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The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

EPFL2024

Fast Lead-Free Humidity Sensor Based on Hybrid Halide Perovskite

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An environmentally friendly analog of the prominent methylammonium lead halide perovskite, methylammonium bismuth bromide (MA3Bi2Br9), was prepared and investigated in the form of powder, single crystals and nanowires. Complete characterization via synchro ...

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Microchannel cooling for the LHCb VELO Upgrade I

Alessandro Mapelli, Giulia Romagnoli, Victor Coco

The LHCb VELO Upgrade I, currently being installed for the 2022 start of LHC Run 3, uses silicon microchannel coolers with internally circulating bi-phase CO2 for thermal control of hybrid pixel modules operating in vacuum. This is the largest scale applic ...

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Simulation and experimental validation of pulsating heat pipes

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Philippe Aubin, Filippo Cataldo

The one-dimensional transient numerical code of JJ Cooling Innovation has been significantly improved to simulate the thermal/hydraulic performance of pulsating heat pipes (PHPs). Using a mechanistic approach, the liquid slug and vapor plug flows and their ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Embedded Microchannel Cooling for Monolithically-integrated GaN Half-bridge ICs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

Efficient and compact power conversion is a key requirement to achieve sustainable electrification of our society. GaN-based power devices offer major benefits compared to their silicon counterparts in terms of efficiency and integration but suffer from se ...

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Efficient Microchannel Cooling of Multiple Power Devices with Compact Flow Distribution for High Power-Density Converters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Georgios Kampitsis

In this work, we describe a new approach for compact and energy-efficient cooling of converters where multiple miniaturized microfluidic cold-plates are attached to transistors providing local heat extraction. The high pressure drop associated with microch ...

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Combined desiccant-ejector cooling system assisted by Organic Rankine Cycle for zero-power cooling and dehumidification

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

This study presents a novel set-up for desiccant-based cooling and dehumidification systems. In this cycle, a solid desiccant and conventional combined cooling and power (CCP) systems, based on the ejector refrigeration cycle (ERC) and the organic Rankine ...

IOP2019

Experimental Characterization of Different Condenser Technologies in a Passive Two-Phase Cooling System for Thermal Management of Electronics

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Chiara Falsetti, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Passive two-phase, micro-channel cooling for thermal management of electronics represents an efficient and viable solution to augment conventional air-cooling systems with the potential for higher power dissipation densities, increased reliability, reduced ...

IEEE2019

Integration of solar energy with industrial processes

Anna Sophia Wallerand

Solar energy offers a great potential for integration with industrial processes, which conventionally rely on fossil fuels to provide energy. The seasonal, daily, and regional dependence of solar energy alongside the scarcity of space or financial resource ...

EPFL2018

An experimental study on flow boiling pressure drop in multi-microchannel evaporators with different refrigerants

John Richard Thome, Houxue Huang

A key parameter in designing two-phase flow systems for the cooling of high heat flux electronics is the pressure drop in microchannel evaporators. As a result, an experimental study was performed to investigate the flow boiling pressure drop of refrigeran ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Dynamic Numerical Microchannel Evaporator Model to Investigate Parallel Channel Instabilities

John Richard Thome, Tom Saenen

A fully dynamic model of a microchannel evaporator is presented. The aim of the model is to study the highly dynamic parallel channel instabilities that occur in these evaporators in more detail. The numerical solver for the model is custom-built and the m ...

Asme2016

Experimental investigation of electrical domestic heat pumps equipped with a twin-stage oil-free radial compressor

Jean-Baptiste Carré

The world energy consumption has dramatically increased since the end of the World War II. The main share of this energy comes from fossil fuel combustion. The worldwide domestic sector consumes about 30% of the global energy supply and the biggest share o ...

EPFL2015

Water adsorption on etched hydrophobic surfaces of L-, D- and DL-valine crystals

Juan José Segura Sugranes

The adsorption of water on etched (001) surfaces of L-, D- and DL-valine crystals has been characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM) using different operational modes (contact, non-contact and electrostatic) above and below the dew point, the temperat ...

Elsevier2014

GreenCool: An Energy-Efficient Liquid Cooling Design Technique for 3-D MPSoCs Via Channel Width Modulation

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, Jie Meng

Liquid cooling using interlayer microchannels has appeared as a viable and scalable packaging technology for 3-D multiprocessor system-on-chips (MPSoCs). Microchannel-based liquid cooling, however, can substantially increase the on-chip thermal gradients, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Thermal and Visual Operational Characteristics of Multi-Microchannel Evaporators using Refrigerants

Sylwia Szczukiewicz

Two-phase flow operational stability of refrigerants R245fa, R236fa, and R1234ze(E) in 100 x 100 μm2 multi-microchannels for cooling of future high-performance 3D stacked architectures with interlayer cooling has been addressed in the current experimental ...

EPFL2012

Heated membranes prevent clogging of apertures in nanostencil lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Shenqi Xie

We demonstrate a novel concept for nanostencil lithography with an integrated microhotplate on the stencil membrane aimed at eliminating or reducing aperture clogging during metal deposition. The stencil can be locally heated up by the embedded Pt coils to ...

2011

Status Report of the EDIPO Project

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Martin Vogel

The aim of this paper is to present an up to date review of the status of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) project whose objective is to build a new facility to perform both DC and AC tests of large superconductor samples in high magnetic background field (up t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

A novel time strip flow visualisation technique for investigation of intermittent dewetting and dryout in elongated bubble flow in a microchannel evaporator

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Bruno Agostini

A flow visualisation study of flow boiling of R245fa in silicon multi-microchannels at low mass flux and moderate heat flux has been carried out with a high speed digital camera. The micro-evaporator had 67 channels of length 20 mm, width 223 mu m, and hei ...

2010