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Optimal Depth of Discharge for Electric Batteries with Robust Capacity-Shrinkage Estimator

A user’s benefit from the energy stored in a battery over its lifetime depends on the time-varying characteristics of the battery, which are in turn affected by the chosen usage behavior. Both the capacity shrinkage and the number of lifetime cycles are st ...

2024

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Fernando Porté Agel, Mohammad Jamshidmofid, Ahmad Arabkoohsar

Healthcare sector buildings, particularly hospitals, significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals require a substantial amount of steam, including the essential hygienic or " clean steam, " that is currently ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Where is the money ? A decomposition of monetary flows behind fossil fuels

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li, Raphaël Briguet

Transition from fossils to renewables is leading to radical societal changes. Shifting the capital from fossils to renewables is commonly accompanied with political concerns, such as energy autonomy, domestic employment etc. Despite a decreasing trend in r ...

DTU Construct2022

Theoretical Efficiency and Dosimetry of Buffered On-body Transmitter Antennas for Wireless Powering of In-body Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

The viable and safe application of wireless power transfer for powering bioelectronic implants requires understanding the wave propagation in heterogeneous and dispersive media, the electromagnetic exposure assessment, and the optimum design of the system ...

IEEE2022

Wireless Powering Efficiency of Deep-Body Implantable Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev, Zvonimir Sipus, Mingxiang Gao, Erdem Cil

The wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency to implanted bioelectronic devices is constrained by several frequency-dependent physical mechanisms. Recent works have developed several mathematical formulations to understand these mechanisms and predict the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Pulses in Upward Negative Lightning at the Säntis Tower in Northeastern Switzerland

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Davide Pavanello, Lixia He

Upward lightning happens predominantly from tall objects. The channel-base currents associated with upward negative lightning initiated from towers exhibit pulses that can be classified, based on their waveform features and on the concurrence with other pr ...

2019

Application of Machine Learning and Mathematical Programming in the Optimization of the Energy Management System for Hybrid-Electric Vessels Having Cyclic Operations

Francesco Baldi, Navid Mohammadzadeh

Shipping contributes today to 2.1% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and its share is expected to grow in the coming years. At the same time, fuel prices are increasing and companies of the related increase in operational costs. This demands ...

2018

In Situ Electric Field Skyrmion Creation in Magnetoelectric Cu2OSeO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Marco Cantoni, Fabrizio Carbone, Oleksandr Kriuchkov, Ping Huang, Rajeswari Jayaraman

Exploiting additional degrees of freedom in solid-state materials may be the most-promising solution when approaching the quantum limit of Moore's law for the conventional electronic industry. Recently discovered topologically nontrivial spin textures, sky ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Frequency Response of Electric and Magnetic Fields of Overhead Conductors With Particular Reference to Axial Electric Field

Complete electric and magnetic field solutions of an overhead conductor above a lossy earth are derived in this letter, and “mode transition” from a low-frequency quasi-transverse electromagnetic (TEM) to a high-frequency transverse Magnetic (TM) mode has ...

2018

Semantic model for IoT-enabled electric vehicle services: Puzzling with ontologies

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo, Prodromos Kolyvakis

The purpose of this paper is to present our ideas of applying semantic modelling and ontologies to the issues of products and services. Two selected issues are discussed: i) the collection and reuse of product-service lifecycle data in an IoT-enabled frame ...

Ieee2016

Spin- and valley-polarized transport across line defects in monolayer MoS2

Oleg Yazyev, Artem Pulkin

We address the ballistic transmission of charge carriers across ordered line defects in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Our study reveals the presence of a transport gap driven by spin-orbit interactions, spin and valley filtering, both stemmin ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

A model for the evaluation of the electric field associated with the lightning-triggering rocket wire and its corona

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

In this paper, we analyze the electric field at ground level during the first stage of triggered lightning experiments, i.e., during the rocket ascent and prior to the lightning initiation. At distances of some tens of meters from the triggering wire, the ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Demand Side Management for Enhanced Integration of Photovoltaics into Grid

Christophe Ballif, Yannick Samuel Riesen, Raffael Fabian Tschui, Christophe Germain Boillat

Demand side management could be a very effective way to shift electric consumption of households to the maximum production hours of photovoltaic (PV) systems. A field study on more than 100 households were performed to evaluate the share of electric consum ...

WIP Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co Planungs KG2015

Cold-Field Switching in PVDF-TrFE Ferroelectric Polymer Nanomesas

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Igor Stolichnov, Evgeny Mikheev

Polarization reversal in ferroelectric nanomesas of polyvinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene has been probed by ultrahigh vacuum piezoresponse force microscopy in a wide temperature range from 89 to 326 K. In dramatic contrast to the macroscopic data ...

American Physical Society2012

A Novel Extraction Method and Compact Model for the Steepness Estimation of FDSOI TFET Lateral Junction

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Arnab Biswas, Surya Shankar Dan

There are several techniques for junction profiling available in literature, yet none of them are practically suitable for the accurate determination of the lateral junction steepness in TFET devices, which is the most important parameter influencing TFET ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Optimisation of Urban Form by the Evaluation of the Solar Potential

Marylène Montavon

What will the cities of tomorrow look like? This is a crucial question because in the four and a half billion years of its existence, the Earth has never been so threatened, as it is today. Since 2008 half of the world's population has lived in towns – mor ...

EPFL2010

Simulation of thermal stresses in anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell stacks. Part I: Probability of failure of the cells

Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin

Structural stability issues in planar solid oxide fuel cells arise from the mismatch between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the components. The stress state at operating temperature is the superposition of several contributions, which differ depe ...

2009

Efficient Broadcasting Using Network Coding

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Christina Fragouli, Jörg Widmer

We consider the problem of broadcasting in an ad-hoc wireless network, where all nodes of the network are sources that want to transmit information to all other nodes. Our figure of merit is energy efficiency, a critical design parameter for wireless netwo ...

2008

Efficient Broadcasting Using Network Coding

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Christina Fragouli, Jörg Widmer

We consider the problem of broadcasting in an ad hoc wireless network, where all nodes of the network are sources that want to transmit information to all other nodes. Our figure of merit is energy efficiency, a critical design parameter for wireless net- ...

2008

3D analysis and optimization of microwave circuits by the method of moments

Francisco Jesus Nunez

The design and minaturization of microwave circuits involves the analysis and optimization of a large varity of structures, which, in general, are based on arbritrary objects embedded in also arbritary media. The most common situation is found when optimiz ...

EPFL2006