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IntegrCiTy - D2.3 Report - Enabling and integrating a common IT structure: Definition of a back-end layer architecture

Gillian Jean Bernard Basso, François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Jessen Page

The concept of the IntegrCiTy platform is built around the development of a single application as a suite of independent software: project partners will mutualize a certain number of tools that shall be integrated in the IntegrCiTy platform. Therefore, a r ...

IPESE-EPFL2017

Integration of CO2 networks and Power to Gas for emerging energy autonomous cities in Europe

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

CO2 is used more and more as a refrigerant in the commercial and food retail industries and a majority of experts believe that its share in the field of residential heating, commercial refrigeration and mobile air conditioning across Europe will be higher ...

2017

Energy integration of CO2 networks and Power to Gas for emerging energy autonomous cities in Europe

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The concept of urban CO2 networks has been developed to deploy heat pump based district heating and cooling systems in dense urban areas. The use of the CO2 phase change reduces the cost of the heat distribution while allowing to recover waste heat that is ...

2018

IntegrCiTy - D4.2 Report - Method towards key bottlenecks identification

Luc Girardin

The increasing use of renewable energy is a deep going trend [1] mainly supported by the sustained annual growth rate of solar photovoltaic (+45.5%), wind power (+24.0%) and Biogases (+12.8%) (Figure 1). In this context, decentralized power generation and ...

2018

SCCER-FURIES - Report on the role of multi-carrier, multi-services, multi-grids integrated energy conversion systems and their possible role in the Swiss energy 2050 - Deliverable D1.5.3

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

The optimisation of distributed and renewable energy systems in buildings has shown that zero energy systems, using existing technologies, is within reach in the household sector where the thermal and the systems can support each other to increase renewabl ...

2017

Solar thermal and geothermal integration with low temperature CO 2 DENs

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

Taking into account the high efficiency of solar thermal collectors and the fact that heating demands represent around 80% of the total energy needs in residential buildings, it is of interest to integrate solar thermal systems to supply HVAC services. How ...

Elsevier2018

SCCER JA-RED - Description of the multi-energy demonstration system in the RE demo site - Deliverable 1.2.1

Nicolas Würsch, Luc Girardin, Jordan Holweger, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Hervé Tommasi

In the optic of providing guidelines for the optimal integration of renewable energy in a connected multi-energy context, this report presents EPFL - IPESE and EPFL - PV-lab’s common work on the initial assessment of Romande Energie (RE) demonstration site ...

2017

Data reduction for mixed integer linear programming in complex energy systems

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Julia Granacher, Luise Middelhauve

The task of optimally designing and scheduling energy systems with a high share of renewable energies is complex and computationally demanding. A widespread method for tackling this task is to apply mixed integer linear programming (MILP). Even though the ...

2021

Novel district heating and cooling energy network using CO2 as a heat and mass transfer fluid

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Luc Girardin, Samuel Henchoz

Compact district energy networks in a temperature range of 10 to 16°C have a great potential for energy savings by providing a heat source for decentralized heating heat pumps, a cold source for air-conditioning and a heat sink for refrigeration or cogener ...

2017

District heating and cooling energy network using CO2 as a heat and mass transfer fluid

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Luc Girardin, Samuel Henchoz

The 5th generation compact district heating and cooling networks in a temperature range of 10 to 16 °C have a great potential for energy savings by providing a heat source for decentralized heating heat pumps, a cold source for air-conditioning and a heat ...

2018

AIDRES: A database for the decarbonisation of the heavy industry in Europe

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Shivom Sharma, Julia Granacher, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Marie Jane Francine Jones, Yi Zhao

The AIDRES database aims to support the long-term objective of a fully integrated industrial strategy in the EU 27, providing a service to the European Commission and a catalogue for industries to understand the effectiveness, efficiency and cost of potent ...

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria2023

Decomposition method to evaluate district heating/cooling network potential at urban scale

Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz, François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Bingqian Liu

In this work, a tool to design district heating networks (DHN) is presented and applied to the city of Lausanne as a case study. The evaluation of the buildings’ heat/cooling demand is performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) database, built f ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

The swiss potential of model predictive control for building energy systems

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the potential economic benefit resulting from the use of smart energy management systems in buildings. The proposed approach relies on the application of model predictive control (MPC) and a self-consumption ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2017

Geographically Parameterized Residential Sector Energy and Service Profile

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The large share of energy consumption in the residential sector has necessitated better understanding and evaluation of the energy needs in this sector, with the objective of identifying possible pathways for improvement. A series of approaches have been u ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2019

SCCER-FURIES - A decision support tool for the geo-localised design and assessment of the integration of multi-carrier/multi-services/multi-grids innovative energy conversion systems in urban systems and industrial clusters - Deliverable 1.5.4

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

The computing platform (OSMOSELua) has been developed in the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group IPESE at EPFL as a flexible and robust tool for the design of complex integrated energy systems. The decision tool has been developed using ...

2017

ECOS: Solar Potential Assessment on Roofs of Urban Areas and its Integration

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager

This article integrates solar potential in a given urban area for the competing technologies of Photovoltaic and thermal collectors. On an urban level, scalable from several buildings to whole cities, the authors examine the possibility of solar power inte ...

2013

Methodology for the integration of low temperature district network in urban area

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin

The energy services delivered to urban areas in Switzerland make up more than 45% of the national energy consumption. Thus, in the framework of the Tetraener European project, a methodology has been developed to design low temperature thermal networks base ...

2009

SCCER JA-RED - Report on the performance of the implemented solutions with guidelines for subsequent implementation - D1.2.4

Luc Girardin, Luise Middelhauve

The foreseen important increase of the penetration of distributed renewable energies technologies into the electricity distribution grid is expected to lead to some major challenges. On the one hand, a large and synchronous production could lead in certain ...

2021

Contribution of Model Predictive Control in the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources within the Built Environment

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources has renders the power network operator task of balancing electricity generation and consumption increasingly challenging. Aside from heavily investing in additional storage capacities, an interesting soluti ...

2018

IntegrCiTy - D4.3 Report - Integrated method for systematic scenario generation using multi-objective optimization

Luc Girardin

Multi-energy networks are going to play an important role in dense areas (cities) for the energy transition and the integration of renewable energy sources [1]. The IntegrCiTy project uses a co-simulation approach at urban scale in order to maximize the pe ...

2018