Publications associées à Cheminée d'usine

Electrostatic particle collector

ESP particle collector (1) for collecting particles in a particle containing gas stream, comprising an inlet section (4), a collector section (6), and an electrode arrangement (8), the inlet section comprising a flow tube (10) defining a gas flow channel ( ...

2023

Amine Functionalization in Porous Adsorbents for Carbon Capture and Conversion

Anita Justin

Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline porous materials with exceptionally high surface area, chemical tunability and stability. Due to alarming CO2 emission and global concern, research is focused on developing porous materials like MO ...

EPFL2022

Nanosecond pulsed laser-processing of CVD diamond

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Marco Cantoni, Sébastien Equis

This work considers the resulting material structural effects of laser-processing chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond. The utilized 532 nm wavelength laser had a pulse duration of 40 ns together with a spot diameter of ca. 40 mu m. The effect of cutting ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Power-to-methane via co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2: The effects of pressurized operation and internal methanation

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Tzu-En Lin, Hanfei Zhang

This paper presents a model-based investigation to handle the fundamental issues for the design of co-electrolysis based power-to-methane at the levels of both the stack and system: the role of CO2 in co-electrolysis, the benefits of employing pressurized ...

2019

Data-driven design of metal-organic frameworks for wet flue gas CO2 capture

Berend Smit, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Susana Garcia Lopez, Kyriakos Stylianou, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Arunraj Chidambaram, Enrique Garcia Diez

Limiting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the largest challenges of our generation(1). Because carbon capture and storage is one of the few viable technologies that can mitigate current CO2 emissions(2), much effort is focused on developing ...

2019

Advanced Nanopowder Synthesis : Characterization, Performance and Kinetics of CeO2-based Supports, Catalysts and Segregation Processes

Frank Pilger

CeO2-based nanomaterials and their rich redox chemistry provide a possible route to pollutant abatement in various heterogeneous processes, and are in particular used as sorbents for flue gases and as oxygen promoters in three-way catalytic converters. The ...

EPFL2017

Dynamics of wet flue gas desulphurization in spray absorber

A concise one dimensional thermal-hydraulic two-fluid model is presented for the numerical prediction of sulphur dioxide absorption from the flue gas onto drops of the water-limestone slurry in the vertical spray tower absorber. The model is based on mass, ...

2016

Kinetic model for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate produced hydrothermally from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization

Xuerun Li

Modeling of the kinetics of the synthesis process for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is important to produce high-performance products with minimal costs and production cycles under hydrothermal condi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Evaluating different classes of porous materials for carbon capture

Berend Smit, Johanna Maria Huck

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is one of the promising ways to significantly reduce the CO2 emission from power plants. In particular, amongst several separation strategies, adsorption by nano-porous materials is regarded as a potential means to ef ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Inertisation of heavy metals in municipal solid waste incineration fly ash by means of colloidal silica – a synchrotron X-ray diffraction and absorption study

Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis

Many efforts have been undertaken in past decades to minimize pollution from municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (MSWI FA). This residue is toxic, because of its high concentration of heavy metals, mainly Pb and Zn. A new method for heavy metals ent ...

RSC Publishing2013

Numerical study of the heating-cooling effects on the geotechnical behaviour of energy piles

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Alice Di Donna

Energy geostructures represent a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and cooling of buildings and de-icing of infrastructures. This technology couples the structural role of geostructures with the energy supply, using the pri ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

Incremental model identification of gas-liquid reaction systems

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan

Identification of kinetic models is an important task for monitoring, control and optimization of industrial processes. Kinetic models are often based on first principles, which describe the evolution of the states – numbers of moles, temperature and volum ...

2013

Online elemental analysis of process gases with ICP-OES: A case study on waste wood combustion

Christian Ludwig, Marco Wellinger

A mobile sampling and measurement system for the analysis of gaseous and liquid samples in the field was developed. An inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), which is built into a van, was used as detector. The analytical syste ...

Elsevier2012

Thermochemical production of liquid fuels from biomass: Thermo-economic modeling, process design and process integration analysis

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Laurence Tock

A detailed thermo-economic model combining thermodynamics with economic analysis and considering different technological alternatives for the thermochemical production of liquid fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is presented. Energetic and economic models ...

Elsevier2010

Helium implanted gallium nitride evidence of gas-filled rod-shaped cavity formation along the c-axis

Guillaume Lucas

structural defects induced by He implantation in GaN epilayer at high fluence (1 X 10(17) He/cm(2)) and elevated temperature (750 degrees C) have been studied by conventional and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. In addition to the planar i ...

American Institute of Physics2008

Assessing the natural ventilation potential of the Basel region

Mario Germano

A method is proposed to assess the natural ventilation potential (NVP) of the Basel Region, Switzerland, by taking into account the most comprehensive set of factors involved in natural ventilation. These factors are either driving forces, such as wind pre ...

2007

Multicriteria assessment of natural ventilation potential

Claude-Alain Roulet, Mario Germano

A method is proposed to assess the natural ventilation potential by taking into account the most comprehensive set of factors involved in natural ventilation. These factors are either driving forces, such as wind pressure and stack effect, or constraints, ...

2006

Solid oxide fuel cell stack simulation and optimization, including experimental validation and transient behavior

Diego Larrain

This thesis presents the development of models for the simulation and optimization of the design of a planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack. Fuel cells produce electric power directly from a fuel by electrochemical reactions. The high efficiencies demo ...

EPFL2005

In-vivo fluence rate effect in photodynamic therapy of early cancers with tetra(m-hydroxyphenyl)chlorin

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Alain Woodtli

Several parameters affect clin. trials in photodynamic therapy and influence the therapeutic outcome. Beside drug dose, light dose, drug-light interval and other variables, the fluence rate is a parameter that can influence the therapeutic results. In this ...

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