Publications related to Carnot heat engine

Fluctuations of entropy production of a run-and-tumble particle

Daniel Maria Busiello, Amos Maritan, Deepak Gupta

Out-of-equilibrium systems continuously generate entropy, with its rate of production being a fingerprint of nonequilibrium conditions. In small-scale dissipative systems subject to thermal noise, fluctuations of entropy production are significant. Hithert ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Smart acoustic lining for UHBR technologies engine: from the design of an electroacoustic metasurface to experimental characterization under flow

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery

The SALUTE project aims at evaluating performance of electroacoustic metasurface, employing a surface array of controlled electroacoustic actuators, for smart acoustic lining under grazing turbulent flow to be used in UHBR Technologies Engines. Theoretical ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2023

Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage

Sunny Isaïe Maye

An important part of the electricity production relies on heat conversion. Indeed power plants burn fuels like natural gas, coal or use nuclear fission to produce heat that can be transformed into electricity through a thermodynamic cycle and the mechanica ...

EPFL2020

Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure

Yorick Ligen

Thermodynamics and heat engines are the core disciplines which enabled the development of the thermo-industrial society during the 20th century. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are one of the easiest and most convenient solutions offered by the thermophysical con ...

EPFL2020

Two-phase and oil-free co-rotating scroll compressor/expander

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This paper discusses experimental and theoretical investigations about a re-designed co-rotation scroll machine, operating in compressor and expander mode. The machine has been tested under various operational conditions, with the aim to determine the infl ...

2019

Testing and modelling of a novel oil-free co-rotating scroll machine with water injection

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

Efficient compressed air energy storage requires reversible isothermal compression and expansion devices. The isothermal compression and expansion processes can either be approached by several stages with intercooling or by the more convenient injection of ...

Elsevier2017

Physical effects of thermal pollution in lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard

Anthropogenic heat emissions into inland waters influence water temperature and affect stratification, heat and nutrient fluxes, deep water renewal, and biota. Given the increased thermal stress on these systems by growing cooling demands of riparian/coast ...

American Geophysical Union2017

Statistical-thermodynamics modelling of the built environment in relation to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Various aspects of the built environment have important effects on ecology. Providing suitable metrics for the built forms so as to quantify and model their internal relations and external ecological footprints, however, remains a challenge. Here we provid ...

Elsevier2015

On The Strategies Towards Isothermal Gas Compression And Expansion

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

Isothermal compression/expansion is regarded as the most promising process in many applications and many researchers and inventors have tried different methods to achieve this goal. The current article first studies the gradual roadmap from adiabatic towar ...

2014

Innovative isothermal oil-free co-rotating scroll compressor-expander for energy storage with first expander tests

Daniel Favrat, Angel Iglesias

The development of an efficient isothermal turbine and compressor is essential for the realization of a small-scale compressed air energy storage (CAES). This article presents the theoretical development of an oil-free co-rotating scroll air compressor and ...

Elsevier2014

Isothermal transcritical CO2 cycles with TES (thermal energy storage) for electricity storage

Daniel Favrat, Young Min Kim

Recently, TEES (thermo-electric energy storage) systems have been proposed as a new method for large-scale energy storage wherein electric power is stored as thermal energy by using a heat pump and retrieved from the TES (thermal energy storage) by using a ...

Elsevier2013

Energy integration optimisation of chilled ammonia process for CO2 capture

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Within the global challenge of climate change mitigation, CO2 capture and storage is regarded as a potential option to reduce the CO2 emissions in power plants. The most common technology to capture CO2 is chemical absorption with amines, requiring however ...

2013

Insights into the thermo-mechanics of orthogonal nanometric machining

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Pedro Romero

The fabrication of high precision miniaturized components in micro- and nano-technologies requires a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms governing the nanomachining process. To aid with this need, the current article employs molecular dynamics to ...

Elsevier2013

Simulations of the Irradiation and Temperature Dependence of the Efficiency of Tandem Photoelectrochemical Water-splitting Systems

Sophia Haussener

The efficiency of an operating photoelectrochemical solar-fuels-generator system is determined by the system design, the properties and morphology of the system's components, and the operational conditions. We used a previously developed model comprising o ...

Electrochemical Soc Inc2013

Heat Management for Process Intensification of Fast Exothermic Reactions in Microstructured Reactors

Julien Haber

Nowadays, the production in fine chemical and pharmaceutical industry is mostly carried out in large scale batch reactors having typically dimensions of a few meters to satisfy the demand of the market. Even though this technology has been widely used and ...

EPFL2013

Influence of Thermocouple Thermal Inertia in Impingement Heat Transfer Experiments Using Transient Techniques

Peter Ott, Alexandros Terzis, Bernhard Weigand, Guillaume Wagner

A typical transient heat transfer experiment for an impingement cooling configuration requires usually a temperature step in the flow. A moving isotherm of the liquid crystal surface coating is then monitored using a video camera. However, for small imping ...

2012

Novel concepts of compressed air energy storage and thermo-electric energy storage

Young Min Kim

The interest in energy storage is currently increasing, especially from the perspectives of matching intermittent sources of renewable energy with customer demand and storing excess nuclear or thermal power during the daily cycle. Technologies to be consid ...

EPFL2012

Evolution of Langmuir Film of Nanoparticles Through Successive Compression Cycles

Francesco Stellacci, Jiwon Kim

The success of nanoparticle-based devices will need reliable fabrication methods for well-defined, defect-free self-assembled structures of nanoparticles (NPs). NP self-assembly is a process governed by an interplay between many inter-particle interactions ...

2011

Thermoeconomic Analysis of a Solar Enhanced Energy Storage Concept Based on Thermodynamic Cycles

Samuel Henchoz

Large scale energy storage may play an increasingly important role in the power generation and distribution sector, especially when large shares of renewable energies will have to be integrated into the electrical grid. Up to now pumped-hydro is the only t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Properties of a well-defined Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram for urban traffic

Nikolaos Geroliminis

A field experiment in Yokohama (japan) revealed that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) linking space-mean flow, density and speed exists on a large urban area. It was observed that when the highly scattered plots of flow vs. density from individual f ...

Elsevier2011