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Embedded Microchannel Cooling for Monolithically-integrated GaN Half-bridge ICs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

Efficient and compact power conversion is a key requirement to achieve sustainable electrification of our society. GaN-based power devices offer major benefits compared to their silicon counterparts in terms of efficiency and integration but suffer from se ...

IEEE2021

Field evaluation of thermal and acoustical comfort in eight North-American buildings using embedded radiant systems

Caroline Karmann

We performed a post-occupancy assessment based on 500 occupant surveys in eight buildings using embedded radiant heating and cooling systems. This study follows-up on a quantitative assessment of 60 office buildings that found radiant and all-air buildings ...

2021

Heat source and voiding signatures of Mullins damage in filled EPDM

Nicolas Candau, Oguzhan Oguz

The thermomechanical coupling of Mullins damage in filled EPDM has been investigated by analysing the self-heating via Infrared thermography (IR) and the voiding fraction by Digital Image Correlation (DIC). The volumetric strain measured during the rubber ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

System for co2 capture from internal combustion engine

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

System (2) for CO2 capture from a combustion engine (1) comprising an exhaust gas flow circuit (6) having an inlet end fluidly connected to an exhaust of the combustion engine, a heat exchanger circuit (12), a primary exhaust gas heat exchanger (H1) for tr ...

2020

Effect of fuel isotope mass on q-profile formation in JET hybrid plasmas

Matteo Fontana

The initial current ramp phase of JET hybrid plasmas is used to optimise the target q-profile for main heating to allow access to high beta and avoid MHD instabilities. Mixed protium-deuterium experiments, carried out at JET since the installation of the b ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Oxygen diffusion through air–water free surfaces in a pump–turbine operating in condenser mode

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Pierre Leroy

The present research aims at understanding the mass transfer of air into water in a reversible pump turbine operating in condenser mode. In particular, the diffusion of oxygen through the water free-surface both in the vaneless gap between the impeller bla ...

2019

Towards a digital workflow to assess visual impact of solar modules and their operation within energy-hubs

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Pietro Florio

This study proposes an integrated methodology to assess the BIPV potential of existing urban neighborhoods, including social acceptance and grid infrastructure management issues; as a demonstration, a case study in Geneva, Switzerland is considered. In par ...

IOP Science2019

Nearing final design of the ITER EC H&CD Upper Launcher

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Matteo Vagnoni, Florian Ramseyer, Emanuele Poli

The ITER ECRH system consists of 24 gyrotrons with up to 24 MW installed millimeter wave heating power at 170 GHz, power supplies, control system, transmission lines, one Equatorial and the four Upper Launchers. With its high frequency and small beam focus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Development and optimisation of advanced auxiliary ion heating schemes for 3D fusion plasma devices

Hamish William Patten

The magnetic confinement fusion devices known as the tokamak and the stellarator are progressing towards becoming viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor designs. Both ap- proaches require improvements in the applied heating sources and in the particle an ...

EPFL2019

The Evolution of the Pompidou Centre's Air Conditioning System. Toward a new figure of architecture

Boris Hamzeian

The integration of technical services in architecture played a crucial role in the history of post-war construction. The Centre Pompidou, conceived and realized between 1971 and 1977 by the architecture studio Piano and Rogers and the engineering firm Ove ...

Construction History Society2018

Self-Heating Aware Design of ICs in Deep Sub-Micron FDSOI and Bulk Technologies

Can Baltaci

Bulk CMOS technologies left the semiconductor market to the novel device geometries such as FDSOI and FinFET below 30 nm, mainly due to their insufficient electrical characteristics arising from different physical limitations. These innovative solutions en ...

EPFL2018

Real-Time Control of an Ensemble of Heterogeneous Resources

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Andrey Bernstein, Niek Johannes Bouman

This paper focuses on the problem of controlling an ensemble of heterogeneous resources connected to an elec- trical grid at the same point of common coupling (PCC). The controller receives an aggregate power setpoint for the ensemble in real time and trac ...

2017

Heating rate effect on particle stimulated nucleation and grains structure during non-isothermal annealing of multi-directionally forged solution treated AA2024

Roland Logé, Saeed Khani Moghanaki

Particle stimulated nucleation (PSN) is one of the importantmechanisms of recrystallizationwhich is investigated in this research during non-isothermal annealing of multi-directionally forged solution treated aluminum alloy 2024. Non-isothermal annealing i ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Impact of Extreme Land Surface Heterogeneity on Micrometeorology over Spring Snow Cover

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl

The melting mountain snow cover in spring typically changes from a continuous snow cover to a mosaic of patches of snow and bare ground, inducing an extreme heterogeneity of the land surface. A comprehensive measurement campaign, the Dischma experiment, wa ...

American Meteorological Society2017

Electro-Thermal Design of a Modular Multilevel Converter Prototype

Drazen Dujic, Alexandre François Christe, Émilien Luc Henri Coulinge

This paper describes the electro-thermal design of a medium voltage modular multilevel converter prototype, from the submodule power semiconductor thermal requirements to the overall system level integration. The high number of semiconductors and capacitor ...

VDE VERLAG GMBH2016

Working fluid charge reduction. Part II: Supercritical CO2 gas cooler designed for light commercial appliances

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen

The present study focused on the thermal hydraulic performance improvement of a CO2 gas cooler with the principal goal of reducing its volume, and consequently the necessary charge of the working fluid. To achieve this compactness, the leading methods for ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Studies of Two-Phase Flow at a Chute Aerator with Experiments and CFD Modelling

Michael Pfister

The chute aerator of a spillway is a structure in such a sense that air is, in the intense emulsification, entrained into the high-velocity water flow. Correctly predicting the air entrainment and two-phase flow pattern at the aerator would contribute to r ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Strategic energy planning for large-scale energy systems: A modelling framework to aid decision-making

Daniel Favrat, François Maréchal, Stefano Moret, Victor Codina Gironès

Concerns related to climate change and security of energy supply are pushing various countries to make strategic energy planning decisions. This requires the development of energy models to aid decision- making. Large scale energy models are often very com ...

2015

Unsteady Aerodynamics of Low-Pressure Steam Turbines Operating Under Low Volume Flow

Peter Ott, Benjamin Megerle, Ivan William McBean

Nonsynchronous excitation under low volume operation is a major risk to the mechanical integrity of last stage moving blades (LSMBs) in low-pressure (LP) steam turbines. These vibrations are often induced by a rotating aerodynamic instability similar to ro ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2014

Cartilage self-heating contributes to chondrogenic expression

Dominique Pioletti, Philippe Abdel Sayed, Arne Christian Vogel, Mohamadreza Nassajian Moghadam

Articular cartilage is a soft tissue showing inelastic properties. Under cyclic loading, inelastic materials may dissipate mechanical energy into heat. In knee cartilage, due to an intrinsic reduced heat convection related to its avascularity, a local temp ...

European Cells & Materials Ltd2013