Nature Communications (Feb 2021)
Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas
- T. Ravensbergen,
- M. van Berkel,
- A. Perek,
- C. Galperti,
- B. P. Duval,
- O. Février,
- R. J. R. van Kampen,
- F. Felici,
- J. T. Lammers,
- C. Theiler,
- J. Schoukens,
- B. Linehan,
- M. Komm,
- S. Henderson,
- D. Brida,
- M. R. de Baar
Affiliations
- T. Ravensbergen
- DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- M. van Berkel
- DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- A. Perek
- DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- C. Galperti
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
- B. P. Duval
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
- O. Février
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
- R. J. R. van Kampen
- DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- F. Felici
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
- J. T. Lammers
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Control Systems Technology Group, Eindhoven University of Technology
- C. Theiler
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC)
- J. Schoukens
- Department ELEC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- B. Linehan
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M. Komm
- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS
- S. Henderson
- CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon
- D. Brida
- Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
- M. R. de Baar
- DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21268-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The exhaust of heat and particles is an important challenge in future nuclear fusion devices. Here the authors report the use of carbon emission as indicator for plasma detachment in a tokamak and its real-time feedback control.
