers to make sure that the plasma that ends up at the exhaust - the divertor - is not … was not designed to match this performance. “We analyze the plasma 800 times per second. The software turned out to be …
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… but is also challenging.” In addition, a large plasma setup will be constructed in which a prototype can be tested. Plasma will be fired at the prototype, and it will … located in the Additive Manufacturing Lab of TU/e, and the plasma setup will be constructed at DIFFER. The equipment …
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… motivates me” Published on October 30, 2025 Can we use plasma technology to change the way we produce nitrogen … the fundamental mechanisms of NO formation in microwave plasma-assisted nitrogen fixation. We now understand in much … The developed multi-temperature multi-dimensional plasma models reveal how electron kinetics, vibrational …
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… reactor wall. The survival of the wall can be prolonged by plasma detachment, a state in which the plasma in proximity to the wall is cooled by controlled … impurity particles is a strong function of the local plasma temperature, which means detachment can partly be …
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… PhD defense Xingyu Chen: The Plasma–Solid Oxide Interface: An experimental study of plasma-enhanced surface processes On 27 May 2025 Xingyu Chen will defend her thesis called 'The Plasma–Solid Oxide Interface: An experimental study of … 27 May 2025 Xingyu Chen will defend her thesis called 'The Plasma–Solid Oxide Interface: An experimental study of …
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… and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel ( plasma ): these are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall … Austin, features a longer divertor, with extended 'legs' of plasma compared to conventional designs offering more space to cool the plasma before it hits the divertor walls. World-first …
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… PhD researcher Xingyu Chen defended her thesis called ‘The Plasma–Solid Oxide Interface: An experimental study of plasma-enhanced surface processes'. At the intersection of … by treating electrical insulation material with atmospheric plasma containing helium, carbon tetrafluoride, and carbon …
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… PhD defense: Modeling of Plasma-Driven Electrified Chemical Conversion Processes by … neutrality. Among the available sustainable pathways, plasma-based nitrogen fixation (NF) stands out as a … Haber–Bosch process, experimental implementations of plasma-based NF still face prohibitively high energy …
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… a design which uses powerful magnetic fields to confine a plasma in the shape of a doughnut. European collaboration … experimental time). The controllers use measurements of the plasma to adjust the amount of injected noble gas very … at high speed into the scorching 100million-degree fusion plasma. This is technically very challenging and the only …
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… Plasma Micro-Turbulence In order to make fusion energy … fusion reactors needs to be well-understood. Even when plasmas are in equilibrium with respect to large-scale MHD … we use gyrokinetic theory to probe all aspects of plasma turbulence. A multitude of instability regimes - such …
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