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CO2-mitigation options for the offshore oil and gas sector

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock, Tuong-Van Nguyen

The offshore extraction of oil and gas is an energy-intensive process leading to the production of CO2 and methane, discharged into the atmosphere, and of chemicals, rejected into the sea. The taxation of these emissions, in Norway, has encouraged the deve ...

2016

Thermo-environomic optimisation strategy for fuel decarbonisation process design and analysis

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

To meet the CO2 reduction targets and ensure sustainable energy supply, the development and deploy- ment of cost-competitive innovative low-carbon energy technologies is essential. To design and evaluate the competitiveness of such complex integrated energ ...

2015

Environomic optimal design of power plants with CO2 capture

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Life cycle impact assessment indicators are integrated for studying the process integration of renewable resources and CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in power plants. Besides the expected reduction in global warming potential (GWP), CCS induces energy and c ...

2015

Life Cycle Assessment Based Process Design of CO2 Capture Options

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Elsevier2014

Decision Support for CO2 Capture Process Options under Uncertain Market Conditions using Multi-objective Optimisation

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Elsevier2014

Process design optimization strategy to develop energy and cost correlations of CO2 capture processes

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

In the context of CO2 emissions reduction from power plants, CO2 removal from flue gas by chemical absorption with monoethanolamine is analyzed in detail. By applying process integration and multi-objective optimization techniques the influence of the oper ...

Elsevier2014

Process engineering method for systematically comparing CO2 capture options

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, CO2 capture and storage is regarded as a promising alternative for fossil fuel fed power plants. In order to design and evaluate the competitiveness of such complex integrated energy conversion systems ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Thermo-environomic evaluation of the ammonia production

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock, Matthieu Perrenoud

Within the global challenge of sustainable energy supply and greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the deployment of renewable resources are considered as promising solutions. In this context, the production of ammonia m ...

SFGP2013

Thermo-economic optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Gas Turbine system fuelled with gasified lignocellulosic biomass

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Priscilla Caliandro

Within the context of sustainable energy supply and CO2 emissions reduction a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) - Gas Turbine hybrid system, fuelled with gasified woody biomass for medium scale applications (8MWth,BM of dry biomass) is studied in detail. The sy ...

2013

Thermo-environomic optimisation of fuel decarbonisation alternative processes for hydrogen and power production

Laurence Tock

EPFL2013

La capture de CO2 dans les centrales électriques

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

La capture et le stockage du CO2 est considéré comme une alternative prometteuse pour atteindre les objectifs de réduction des émissions de carbone de la production d’électricité. En appliquant une stratégie d’optimisation thermo-environomique, le bénéfice ...

2013

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

Platform development for studying integrated energy conversion processes: Application to a power plant process with CO2 capture

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

This paper presents the development of a platform for studying, designing and optimizing complex integrated energy systems. Technology models representing the physical behavior are separated from thermo-economic analysis and multi-objective optimization in ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Process design optimization strategy to develop energy and cost correlations of CO2 capture processes

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Elsevier2012

CO2 mitigation in thermo-chemical hydrogen processes: Thermo-environomic comparison and optimization

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

A systematic comparison and optimization of thermo-chemical hydrogen production processes with CO2 capture is performed. The process options include the resource type, the syngas production method and the hydrogen purification technology, including CO2 sep ...

2012

H2 processes with CO2 mitigation: Thermo-economic modeling and process integration

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Within the challenge of greenhouse gas reduction, hydrogen is regarded as a promising decarbonized energy vector. The hydrogen production by natural gas reforming and lignocellulosic biomass gasification are systematically analyzed by developing thermo-eco ...

2012

CO2 Mitigation in Thermo-Chemical Hydrogen Processes: Thermo-Environomic Comparison and Optimization

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Elsevier2012

Co-production of Hydrogen and Electricity from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Process Design and Thermo-economic Optimization

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

The thermochemical production of hydrogen from lignocellulosic biomass is systematically analyzed by developing environomic models combining thermodynamics with economic analysis, process integration techniques and optimization strategies for the conceptua ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Thermochemical production of liquid fuels from biomass: Thermo-economic modeling, process design and process integration analysis

Martin Gassner, François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

A detailed thermo-economic model combining thermodynamics with economic analysis and considering different technological alternatives for the thermochemical production of liquid fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is presented. Energetic and economic models ...

Elsevier2010

Thermo-economic Evaluation of the Thermochemical Production of Liquid Fuels from Biomass

Martin Gassner, François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Different technological alternatives for the thermochemical production of liquid fuels from lignocellulosic biomass are systematically analyzed and optimized based on thermo-environomic models. The competitiveness of the production of Fischer-Tropsch fuel ...

2010