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Techno-economic optimization of biomass-to-methanol with solid-oxide electrolyzer

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Ligang Wang, Hanfei Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to assess techno-economically the integration of solid-oxide electrolysis in biomass-to-methanol processes: (1) The hydrogen produced by electrolysis can be used to adjust the composition of syngas from gasification to increase ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Combined exergy analysis, energy integration and optimization of syngas and ammonia production plants: A cogeneration and syngas purification perspective

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

Modern ammonia production plants are equipped with efficient energy integration networks able to recover an important fraction of the waste heat exergy available throughout the chemical system. However, in order to drive the endothermic reforming reactions ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Belgian Energy Transition: What Are the Options?

François Maréchal

Different scenarios at different scales must be studied to help define long term policies to decarbonate our societies. In this work, we analyse the Belgian energy system in 2035 for different carbon emission targets, and accounting for electricity, heat, ...

2020

Multi-objective optimization in waste plastics - recycling vs thermo-valorization

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo

In the past few years, waste management has received increasing attention not only from industry but also from academics. With an increase in plastic content, motivated by China’s ban on its import, waste composition is expected to change in the near futur ...

Osaka, Japan, ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Data for Urban Scale Building Energy Modelling: Assessing Impacts and Overcoming Availability Challenges

François Maréchal, Solène Goy

Data are essential to urban building energy models and yet, obtaining sufficient and accurate building data at a large-scale is challenging. Previous studies have highlighted that the data impact on urban case studies has not been sufficiently discussed. T ...

2020

Industrial flexibility as demand-side response for electrical grid stability

François Maréchal, Alessio Santecchia, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Electricity markets are currently experiencing a period of rapid change. The intermittent nature of renewable energy is disrupting the conventional methods used in operational planning of the electrical grid, causing a shift from a day-ahead forecast polic ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Techno-economic comparison of green ammonia production processes

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Hanfei Zhang

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

Decarbonization in Complex Energy Systems: A Study on the Feasibility of Carbon Neutrality for Switzerland in 2050

François Maréchal, Stefano Moret, Boris Meier, Theodoros Damartzis, Xiang Li

Decarbonization gained prominence with the witnessed rise of temperature over recent years, particularly in the aftermath of the adoption of the Paris agreement for limiting the temperature increase within 2°C until 2050. Biogenic resources are explicitly ...

2020

Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Exergy assessment and techno-economic optimization of bioethanol production routes

François Maréchal

Currently, electricity generation and second-generation ethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks represent technological alternatives in the bioenergy sector. Nevertheless, the introduction of new production processes denotes a real challenge due ...

2020

Analysis of the sorption-enhanced chemical looping biomass gasification process: Performance assessment and optimization through design of experiment approach

François Maréchal, Thanaphorn Detchusananard

In this study, the performance of high-purity hydrogen production through the sorption-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SECLG) process, involving a gasifier, calciner, and air reactor, was investigated. In this process, the biomass feedstock was woo ...

2020

Enhancing the operational flexibility of thermal power plants by coupling high-temperature power-to-gas

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Yang Sun, Ligang Wang

The increasing penetration of intermittent renewable power challenges the stability of the electrical grid, thus coal power plants are usually required to extend the operation range by reducing the minimum load. This work proposes a concept of coupling sol ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

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

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

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher

Efficient consumption of energy and material resources, including water, is the primary focus for process industries to reduce their environmental impact. The Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21) highlighted the prominent role of industrial energy effici ...

2019

Interactive Optimization With Parallel Coordinates: Exploring Multidimensional Spaces for Decision Support

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

Interactive optimization methods are particularly suited for letting human decision makers learn about a problem, while a computer learns about their preferences to generate relevant solutions. For interactive optimization methods to be adopted in practice ...

2019

Long- and short-lists of key performance indicators in industry and for industrial symbiosis

François Maréchal, Franz Wolf, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Alessio Santecchia, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau, Ivan Daniel Kantor

2019

Trade-off designs of power-to-methane systems via solid-oxide electrolyzer and the application to biogas upgrading

Stefan Diethelm, Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Guillaume Jeanmonod, Ligang Wang

Solid-oxide electrolyzer based power-to-methane is promising for large-scale energy storage as well as biogas upgrading by efficiently converting intermittent renewable power and CO2 (e.g., in biogas) into synthetic methane. Either air or pure oxygen can b ...

2019

Geographically Parameterized Residential Sector Energy and Service Profile

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

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

Optimal design of biomass supply chains with integrated process design

François Maréchal, Theodoros Damartzis

The current work focuses on the optimal design of biomass supply chains, addressing the conversion of raw materials into useful services. The latter include not only heat and power but also synthetic bio-based fuels (e.g. bio-SNG). Optimally pre-designed p ...

Elsevier2019

A combined hydrothermal gasification - solid oxide fuel cell system for sustainable production of algal biomass and energy

Jan Van Herle, François Maréchal, Christian Ludwig, Hossein Madi, Eya Nicodeme, Shivom Sharma

Hydrothermal gasification (HTG) is a promising technology that allows the recovery of nutrients from wet biomass with simultaneous production of an energy-rich gas. In this work, wastewater effluent (leachate) obtained from a composter sanitary system oper ...

2019

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