… Student Paper Prize (OSPP). The prize rewards his Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) publication ‘Mixed-Integer MPC Strategies for Fueling and Density Control in Fusion Tokamaks’. The prize was presented by the … Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1897-1902, 2023 Go to the News page. … DIFFER researcher Chris Orrico receives the …
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… From trusting your intuition to strict control: Heat loss control method in fusion reactors in … via the reactor’s ‘exhaust’. That exhaust is called the divertor , where the plasma heat losses are captured. The … Swiss Plasma Center. Credit A. Herzog / EPFL Go to the News page. … The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. …
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… Research Control of the heat and particle exhaust The extreme … goal is to make start-up more reliable. Nothing is as inconvenient as standing in front of a green-light and your car … goal is to make start-up more reliable. Nothing is as inconvenient as standing in front of a green-light and your car …
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… granted Published on March 11, 2021 Using more eyes to control fusion reactions: EUROfusion granted a project on … 2 ) simultaneously to control the plasma detachment in the divertor of the TCV tokamak (Lausanne, Switzerland), using … DIFFER research group: Energy Systems & Control EUROfusion newsitem: EUROfusion awards 16 Enabling Research Projects Go …
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… a picture of the impact that the machine’s Super X divertor design has on the hot, charged plasma. The tool is … Edge physics and Diagnostics) and ESC (Energy Systems & Control) are now playing an important role in helping … understanding of the physics behind the Super X.” Source news item CCFE, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Differ …
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… questions for ITER How much fuel will be trapped in the divertor wall over long timescales? Is there a synergistic … are all questions we try to tackle. Test driving the ITER divertor The ITER divertor undergoes extreme conditions at … of operating in this regime in steady-state to essentially control and extinguish the heat load as it enters the …
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… Matthijs van Berkel receives Vidi for holistic control system for fusion reactor Published on July 01, 2022 … he and three team members can spend five years developing a control system for the regulated firing of ice-cold hydrogen … A total of 101 proposals (16%) were accepted. Go to the News page. … DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel receives …
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… MIT-PSFC (Robert Mumgaard), EPFL (Basil Duval), and DIFFER (Wouter Vijvers). It acquires the optical emission from plasmas to … Website MAST Upgrade EUROfusion Roadmap to Fusion Energy News story on EUROfusion (source) DIFFER Groups Energy …
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… Highlights Benchmark of a self-consistent dynamic 1D divertor model DIV1D using the 2D SOLPS-ITER code G.L. … H. Reimerdes, M. Wensing and E. Westerhof, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64 (2022) 125013. link This paper presents DIV1D, a new 1D dynamic physics-based model of the divertor plasma under development to study and control the …
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… Energy Systems & Control Our group's main goal is to develop system identification techniques and control algorithms for nuclear fusion reactors. In a nuclear … actuators, and sensors, are necessary to successfully control of a fusion reactor. Our group develops such (fast) …
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… field of fusion research. Blanken will be stationed at the Control Systems Technology group of Eindhoven University of Technology. He will focus on monitoring and control of the hot, turbulent plasma in a fusion reactor. … and state reconstruction for tokamak plasmas. Go to the News page. … 7 May 2015 Dutch PhD student Thomas Blanken won …
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… . Abstract: Distributed implementations of model predictive control (MPC) have received significant attention to address … optimizations is not viable or practical for real-time control. The essence of distributed MPC (DMPC) is to tackle the overall control problem by using multiple interacting MPC agents. …
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… 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 too hot. “When I started my PhD, the … TCV tokamak. Illustration: Julia van Leeuwen Go to the News page. … “My PhD involved solving problem after problem. …
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… An adjoint approach to divertor design Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Divertor power exhaust is one of the remaining challenges in … - Thu, 02/15/2018 - 11:15 Location seminar room Speaker Wouter Dekeyser Affiliation University of Leuven Go to the …
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… Building the cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor Published on April 19, 2024 The cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor, what is it? And what … . Auteurs: Gijs Derks, Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. … The cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor, …
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