Publications by Tuong-Van Nguyen

The critical role of electricity storage for a clean and renewable European economy

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Alessio Santecchia, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

A fully renewable Europe is a major climate goal and an assumed priority by the European Union. However, intermittent renewables require hefty backup power sources to compensate for sudden generation shortfalls, ensuring grid stability and balance across t ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Overcoming decision paralysis—A digital twin for decision making in energy system design

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Julia Granacher

The design of efficient energy systems, through the development of new technologies and the improvement of current ones, requires the use of rigorous process synthesis methods for generating and analysing design alternatives. We introduce a digital twin of ...

2022

Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

Governments are setting ambitious targets to tackle the issue of global warming by switching to renewable energy sources and reducing CO2 -emissions. For example, as announced in November 2020, Canada aims to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050. Large c ...

IEEE2022

A study on synergies of combined pulp and fuel production

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Erina Clare Mcdonald, Julia Granacher

To limit climate change by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, a transition away from fossil fuels is required. Biofuels represent a promising low carbon alternative for sectors that are hard to electrify, such as aviation. The integration of bio ref ...

2021

Appendix: Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

This document corresponds to the appendix of the paper Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling by Schnidrig et al. in redaction, and is based on the Master thesis of Amara Slaymaker 2021, giving additional information about the meth ...

2021

A method for faster application of process integration techniques in retrofit situations

Tuong-Van Nguyen

Numerous process integration techniques were proved to be highly effective for identifying and estimating potential energy savings in the industry. However, they require high time and effort to collect and analyse process data. As a result, they do not con ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Analysis of energy integration opportunities in the retrofit of a milk powder production plant using the Bridge framework

Tuong-Van Nguyen

The "bridge framework"is a systematic decision-making support tool for process integration retrofit of industrial plants, which proposes the use of "bridge analysis"in a structured fashion. Its potential of rigorously analysing industrial processes has bee ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Further development of the RDRA method for the optimal acquisition of data in process integration retrofit projects

Tuong-Van Nguyen

Process Integration techniques are powerful in analysing the energy usage of industrial plants and designing retrofit solutions for increasing their energy efficiency. However they are far from constituting the industrial practice. One primary cause for th ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

An analysis of the impacts of green mobility strategies and technologies on different European energy system

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig

A successful decarbonization of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from transport. This sector currently represents a quar ...

2021

A modelling framework for assessing the impact of green mobility technologies on energy systems

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

A successful decarbonisation of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from the transporta- tion sector. It currently represen ...

2021

Identification of optimal measurement points for energy monitoring of industrial processes: The case of milk powder production

Tuong-Van Nguyen

Meaningful energy analysis of industrial processes requires the installation of energy monitoring systems. However, a lack of systematic methods for identifying the required measurement points, joint to scarce information on the related benefits, results i ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Appendix - A modelling framework for assessing the impact of green mobility technologies on energy systems

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

A successful decarbonisation of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from the transportation sector. It currently represents ...

2021

Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Energy and Exergy Analysis of a Cruise Ship

Karin Andersson, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Francesco Baldi

In recent years, the International Maritime Organization agreed on aiming to reduce shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% with respect to 2009 levels. Meanwhile, cruise ship tourism is growing at a fast pace, making the challenge of achieving this goa ...

2018

City Energy Analyst (CEA): Integrated framework for analysis and optimization of building energy systems in neighborhoods and city districts

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Arno Schlueter

This paper describes the City Energy Analyst (CEA), a computational framework for the analysis and optimization of energy systems in neighborhoods and city districts. The framework allows analyzing the energy, carbon and financial benefits of multiple urba ...

2016

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

Oil and gas platforms with steam bottoming cycles: System integration and thermoenvironomic evaluation

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen

The integration of steam bottoming cycles on oil and gas platforms is currently regarded as the most promising option for improving the performance of these energy-intensive systems. In this paper, a North Sea platform is taken as case study, and a systema ...

Elsevier2014