Publications de Philippe Aubin

Performance assessment and fast diagnosis of a μ-CHP solid oxide fuel cell system

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin, Cédric Frantz

Online performance characterization and faulty condition diagnosis of micro-combined-heat-and-power (μ-CHP) solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system is crucial for ensuring safe in-house operation and lifespan prolongation. However, fast accurate detection of f ...

2025

Poisoning and recovery behavior of Ni-GDC based electrolyte-supported solid oxide fuel cell exposed to common sulfur compounds under processed biogas environment

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin, Cédric Frantz

In recent years, biogas-fed solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology based on Ni-GDC electrolyte-supported cell has attracted interests due to its high sulfur tolerance. However, the degradation and recovery behavior of the cells under exposure to common su ...

2025

Combinatorial Use of Reference Electrodes and DRT for Disentangling AEM Electrolyzer Losses

Jan Van Herle, Mounir Driss Mensi, Philippe Aubin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Samaneh Daviran, Hamza Moussaoui, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar, Khaled Lawand

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Characterization of Ni-GDC based electrolyte-supported cell under processed biogas composition: Electrochemical performance, degradation and recovery

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin, Cédric Frantz

Biogas-fed solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology based on Ni-GDC electrolyte-supported cell (ESC) offers a sustainable solution for European farms’ heat and power demands with superior efficiency. However, the understanding of the degradation and recover ...

2025

Thermosiphon Cooling System for a Methanation Reactor: An Experimental Assessment

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin

Operating the cooling system of a methanation reactor using an open-loop two-phase thermosiphon with evaporating water as the cooling liquid is an effective way to ensure safe operation as it does not rely on a recirculating pump. The aim of the reactor de ...

2024

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

Philippe Aubin

The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

EPFL2024

Power-to-methane via co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2: Reactor operation and system simulation

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin

The traditional pathway of electrolysis based power-to-methane systems consists of water (liquid or vapor) electrolysis followed by CO2 methanation. The use of solid-oxide electrolysers allows an alternative pathway, i.e., steam and CO2 electrolysis follow ...

Elsevier2023

Evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for solid-oxide stack-based power-to-methane systems: Design, experiment and modeling

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin

The power-to-methane process using a solid-oxide electrolyser, followed by an exothermic methanation reactor, is effective for the production of an energy carrier (synthesis methane) that can be readily stored and transported at a large scale. A significan ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Degradation study of a reversible solid oxide cell (rSOC) short stack using distribution of relaxation times (DRT) analysis

Stefan Diethelm, Jan Van Herle, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Philippe Aubin, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar

Reversible solid oxide cells (rSOC) can convert excess electricity to valuable fuels in electrolysis cell mode (SOEC) and reverse the reaction in fuel cell mode (SOFC). In this work, a five - cell rSOC short stack, integrating fuel electrode (Ni-YSZ) suppo ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Simulation and experimental validation of pulsating heat pipes

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Filippo Cataldo, Philippe Aubin

The one-dimensional transient numerical code of JJ Cooling Innovation has been significantly improved to simulate the thermal/hydraulic performance of pulsating heat pipes (PHPs). Using a mechanistic approach, the liquid slug and vapor plug flows and their ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Cyclic degradation analysis of reversible Solid Oxide Cell short-stack

Stefan Diethelm, Jan Van Herle, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Guillaume Jeanmonod, David Constantin, Philippe Aubin, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar

The deployment of renewable energy systems has been increasing steadily in recent years. The intermittency associated with the renewable electricity supply can be addressed through the usage of energy storage and release systems. In this framework, reversi ...

2020

Reversible solid-oxide cell stack based power-to-x-to-power systems: Comparison of thermodynamic performance

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Tzu-En Lin, Ligang Wang, Philippe Aubin, Yumeng Zhang

The increasing penetration of variable renewable energies poses new challenges for grid management. The economic feasibility of grid-balancing plants may be limited by low annual operating hours if they work either only for power generation or only for pow ...

2020

Numerical Simulations of Pulsating Heat Pipes, Part 2: Comparison to Experimental Data

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Filippo Cataldo, Philippe Aubin

Due to the local pulsating/transient nature and complex thermal-hydraulic coupling of a closed loop pulsating heat pipe (CLPHP), there is a need to develop an effective simulation code capable to design and predict the local and overall thermal performance ...

IEEE2019

Numerical Simulations of Pulsating Heat Pipes, Part 1: Modeling

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Brian Paul D'Entremont, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Filippo Cataldo, Philippe Aubin

The pulsating nature of a closed loop pulsating heat pipe (CLPHP) makes the prediction of its thermal-hydraulic performance extremely challenging. Unfortunately, the design of CLPHPs is still quite an empirical process, requiring testing of many prototypes ...

IEEE2019