Concept

Alternative fuel

Related lectures (24)

Explores modeling energy value chains, heating characteristics, petroleum fuels, environmental impact, and heating costs.

Energy Demand of Transport

Explores energy demand modeling in the transport sector, covering energy use of cars and challenges in alternative fuels.

Environmental Impact of Cement Production

Explores the environmental impact of cement production, including CO2 emissions, alternative fuels, and eco-cement.

Synthetic Fuel Production I

Explores the role of synthetic fuels in reducing carbon emissions and the essential catalysis processes for fuel production from new resources.

Energy Transition: Trends, Markets, and Challenges

Covers global energy challenges, the growth of renewables, energy security, unconventional fuels, and energy efficiency, highlighting the importance of renewable energy sources and energy storage applications.

Biomass Energy: Understanding and Transitioning

Explores biomass formation, energy conversion, potential in Switzerland, and the need for further research.

Smart Urban Energy Systems: The Infrastructure Layer

Covers challenges in managing smart urban energy infrastructures and the involved actors.

Cogeneration Benefits: Marginal Efficiencies and Substitution

Explores the benefits of cogeneration, emphasizing marginal efficiencies and the substitution of heat and electricity.

Ancillary Services Provision and Renewable Energy Integration

Discusses Ancillary Services Provision, distributed energy resources, wind generation, and PV systems.

Solar Energy: Solar-to-fuel

Explores converting solar energy into fuel through methods like solar cracking and steam reforming, emphasizing efficiency and chemical reactions.

Bioethanol: Production, Properties, and Applications

Covers the production, properties, and applications of bioethanol as a renewable fuel source.

Impact on Environment: Cement Production

Covers the environmental impact of cement production and the use of alternative fuels.

PowerMEMS: Energy Harvesting and Micro Power Generation

Covers PowerMEMS, energy harvesting, power storage, alternative energy sources, micro power devices, and the origins of PowerMEMS.

Energy Transition in Switzerland

Explores energy transition scenarios, costs, and assumptions in Switzerland, including the impact of photovoltaic energy.

Chemistry of Elements: Hydrogen Reactivity

Explores the reactivity, history, synthesis, and industrial production of hydrogen, including crystal structures and fuel cell technology.

Solar Fuels: Conversion Pathways and Reactor Concepts

Explores solar energy conversion into fuels, reactor concepts, and material requirements for efficient photoelectrochemistry.

Stirling Cycle

Explores the Stirling cycle, a thermodynamic process with continuous combustion and versatile fuel options, suitable for refrigeration and heat pump applications.

Electric Mobility Ecosystem

Delves into the evolution of the electric mobility ecosystem, including market trends, policy influences, and technological advancements.

Nuclear Fission: Total Cross Section Analysis

Analyzes the total cross section data for nuclear fission, covering energy dependence, transport, reactions, uncertainties, fission fragments, and radiological hazards.

Engineering the Energy Transition

Delves into EPFL engineers' solutions for the energy transition, covering renewable resources, circularity, and waste-water-energy integration.