Publications related to Process design

How to Decarbonize Our Energy Systems: Process-Informed Design of New Materials for Carbon Capture

Decarbonisation from a variety of industrial and power emission sectors highlights a marked need for capture technologies that can be optimized for different CO2 sources and integrated into an equally diverse range of applications of captured CO2 as a feed ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Dated: Guidelines for Creating Synthetic Datasets for Engineering Design Applications

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Cyril Picard, Faez Ahmed

Exploiting the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, showcased by ChatGPT and DALL-E, in real-world applications necessitates vast, domain-specific, and publicly accessible datasets. Unfortunately, the scarcity of such datasets poses a significan ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2023

High-Throughput Sizing, Counting, and Elemental Analysis of Anisotropic Multimetallic Nanoparticles with Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Andreas Züttel, Natalia Gasilova, Cedric David Koolen, Wen Luo, Mo Li, Ayush Agarwal

Nanoparticles (NPs) have wide applications in physical and chemical processes, and their individual properties (e.g., shape, size, and composition) and ensemble properties (e.g., distribution and homogeneity) can significantly affect the performance. Howev ...

2022

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit, Susana Garcia Lopez, Fergus Robert Lloyd Mcilwaine

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

A Methodology for Evaluating the Robustness of Anomaly Detectors to Adversarial Attacks in Industrial Scenarios

Javier Alejandro Maroto Morales

Anomaly Detection systems based on Machine and Deep learning are the most promising solutions to detect cyberattacks in the industry. However, these techniques are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that downgrade prediction performance. Several techniques ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Reduction of PdO/Al2O3 in Liquid Cyclohexane Followed In Situ by ATR-IR, High-Energy XRD, and XAS

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Thibault Xavier Florian Fovanna

Supported Pd-based catalysts used in heterogeneously catalyzed liquid phase processes often undergo an activation step through reduction of the oxide phase or of the oxidic passivation layer prior to reaction. An oxidized Pd/Al2O3 catalyst was reduced by u ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Increasing Superstructure Optimization Capacity Through Self-Learning Surrogate Models

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher

Simulation-based optimization models are widely applied to find optimal operating conditions of processes. Often, computational challenges arise from model complexity, making the generation of reliable design solutions difficult. We propose an algorithm fo ...

2021

Cryogenic MOSFET Modeling for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Promising results of state-of-the-art quantum computers fuel a world-wide effort in academic and private research laboratories to scale up the number of qubits and improve their characteristics in large arrays. To meet the scale-up challenge, innovative mi ...

EPFL2021

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of superma ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Photonic Damascene process for integrated high Q microresonator based nonlinear photonic devices

Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Chip-based optical waveguides formed by a silicon nitride (Si3N4) core and a silicon dioxide (SiO2) cladding are an important platform for low loss waveguides and nonlinear optics. High Q microresonators based on this material system have become a standard ...

EPFL2018

Optimal Load Sharing for Serial Compressors via Modifier Adaptation

Dominique Bonvin, Timm Faulwasser, René Uwe Schneider, Predrag Milosavljevic

This paper investigates the optimal load-sharing problem of serial gas compressors in the presence of plant-model mismatch. The problem is formulated as a static real-time optimization task that is solved via modifier adaptation for interconnected systems. ...

IEEE2018

Improvement of contact resistance in flexible a-IGZO thin-film transistors by CF4/O-2 plasma treatment

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

In this work, we analyze the effect of CF4/O-2 plasma treatment on the contact interface between the amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (a-IGZO) semiconductor and Titanium-Gold electrodes. First, the influence of CF4/O-2 plasma treatment is evaluated usin ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Synthesis of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Solution Strategies and Network Features

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Industries consume large quantities of energy and water in their processes which are often considered to be peripheral to the process operation. Energy is used to heat or cool water for process use; additionally, water is frequently used in production supp ...

2018

Ultrafast Laser to Tailor Material Properties: An Enabling Tool in Advanced Three-dimensional Micromanufacturing

Yves Bellouard

The progress made in ultrafast laser technology towards high repetition rate systems have opened new opportunities in micromanufacturing. Non-linear absorption phenomena triggered by femtosecond pulses interacting with transparent materials allow material ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2017

GREEN DENSITY. A Transdisciplinary Research and Teaching Project for the Design of Sustainable Neighbourhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey

The GREEN DENSITY transdisciplinary research and teaching project focuses on the Waldstadt sector, a strip of forest bordering the city of Bern. This strategic site, likely to host new inhabitants and jobs close to public transport, is particularly adapted ...

2016

Using very toxic or especially hazardous chemical substances in a research and teaching institution

Thierry Meyer, Jean-Luc Marendaz, Sebastian Brückner

Wrong manipulation, storage or disposal of chemicals can cause great damage whether it occurs on industrial plants, in academia or at home. Amongst the numerous reasons, lack of knowledge and haste are the most common ones. Except for a few substances subj ...

2016

Functional Central Limit Theorem for the Interface of the Symmetric Multitype Contact Process

Thomas Mountford, Daniel Rodrigues Valesin

We study the interface of the symmetric multitype contact process on Z. In this process, each site of Z is either empty or occupied by an individual of one of two species. Each individual dies with rate 1 and attempts to give birth with rate 2R lambda; the ...

Impa2016

Biomass Modelling: estimating thermodynamic properties from the elemental composition

François Maréchal, Emanuela Peduzzi, Guillaume Boissonnet

In the context of modelling biomass conversion processes, the accurate representation of biomass, which is a complex and highly variable material, is of crucial importance. This study provides a rather simple and flexible way to represent biomass, especial ...

2016

Distributed Modifier-Adaptation Schemes for the Real-Time Optimization of Interconnected Systems in the Presence of Structural Plant-Model Mismatch

Dominique Bonvin, René Uwe Schneider, Predrag Milosavljevic

The desire to operate chemical processes in a safe and economically optimal way has motivated the development of so-called real-time optimization (RTO) methods [1]. For continuous processes, these methods aim to compute safe and optimal steady-state set ...

2016

Foam on troubled water: Capillary induced finite-time arrest of sloshing waves

François Gallaire, Francesco Viola, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Benjamin Jérémy Dollet

Interfacial forces exceed gravitational forces on a scale small relative to the capillary length-two millimeters in the case of an air-water interface-and therefore dominate the physics of sub-millimetric systems. They are of paramount importance for vario ...

Amer Inst Physics2016