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  • EUROfusion Engineering Grant for Hari Varadarajan: “Energy sources have always been a fascination to me”

    … award for his project ‘Cooperative control for fusion’.  Plasma in a tokamak is rotating, it has some movement when … movement of the impurities is governed by the density and temperature gradients, which will be affected by the fueling … Control group at DIFFER. Author: Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • Integrated Tokamak Simulation

    … W transport is strongly dependent on the peaking of temperature and density profiles. The system is coupled, since high core W concentration causes strong … with local current drive in the TCV tokamak Upper panel: Electron Cyclotron power (in MW) delivering current drive. …
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  • ECCM conference

    … June the second Netherlands conference on Electrochemical Conversion & Materials (ECCM) will be organized by the ECCM … will open March 2019 via www.topsectoren.nl and www.co2neutraalin2050.nl . Not yet on the ECCM mailing list? … are now responsible for more than 35% of global CO2 emissions. There is a big challenge to produce these fuels …
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  • The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX)

    … The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX)    Attend this seminar? … or DEMO greatly depends on long operating lifetimes of plasma facing components in their divertors. ORNL is … a helicon antenna for high density plasma production. The electrons are heated by microwaves either with 28 GHz EBW, …
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  • Hora est! Artur Perek

    … the difficult problem of divertor detachment: cooling plasma before it hits the tokamak wall. Perek loved every … Perek developed an analysis to obtain plasma densities and temperatures from the images. These reveal the temperature … is published in the DIFFER Annual Report 2020. Go to the News page. …
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  • NWO KLEIN grant for Paola Diomede

    … has been awarded an NWO-KLEIN grant for research on the conversion of molecules into valuable chemicals like fertilizers by means of plasmas. She will develop a new model for vibrationally … DIFFER NWO KLEIN Research Group CPPC       Go to the News page. … has been awarded an NWO-KLEIN grant for research on the conversion of molecules into valuable chemicals like …
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  • PhD defense Jos Scholte: The viability of liquid metals as a plasma-facing material in nuclear fusion devices

    … PhD defense Jos Scholte: The viability of liquid metals as a plasma-facing material in nuclear fusion devices Jos Scholte … enough to overcome this. In a fusion reactor, the necessary temperature exceeds 150 million degrees Celsius, which is … hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma: an ionized gas where the electrons are no longer bound to the nucleus. To keep the …
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  • Desktop microscope to see nanometer-scale details

    … received a desktop Thermo Scientific Phenom Pharos Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). This small-sized SEM was one of … the morphology and composition of new materials for energy conversion, which are studied by research groups from the … Solar Fuels and Fusion Energy themes at DIFFER. Go to the News page. …
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  • Vapor shielding can regulate temperature of fusion reactor walls

    … Vapor shielding can regulate temperature of fusion reactor walls Published on March 26, … and exposing their two prototype designs to reactor-grade plasma conditions in DIFFER's facility Magnum-PSI. This … A design which can withstand those conditions is good news for fusion." Prototype holder for a liquid metal layer …
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  • Simulations for JET deuterium-tritium campaign

    … of time, as opposed to transiently. Our models predicted 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. … of time, as opposed to transiently. Our models predicted temperatures, densities, and rotation in the tokamak plasma …
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  • FOM kent 2,3 miljoen euro toe aan temmen uitlaat fusiereactor

    … wil de hitte en snelle deeltjes van zo'n kunstmatige zon (plasma) gecontroleerd af kunnen voeren voor die de wand van … In de toekomstige fusiereactor ITER krijgt de uitlaat temperaturen van tienduizenden graden, een ongekend intens … nodig is om de fusiereactie in stand te houden. Go to the News page. …
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  • DIFFER researcher Gerard van Rooij appointed professor in sustainable plasma chemistry at TU/e

    … Gerard van Rooij appointed professor in sustainable plasma chemistry at TU/e Published on March 02, 2018 DIFFER researcher and head of the Nonequilibrium Fuel Conversion group Gerard van Rooij has been appointed … on Medium.com . Read the Dutch translation . Go to the News page. …
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  • Fusion research facility JET’s final tritium experiments yield new energy record

    … a design which uses powerful magnetic fields to confine a plasma in the shape of a doughnut. European collaboration … learn from many exceptional people.” Read more about this news in the Q&A with DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel … energievoorziening belooft te worden. Read more about this news in the Q&A with DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel …
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  • All-electric green ammonia production

    … splitting (anode) to the cathode, where they react with plasma-activated nitrogen gas to form NH 3 . Copyright: … What is groundbreaking in our approach is that we use plasma-activation to boost the nitrogen reactivity and an …     Experimental set up. Infographic: DIFFER 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 … 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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