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Large-scale evaluation of the suitability of buildings for photovoltaic integration: Case study in Greater Geneva

In the context of a rapid and massive deployment or renewable energy and in particular solar photovoltaic, it is necessary to develop methods and tools to guide this deployment. To this end, this work proposes a multicriteria approach for evaluating the su ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Combined exergy analysis, energy integration and optimization of syngas and ammonia production plants: A cogeneration and syngas purification perspective

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

Modern ammonia production plants are equipped with efficient energy integration networks able to recover an important fraction of the waste heat exergy available throughout the chemical system. However, in order to drive the endothermic reforming reactions ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Large-scale kinetic metabolic models of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 for consistent design of metabolic engineering strategies

Ljubisa Miskovic, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Milenko Tokic

Background: Pseudomonas putida is a promising candidate for the industrial production of biofuels and biochemicals because of its high tolerance to toxic compounds and its ability to grow on a wide variety of substrates. Engineering this organism for impro ...

2020

Energy and Exergy Analysis of a Cruise Ship

Karin Andersson, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Francesco Baldi

In recent years, the International Maritime Organization agreed on aiming to reduce shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% with respect to 2009 levels. Meanwhile, cruise ship tourism is growing at a fast pace, making the challenge of achieving this goa ...

2018

Nonlinear dynamics of the near-shore boundary layer of a large lake (Lake Geneva)

Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard, David Andrew Barry, Andrea Cimatoribus

We examine near-shore and pelagic current variability in Lake Geneva, a large and deep lake in western Europe, using observations from several measurement locations and a three-dimensional numerical model for the period 2014-2016. Linear internal seiche mo ...

2018

Exergy assessment of future energy transition scenarios with application to Switzerland

Daniel Favrat, François Richard Vuille, François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, Matteo Allais

Using an exergy based indicator is highly desirable to compare future national energy strategies. A new web- based information platform called energyscope.ch, informing the general public on the Swiss energy transition was presented at ECOS2016. This paper ...

2017

Determining The Potential Of Salinity Gradient Energy Source Using An Exergy Analysis

Arash Emdadi

Mixing of fresh (river) water and salty water (seawater or saline brine) in a control fashion would produces an electrical energy known as salinity gradient energy (SGE). Two main conversion technologies of SGE are membrane-based processes; pressure retard ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Navigating and Managing the Complexity of Genome Scale Metabolic Networks for Studies in Cellular Physiology and Industrial Biotechnology

Meriç Ataman

Metabolism is a network of biochemical reactions that converts carbon sources to cellu-lar fuels and building blocks. Metabolism of many organisms has been studied for many decades. These studies define metabolism as a very large and complex network. Stoic ...

EPFL2016

Exergy representations in thermodynamics

Daniel Favrat, François Maréchal

The paper reviews various representations of exergy and exergy losses in energy systems going from simple heat exchanger (heat transfer, dissipation and embedded exergy) to the exergy of full energy systems from fossil or non fossil resources (including th ...

2015

Exploration of zeroth-order Wavefunctions and Energies for Intramolecular Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory

Jérôme Florian Gonthier, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf

Non-covalent interactions occur between and within all molecules and have a profound impact on structural and electronic phenomena in chemistry, biology, and material science. Understanding the nature of inter-and intramolecular interactions is essential n ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Thermodynamics and the optimisation of energy systems: Strengths and Limits

Daniel Favrat

The Second Law of thermodynamics is known to be an essential guide for the improvement of energy conversion systems. Throughout the years it has been applied to various engineering methods in particular in methods based on exergy [1] including the 2nd Law, ...

2013

Novel concepts of compressed air energy storage and thermo-electric energy storage

Young Min Kim

The interest in energy storage is currently increasing, especially from the perspectives of matching intermittent sources of renewable energy with customer demand and storing excess nuclear or thermal power during the daily cycle. Technologies to be consid ...

EPFL2012