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A tale of two coal regimes: An actor-oriented analysis of destabilisation and maintenance of coal regimes in Germany and Japan

Phasing out coal-fired electricity is an urgent global task, critical to efforts to mitigate climate change and air pollution. Despite the growth and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy, phase-out progress is slow, with coal-fired power even rea ...

Elsevier2023

A multi-model analysis of the EU’s path to net zero

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana

The European Union (EU) recently ratcheted its climate ambition to net-zero emissions by 2050, with a milestone of 55% emissions cuts in 2030. This study carries out a model inter-comparison to assess the EU’s path, from “Fit for 55” in 2030 to an intermed ...

2023

Importance of hydropower reservoirs and dams in Europe to mitigate the energy crisis and to serve as a catalyst and enabler for the Green Deal

Anton Schleiss

Hydropower has a long tradition in Europe and contributed significantly during the last century to industrial development and welfare in most of the countries in Europe. The ambitious plan for an energy transition in Europe now seeks to achieve a lowcarbon ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

Optimal sizing and siting of energy storage systems considering curtailable photovoltaic generation in power distribution networks

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This work proposes a method for optimal planning (sizing and siting) energy storage systems (ESSs) in power distribution grids while considering the option of curtailing photo-voltaic (PV) generation. More specifically, for a given PV generation capacity t ...

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Experimental and modeling-based analysis of reaction pathways on catalysts for natural gas engines under periodic lean/rich oscillations

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Moyu Wang

Methane (CH4) has the prospective of becoming one of the major energy carriers for heavy-duty mobility, but its catalytic abatement remains a challenge. CH4 abatement reaction pathways were analyzed using targeted periodic lean/rich oscillations, which res ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Correlating light-induced deep defects and phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites

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Mixed-halide perovskites are highly promising materials for tandem solar cells. The phenomenon of phase segregation, however hinders their application. Here, we combine Fourier-Transform photocurrent spectroscopy with photoluminescence and current density- ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Evaluating CO2 breakthrough in a shaly a caprock material: a multi-scale experimental approach

Lyesse Laloui, Eleni Stavropoulou

The potential of underground CO2 storage relies on the sealing efficiency of an overlaying caprock that acts as a geological barrier. Shales are considered as potential caprock formations thanks to their favourable hydro-mechanical properties. In this work ...

Nature Research2022

Fragment ion-functional group relationships in organic aerosols using aerosol mass spectrometry and mid-infrared spectroscopy

Satoshi Takahama, Amir Yazdani, Imad El Haddad, Nikunj Dudani

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Swiss Potential for Hydropower Generation and Storage - Synthesis report

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Martin Schmid, Paolo Burlando, David Felix

Hydropower (HP) is the backbone of the Swiss electricity system providing around 60 % (36 TWh/a) of the total electricity generated on a yearly average. With the planned phase-out of nuclear power plants, HP and other Renewable Energy Sources (RES) will ne ...

ETH Zurich2021

Fine Particle Iron in Soils and Road Dust Is Modulated by Coal-Fired Power Plant Sulfur

Athanasios Nenes

Transition metal ions, such as water-soluble iron (WS-Fe), are toxic components of fine particles (PM2.5). In Atlanta, from 1998 to 2013, a previous study found that WS-Fe was the PM2.5 species most associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. We exami ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Health effects of power plant emissions through ambient air quality

Christine Choirat

Coal burning power plants are a frequent target of regulatory programmes because of their emission of chemicals that are known precursors to the formation of ambient particulate air pollution. Health impact assessments of emissions from coal power plants t ...

2020

Enhancing the operational flexibility of thermal power plants by coupling high-temperature power-to-gas

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang, Yang Sun

The increasing penetration of intermittent renewable power challenges the stability of the electrical grid, thus coal power plants are usually required to extend the operation range by reducing the minimum load. This work proposes a concept of coupling sol ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Analysis of plasma termination in the JET hybrid scenario

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Yves Martin, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Henri Weisen, Sun Hee Kim, Alessandro Pau, Mikhail Maslov, Cristian Sommariva, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Richard Pitts, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Robin Humphry-Baker, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Javier García Hernández, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Marco Wischmeier, Daniel Scott Alessi, Julio Rodriguez, Nicola Vianello, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Yao Zhou, Vlad Trifa, David Pfefferlé, Rebecca Hill, Davide Galassi, Partha Dutta, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, , , ,

Multi-Robot Coordination in Dynamic Environments Shared with Humans

Alcherio Martinoli, Zeynab Talebpour

This work addresses multi-robot coordination in social human-populated environments based on a Hoplites-based framework for solving the multi-robot task allocation problem. Humans are considered in the proposed coordination mechanism by means of accounting ...

2018

Exergy Recovery During Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification Using Methane as Working Fluid

François Maréchal, Francesca Belfiore, Francesco Baldi

The increased concerns about the effect of human activities on the climate have pushed natural gas among the most obvious solutions for the transition to a low-carbon economy. The growing importance and volumes of liquefied natural gas for transportation o ...

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering2018

Not if, but when? Simulating the impact of timing the nuclear phase-out in Switzerland

Matthias Finger, Reinier Verhoog, Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Swiss electricity companies are faced with uncertainty with regards to the future operation of nuclear power plants in the country. After Fukushima in 2011, the government decided on a gradual phase-out, but only provided a tentative planning. Hence, no ne ...

2017

Effective a posteriori Co-Phasing of Interferometric Fringe Data

Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez

We have recently shown that a posteriori co-phasing of multi-spectral interferograms was possible.(1) In this contribution, we extend our approach so that it can be applied to actual data as provided by AMBER(2) or MATISSE instruments. The main advantage o ...

SPIE2016

Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture and utilization

Berend Smit, Johanna Maria Huck, Lennart Joos

A significant part of the cost for carbon capture and storage ( CCS) is related to the compression of captured CO2 to its supercritical state, at 150 bar and typically 99% purity. These stringent conditions may however not always be necessary for specific ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Risks and Reliability in a Fully Renewable Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Annelen Kahl, Stuart John Bartlett, Albertus Christiaan Kruyt

In Switzerland, the government has made ambitious plans for a major energy transition. There is a planned phase out of nuclear facilities by mid-century, their capacity replaced by an expansion of hydroelectric infrastructure, new geothermal installations, ...

2015

Compact and Efficient UC Commitments under Atomic-Exchanges

Serge Vaudenay

We devise a multiple (concurrent) commitment scheme operating on large messages. It uses an ideal global setup functionality in a minimalistic way. The commitment phase is non-interactive. It is presented in a modular way so that the internal building bloc ...

2014