Publications related to Peak gas

From PV to EV: Mapping the Potential for Electric Vehicle Charging with Solar Energy in Europe

Christophe Ballif, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Jérémy Dumoulin, Nicolas Würsch

The electrification of the transport sector is a key element in decarbonizing our societies. However, energy systems will have to cope with additional electricity demand due to the charging needs of electric vehicles (EVs) together with the integration of ...

2024

DTT toroidal field conductor samples test in Sultan: DC and AC characterization

Kamil Sedlák

The superconducting magnet system of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility, composed of 18 toroidal field (TF) coils, 6 poloidal field coils and a central solenoid, has been designed and many procurements have been launched. Some manufacturing aspects a ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Dataset for the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits"

Daniel Kuhn, François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger

This dataset complements the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits" by Dirk Lauinger, François Vuille, and Daniel Kuhn, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02987. The dataset contains the following files: 1.

Zenodo2023

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon high flux x-ray detectors for synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Matthew James Large, Giulia Rossi

Objective. Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is an alternative emerging radiotherapy treatment modality which has demonstrated effective radioresistant tumour control while sparing surrounding healthy tissue in preclinical trials. This apparent selectivity ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Customized Neural Network training to predict the highly imbalanced data of domestic hot water usage

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

Despite space heating and cooling, the energy use for hot water production has not changed significantly over time and accounts for a big share in modern, well-insulated buildings. The main challenge of hot water generation lies in the highly stochastic na ...

CLIMA 2022 conference2022

Knee adduction moment decomposition: Toward better clinical decision-making

Kamiar Aminian, Xavier Crevoisier, Robin Martin

Knee adduction moment (KAM) is correlated with the progression of medial knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although a generic gait modification can reduce the KAM in some patients, it may have a reverse effect on other patients. We proposed the "decomposed ground ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Evaluation of secondary electron intensities for dopant profiling in ion implanted semiconductors: a correlative study combining SE, SIMS and ECV methods

Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Philippe Wyss, Mario Joe Lehmann

This study evaluates the secondary electron (SE) dopant contrast in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and helium ion microscopy (HIM) on boron implanted silicon sample. Complementary techniques like secondary ion mass spectrometry and electrochemical capa ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Revisiting the Calculation of the Early Time HEMP Conducted Environment

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero, Nicolas Mora Parra

The early time high altitude electromagnetic pulse conducted environment calculation is revisited by using the transmission line (TL) theory and including high-frequency corrections that were not present in the earlier studies. Waveform salient parameters, ...

2021

An Efficient Methodology for the Evaluation of the Lightning Performance of Overhead Lines

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

This article proposes a method for the derivation of a formula that links the maximum lightning-induced-overvoltage occurring on an overhead distribution line with the variables that characterize the lightning return stroke, such as the peak current, front ...

2021

Flexibility for large-scale deployment of PV systems in low-voltage grids

Jordan Holweger

To meet the net-zero emission target by 2050, Switzerland must install between 34 and 50 GW of distributed photovoltaic (PV). The inherent challenge with such an extensive integration of stochastic generation is to provide the flexibility for balancing sup ...

EPFL2021

Numerical and Experimental Validation of Electromagnetic Time Reversal for Geolocation of Lightning Strikes

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Hamidreza Karami

We implement an electromagnetic time reversal technique (EMTR) to locate lightning return strokes. The two-dimensional finite difference time domain is employed to simulate the EMTR process in both, the forward-time and the backward-time phases. Scatterers ...

2020

On the Propagation of Lightning-Radiated Electromagnetic Fields Across a Mountain

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Wenhao Hou, Qilin Zhang

In this article, the effect of a mountain located on the propagation path of lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields was systematically studied by using the two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method (2-D FDTD), considering the influence of the ...

2020

Force and Shape Control Strategies for Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures

Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

This work presents force and shape control strategies for adaptive structures subjected to quasi-static loading. The adaptive structures are designed using an integrated structure-control optimization method developed in previous work, which produces minim ...

2020

Modeling Compact Intracloud Discharge (CID) as a Streamer Burst

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Narrow Bipolar Pulses are generated by bursts of electrical activity in the cloud and these are referred to as Compact Intracloud Discharges (CID) or Narrow Bipolar Events in the current literature. These discharges usually occur in isolation without much ...

2020

X-ray absorption linear dichroism at the Ti K-edge of rutile (001) TiO2 single crystal

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

X-ray absorption linear dichroism of rutile TiO2 at the Ti K-edge provides information about the electronic states involved in the pre-edge transitions. Here, linear dichroism with high energy resolution is analyzed in combination with ab initio finite dif ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Smooth Power Direction Transition of a Bidirectional LLC Resonant Converter for DC Transformer Applications

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The bidirectional LLC resonant converter operated at fixed switching frequency is a preferable candidate for a true dc transformer that does not actively control the power flow. This is due to its naturally stiff voltage ratio regardless of the imposed loa ...

2020

The reaction between metakaolin and limestone and its effect in porosity refinement and mechanical properties

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

n limestone calcined clay cements (LC3), more hemicarboaluminate and monocarboaluminate is observed, as compared to other blended cements, from the reaction of metakaolin with limestone. In this study, it is shown that the formation of these carboaluminate ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Latitude and Topographical Dependence of Lightning Return Stroke Peak Current in Natural and Tower-Initiated Negative Ground Flashes

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Experimental data show that the peak currents of first and subsequent lightning return strokes in negative ground flashes increase with decreasing latitude. In this paper, the reason for this dependence of peak return stroke current on latitude is explaine ...

2020

Montmorillonite clay-modified disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode as a sensitive voltammetric sensor for the determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II)

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Victor Costa Bassetto, Léopoldine Guenang Sonfack

This work describes a new sensitive sensor for the simultaneous electrochemical determination by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry of Cd2+ and Pb2+ ions in aqueous solution, based on a disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode (IPGE) modifed by ...

2020

Small-scale organic Rankine cycle turbo-generator for waste heat recovery on truck engine

Kévin Rosset

Truck engine waste heat recovery (WHR) systems have been investigated for many years. Among them, organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems show the highest potential, but still lack efficient small-scale expansion devices, in practice. Proposed expanders are of ...

EPFL2020