Publications associées à Distillation

Separation of CO2 and TFE by using diethanolamine and diisopropylamine

Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon, Muhammad Salman

The near-azeotrope mixture of TFE and CO2 is an important concern urging the scientific community to develop new ways for TFE/CO2 separations. In this work, for the first time, Diisopropylamine (DIPA) and Diethanolamine (DEA) are used as solvents for separ ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

Extension of GeN-Foam to modeling of boiling water and validation against the OECD/NRC PSBT benchmark

Carlo Fiorina, Stefan Radman, Ran Zhang, Hao Qin

The OpenFOAM-based GeN-Foam solver has recently been extended to allow simulating water boiling based on a porous-medium approach. This paper describes such extension and preliminarily validates it based on the OECD/NRC PSBT benchmark. Three benchmark exer ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Knowledge Distillation for 6D Pose Estimation by Aligning Distributions of Local Predictions

Mathieu Salzmann, Shuxuan Guo, Yinlin Hu

Knowledge distillation facilitates the training of a compact student network by using a deep teacher one. While this has achieved great success in many tasks, it remains completely unstudied for image-based 6D object pose estimation. In this work, we intro ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Alkenes: Hypervalent Iodine Meets High-Valent Copper

Jérôme Waser, Tobias Michael Milzarek

The first trifluoromethylation of vinylbenziodoxolones (VBX) is reported herein. The synthetic method is based on the use of bench-stable, high-valent copper(III) species, and the reaction can be initiated under thermal conditions and/or irradiation (365 n ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Improving the Training of Compact Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Shuxuan Guo

During the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution of the past decades, deep neural networks have been widely used and have achieved tremendous success in visual recognition. Unfortunately, deploying deep models is challenging because of their huge model s ...

EPFL2022

Low‐Volatility Vapors and New Particle Formation Over the Southern Ocean During the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Robin Lewis Modini

During summer, the Southern Ocean is largely unaffected by anthropogenic emissions, which makes this region an ideal place to investigate marine natural aerosol sources and processes. A better understanding of natural aerosol is key to constrain the preind ...

2021

Vapor Transport Deposition of Methylammonium Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Florent Sahli, Cédric Bucher, Björn Niesen, Léo Duchêne, Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay, Aymeric Michel Schafflützel, Nathanaël Miaz, Niccolo Salsi

Vapor-based processes are promising options to deposit metal halide perovskite solar cells in an industrial environment due to their ability to deposit uniform layers over large areas in a controlled environment without resorting to the use of (possibly to ...

2021

Adhesion of a tape loop

Harmeet Singh

In this work, we revisit experimentally and theoretically the mechanics of a tape loop. Using primarily elastic materials (polydimethylsiloxane, PDMS, or polycarbonate, PC) and confocal microscopy, we monitor the shape as well as the applied forces during ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Technical note: Evaluation of a low-cost evaporation protection method for portable water samplers

Jana Freiin von Freyberg

Automated field sampling of streamwater or precipitation for subsequent analysis of stable water isotopes (H-2 and O-18) is often conducted with off-the-shelf automated samplers. However, when water samples are stored in the field for days and weeks in ope ...

2020

On reducing the number of decision variables for dynamic optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues

This paper presents an input parameterization for dynamic optimization that allows reducing the number of decision variables compared to traditional direct methods. A small number of decision variables is likely to be beneficial for various applications su ...

2020

Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Carboxylic Acids to Fuels and Chemicals

Jher Hau Yeap

Our reliance on fossil fuels, which is unsustainable due to dwindling reserves, has led to various environmental issues. Lignocellulosic biomass could serve as a renewable source of carbon and energy for the production of fuels and chemicals. While several ...

EPFL2019

Exergetic, environmental and economic assessment of sugarcane first-generation biorefineries

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

First generation ethanol (1G) contributes to the majority of the ethanol produced worldwide, predominantly centered on corn and sugarcane. Nevertheless, several issues are regularly highlighted concerning the long-term sustainability of this technology, in ...

2019

Modular soft robotic microdevices for dexterous biomanipulation

Francesco Stellacci, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Ahmet Bekdemir, Murat Kaynak, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini

We present a methodology for building biologically inspired, soft microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. Our strategy combines several advanced techniques including programmable colloidal self-assembly, light-harvesting with plasmonic nanotransduce ...

2019

Thermal water purification system and method for operating said system

Chin Lee Ong

The present invention relates to a thermal water purification system (10) for producing a distillate liquid from a raw liquid (LP, LB) comprising: - a plurality of distilling units (1 a-1h) which are consecutively flowed through by the raw feed liquid (LP, ...

2017

Adsorption of thiophene by activated carbon: A global sensitivity analysis

Christian Ludwig

The removal of sulfur compounds in biomass gasification processes is crucial to protect downstream equipment. While conventional sorbent materials can retain H2S, many fail to capture heterocyclic sulfur compounds such as thiophene (C4H4S). This work explo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

From Nano- to Micrometer Scale: The Role of Antisolvent Treatment on High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Francesco Stellacci, Giulia Grancini, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Yi Zhang, Peng Gao, Sanghyun Paek, Kyung Taek Cho, Evangelia-Nefeli Athanasopoulou

To date, antisolvent treatment has become one of the most important means to fabricate high efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs); however, the few reported antisolvents have not been analyzed on a uniform platform, and there is hitherto no clear reason ...

American Chemical Society2017

Supported photocatalysts for model pollutant degradation and bacterial inactivation : preparation, evaluation and characterization

Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

Water quality and bacterial infections are directly related to human health and wellbeing, thus waste water treatment is a necessary procedure for avoiding disturbances to ecosystems and for assuring human health. Furthermore, bacterial contamination in wa ...

EPFL2017

Pressure drop prediction in annular two-phase flow in macroscale tubes and channels

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

A new prediction method for the frictional pressure drop in annular two-phase flow is presented. This new prediction method focuses on the aerodynamic interaction between the liquid film and the gas core in annular flows, and explicitly takes into account ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Revisiting Taxonomy Induction over Wikipedia

Amit Gupta

Guided by multiple heuristics, a unified taxonomy of entities and categories is distilled from the Wikipedia category network. A comprehensive evaluation, based on the analysis of upward generalization paths, demonstrates that the taxonomy supports general ...

2016

Thermally-nucleated self-assembly of water and alcohol into stable structures at hydrophobic interfaces

Francesco Stellacci, Michele Ceriotti, Kislon Voitchovsky, Daniele Giofré

At the interface with solids, the mobility of liquid molecules tends to be reduced compared with bulk, often resulting in increased local order due to interactions with the surface of the solid. At room temperature, liquids such as water and methanol can f ...

Nature Publishing Group2016