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  • First plasma in the Upgraded Pilot-PSI facility

    … First plasma in the Upgraded Pilot-PSI facility Published on April … achieved an important milestone by igniting the first plasma in the experimental facility Upgraded Pilot-PSI … hundreds of nanometers of materials during exposure to the plasma conditions inside a fusion reactor. When ready, UPP …
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  • Grant for Jonathan Citrin with TU/e team

    … AI (Artificial Intelligence) research.  Understanding plasma instability The motivation for the research lies in … the fact that current fusion for energy experiments exhibit plasma instabilities that must be fully understood and … These instabilities, driven by strong gradients in plasma pressure, can cause leakage of plasma energy and must …
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  • Neural networking wins EUROfusion Enabling Research grant

    … has landed an Enabling Research grant from the Horizon2020 programme EUROfusion . The consortium between DIFFER , CEA Cadarache (France), and the Swiss Plasma Center , aims to significantly accelerate fusion … and Transport group will receive EUROfusion support in 2019-2020 towards this goal. In fusion, energy is produced …
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  • Cover article Physics Today diagnoses plasma instabilities

    … 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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  • PhD defense Tijs Wijkamp: Multispectral imaging for the mitigation of tokamak damage by plasma exhaust and runaway electrons

    … 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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  • Extremum-seeking control for optimal CO2 dissociation in microwave plasmas

    … 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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  • Hora Est! PhD Defense Artur Perek

    … 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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  • Green chemistry with TECH reactor receives NWO funding

    … NWO’s Open Technology Program for building a new type of plasma reactor. This topological electro-chemistry (TECH) microwave plasma reactor, supplied by renewable electricity, can be … industry. More information NWO Grants Open Technology Programme and Smart Industry 2020 Image Shutterstock Go to …
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  • LiMeS lab: testing liquid metal reactor walls

    … 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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  • Our Chemical Energy research

    … solutions for the future - group leader: Dr. Anja Bieberle Plasma Solar Fuels Devices Gaining efficient production of … intermediates such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas by plasma assisted conversion - group leader: Prof.Dr.Ir. … films for CO 2 neutral solutions. This group completed its programme in 2018. - group leader: Dr. Hindrik de Vries …
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  • Control of the heat and particle exhaust

    … 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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  • Magnum-PSI zet wereldrecord plasma-blootstelling voor ITER

    … Magnum-PSI zet wereldrecord plasma-blootstelling voor ITER Published on March 27, 2018 … de waterstoffusie dan er nodig is om de hete brandstof ( plasma - een gas van geladen deeltjes) te verhitten en te … has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 633053. Go to …
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  • Two NWO grants to turn solar energy into fuels

    … been awarded two of the eight research grants in the NWO programme Solar to Products . This 4.2 million Euro … to investigate CO 2 valorisation in biogas by Solar driven Plasma Reforming (Michael Gleeson and Gerard van Rooij), and … Shell / HoSt - CO 2 valorisation in biogas by Solar driven Plasma Reforming •         Prof. dr. ir. M.C.M. van de …
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  • Our fusion energy research

    … research institute is the Dutch partner in the Horizon2020 programme EUROfusion and works together with the European … confinement fusion science - group leader: Dr. Sven Wiesen Plasma Edge Physics and Diagnostics   Investigating complex processes in the edge of fusion plasmas with state of the art diagnostics - group leader: …
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  • PhD Defense: Luca Vialetto

    … Luca Vialetto will defend his thesis titled 'Modelling of plasmas for CO2 conversion: electron kinetics, chemistry and … energy. The main idea is to dissociate CO 2 using a plasma (an ionized gas) and to convert dissociation products … 2 conversion. More on Luca Vialetto Interview Annual Report 2019 Research group: Computational Plasma Physics and …
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