… Advanced control strategies for divertor power sharing and core … fusion reactor across the vessel wall, an additional divertor can be installed at the top of the machine. This … van Berkel, Gijs Derks, Bob Kool, Chris Orrico Go to the News page. … fusion reactor across the vessel wall, an additional divertor can be installed at the top of the machine. This …
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… ): these are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall ( divertor ) of future fusion power plants will need to … benefits for fusion power plants: enhanced power exhaust control whilst balancing engineering complexity. MAST … Verhaegh, Rianne van Hoek, Gieljan de Vries Go to the News page. …
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… 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 … 7, pp. 1897-1902, 2023 Author: Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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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. …
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… Research Control of the heat and particle exhaust The extreme … in which the plasma in proximity to the wall is cooled via controlled impurity gas injection. This research focuses on … 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. …
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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 … Website MAST Upgrade EUROfusion Roadmap to Fusion Energy News story on EUROfusion (source) DIFFER Groups Energy …
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… PhD defense Thomas Bosman: Density profile and heat-exhaust control in nuclear fusion devices: Development of control … (SOL), to a dedicated region of the reactor called the divertor. Left unabated, the heat and particle fluxes will surpass the thermo-mechanical limits of the divertor plates. Therefore, significant losses in …
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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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… PhD defense: Thomas Bosman learned to control fusion exhaust in three shots Published on April 30, … protect their insides from the hot plasma exhaust. DIFFER control engineer Thomas Bosman designed and tuned a control … Bosman, Energy Systems & Control group DIFFER Go to the News page. …
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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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… . 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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