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Norepinephrine stimulates glycogenolysis in astrocytes to fuel neurons with lactate

Pierre Magistretti, Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Jay Coggan, Corrado Cali

Although efficient compared to computers, the human brain utilizes energy at 10-fold the rate of other organs by mass. How the brain is supplied with sufficient on-demand energy to support its activity in the absence of neuronal storage capacity remains un ...

2018

Improving the energy sustainability of a Swiss village through building renovation and renewable energy integration

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Lucas Mosca

The integration of renewable energy technologies and building renovation are the two main procedures for improving energy sustainability of buildings at neighborhood scale. It is difficult, however, to optimize these procedures simultaneously. This study f ...

Elsevier2018

A heat integration method with multiple heat exchange interfaces

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

In recent decades, energy efficiency has become one of the key issues facing large process industries. Mounting economic, environmental and social pressure motivate energy-intensive industries to improve their efficiency. Identifying retrofit opportunities ...

2018

Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Philippe Couty, Stefano Cozza

Huge amount of energy resources greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is devoted to the built environment. Therefore, an accurate assessment method of these indicators is compulsory. To take advantage of the temporal variation in the primary energy use and associ ...

2018

A process integration method with multiple heat exchange interfaces

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

In recent decades, energy efficiency has become one of the key issues facing industrial producers. Mounting economic, environmental and social factors motivate energy-intensive industries to improve their efficiency. Identifying energy saving retrofit oppo ...

2017

Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

As tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, many strategies stress the importance of urban renewalprocesses to address current energy issues. This paper focuses on the Spanish residential building stockbuilt until 2001, which has a low level of energy ...

2017

Dispatching rule-based scheduling algorithms in a single machine with sequence-dependent setup times and energy requirements

Yong Chan Choi

The research focuses on the problem of scheduling jobs in a single machine with sequence-dependent setup times and energy requirements in which jobs of multiple types arrive dynamically over time. A setup operation is required to change over the job types ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Energy Efficiency and Integration in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener

Industrial sites and their associated energy systems are estimated to be responsible for 31% of worldwide energy consumption. Improving their energy efficiencies has the potential to reduce production costs of industrial sites and contribute towards the 20 ...

EPFL2016

Integration of outdoor human comfort in a building energy simulation database using CityGML Energy Ade

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

Handling data needed by Building Energy Simulation (BES) tools can be a tedious task, especially at the urban scale. Besides BES, users often have different needs (building energy use, human comfort, integration of renewables, urban planning…) in mind when ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016