NEWS: Plasma-based technologies

April 5, 2024

Student-Designed “Altator” Achieves First Plasma

For the first time since 2016, a toroidal device housed at the PSFC has produced plasma, and it’s thanks to the work of ten graduate students. Named Altator in homage to the experimental tokamak that operated at the PSFC from 1994 to 2016, the students’ device is a miniature version that will be used to show visitors how plasma flows and is confined within the donut-shaped architecture of a tokamak’s design. 

June 2, 2022

PSFC to explore geothermal stimulation technology

PSFC has received ARPA-E funding to participate in the development of next generation geothermal stimulation technology.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

September 3, 2021

3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible fuel engines for heavy-duty trucking

Dan Cohn and Leslie Bromberg have been developing a highly efficient, gasoline-ethanol engine that could help to efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the heavy-duty trucking sector.

MIT Energy Initiative News

July 2, 2021

Emvolon raises $1.5 million seed funding to evolve distributed chemical production

Emvolon, cofounded by PSFC Principal Research Scientist Leslie Bromberg, will explore converting wasted natural gas at flare sites into usable chemicals for use industrial applications or as a fuel.

The Engine

January 14, 2021

InEnTec: Turning trash into valuable chemical products and clean fuels

Landfills take up space, but there is a much more serious problem associated with them according to MITEI research scientist Daniel R. Cohn: greenhouse gas emissions.

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December 18, 2020

Three Questions: Francesco Sciortino on his HTPD invited talk

PhD candidate Francesco Sciortino works at the PSFC on plasma turbulence in tokamaks, with an emphasis on computational statistics and machine learning methods.

PSFC