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DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel receives a prestigious Vidi from the Dutch National Research Council NWO. With the grant of 800,000 euros, he and three team members can spend five years developing a control system for the regulated firing of ice-cold hydrogen pellets in fusion reactors.

A new phase started in the KEROGREEN project that aims to produce kerosene from water, air and sustainably generated electricity. A truck transported the module from DIFFER in Eindhoven to Karlsruhe, Germany. The module will be placed in a container with three other modules at the Institut für Mikroverfahrenstechnik.

Fusion scientists at DIFFER, together with an international team of groundwater researchers, have written a paper on new ways to determine how fast groundwater enters or exits the river. This is directly related to how the temperature in the riverbed changes. By measuring the temperature at different soil depths, they can determine the relevant heat transport parameters.

A consortium of Carbyon, TU/e and DIFFER receives a second grant from Eindhoven Engine to further develop their technology to capture CO2 directly from ambient air. The Solar Fuels Department will investigate options for efficient heating of materials.

The idea of the instability of accretion disks around black holes, neutron stars and protoplanets might be revised. This is what theoretical plasma physicists Hans Goedbloed (DIFFER) and Rony Keppens (KU Leuven) argue. In a 48-page mathematical breakdown, they suggest a new paradigm for 3D turbulence in accretion disks.