Publications associées à Excavation à ciel ouvert

Mg-incorporated sorbent for efficient removal of trace CO from H2 gas

Removal of trace CO impurities is an essential step in the utilization of Hydrogen as a clean energy source. While various solutions are currently employed to address this challenge, there is an urgent need to improve their efficiency. Here, we show that a ...

Nature Portfolio2023

The Three-Phase Contact Potential Difference Modulates the Water Surface Charge

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andrei Kiselev, Vasily Artemov, Roman Doronin

The surface charge of an open water surface is crucialfor solvationphenomena and interfacial processes in aqueous systems. However, themagnitude of the charge is controversial, and the physical mechanismof charging remains incompletely understood. Here we ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Physical characterization of fault rocks within the Opalinus Clay formation

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Luis Felipe Orellana Espinoza, Christophe Nussbaum

Near-surface disposal of radioactive waste in shales is a promising option to safeguard the population and environment. However, natural faults intersecting these geological formations can potentially affect the long-term isolation of the repositories. Thi ...

Nature Research2022

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

Farnaz Eslamishoar

Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...

EPFL2021

Extraction of Rare Earth Metals: The New Thermodynamic Considerations Toward Process Hydrometallurgy

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Andrea Testino, Ajay Bhagwan Patil

Successful management of secondary waste resources is essential for the viable circular economy. E-waste could serve as the potential urban mining source for the alternative supply chain of critical metals such as rare earth elements (REEs). The hydrometal ...

Springer Nature Switzerland AG2021

Force Scaling Comparison of Transport Phenomena in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Flow Channels

Mahbod Heidari

Liquid-gas two-phase flow in flow channels of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells has been investigated extensively in the literature; however, a comparison between the order of the magnitude of the forces occurring within the flow channels has not b ...

ASME2021

Microbial communities associated with uranium in-situ recovery mining process are related to acid mine drainage assemblages

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Pierre Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Thomas Coral

A large fraction (47%) of the world's uranium is mined by a technique called “In Situ Recovery” (ISR). This mining technique involves the injection of a leaching fluid (acidic or alkaline) into a uranium-bearing aquifer and the pumping of the resulting sol ...

2018

Mining, Modeling and Predicting Mobility

Mohamed Kafsi

Mobility is a central aspect of our life, and our movements reveal much more about us than simply our whereabouts. In this thesis, we are interested in mobility and study it from three different perspectives: the modeling perspective, the information-theor ...

EPFL2015

Right-Protected Data Publishing with Provable Distance-Based Mining

Michail Vlachos, Nikolaos Freris

Protection of one's intellectual property is a topic with important technological and legal facets. We provide mechanisms for establishing the ownership of a dataset consisting of multiple objects. The algorithms also preserve important properties of the d ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Mining Crowdsourced First Impressions in Online Social Video

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

While multimedia and social computing research have used crowdsourcing techniques to annotate objects, actions, and scenes in social video sites like YouTube, little work has ad- dressed the crowdsourcing of personal and social traits in online social vide ...

2014

Low Power and Scalable Many-Core Architecture for Big-Data Stream Computing

David Atienza Alonso, Martino Ruggiero, Karim Kanoun

In the last years the process of examining large amounts of different types of data, or Big-Data, in an effort to uncover hidden patterns or unknown correlations has become a major need in our society. In this context, stream mining applications are now wi ...

IEEE Press2014

Mining Complex Activities in the Wild via a Single Smartphone Accelerometer

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Angshu Rai

Complex activities are activities that are a combination of many simple ones. Typically, activities of daily living (ADLs) fall in this category. Complex activity recognition is an active area of interest amongst sensing and knowledge mining community toda ...

ACM2012

Towards a global participatory platform Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence

Karl Aberer

The FuturICT project seeks to use the power of big data, analytic models grounded in complexity science, and the collective intelligence they yield for societal benefit. Accordingly, this paper argues that these new tools should not remain the preserve of ...

Springer Verlag2012

Mg doping for p-type AlInN lattice-matched to GaN

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Antonino Francesco Castiglia

P-type AlInN layers lattice-matched to GaN are achieved by Mg doping. The net acceptor concentration N-A-N-D is 5 x 10(18) cm(-3) at a Mg concentration [Mg] of similar to 2 x 10(19) cm(-3). Mg acceptors are partly compensated and one of the compensating de ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Automatic Construction and Multi-level Visualization of Semantic Trajectories

Karl Aberer, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Lazar Spremic

With the prevalence of GPS-embedded mobile devices, enormous amounts of mobility data are being collected in the form of trajectory - a stream of (x,y,t) points. Such trajectories are of heterogeneous entities - vehicles, people, animals, parcels etc. Most ...

2010

Mix proportioning of underground cemented tailings backfill

The usage of cemented tailings backfill (cemented paste backfill) in the underground by mining industry is becoming increasingly important. However, until now, the mix proportioning of CTB has been mainly based on the realization of extensive laboratory te ...

2008

Erosion and deposition in the JET MkII-SRP divertor

Richard Pitts

Carbon-13 labelled methane was injected into the outer divertor during a series of H-mode discharges on the last day of operations with the JET MkII-SRP divertor. Tiles from around the vessel were removed during the subsequent shutdown and surface deposits ...

2007

Mapping Moving Landscapes by Mining Mountains of Logs: Novel Techniques for Dependency Model Generation

Karl Aberer, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Mirko Steinle

Problem diagnosis for distributed systems is usually difficult. Thus, an automated support is needed to identify root causes of encountered problems such as performance lags or inadequate functioning quickly. The many tools and techniques existing today th ...

2006

Onboard Flow Visualization in a Pelton Turbine Bucket

François Avellan, Alexandre Perrig

Flow visualizations using endoscopes in a 21-bucket single-injector reduced scale Pelton turbine are performed for 2 operating points. 2 types of visualizations are performed with a CMOS high-speed camera: (i) an onboard visualization of the flow in the bu ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2006