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Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Davide Galassi, Filippo Bagnato, Dario Vaccaro

The official Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production mission aims to demonstrate the ability to generate net electricity from fusion with the STEP Prototype Power plant. One of the key technological and engineering challenges in fusion power plants is mana ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR: A. Analysis and model validation on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Anna Teplukhina, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

We discuss how the combination of experimental observations and rapid modeling has enabled to improve understanding of the tokamak ramp-down phase in ASDEX Upgrade. A series of dedicated experiments has been performed, to disentangle the effect of individu ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

A novel measurement of marginal Alfven eigenmode stability during high power auxiliary heating in JET

Ambrogio Fasoli, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

The interaction of Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particles is one of many important factors determining the success of future tokamaks. In JET, eight in-vessel antennas were installed to actively probe stable AEs with frequencies ranging 25-250 kHz ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A low-cost, autonomous mobile platform for limnological investigations, supported by high-resolution mesoscale airborne imagery

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Anton Ivanov, Htet Kyi Wynn, Stepan Tulyakov, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Ludovic Zulliger, Jean-Luc Liardon, Philippe Olivier Paccaud, Beat Marcel Geissmann

Two complementary measurement systems – built upon an autonomous floating craft and a tethered balloon – for lake research and monitoring are presented. The autonomous vehicle was assembled on a catamaran for stability, and is capable of handling a variety ...

2019

SOLPS-ITER simulations of the TCV divertor upgrade

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Marco Wischmeier, Davide Galassi, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

The effect of the upcoming TCV divertor upgrade on the distribution of neutrals and the onset of detachment is studied using 2D transport code simulations. The divertor upgrade is centered around the installation of a gas baffle to form a divertor chamber ...

2019

Remotely-Powered Front-End at 2.45 GHz for Real-Time Continuous Temperature Sensing

Catherine Dehollain, Franco Maloberti, Onur Kazanç

Remote powering and power management of a passive sensor system employing antenna-rectifier co-design is presented. The operating frequency of the system is chosen at 2.45 GHz in order to reduce the antenna size. A co-design approach enables the coupling o ...

IEEE2018

An improved model for the accurate calculation of parallel heat fluxes at the JET bulk tungsten outer divertor

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

Parallel heat flux calculations at the JET divertor have been based on the assumption that all incoming heat is due to the projection of the heat flux parallel to the magnetic line, q, plus a constant background. This simplification led to inconsistencies ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Analysis of plasma termination in the JET hybrid scenario

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Daniel Scott Alessi, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Rebecca Hill

This paper analyses the final phase of hybrid scenario discharges at JET, the reduction of auxiliary heating towards finally the Ohmic phase. The here considered Ohmic phase is mostly still in the current flattop but may also be in the current ramp down. F ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Achieving Protection Selectivitiy in DC Shipboard Power Systems Employing Additional Bus Capacitance

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

With the implementation of energy efficiency regulations for all ships, DC shipboard power systems (SPS) have attracted much attention from the shipbuilding industry due to their advantages in fuel savings with variable speed engines and the closed bus-tie ...

2018

Gas Turbine: Optimization of Energy Production and High Efficiency by Using Power Electronics

Alfred Rufer, Aziza Benaboud

The use of gas turbines in the power generation industry has been increasing. Their demand represents more than 50% of the world market of thermal power plants. Electric power generators using gas turbines as power sources are connected to the turbines thr ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Targeting Optimal Design and Operation of Solar Heated Industrial Processes: A MILP Formulation

François Maréchal, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Araz Ashouri

The intermittence of solar irradiation displays a great challenge for industrial applications, which often require a constant heat supply. Transient or dynamic simulation software, such as TRNSYS and EnergyPlus, enable modeling of such systems and the resp ...

Elsevier2016

A radio frequency/high voltage pulse generator for the operation of a planar multipole ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Ulrich Lorenz, Severino Antonioni, Philippe Marmillod

We present a radio frequency (RF)/high voltage pulse generator designed to provide suitable waveforms for the operation of a planar multipole ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Our generator supplies a RF signal to two pairs of trapping electrodes, ...

American Institute of Physics2013

A potentially robust plasma profile control approach for ITER using real-time estimation of linearized profile response models

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim

An active plasma profile control approach for ITER, which is potentially robust by being tolerant to changing and uncertain physics, has been explored in this work, using a technique based on real-time estimation of linearized profile response models. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2012

On the Adaptation of Building Controls to the Envelope and the Occupants

David Daum

The sun is the biggest known source of energy in our solar system. We feel its strength when it gets hot during the the day and we notice its absence during the night when we feel cold. So as to be less dependent on the sun as an energy source, we implemen ...

EPFL2011

A Closed Loop Control Strategy for a Frequency-Only Converter with High Efficiency

Alfred Rufer, Aziza Benaboud

Many electric power generators use gas turbines as power sources, coupled through a mechanical gearbox in order to adapt their synchronous speed to the optimal rotation speed of the turbine. This paper proposes to replace the mechanical gearbox with a flex ...

2007

Convertisseur de fréquence indirect à rapport de tension fixe : interface entre turbo-alternateurs à haute vitesse et réseau électrique

Aziza Benaboud

Many electric power generators use gas turbines as power sources. Typically they are connected to the turbines through a mechanical gearbox in order to adapt their synchronous speed to the optimal rotation speed of the turbine, which is very often much hig ...

EPFL2007

Contribution to the active generator principle for high power electric supply : control of the commutations

Massimiliano Visintin

In recent years the use of solid state frequency converters is rapidly increasing in the industrial and power plants where electric machines are installed, since it allows variable speed operations for the electric system, thus becoming a key factor which ...

EPFL2006