Special issue on steady state operation

Steady-State Operation

A major upgrade of the Tore Supra heat and particle exhaust capability, known as the CIEL project [P. Garin et al.,this conference] and installed during the year 2000 shutdown, will raise the heat exhaust capability to 25 MW (convected + radiated) steady-state, and the pumping capability to -4 Fa.m3/s, and will allow Tore Supra to investigate high power steady-state plasma operation, with targe...

Chapter 6: Steady state operation

Significant progress has been made in the area of advanced modes of operation that are candidates for achieving steady state conditions in a fusion reactor. The corresponding parameters, domain of operation, scenarios and integration issues of advanced scenarios are discussed in this chapter. A review of the presently developed scenarios, including discussions on operational space, is given. Si...

Special issue on echo state networks and liquid state machines

Seeking plausible models for brain computation has been a continuing effort in neuroscience, computer science, biophysics and machine learning. Quite generally speaking, there are two routes toward understanding brains. In a bottom-up way, one can attempt to re-create artificial brain structures from empirical observations, whose emerging dynamics are then studied by simulation, searching for d...

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Optimal Design and Steady-State Operation

The focus of this chapter is on describing procedures for the optimal design and operation of man-portable power generation processes. For a given power demand, or a power demand varying in a specified range, the design and operation problem is to determine values of the design variables (e.g., sizes of the individual components such as fuel processing reactor and fuel cell) as well as operatio...