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Violation-aware contextual Bayesian optimization for controller performance optimization with unmodeled constraints

Colin Neil Jones, Wenjie Xu, Bratislav Svetozarevic

We study the problem of performance optimization of closed -loop control systems with unmodeled dynamics. Bayesian optimization (BO) has been demonstrated to be effective for improving closed -loop performance by automatically tuning controller gains or re ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Novel low-temperature fiber sensing technique using Brillouin scattering in gas

Luc Thévenaz, Yuting Yang, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Brillouin scattering in gases shows the unique property to offer an enhanced temperature sensitivity at very low temperatures. This attractive solution for cryogenic systems is justified theoretically and validated experimentally. ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Laser powder bed fusion of Fe-based shape memory alloys for novel structural metamaterials and "smart" structures

Irene Ferretto

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a powder-based additive manufacturing (AM) technique, which shows great potential in the production of complex-shaped parts with unprecedented design freedom. In addition, it allows for an active manipulation of the micros ...

EPFL2023

Tuning the tribological performance of plasma-treated hybrid layers of PEEK-GO-DLC

Roberto Guarino

Graphene and graphene oxide (GO)-based coatings are of great interest due to their mechanical, electrical and/or thermal performance that add functionalities to materials employed in many industrial and biomedical appli-cations. Hybrid diamond-like carbon ...

2022

Insights into the molecular composition of semi-volatile aerosols in the summertime central Arctic Ocean using FIGAERO-CIMS

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini

The remote central Arctic during summertime has a pristine atmosphere with very low aerosol particle concentrations. As the region becomes increasingly ice-free during summer, enhanced oceanatmosphere fluxes of aerosol particles and precursor gases may the ...

2021

Poisoning effects of chlorine on a solid oxide cell operated in co-electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Guillaume Jeanmonod

Although the effects of impurities on the Ni-YSZ electrode of a solid oxide cell in fuel cell operation have been studied, reports on their effects during electrolysis operation are limited. Here, short-term experiments at various current densities and a d ...

ELSEVIER2021

The effect of SO2 on the Ni-YSZ electrode of a solid oxide electrolyzer cell operated in co-electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Guillaume Jeanmonod

In this work, the effect of sulphur poisoning of the Ni-YSZ electrode of an SOEC operated in co-electrolysis mode was investigated. Short-term tests with exposure up to 5 ppmv of SO2 were performed at OCV and under polarization (0.25 A cm−2). The two-stage ...

2020

Steam Gasification of Carbonaceous Feedstocks via a 1.5 kWth Hybrid Solar/Autothermal Reactor

Sophia Haussener, Iacopo Guscetti

A continuous method of steam gasification through hybridization of a solar reactor with an autothermal gasification process is proposed and tested. The ability to autothermally gasify a carbonaceous feedstock within a solar reactor enables round-the-clock ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

3D non-linear MHD simulation of the MHD response and density increase as a result of shattered pellet injection

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, , , , , , , , ,

Single-layer graphene membranes by crack-free transfer for gas mixture separation

Andreas Züttel, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Wen Luo, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Shiqi Huang, Guangwei He, Jing Zhao

The single-layer graphene film, when incorporated with molecular-sized pores, is predicted to be the ultimate membrane. However, the major bottlenecks have been the crack-free transfer of large-area graphene on a porous support, and the incorporation of mo ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Post-test Analysis on a Solid Oxide Cell Stack Operated for 10,700 Hours in Steam Electrolysis Mode

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Emad Oveisi, Pierre Burdet, Giorgio Rinaldi

A solid oxide short stack composed of 6 Ni-YSZ supported cells, YSZ electrolyte and GDC-LSC oxygen electrode has been tested for 10,700 hours in steam electrolysis. Initial degradation was followed by a global stabilization of the performance after lowerin ...

2017

Fixation of nitrous oxide by mesoionic and carbanionic N-heterocyclic carbenes

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Euro Solari, Giacomo Cecot, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann

A ditopic carbanionic N-heterocyclic carbene was found to react with the inert gas nitrous oxide, resulting in a stable covalent adduct with two intact N2O groups attached to the heterocycle. Mesoionic N-heterocyclic carbenes derived from C2-arylated 1,3-b ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Predicting Product Distribution of Propene Dimerization in Nanoporous Materials

Berend Smit

In this work, a theoretical framework is developed to explain and predict changes in the product distribution of the propene dimerization reaction, which yields a mixture of C-6 olefin isomers, resulting from the use of different porous materials as cataly ...

American Chemical Society2017

Highly selective immobilized bimetallic Ni-Au nanoparticle catalyst for the partial hydrogenation of m-dinitrobenzene

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lioubov Kiwi, Oliver Anthony Beswick, Fernando Cardenas Lizana, Daniel André Samuel Lamey

Transition metal nanoparticles (NPs) are extensively used as catalysts for a wide and diverse range of organic transformations when immobilized on appropriate solid supports. We describe the development of a highly active and highly selective heterogeneous ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Metal-organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

Berend Smit, Cory Matthew Simon, Jian Liu

Nuclear energy is among the most viable alternatives to our current fossil fuel-based energy economy. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate r ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Synthesis of Azoimidazolium Dyes with Nitrous Oxide

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Euro Solari, Alexander Tskhovrebov

A new method for the synthesis of industrially important azoimidazolium dyes is presented. The procedure is based on a reagent which is rarely used in the context of synthetic organic chemistry: nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”). N2O is first coupled to N-het ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Small-Molecule Adsorption in Open-Site Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Systematic Density Functional Theory Study for Rational Design

Berend Smit

Using density functional theory, we systematically compute and investigate the binding enthalpies of 14 different small molecules in a series of isostructural metalorganic frameworks, M-MOF-74, with M = Mg, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn. The small ...

American Chemical Society2015

Composite membranes for alkaline electrolysis based on polysulfone and mineral fillers

Barbara Lothenbach, Andreas Züttel

Mineral-based membranes for high temperature alkaline electrolysis were developed by a phase inversion process with polysulfone as binder. The long-term stability of new mineral fillers: wollastonite, forsterite and barite was assessed by 8000 h-long leach ...

Elsevier2015

Steam and Co-Electrolysis Sensitivity Analysis on Ni-YSZ Supported Cells

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Giorgio Rinaldi

The present paper investigates the variation in performances in steam electrolysis and co-electrolysis of steam/CO2 on SOEC single cells.In electrolysis mode, a sensitivity analysis was performed looking in particular at the effects of temperature (750°C a ...

2015

Electrolysis and Co-Electrolysis Performance of SOE Short Stacks

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

In this study, two short SOE stacks (6-cells) were characterized in steam-electrolysis mode. The first was based on Ni-YSZ supported cells with LSCF-based air electrodes. The second included LSC-based air electrodes specifically developed within the SOFC60 ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013