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Fusion Energy and the Growing Fusion Industry
Fusion energy has the potential to provide safe, carbon-free, dispatchable baseload electricity to the grid starting in the early 2030s. Fusion is what powers the stars, combining hydrogen atoms into larger helium atoms and releasing energy in the process. It has a tremendous energy density, requiring approximately a million times less fuel than conventional thermal energy generation. While governments have been sponsoring fusion research for decades, progress has recently accelerated significantly due to several billion dollars in private investment into more than 40 private companies working to build demonstration power plants. This talk will describe the fundamentals of fusion energy, the state of the fusion industry, and topics of common interest in engineering that translate from other fields to fusion. All content contained within this webinar is copyrighted by Alex Creely and David Young and its use and/or reproduction outside the portal requires express permission from Alex Creely and David Young.
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He has published papers in the fields of multicomponent/multiphase flow, formation and well testing, measurement of capillary pressure, relative permeability, and resistivity, array induction logging, carbonate petrophysics, NMR, intelligent completions, nonlinear differential equations, capillary dynamics, dissolution driven instabilities, carbon storage, gravity tongues and alloy-based plug and abandonment. He has also co-authored a book
on Formation Testing that was published in 2021.
Ramakrishnan was a distinguished lecturer of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in 2005-6, elected a distinguished member of SPE in 2003, and received the Formation Evaluation award in 2009. His research papers won the Henri-Doll award of Schlumberger in 1995 and 1997, and the SPWLA best paper award in 1998. His B.Tech. thesis was given the Acharya P.C. Ray national award. In 2012, he was presented the Charles W. Pierce
distinguished alumni award at IIT Chicago. He was also elected a distinguished alumnus of IIT Delhi in 2013. In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has 77 granted U.S. patents.