Publications associées à Energy recycling

Small-scale turbopumps for waste heat recovery applications based on an organic Rankine cycle: a study from pre-design to experimental validation

The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is among the technologies applied to exploit waste heat in vehicles. Since common organic fluids have lower latent heat than water, higher mass flow rates are required to convert the same waste heat, considerably incr ...

EPFL2023

Upcycling of printed plastic films: LCA analysis and effects on the circular economy

Dimitrios Kyritsis

In this work, the environmental impacts caused by an innovative upcycling process of printed plastic scrap have been assessed through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology for the first time. The process consists of removing the inks from the plastic surfa ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Pumps running as turbines for energy recovery in water supply systems

João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Pressurised water supply systems are infrastructures that offer a potential for energy recovery in locations where these systems operate with an excessive pressure. The integration of micro hydropower plants for energy recovery is a challenge, as these sys ...

EPFL2018

Energy integration on a gasoline engine for a vehicular application

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the ORC as a ...

2017

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Energy Integration on a Gasoline Engine for Efficiency Improvement

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the Organic ...

2017

Comprehensive power loss modelling to improve the performance of an Energy Recovery Station for water utility networks

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Daniel Biner

The work presented in this paper details the methodology applied to inventory and estimate the power losses in a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners. The separation between the impact of design parameters and operational parameters on each identifi ...

Pennwell2017

Extraction of carotenoids from Chlorella vulgaris using green solvents and syngas production from residual biomass

Christof Holliger, Christian Ludwig, Shivom Sharma, Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Dominik Refardt

A combined process for carotenoids extraction and efficient bioenergy recovery from the wet microalgae biomass is proposed. High added-value products could thus be extracted prior a hydrothermal gasification of the algal biomass into synthetic natural gas. ...

2017

Experimental characterization of a five blade tubular propeller turbine for pipe inline installation

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Irene Almeida Samora, Cécile Münch-Alligné

The interest in micro-hydropower in existing infrastructure is increasing since this is a technology with low environmental impacts and potential for energy recovery in different types of installation. The technologies available for these schemes are still ...

Elsevier2016

Simulation of energy recovery on water utility networks by a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné

Wherever relief valves and other energy dissipation devices are installed to limit the pressure, water utility networks provide unexploited hydropower potentials. This is mainly due to a lack of economically viable technologies for energy recovery in the p ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Efficiency Improvement for Vehicle Powertrains Using Energy Integration Techniques

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The main design criteria for the modern sustainable development of vehicle powertrains are the high energy efficiency of the conversion system, the competitive cost and the lowest possible environmental impacts. The need for efficiency improvement of the v ...

2016

Analytical hill chart towards the maximisation of energy recovery on water utility networks with counter rotating micro-turbine

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné, João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Existing water utility networks provides a wide, distributed and unexploited hydropower potential. The installation of energy recovery stations on existing infrastructures limits both the required investment and the environmental impact. The counter-rotati ...

2015

Application of Laser Doppler Velocimetry to the development of a counter rotating micro-turbine

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné, João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

The sustainability of the electricity mix can be increased by introducing recovery energy systems on existing water supply infrastructures. The concept of the new counter rotating micro-turbine presented in this work is a competitive option for energy reco ...

2015

An innovative architectural strategy for the integration of energy issues into the design process of a commercial center in Switzerland

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey

In a context of growing efforts to develop sustainability strategies, energy-related issues occupy central stage in the built environment. Thus, the energy performance of housings has improved radically over the past decades. Yet other types of buildings, ...

2014

Advances in Electronics Cooling

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Jonathan Olivier, Nicolas Lamaison

This article highlights the advantages of on-chip microchannel cooling technology, based on first-and second-law analysis and experimental tests on two types of cooling cycles, the first driven by an oil-free liquid pump and the second by an oil-free vapor ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Energy recovery in SUDS towards smart water grids: A case study

Anton Schleiss, Irene Almeida Samora

The development of a methodology for urban flood adaptation and energy recovery solutions is resting on the concept of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) as a measure to reduce risks of urban flooding while fully utilizing the available resources. F ...

Elsevier2013

Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite Waste: An Environmental Assessment Of Recycling, Energy Recovery And Landfilling

Véronique Michaud, Christian Ludwig, Rémy Teuscher, Robert Andrew Witik

The environmental benefits of recycling are assessed against other end-of-life (EOL) treatments for Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) waste. Recycling via pyrolysis, incineration with energy recovery, and disposal via landfilling are compared. To acco ...

Elsevier2013

Environomic multi-objective optimisation of a district heating network considering centralized and decentralized heat pumps

Daniel Favrat, Adam Molyneaux, Geoffrey Basil Leyland

Concern for the environment has been steadily growing in recent years, and it is becoming more common to include environmental impact and pollution costs in the design problem along with construction, investment and operating costs. To economically respond ...

2010

Environomic multi-objective optimisation of a district heating network considering centralized and decentralized heat pumps

Daniel Favrat, Adam Molyneaux, Geoffrey Basil Leyland

Concern for the environment has been steadily growing in recent years, and it is becoming more common to include environmental impact and pollution costs in the design problem along with construction, investment and operating costs. To economically respond ...

2008