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Exhaust gas recirculation

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The simultaneous Selective Catalytic Reduction of N2O and NO over Fe-exchanged zeolites

Filippo Buttignol

Iron-exchanged zeolites are industrial heterogeneous catalysts deployed to remediate anthropogenic emissions of both nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2). Despite the extensive scientific attention received, limited knowledge is availab ...

EPFL2024

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

Nuclear fusion presents a promising clean energy source to mitigate future energy crises, with magnetic confinement fusion well-positioned to provide a baseload scenario to power future reactors. The unmitigated power exhaust of such reactors threatens its ...

EPFL2024

Spectroscopic characterisation of TCV divertor towards a detached regime

Lorenzo Martinelli

The challenge of power exhaust of the high heat and particle fluxes foreseen for ITER and the forthcoming nuclear fusion reactors can be mitigated by operating in a detached divertor regime. This regime has been the object of three decades of studies, as i ...

EPFL2023

Systematic extraction of a control-oriented model from perturbative experiments and SOLPS-ITER for emission front control in TCV

Olivier Claude Martin Février, Artur Perek, Mirko Wensing

Systematic extraction of locally valid dynamic models from experiments is necessary for controller design and the validation of high fidelity models. This paper describes the extraction of a dynamic model in the form of a transfer function, giving the dyna ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Monomeric Fe Species in Square Planar Geometry Active for Low Temperature NH3-SCR of NO

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

Monomeric Fe species in zeolites are considered to be the active sites for the low temperature activity toward ammonia-assisted selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides (NH3-SCR) in exhaust gases. Herein, we report on a preparation method to synthe ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Intentional oxygen oscillations on Pd/Al2O3 for enhanced methane removal from the exhaust of natural gas engines

Maneka Claire Roger

Natural gas (NG) is a suitable alternative to gasoline and diesel fuels to decrease the carbon footprint of the mobility and energy sectors. Although NG is considered a fossil fuel, methane (CH4), its main component, can be produced industrially from power ...

EPFL2022

Unmoderated molten salt reactors design optimisation for power stability

Andreas Pautz, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The critical region of unmoderated molten salt reactors consists in a cavity filled with a liquid fuel. The lack of internal structure implies a complex flow structure of the circulating fuel salt. A preliminary core shape optimization has been performed d ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade

Basil Duval, Wouter Vijvers, Yanis Andrebe, Artur Perek

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative diverto ...

2021

Scoping the characteristics and benefits of a connected double-null configuration for power exhaust in EU-DEMO

Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Mirko Wensing

A double-null configuration is being considered for the EU-DEMO, due to its potential benefits for power exhaust arising from the use of two active divertors and magnetically disconnected low- and high-field sides. Using systematic parameter scans in fluid ...

Elsevier2021

Power exhaust by core radiation at COMPASS tokamak

Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Mancini

Substantial power dissipation in the edge plasma is required for the safe operation of ITER and next-step fusion reactors, otherwise unmitigated heat fluxes at the divertor plasma-facing components (PFCs) would easily exceed their material limits. Traditio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

System for co2 capture from internal combustion engine

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

System (2) for CO2 capture from a combustion engine (1) comprising an exhaust gas flow circuit (6) having an inlet end fluidly connected to an exhaust of the combustion engine, a heat exchanger circuit (12), a primary exhaust gas heat exchanger (H1) for tr ...

2020

Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3 on Cu-SSZ-13: Deciphering the Low and High-temperature Rate-limiting Steps by Transient XAS Experiments

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid, Adrian Marberger, Patrick Simon Steiger

Cu-exchanged small-pore SSZ-13 catalysts have found wide use for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides from automotive exhaust gases. The transient working environment of the Cu-SSZ-13 catalyst during NH3-SCR requires studying the rate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2020

Unraveling the complexity of oxygen reactions on Pt surfaces

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González

Platinum (Pt) is a key material in automotive catalytic converters used to clean up the exhaust of the combustion engine. Pt particles in a ceramic matrix serve as an oxidation catalyst to eliminate toxic carbon monoxide (CO) and unburned hydrocarbons (CxH ...

2019

Evaluation of feasibility and costs of alternative magnetic divertor configurations for DEMO

Holger Reimerdes

The European roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy has identified a number of technological and scientific challenges towards the development of a DEMO reactor. Mission 2 'Heat-exhaust systems' includes the investigation of alternative divertor confi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Two-phase and oil-free co-rotating scroll compressor/expander

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This paper discusses experimental and theoretical investigations about a re-designed co-rotation scroll machine, operating in compressor and expander mode. The machine has been tested under various operational conditions, with the aim to determine the infl ...

2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Richard Pitts, Timothy Goodman, Stefano Coda, Yann Camenen, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Andrea Scarabosio, Doohyun Kim, Haomin Sun, Dávid Wágner, Thomas Binderup Jensen

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Carbon Dioxide Capture From Internal Combustion Engine Exhaust Using Temperature Swing Adsorption

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

In order to reduce the CO2 emissions in the transportation sector, one can electrify the vehicle, switch to biofuel, or capture and store CO2 on board. In this study, integration of an on board CO2 capture and storage unit with an internal combustion engin ...

2019

Mechanistic implications of lanthanum-modification on gold-catalyzed formic acid decomposition under SCR-relevant conditions

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

The use of formate-based ammonia precursors as alternatives to urea in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) process requires that formic acid released upon their thermolysis in the hot exhaust is rapidly decomposed to carbon dioxide. This work aims at t ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Experimental implementation of a real-time power flux estimator for the ITER first wall on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Richard Pitts, Federico Nespoli, Benoît Labit, Cristian Galperti, Himank Anand

A control-oriented approach to the monitoring of wall power flux densities on ITER has been successfully developed. It is based on real-time equilibrium reconstruction in 2-D which is then used to describe the deposited heat flux as a poloidal flux functio ...

2019

Multi-objective optimization of turbo-ORC systems for waste heat recovery on passenger car engines

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Violette Mounier, Kévin Rosset

Waste heat recovery from passenger car internal combustion engines by means of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is promising for reducing CO2 emissions. In this study, different cycle configurations capable of converting waste heat from both coolant a ...

2018