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Role and Opportunities of Gas bearing supported Turbomachinery in small-scale SOFC-CHP systems

Fuel cells are considered one of the most efficient and environmental-friendly technologies available for converting chemical energy into electricity and heat, and considered a key technology to close the hydrogen cycle. In particular, combined heat and po ...

EPFL2025

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

Jiaming Tian, Xile Hu, Jeremy Luterbacher, Wenhao Ren, Wenchao Ma, Seongmin Jin

Electrochemical CO 2 reduction into chemicals and fuels holds great promise for renewable energy storage and carbon recycling 1–3 . Although high-temperature CO 2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells is industrially relevant, current catalyst ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Alternative energy supply approach for industrial complexes and district heating networks based on biomass integrated gasification

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

In this work, a systematic approach combining different energy solutions and the time-varying energy demands is used to identify the operating conditions and arrangements for industrial complexes. A kraft pulp mill integrated to an urban district heating n ...

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria2023

Local electrochemical and thermal investigation of a segmented reversible solid oxide fuel cell and electrolyzer

Audrey Désirée Wesoly, Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Stefan Diethelm, Hamza Moussaoui

A novel setup has been designed and mounted to investigate the local electrochemical and thermal behavior of a cell from a 4-cell short stack under reversible operation solid oxide fuel cell/solid oxide electrolyzer (SOFC/SOE). It consists in the partition ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Degradation study of a reversible solid oxide cell (rSOC) short stack using distribution of relaxation times (DRT) analysis

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

Reversible solid oxide cells (rSOC) can convert excess electricity to valuable fuels in electrolysis cell mode (SOEC) and reverse the reaction in fuel cell mode (SOFC). In this work, a five - cell rSOC short stack, integrating fuel electrode (Ni-YSZ) suppo ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Gold-in-copper at low *CO coverage enables efficient electromethanation of CO2

Michael Graetzel, Dan Ren, Jun Li

The renewable-electricity-powered CO2 electroreduction reaction provides a promising means to store intermittent renewable energy in the form of valuable chemicals and dispatchable fuels. Renewable methane produced using CO2 electroreduction attracts inter ...

Nature Research2021

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

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

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

Sulfur Poisoning Recovery on a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode Material through Reversible Segregation of Nickel

Jan Van Herle, Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Hossein Madi, Patrick Simon Steiger

The perovskite-type mixed oxide La0.3Sr0.55Ti0.95Ni0.05O3-delta (LSTN) is demonstrated to exhibit the remarkable property of structural regeneration, where Ni can be reversibly exsoluted from the host perovskite lattice resulting in a regenerable Ni cataly ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Metal-Sulfide Catalysts Derived from Lignosulfonate and their Efficient Use in Hydrogenolysis

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xile Hu, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Lichen Bai, Xinjiang Cui, Sijie Liu

Catalytic lignosulfonate valorization is hampered by the in situ liberation of sulfur that ultimately poisons the catalyst. To overcome this limitation, metal sulfide catalysts were developed that are able to cleave the C-O bonds of lignosulfonate and are ...

2019

Reversible Segregation of Nickel from Perovskite-type Oxides - Applications in Energy Processes

Patrick Simon Steiger

In this thesis, Ni catalysts derived from perovskite-type metal oxides (PMO, general formula ABO3, A=lanthanide or earth alkaline element, B=transition metal) are investigated as a potential class of materials, which are able to overcome thechallenges of c ...

EPFL2018

Catalytic supercritical water gasification: Interaction of sulfur with ZnO and the ruthenium catalyst

Christian Ludwig, Frédéric Vogel, Gaël Peng

Continuous catalytic supercritical water gasification (CSCWG; 400 degrees C, 28 MPa) of microalgal biomass (Chlorella vulgaris) was carried out at the microalgae production site of ZHAW in Wadenswil (Switzerland) non-stop over a period of 100 h. Characteri ...

Elsevier2017

Techno-Economic and Environmental Optimization of Palm-based Biorefineries in the Brazilian Context, 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Maziar Kermani, Ayse Dilan Celebi

Due to the global increase in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and the depletion of fossil energy resources, the research presented here is focused on finding economically and environmentally competitive renewable energy resources. Fuel produc ...

Elsevier Science2017

The impact of sorbent geometry on the sulphur adsorption under supercritical water conditions: a numerical study

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino

A numerical model to show the impact of the adsorption bed geometry on the desulfurization process of wet biomass under supercritical water (SCW) gasification process has been developed. Three different geometries, straight channels (pipe), sharp-edged cha ...

Springer Heidelberg2017