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Compressed air

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Persistence of variant selection in red gold alloys

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

Recently, a new thermally activated distortion with amplification (TADA) effect has been reported in red gold alloys caused by the A1 -> L1(0) phase transformation. The macroscopic amplification is due to the persistence of variant selection nucleated unde ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Compressed natural gas (cng) power system with co2 emissions capture and storage

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

CNG power system (1) comprising a storage tank (6) connected fluidically to a fuel conversion system (2) via an energy transfer system (4), the fuel conversion system (2) comprising a power unit using CNG as fuel and generating gas emissions comprising C02 ...

2022

A High Efficiency Pneumatic Drive System Using Vane-Type Semi-Rotary Actuators

Alfred Rufer

A compressed air driven generator is proposed, where the pneumatic energy is converted into mechanical energy using two vane-type rotational actuators. The use of a second actuator with a higher displacement in order to produce a thermodynamic expansion al ...

UNIV NIS2021

Pneumatic supply system parameter optimization for soft actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Soft actuators using pressurized air are being widely used due to their inherent compliance, conformability and customizability. These actuators are powered and controlled by pneumatic supply systems (PSSs) consisting of components such as compressors, val ...

2021

Message Distortion in Information Cascades

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligoric

Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be morphed with every step, potentially entailing large cumulative distortions ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

In-situ strength of individual silicon particles within an aluminium casting alloy

Andreas Mortensen, Goran Zagar, Martin Guillermo Mueller

Measurements of local strength are performed in-situ on individual silicon particles that constitute the second phase of aluminium alloy A356. Particles are shaped using Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling such that, upon the application of a compressive force ...

2018

Multi-objective optimization and exergoeconomic analysis of a combined cooling, heating and power based compressed air energy storage system

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang

Compressed air energy storage technologies can improve the supply capacity and stability of the electric- ity grid, particularly when fluctuating renewable energies are massively connected. While incorporating the combined cooling, heating and power system ...

Elsevier2017

Testing and modelling of a novel oil-free co-rotating scroll machine with water injection

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

Efficient compressed air energy storage requires reversible isothermal compression and expansion devices. The isothermal compression and expansion processes can either be approached by several stages with intercooling or by the more convenient injection of ...

Elsevier2017

Ductility and strain rate-dependency of adhesively-bonded timber joints

Myrsini Angelidi

One of the most important characteristics of load-bearing structures is ductility, i.e. the ability of a material or a structure to sustain inelastic deformation prior to failure, without loss of resistance. The topic of this PhD Thesis was to develop duct ...

EPFL2017

Contribution to the Technique of Compressed Air Energy Storage : The Concept of Finned Piston

Mahbod Heidari

Development of intermittent solar and wind energies and the demand peak increase has made energy storage very important in energy policy. Thus, energy storage will play a key role in enabling the world to develop a low-carbon electricity system. An interes ...

EPFL2015

Bond Graph Model Representation of a New Reciprocating Finned Air Compressor

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari

A new finned reciprocating air compressor model is developed recently for compressed air energy storage. First the mechanism of operation of the new compressor is described. The complexity of the design encouraged us to develop the model based on the bond ...

2014

The value of energy storage in optimal non-firm wind capacity connection to power systems

Mostafa Nick

Wind is a variable and uncontrollable source of power with a low capacity factor. Using energy storage facilities with a non-firm connection strategy is the key to maximum integration of distant wind farms into a transmission-constrained power system. In t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Analysis and Development of a New Compressor Device Based on The New Finned Piston

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari

In the general frame of Compressed Air Energy Storage system (CAES), the LEI Laboratory of EPFL has introduced the concept of dry finned piston. The main goal is to achieve energy storage by means of compressed air thanks to high isothermal efficiency comp ...

2013

Driving and Filling Personal Vehicles – The Questions of Energy - and Power - Density ( A Fast Filling Station for the Compressed Air Car )

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

In the context of the development of zero emissions personal vehicles, compressed air cars have been proposed, as alternative solutions to electric solutions, with a small energy content leading to a limited range, but with interesting properties regarding ...

2011

Integrated SMD pressure/flow/temperature multisensor for compressed air in LTCC technology: Thermal flow and temperature sensing

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Yannick Sébastien Fournier

In this work, we present and analyse the flow-sensing part of a recently-developed multisensor in LTCC (low- temperature co-fired ceramic) technology; this device integrates flow / pressure / temperature sensing and is designed for diagnostics monitoring o ...

Elsevier2011

A multi-scale multi-physics model of soil drying

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

Drying shrinkage is modeled at a microscale as a two-stage process of deformation and evacuation of a two-tube vessel system, based on porosimetry evolution. In the first stage water flow is driven by an external evaporation flux. Flow is associated with a ...

ASCE2011

Multistage hydraulic gas compression/expansion systems and methods

Alfred Rufer

Multistage hydraulic systems and methods for converting the potential energy of a pressurized gas, particularly air, into mechanical work operating in motor, and for producing compressed gas from the mechanical work of the rotating shaft (A1.1 ) when rotat ...

2009

Efficiency Considerations and Measurements of a Hybrid Energy Storage System based on Compressed Air and Supercapacitors

Alfred Rufer, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

This paper presents the study and experimentation of a hybrid energy storage system based on Compressed Air, where the storage and discharge are done within maximum efficiency conditions for the volumetric machine. As these maximum efficiency conditions im ...

2007

Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on Compressed Air and Super-Capacitors with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking (MEPT)

Alfred Rufer, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

This paper presents a hybrid energy storage system mainly based on Compressed Air, where the storage and withdrawal of energy are done within maximum efficiency conditions. As these maximum efficiency conditions impose the level of converted power, an inte ...

2006

Efficiency Considerations and Measurements of a Hybrid Energy Storage System based on Compressed Air and Super Capacitors

Alfred Rufer, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

This paper presents a study and experimentation of a hybrid energy storage system prototype, based on Compressed Air, where the charging and discharging is done within maximum efficiency conditions of the volumetric machine. As the maximum efficiency condi ...

2006