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Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Matteo Barsanti, Selin Yilmaz

To support the decarbonisation of the power sector and offset the volatility of a system with high levels of renewables, there is growing interest in residential Demand-Side Management (DSM) solutions. Traditional DSM strategies require consumers to active ...

2024

Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition

François Maréchal, Julia Granacher

Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Decision support for the design of integrated biorefineries

Julia Granacher

A shift from fossil-based energy and products to more sustainable alternatives is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and associated climate change impacts. Biomass represents a promising alternative for providing fuels and carbon-based products w ...

EPFL2023

Renewable Energy Integration and Waste Heat Recovery for the Production of Sustainable Jet Fuel and Decarbonization of Industrial Heating Applications

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The process synthesis and optimization methods used in this work include simulation of biomass gasification, hydrogen and synthetic natural gas production, and jet fuel production via a Fisher Tropsch unit. An energy integration approach, carried out by th ...

American Institute of Chemical Engineering2023

Tuning the Solar Performance of Building Facades through Polymer 3D Printing: Toward Bespoke Thermo-Optical Properties

Stephen William Wasilewski

Facades are the primary interface controlling the flow of solar energy in buildings and affecting their energy balance and environmental impact. Recently, large-scale 3D printing (3DP) of translucent polymers has been explored as a technique for fabricatin ...

Wiley2023

Heat pumping and renewable energy integration for decarbonizing brewery industry and district heating

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The energy integration of brewery plants and urban agglomerations has many benefits in terms of rational energy use and reduced environmental impact, especially during scenarios of uncertain supply chain and volatile market prices. In fact, the diversifica ...

Elsevier2023

Advanced Frameworks to Aggregate and Unlock the Power Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources Located in Active Distribution Networks

Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

Environmental concerns are leading to a fast transition in electric power systems towards replacing fossil fuel and nuclear generation with renewable generation. This transition has two significant implications for electric power systems: 1-The capacity o ...

EPFL2022

Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet

Anton Schleiss, Elena Vagnoni

About 50% of all hydropower plants (HPPs) worldwide were originally commissioned more than 40 years ago, so that the advanced age of the fleet is a major concern across all continents, and especially in Europe. The modernization of HPPs can generate severa ...

Elsevier2021

The digitalization of energy systems: towards higher energy efficiency

Marina Dorokhova

The energy industry is going through challenging times of disruptive changes caused by decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. As the energy value chain is restructuring itself to accommodate the growing penetration of renewables, increasing ...

EPFL2021

Coordinating Distributed Energy Resources and Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage System for Power Flexibility Provision Under Uncertainty

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

Relying on the power flexibility of distributed energy resources (DERs) located in an active distribution network (ADN), this ADN will be able to provide power flexibility to the upper-layer grid at their point of common coupling (PCC). The power flexibili ...

2021

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

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

Cyclic degradation analysis of reversible Solid Oxide Cell short-stack

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

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

Rational strain engineering in delafossite oxides for highly efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis in acidic media

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Esther Alarcon Llado, Filip Mateusz Podjaski

The rational design of catalysts is crucial to make power-to-X technologies viable. Here the authors introduce the delafossite PdCoO2 as a highly active hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst due to the growth of a tensile-strained Pd-rich capping layer unde ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Techno-economic comparison of green ammonia production processes

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang

To reduce the fossil-fuel consumption and the impacts of conventional ammonia production on climate change, green ammonia production processes using green hydrogen need to be investigated. For commercial production scale, potential alternatives can be base ...

2020

Model based forecasting for demand response strategies

Lorenzo Nespoli

The incremental deployment of decentralized renewable energy sources in the distribution grid is triggering a paradigm change for the power sector. This shift from a centralized structure with big power plants to a decentralized scenario of distributed ene ...

EPFL2019

Techno-Economic Optimization of CO2-to-Methanol with Solid-Oxide Electrolyzer

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang

Carbon capture and utilization are promising to tackle fossil-fuel depletion and climate change. CO2 hydrogenation can synthesize various chemicals and fuels, such as methanol, formic acid, urea, and methane. CO2-to-methanol integrated with solid-oxide ele ...

2019

Methodology for the identification of promising integrated biorefineries

Ayse Dilan Celebi

Steady increase in global energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and depletion of fossil energy resources, together with increased attention towards sustainable development has prompted researchers to discover economical and environmentally competit ...

EPFL2019

Viability limits of the renewable source in an electricity mix: The MIXOPTIM analysis methodology

Axel Guy Marie Laureau

In this article, we use a spectral and statistical analysis of load fluctuations to calculate plausible conditions that an electricity mix of power sources must satisfy to fulfill a variable power demand on a territory. These criteria can be applied to ele ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

SCCER JA-RED - Detailed evaluation of the grid operation bottlenecks and load shifting potential for the reference system - Deliverable 1.2.2

Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Luise Middelhauve, Jordan Holweger, Lionel Benjamin Bloch

Based on the analysis of the reference case, models developed at the PVLAB-EPFL and IPESEEPFL have been valued and improved to assess the impact of distributed generation and ancillary services on REel demonstrator. The models are used to evaluate solution ...

2019

Power-to-fuels via solid-oxide electrolyzer: Operating window and techno-economics

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Tzu-En Lin

Power-to-fuel systems via solid-oxide electrolysis are promising for storing excess renewable electricity by efficient electrolysis of steam (or co-electrolysis of steam and CO2) into hydrogen (or syngas), which can be further converted into synthetic fuel ...

2019