Publications by Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

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

Virtual Sector Profiles for Innovation Sharing in Process Industry – Sector 01: Chemicals

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Elfie Marie Méchaussie, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Production data in process industry are proprietary to a company since they are key to the process design and technology expertise. However, data confidentiality restrains industry from sharing results and advancing developments in and across process secto ...

Springer International Publishing2017

Methodology for streams definition and graphical representation in Total Site Analysis

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Elfie Marie Méchaussie, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

The current regulatory framework in Europe regarding industrial energy consumption puts emphasis on regular energy assessments and increasing energy efficiency. Among the available strategies to identify energy savings opportunities, Total Site Analysis (T ...

2016

Optimal Operations and Resilient Investments in Steam Networks

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, most commonly used for process heating and cooling, cogeneration of heat and mechanical power as a motive fluid or for stripping. Steam networks are used to carry steam from producers to consumers and betw ...

2016

Resilient decision making in steam network investments

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, used for process heating, direct injection and stripping, tracing and cogeneration of mechanical power. Steam networks transport steam from producers to consumers and across different pressure levels. The ...

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering2015

Optimisation of unit investment and load shedding in a steam network facing undercapacity

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Steam networks and their utilities should be dimensioned to satisfy day-to-day demand as well peaks. Peaks can be caused by unit start-ups, extreme weather conditions or combinations of high demand from process units. During maintenance operations or unexp ...

2015

Multi-period analysis of heat integration measures in industrial clusters

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Roman Hackl

TSA (total site analysis) has shown to be an efficient tool for identifying heat integration measures in industrial clusters, leading to the optimal design of utility systems and energy bill reduction. In order to justify investments, any proposed utility ...

2015

The Energy Efficiency Directive Impact on the Industry Sector: Importance of Energy Management

François Maréchal, Elfie Marie Méchaussie, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) 2012/27/EU published in October 2012, sets out new requirements for European Member States on energy efficiency, acting on the energy chain from its production to end- use consumption. While improvement of the industry ...

2014

A methodology for creating sequential multi-period base-case scenarios for large data sets

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Key performance indicators in engineering problems include but are not limited to financial, operational, management and environmental factors, which are significantly affected by aspects such as seasonality, fouling, economic climate, production rates, su ...

AIDIC Servizi2013