Publications by Maziar Kermani

Predicting thermodynamic performance of biomass gasification plants by applying surrogate models

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Julia Granacher

Surplus electricity production is anticipated to further increase during summer periods due to the inevitable high penetration of renewable energy sources in our energy system. Potential solutions for sustainable and efficient energy storage need to be exp ...

2020

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher

Efficient consumption of energy and material resources, including water, is the primary focus for process industries to reduce their environmental impact. The Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21) highlighted the prominent role of industrial energy effici ...

2019

Potential of hydrothermal black liquor gasification integrated in pulp production plant

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Julia Granacher

Greenhouse gas emission mitigation is one of the main motivations for increasing the use of biomass in providing environmentally friendly value-added products. The pulp and paper industry is a promising sector for the integration of biorefinery pathways. A ...

Silesian University of Technology2019

Optimal Design of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Industrial operations consume energy and water in large quantities without accounting for potential economic and environmental burdens on future generations. Consumption of energy (mainly in the form of high pressure steam) and water (in the form of proces ...

2019

Methodologies for simultaneous optimization of heat, mass, and power in industrial processes

Maziar Kermani

Efficient consumption of energy and material resources, including water, is the primary focus for process industries to reduce their environmental impact. The Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21) highlighted the prominent role of industrial energy effici ...

EPFL2018

Thermal profile construction for energy-intensive industrial sectors

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Franz Wolf, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Alessio Santecchia, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Industrial plant data are difficult to find in academic literature for a number of reasons such as confidentiality, and thus intentional masking, or problem size reduction. These common practices limit the ability of researchers to apply novel methods to r ...

2018

Generic superstructure synthesis of organic Rankine cycles for waste heat recovery in industrial processes

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Waste heat accounts for up to 70% of input energy in industrial processes which enunciates the importance of energy recovery measures to improve efficiency and reduce excessive energy consumption. A portion of the energy can be recovered within the process ...

2018

Optimal design of solar-assisted industrial processes considering heat pumping: Case study of a dairy

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Régis Voillat, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Pinch analysis and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) have been extensively studied for optimization of industrial processes addressing heat recovery, utility selection and sizing. Analysis of renewable utility integration, such as solar thermal or ph ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Simultaneous optimisation and heat integration of evaporation systems including mechanical vapour recompression and background process

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani

This paper proposes a general superstructure and a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) model for the synthesis and simultaneous optimisation and Heat Integration (HI) of Single- and Multiple Effect Evaporation (SEE/MEE) systems including Mechanical ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Online parallel coordinates tool for optimal utility design in the dairy industry

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Despite commonly reported potentials for emission reduction and efficiency increase, industrial heat pumps have yet to reach wide-scale employment in non-refrigeration appli- cations. The bottlenecks are identified as a general scepticism from process oper ...

2018

Optimal heat pump integration in industrial processes

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Among the options for industrial waste heat recovery and reuse which are currently discussed, heat pumping receives far less attention than other technologies (e.g. organic rankine cycles). This, in particular, can be linked to a lack of comprehensive meth ...

2018

Synthesis of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Solution Strategies and Network Features

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Industries consume large quantities of energy and water in their processes which are often considered to be peripheral to the process operation. Energy is used to heat or cool water for process use; additionally, water is frequently used in production supp ...

2018

Synthesis of single and interplant non-isothermal water networks

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani

This paper addresses the synthesis problem of non-isothermal water networks using a mathematical programming approach. A heat-integrated water network superstructure and its corresponding mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is proposed for th ...

2017

A Hybrid Methodology for Combined Interplant Heat, Water, and Power Integration

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor

The growing desire to improve resource efficiency and environmental impact of industrial processes is directly linked to optimal management of heat, mass and power flows. The concept of industrial symbiosis tackles this issue by proposing interplant heat r ...

Elsevier science2017

Techno-Economic and Environmental Optimization of Palm-based Biorefineries in the Brazilian Context, 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Due to the global increase in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and the depletion of fossil energy resources, the research presented here is focused on finding economically and environmentally competitive renewable energy resources. Fuel produc ...

Elsevier Science2017

A novel MILP approach for simultaneous optimization of water and energy: Application to a Canadian softwood Kraft pulping mill

François Maréchal, Zoé Périn-Levasseur, Maziar Kermani

An optimization methodology based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) has been developed for simultaneous optimization of water and energy (SOWE) in industrial processes. The superstructure integrates non-water process thermal streams and optimizes ...

2017

Simultaneous optimisation of Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems and Heat Exchanger Network

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani

In recent work, a general superstructure and a Non-Linear Programming (NLP) model were presented for Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems (MEESs). This NLP model was combined with a Heat Exchanger Network (HEN) model in order to simultaneously perform optim ...

2017

Combined water and energy integration in industrial processes with restricted connections

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Reducing the environmental impact of industrial processes is highly linked with decreasing consumption of natural resources, energy, and water. In the context of climate change, as discussed during the Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21), the efficient ...

2016

Environomic multi-objective optimization of an eco-industrial park

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Lindsay Dianne Lessard

A circular economy refers to an industrial economy with a cradle to cradle vision, shifting from the use of fossil fuels towards renewable energy, minimizing the use of toxic chemicals and reducing waste by recycling through careful system design. The conc ...

2015

OsmoseLua – An Integrated Approach to Energy Systems Integration with LCIA and GIS

François Maréchal, Min-Jung Yoo, Maziar Kermani, Lindsay Dianne Lessard

In this paper, we present our recent work on the implementation of an Energy Systems Integration platform allowing the modeling of Energy Systems integrating LCI (Life Cycle Inventory), LCIA (Life Cycle Impact Assessment) and GIS (Geographical Information ...

Elsevier2015