Publications by Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

Exergy and economic analysis of the trade-off for design of post-combustion CO2 capture plant by chemical absorption with MEA

François Maréchal, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

CO2 abatement strategies are crucial in any industrial cluster. In post-combustion capture solutions, the highenergy consumption and the cost associated with the operation are the main drawbacks. In this work, a chemical absorption system using a 30% MEA s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

On the role of system integration of carbon capture and mineralization in achieving net-negative emissions in industrial sectors

François Maréchal, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is commonly acknowledged as a valuable technology for reducing industrial emissions. However, limited installation capacity raises questions about its ability to scale up effectively and promptly. This issue can, in part, b ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Closing the balance - on the role of integrating biorefineries in the future energy system

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher

Fuels from bio-based resources hold the potential to supply fossil fuel alternatives at reasonable economic and environmental expenses that can assist emission reduction in the transportation sector. However, apart from a general need to reduce fossil-base ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

AIDRES: A database for the decarbonisation of the heavy industry in Europe

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Shivom Sharma, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher, Yi Zhao, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The AIDRES database aims to support the long-term objective of a fully integrated industrial strategy in the EU 27, providing a service to the European Commission and a catalogue for industries to understand the effectiveness, efficiency and cost of potent ...

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria2023

Decision support methodology for waste-to-value process integration

Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

Waste treatment is a complex procedure that comprises multidimensional aspects. The challenges posed by the energy transition and international protocols emphasize the role of waste in its material and energy dimension. With an increasing population and li ...

EPFL2023

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

Industrial Flexibility as Demand Side Response for Electrical Grid Stability

François Maréchal, Alessio Santecchia, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

Electricity markets are currently experiencing a period of rapid change. The intermittent nature of renewable energy is disrupting the conventional methods used in operational planning of the electrical grid, causing a shift from a day-ahead forecast polic ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Assessment of Carbon Capture Technologies for Waste-to-Energy System

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

Municipal solid waste is a mixture of urban and industrial waste, consisting of biodegradable fractions, such as food waste, waste wood or paper, but also fossil-based fractions, among which plastics, textiles, metals, glass and aluminum. Depending on the ...

Elsevier2022

The Role of Biowaste: A Multi-Objective Optimization Platform for Combined Heat, Power and Fuel

François Maréchal, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher

Biomass, bioenergy and negative emission technologies are inherent to the future design of energy systems. Urban clusters have a growing demand for fuel, heat and electricity, which is both a challenge and an opportunity for biomass-based technologies. The ...

2021

Towards a sustainable supply chain on plastic waste management : a multi-criteria optimization approach

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Diya Achi, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

Municipal solid waste and waste plastics are currently perceived as an environmental threat. Thermovalorization and recycling are the primary technologies used for disposal, with re- searchers and practitioners advocating for one or the other, but far from ...

2021

System Design and Performance Evaluation of Wastewater Treatment Plants Coupled With Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Gasification

François Maréchal, Theodoros Damartzis, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Julia Granacher

Wastewater treatment and sludge disposal are responsible for considerable costs and emissions in a global scale. With population and urbanization growing, tackling the rational and efficient use of energy while fulfilling the desired effluent standards are ...

2020

Multi-objective optimization in waste plastics - recycling vs thermo-valorization

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

In the past few years, waste management has received increasing attention not only from industry but also from academics. With an increase in plastic content, motivated by China’s ban on its import, waste composition is expected to change in the near futur ...

Osaka, Japan, ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Wastewater management towards a sustainable future. Dairy production: a study case

François Maréchal, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

The increasing demand for heat, electricity, fuels and chemicals is pushing natural resources towards a non-reversible situation. Current solutions have to be adapted, and alternative (desirably sustainable) sources have to be found. With growth assured du ...

Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian University of Technology2019

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, Thomas Rizzo, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Benedikt Moser, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Andreini, Alban Sublet, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Michele Cascella, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Tatiana Pieloni, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Rui Ning Wang, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Mingkui Wang, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Roberto Franceschini, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Jie Gao, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,