Francesca Belfiore

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MILP based approach for the preliminary investigation of thermal networks in urban areas

François Maréchal, Francesca Belfiore

District Energy Systems (DES) have been widely recognized as crucial components for successful national energy transitions towards meeting 2050 greenhouse gas emissions' reduction targets. While District Heating Network (DHN) still has a role to play in th ...

Int Building Performance Simulation Assoc-Ibpsa2022

District heating and cooling systems to integrate renewable energy in urban areas

Francesca Belfiore

The building sector plays a crucial role in the ongoing energy transition due to its significant share of global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, especially when combined with the estimation that 70% of the world's population will be living ...

EPFL2021

Optimization based approach to assist the transition of large energy users to low temperature networks

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alberto Mian, Francesca Belfiore

Distric Energy System (DES) represents a promising opportunity to improve energy efficiency and boost the decarbonization of the European energy sector. If most of the studies focus on small consumers typically located within urban areas, large energy user ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2020

Investment Planning Methodology for Complex Urban Energy Systems Applied to a Hospital Site

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Bastien Maxence Bornand, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau, Francesca Belfiore

Industrial process integration based on mixed integer linear programming has been used for decades to design and improve industrial processes. The technique has later been extended to solve multi-period and multi-scale problems for the design of urban ener ...

2020

Exergy Recovery During Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification Using Methane as Working Fluid

François Maréchal, Francesca Belfiore, Francesco Baldi

The increased concerns about the effect of human activities on the climate have pushed natural gas among the most obvious solutions for the transition to a low-carbon economy. The growing importance and volumes of liquefied natural gas for transportation o ...

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering2018

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