Publications associées à Furnace (central heating)

Improved Waste Heat Management and Energy Integration in an Aluminum Annealing Continuous Furnace Using a Machine Learning Approach

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Réginald Germanier, Mohammad Andayesh, Manuele Gatti

Annealing furnaces are critical for achieving the desired material properties in the production of high-quality aluminum products. In addition, energy efficiency has become more and more important in industrial processes due to increasing decarbonization r ...

2023

A method

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

A method of manufacturing a fibre comprising a lined channel, using a draw apparatus, the method comprising: providing a preform, comprising a channel extending through the preform, to the draw apparatus; feeding a liner into the channel; heating a portion ...

2022

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Umar Sheikh, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy, Ugo Siravo, Rémy Jacquier, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Frédéric Dolizy, Jérémie Dubray, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Blaise Marlétaz, Matteo Vallar, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Claudia Colandrea

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Seasonality of density currents induced by differential cooling

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Hugo Nicolás Ulloa Sánchez, Tomy Doda

When lakes experience surface cooling, the shallow littoral region cools faster than the deep pelagic waters. The lateral density gradient resulting from this differential cooling can trigger a cold downslope density current that intrudes at the base of th ...

2022

Towards multifunctional building elements: thermal activation of a composite interior GFRP slab

Thomas Keller, Dolaana Khovalyg, Madeline Pugin

Modular multifunctional building elements can overcome major disadvantages of the traditional sequential design and become prospective design solutions for sustainable construction. Thus, this work explores lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) ...

IOP Science2021

Effect of fuel isotope mass on q-profile formation in JET hybrid plasmas

Matteo Fontana

The initial current ramp phase of JET hybrid plasmas is used to optimise the target q-profile for main heating to allow access to high beta and avoid MHD instabilities. Mixed protium-deuterium experiments, carried out at JET since the installation of the b ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

System for co2 capture from internal combustion engine

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

System (2) for CO2 capture from a combustion engine (1) comprising an exhaust gas flow circuit (6) having an inlet end fluidly connected to an exhaust of the combustion engine, a heat exchanger circuit (12), a primary exhaust gas heat exchanger (H1) for tr ...

2020

Data for Urban Scale Building Energy Modelling: Assessing Impacts and Overcoming Availability Challenges

François Maréchal, Solène Goy

Data are essential to urban building energy models and yet, obtaining sufficient and accurate building data at a large-scale is challenging. Previous studies have highlighted that the data impact on urban case studies has not been sufficiently discussed. T ...

2020

Nearing final design of the ITER EC H&CD Upper Launcher

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Matteo Vagnoni, Florian Ramseyer, Emanuele Poli

The ITER ECRH system consists of 24 gyrotrons with up to 24 MW installed millimeter wave heating power at 170 GHz, power supplies, control system, transmission lines, one Equatorial and the four Upper Launchers. With its high frequency and small beam focus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Development and optimisation of advanced auxiliary ion heating schemes for 3D fusion plasma devices

Hamish William Patten

The magnetic confinement fusion devices known as the tokamak and the stellarator are progressing towards becoming viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor designs. Both ap- proaches require improvements in the applied heating sources and in the particle an ...

EPFL2019

High-power gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Minh Quang Tran

In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that arc investigating energy production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive (ECH&CD) are used for plasma start-up, heating, non-inductive current dr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Seismic retrofit of steel tall buildings with bilinear oil dampers

Dimitrios Lignos

This paper presents retrofit solutions for existing tall buildings by utilizing supplemental damping devices, namely oil dampers with relief valve (bilinear oil dampers). To this end, multiple retrofit schemes are presented for a benchmark 40-story steel m ...

2018

Improving the energy sustainability of a Swiss village through building renovation and renewable energy integration

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Lucas Mosca, Morgane Le Guen

The integration of renewable energy technologies and building renovation are the two main procedures for improving energy sustainability of buildings at neighborhood scale. It is difficult, however, to optimize these procedures simultaneously. This study f ...

Elsevier2018

Innovative methods to release fine sediments from seasonal reservoirs

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Azin Amini, Sabine Chamoun, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

The papers present three innovative solutions for fine sediment manage- ments in seasonal reservoirs, which are at different stages of maturity. Operational reservoir stirring using jet-like inflows may facilitate sediment routing, at no addi- tional cost ...

CRC Press/Balkema2018

Real-Time Control of an Ensemble of Heterogeneous Resources

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Andrey Bernstein, Niek Johannes Bouman

This paper focuses on the problem of controlling an ensemble of heterogeneous resources connected to an elec- trical grid at the same point of common coupling (PCC). The controller receives an aggregate power setpoint for the ensemble in real time and trac ...

2017

Waste heat valorisation at multiple scales : focus on in-building waste water and regional heat recovery

Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand

Considering current environmental issues (e.g. climate change, air pollution) related to energy consumption, this thesis focuses on data characterisation and integrated optimisation methods for waste heat valorisation at the building, city and regional sca ...

EPFL2017

Effect of concurrent precipitation on the texture evolution during continuous heating of multi directionally forged solution treated Al-Cu-Mg alloy

Roland Logé, Saeed Khani Moghanaki

Concurrent precipitation in an age hardenable aluminum alloy determines recrystallization behavior especially grains structure and recrystallization texture during continuous heating. In this study, to investigate the effect of concurrent precipitation on ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Influence of outlet discharge on the efficiency of turbidity current venting

Sabine Chamoun

Sediment yield into reservoirs was underestimated during the design of dams in the past. As a result, today, reservoir sedimentation is endangering the sustainability of dams. Moreover, the obstruction of rivers hinders their capacity to transport sediment ...

EPFL2017

High resolution infrared measurements of single-phase flow of R245fa and R236fa within a compact plate heat exchanger, Part 2: Heat transfer results

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

In the second article of the present two-part paper, upward single-phase heat transfer within a compact plate heat exchanger was investigated experimentally. The experimental setup, the data reduction technique and pressure drop results were presented in P ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

High resolution infrared measurements of single-phase flow of R245fa and R236fa within a compact plate heat exchanger, Part 1: Experimental setup and pressure drop results

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

This two-part paper presents experimental work to characterize thermal and hydraulic performances of a compact plate heat exchanger. Upward single-phase heat transfer and pressure drop of low pressure, liquid refrigerants R245fa and R236fa was investigated ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016