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Next generation cogeneration system for industry - Combined heat and fuel plant using biomass resources

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Ayse Dilan Celebi

The requirement for sustainable development has prompted the researchers to explore solutions for better utilization of renewable energy resources in the future. Biomass is a promising resource and it can be converted to multiple products and services incl ...

Elsevier2019

Theoretical analysis of steam generation methods - Energy, CO 2 emission, and cost analysis

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

A theoretical case study on steam generation has been performed. Different methods of producing steam by vapour compression, direct electrical heating, gas heating, heat pumping, use of waste heat, and a mixture thereof, were theoretically analysed. The fi ...

Elsevier2017

Optimal Operations and Resilient Investments in Steam Networks

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, most commonly used for process heating and cooling, cogeneration of heat and mechanical power as a motive fluid or for stripping. Steam networks are used to carry steam from producers to consumers and betw ...

2016

Environmental, Energetic and Economic Evaluation of Implementing a Supercritical Fluid-Based Nanocellulose Production Process in a Sugarcane Biorefinery

François Maréchal, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

Nanocellulose, which is a disintegration product of plant cellulose, has recently come to public attention because of its great mechanical properties combined with renewability and biodegradability. From an environmental point-of-view, nanocellulose has sh ...

AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.2016

Methodology for the design and comparison of optimal production configurations of first and first and second generation ethanol with power

François Maréchal, Rami Bechara, Jean-Marc Schweitzer

This article applies a systematic methodology to the optimization and comparison of two sugarcane conversion processes of great potential: the production of first generation ethanol and electricity in an integrated distillery and cogeneration plant (1G+COG ...

2016

Energy Efficiency and Integration in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener

Industrial sites and their associated energy systems are estimated to be responsible for 31% of worldwide energy consumption. Improving their energy efficiencies has the potential to reduce production costs of industrial sites and contribute towards the 20 ...

EPFL2016

Optimisation of unit investment and load shedding in a steam network facing undercapacity

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener

Steam networks and their utilities should be dimensioned to satisfy day-to-day demand as well peaks. Peaks can be caused by unit start-ups, extreme weather conditions or combinations of high demand from process units. During maintenance operations or unexp ...

2015

Performance and Profitability Perspectives of a CO2 based District Energy Network in Geneva’s City Center

Daniel Favrat, Céline Weber, Samuel Henchoz

A new type of district energy network capable of providing simultaneously heating and cooling is being investigated. It is based on the use of CO2 as a heat transfer fluid by taking advantage of the latent heat of vaporization, to store and transfer heat a ...

2012

Tubulo II: magnetic climbing inchworm for inspection of boiler tubes

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

TUBULO II is a climbing inspection robot with for inner inspection of boiler tubes. Its locomotion principle is the inchworm type. The adhesion is realized with Magnetic Switchable Device [1]. The inner is able to operate within a tube of inner bore diamet ...

World Scientific2011