Publications related to Shell-and-tube heat exchanger

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

EPFL2024

Multiscale enhancement of refrigerant falling film boiling by combining commercially enhanced tubes with nanostructures

John Richard Thome

Multiscale surface structures offer the opportunity to combine the heat transfer enhancement provided by microscale structures with the dryout benefits provided by some nanostructures, which is particularly attractive for falling film evaporators, who have ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Multivalent Peptide Ligands To Probe the Chromocenter Microenvironment in Living Cells

Beat Fierz, Pablo Rivera Fuentes, Nora Guidotti, Maxime Nicolas Mivelaz, Adam Miklos Eördögh

Chromatin is spatially organized into functional states that are defined by both the presence of specific histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) and a defined set of chromatin-associated “reader” proteins. Different models for the underlying mecha ...

2022

Techno-Economic Optimization of an Integrated Biomass Waste Gasifier–Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Plant

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Victoria Xu Hong He, Arata Nakajo, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes

With a growing energy demand in a carbon-constrained society, fuels cells powered by renewable fuels, and specifically solid waste, are seen as interesting contributors to the energy portfolio. The alternative energy industry needs to reduce costs, enhance ...

2021

Thermal optimization of shell and tube heat exchanger using porous baffles

Hossein Pourrahmani

In this study, total heat transfer rate and pressure drop along a shell and tube heat exchanger (STHX) with 6 porous baffles are numerically investigated. To study the impacts of segmental porous baffles, three values for the permeability (10(-9) m(2), 10( ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Shape optimization of segmental porous baffles for enhanced thermo-hydraulic performance of shell-and-tube heat exchanger

Hossein Pourrahmani

This study presents the development and evaluation of a novel shell-and-tube heat exchanger (STHX) design with segmental porous baffles. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in combination with machine learning tools are utilized to investigate the thermo-hy ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Optimal retrofit and investment planning methodologies for improving industrial energy and resource efficiency

Hür Ebuzer Bütün

A major shift in energy systems has started due to drastic changes in climate and air quality, depleting resources, as well as rising social awareness to all these changes. As a result international protocols, such as the Paris agreement, are signed settin ...

EPFL2020

Thermomechanical behavior of underground energy infrastructures

Jacopo Zannin

The employment of geostructures as structural supports and as heat exchangers represent an effective, renewable and sustainable way to satisfy thermal needs of the built environment. The structural support of conventional geotechnical structures is coupled ...

EPFL2020

Design of a Pilot SOFC System for the Combined Production of Hydrogen and Electricity under Refueling Station Requirements

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Alberto Mian, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes

The objective of the current work is to support the design of a pilot hydrogen and electricity producing plant that uses natural gas (or biomethane) as raw material, as a transition option towards a 100% renewable transportation system. The plant, with a s ...

2019

Trade-off designs and comparative exergy evaluation of solid-oxide electrolyzer based power-to-methane plants

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang

Solid-oxide electrolyzer (SOE) based power-to-methane (PtM) system can efficiently store surplus renewable power into synthesis natural gas by electrolysis and methanation. The system performance depends on the operating point of the electrolyzer and syste ...

2019

Cyclic Load-Transfer Approach for the Analysis of Energy Piles

Lyesse Laloui, Melis Sütman

Energy piles, due to their unique roles of coupling the structural support and heat exchange with the surrounding ground, are subject to temperature cycles during their lifetime. Although their behaviour during individual temperature increase or decrease h ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2019

Three-dimensional finite element analysis of piled rafts with energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Cristiano Garbellini

Over the last twenty years, the importance of environmentally friendly technologies in the field of construction has grown considerably. In this regard, energy piles are an innovative technology that combines the structural role of piles with that of a gro ...

2019

A Heat Load Distribution Method for Retrofitting Heat Exchanger Networks, 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Alberto Mian, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

Fluctuating energy prices, increasing environmental concerns, and regulations push industries toward more energy efficient plants. Process integration (PI) techniques, proven to be effective in providing solutions with improved energy and material efficien ...

2018

A heat integration method with multiple heat exchange interfaces

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

In recent decades, energy efficiency has become one of the key issues facing large process industries. Mounting economic, environmental and social pressure motivate energy-intensive industries to improve their efficiency. Identifying retrofit opportunities ...

2018

A heat integration method with location-dependent heat distribution losses

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

Energy consumption in industrial processes is mainly in the form of heat. Thus, heat recovery is one of the main focuses in industrial energy efficiency problems. Heat integration (HI) techniques have been studied extensively to solve such problems. One of ...

2018

A process integration method with multiple heat exchange interfaces

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

In recent decades, energy efficiency has become one of the key issues facing industrial producers. Mounting economic, environmental and social factors motivate energy-intensive industries to improve their efficiency. Identifying energy saving retrofit oppo ...

2017

A systematic methodology for the techno-economic optimization of Organic Rankine Cycles

Alberto Mian, Emanuele Martelli

This work presents a general and systematic methodology for the techno-economic optimization of Rankine cycles. The proposed superstructure for Rankine cycles allows to reproduce a wide range of cycle configurations, such as cycles with/without regenerator ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Heat Pump driven by a Small-Scale Oil-Free Turbocompressor – System Design and Simulation

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Adeel Javed

Small-scale oil-free turbocompressors driven by high-speed electric motors and supported on refrigerant vapor bearings represent a promising technology to increase the performance of domestic heat pumps. Gas bearings enable high rotational speeds with low ...

2017

Commissioning of HTS Adapter and Heat Exchanger for Testing of High Current HTS Conductors

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Boris Stepanov

In the EDIPO test facility, superconducting cables with a current carrying capacity up to 100 kA can be tested in a background field of 12.5 T. A NbTi transformer, operated at ???4.5 K, provides the sample current of up to 100 kA. The high-temperature supe ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Combined water and energy integration in industrial processes with restricted connections

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani

Reducing the environmental impact of industrial processes is highly linked with decreasing consumption of natural resources, energy, and water. In the context of climate change, as discussed during the Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21), the efficient ...

2016