Publications associées à Électrification

GreenEVT: Greensboro Electric Vehicle Testbed

The ongoing electrification of the transportation fleet will increase the load on the electric power grid. Since both the transportation network and the power grid already experience periods of significant stress, joint analyses of both infrastructures wil ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Quantifying the Unknown: Data-Driven Approaches and Applications in Energy Systems

Paul Scharnhorst

In light of the challenges posed by climate change and the goals of the Paris Agreement, electricity generation is shifting to a more renewable and decentralized pattern, while the operation of systems like buildings is increasingly electrified. This calls ...

EPFL2024

Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Matteo Barsanti, Selin Yilmaz

To support the decarbonisation of the power sector and offset the volatility of a system with high levels of renewables, there is growing interest in residential Demand-Side Management (DSM) solutions. Traditional DSM strategies require consumers to active ...

2024

Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition

François Maréchal, Julia Granacher

Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Integrated production of urea and nitric acid in the pulp industry: techno-economic and environmental analysis of black liquor gasification-based processes

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Shivom Sharma, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The pursuit of alternative energy sources for the nitrogen fertilizers sector has recently earned renewed interest due to increasing concerns regarding the world dependence on non-renewable energy resources and also motivated by the more stringent environm ...

2022

SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps

Michael Lehning, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Annelen Kahl

The overall EDGE objective is to fast-track the growth of locally-sourced decentralized renewable energy in Switzerland and to ensure that by 2035 and 2050, when ambitious shares of renewable energy are reached, the Swiss energy system is designed and oper ...

2022

An analysis of the impacts of green mobility strategies and technologies on different European energy system

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Tuong-Van Nguyen

A successful decarbonization of the European Union, coupled with a high integration of renewable energy and ambitious targets for energy efficiency, can only be reached with a significant contribution from transport. This sector currently represents a quar ...

2021

Where is the EU headed given its current climate policy? A stakeholder-driven model inter-comparison

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana, Ha Bui

Recent calls to do climate policy research with, rather than for, stakeholders have been answered in non-modelling science. Notwithstanding progress in modelling literature, however, very little of the scenario space traces back to what stakeholders are ul ...

ELSEVIER2021

SCCER JA-RED - Report on the performance of the implemented solutions with guidelines for subsequent implementation - D1.2.4

Luc Girardin, Luise Middelhauve

The foreseen important increase of the penetration of distributed renewable energies technologies into the electricity distribution grid is expected to lead to some major challenges. On the one hand, a large and synchronous production could lead in certain ...

2021

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 ...

IEEE2021

Model-based economic analysis of electrification in railway - Understanding the impact of track, operations, and uncertainties

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

This paper presents results on the impact of different tracks on the economic viability of track electrification for regional railway. Since regional railway still heavily relies on pollutive diesel propulsion systems, track electrification can be key to r ...

2019

Triboelectric effect to harness fluid flow energy

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Amr Yehia Hussien Mahmoud Arafat

We are reporting energy scavenging from fluid flows inside tubular structures using triboelectric effects. Two separate designs of triboelectric generators are proposed. A tubular design that uses liquid-solid interaction mechanism for water, and freestand ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Feasibility study of a CO2-based system in NEST

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The NEST building laboratory of Empa and Eawag is a modular research and innovation demonstrator where new technologies, materials and systems are tested, researched, honed and validated in realistic conditions. In the NEST concept, only the supporting str ...

Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering Group, EPFL Valais Wallis2017

Fluid-structure interaction mechanisms leading to dangerous power swings in Francis turbines at full load

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Christian Landry

Hydropower plants play an important regulatory role in the large scale integration of volatile renewable energy sources into the existing power grid. This duty however requires a continuous extension of their operating range, provoking the emergence of com ...

Elsevier2017

The Vanishing Hand: Efficient Market Design for Future Power Systems

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Transition to low-carbon power systems is in progress, fuelled by policy-driven accelerated deployment of new renewable electricity generation technologies (wind and solar), smart electrification, prosumerisation and digitisation. Largely occurring against ...

2016

Coupled energy economic model framework for analyzing Swiss electricity markets in changing policy environments

Sophie Maire

Energy policy needs to rely on the proper understanding of the interactions between policy instruments, consumer preferences, investment behavior, market structure, electricity supply, and the wider policy environment. This asks for appropriate modeling to ...

EPFL2016

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Numerical analysis of the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures are rapidly gaining acceptance around the world; they represent a renewable and clean source of energy that can be used for the heating and cooling of buildings and for de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structura ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Optimal Location and Sizing of Distributed Storage Systems in Active Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mostafa Nick, Marc Hohmann

Energy balance and ancillary services provided by distributed storage systems to active distribution networks represent two aspects of a single problem that needs to be properly treated in view of the typical distribution networks parameters. In this conte ...

2013

Study on the Reversible DC-DC Converter as Interface between Low and Medium Voltage DC Networks

Alfred Rufer, Stephan Kenzelmann, Carlo Arrioja

This paper introduces an isolated reversible DC-DC converter with a particular topology, which benefits from both the NPC (neutral point clamped) structure and the series-parallel connection of converters. The key property of the proposed topology is the o ...

2012