Home

Person

François Maréchal

About
Privacy
Disclaimer

Graph Chatbot

Related publications (437)

Energy Integration of Large-Scale Industrial Sites with Target-Compatible Sub-System Division Strategy

This paper presents a targeting strategy to solve the heat load distribution (HLD) problem for large-scale plant by dividing the system into sub-systems while considering the heat transfer opportunities between them. The methodology is based on a sequentia ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Environomic Design of Vehicle Integrated Energy System - Application on a Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy System

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

With the increasing trend of mobility of the human population, vehicles have to face the problem of primary energy resources scarcity. The vehicles need higher efficiency and better adaptation to the alternative energy sources. The need to improve the effi ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Heat exchanger network design of large-scale industrial site with layout inspired constraints

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

This paper presents a systematic approach for the synthesis of the heat recovery network in total site using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model. This model returns a near-to-optimal network configuration with minimum utility cost while allows to sele ...

Elsevier2014

New proposal for production of bioactive compounds by supercritical technology integrated to a sugarcane biorefinery

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

The construction of a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) plant inside or in close proximity to a sugarcane biorefinery producing first and second generation ethanol demonstrated to be very promising, increasing the economic potential of the SFE process i ...

Springer Verlag2014

Oil and gas platforms with steam bottoming cycles: System integration and thermoenvironomic evaluation

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen

The integration of steam bottoming cycles on oil and gas platforms is currently regarded as the most promising option for improving the performance of these energy-intensive systems. In this paper, a North Sea platform is taken as case study, and a systema ...

Elsevier2014

Integration of Supercritical Water Gasification in Combined 1G/2G Ethanol Production

François Maréchal, Alberto Mian, Adriano Viana Ensinas

The present study investigates the potential conversion of sugarcane into ethanol and synthetic natural gas. The considered conversion path consists in combining ethanol first and second generation ethanol production plant with a catalytic supercritical wa ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Defining “Waste Heat” for industrial processes

Daniel Favrat, François Maréchal, Matthias Bendig

This paper aims at presenting a method for identifying, characterising and quantifying the available waste heat of an industrial system that can be converted into a useful form. A distinction is made between avoidable and unavoidable waste heat. This disti ...

2013

Process Integration of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pre-treatment in the Thermo-Chemical Production of F-T Fuels. Centralised Versus Decentralised Scenarios

François Maréchal, Emanuela Peduzzi, Guillaume Boissonnet

The purpose of this study is to evaluate, in terms of process integration, the centralised and decentralised pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass for its thermo-chemical conversion into liquid fuels through gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthe ...

2013

Increasing Efficiency of Fuel Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Process Integration

Martin Gassner, François Maréchal

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol is currently one of the most popular options for sustainable production of transportation fuel from renewable resources. Due to the resistance of lignin compounds to biological degradation and the import ...

American Chemical Society2013

A methodology for creating sequential multi-period base-case scenarios for large data sets

François Maréchal, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde

Key performance indicators in engineering problems include but are not limited to financial, operational, management and environmental factors, which are significantly affected by aspects such as seasonality, fouling, economic climate, production rates, su ...

AIDIC Servizi2013

Thermo-Economic Optimization of Integrated First and Second Generation Sugarcane Ethanol Plant

François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

The sugarcane industry has been responsible in some countries for the production of most of the sugar and ethanol available in the world for internal and external markets. In this sector, ethanol can be produced by fermentation of sugars obtained directly ...

2013

Multi-objective, multi-period optimization of biomass conversion technologies using evolutionary algorithms and mixed integer linear programming (MILP)

François Maréchal, Samira Fazlollahi

2013

Life cycle optimization of energy-intensive processes using eco-costs

François Maréchal

2013

Multi-objective optimization of SNG production through hydrothermal gasification from microalgae

François Maréchal, Alberto Mian, Adriano Viana Ensinas

Elsevier2013

Thermo-chemical production of F-T fuels from lignocellulosic biomass: Heat integration of gasification

François Maréchal, Emanuela Peduzzi, Guillaume Boissonnet

This study focuses on the process integration of gasification in the thermo-chemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into liquid fuels thorough gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis (biomass to liquids, BtL). Two main gasification technolo ...

2013

Life Cycle Assessment and Environomic Optimization of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants

François Maréchal, Léda Gerber, Germain Augsburger, Aurélie Kuenlin

2013

Thermo-economic and environmental model of microalgae-to-SNG conversion process through hydrothermal gasification

François Maréchal, Kevin Arrandel, Alberto Mian, Adriano Viana Ensinas

Due to its high photosynthesis conversion efficiency, microalgae are currently considered as a serious feedstock for next-generation biofuels production. One possible conversion process is the production of synthetic natural gas (SNG) through catalytic hyd ...

2013

ECOS: Integrated and practical energy planning for new districts

François Maréchal, Cédric Dorsaz, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager

In this paper, we propose a unified method for the integrated energy planning during the development of new districts for all involved actors. Taking energy related problems such as equipment choice and size, costs and environmental impact early into consi ...

2013

Process engineering method for systematically comparing CO2 capture options

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, CO2 capture and storage is regarded as a promising alternative for fossil fuel fed power plants. In order to design and evaluate the competitiveness of such complex integrated energy conversion systems ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

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

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, 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

Page 17 of 22