The EPFL Campus in Lausanne: New Energy Strategies for 2050

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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 ...

Industries with low-temperature heat demand, such as laundry and syrup sectors, heavily rely on natural gas-fired boilers, posing challenges to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Like hard-to-abate sectors, they must explore energy transition strategies ...

Secondary aluminium production relies on natural gas to transform both primary and recycled aluminium into semi-fabricated products, leading to significant atmospheric emissions, energy losses, and resource consumption. Despite the potential for waste heat ...

Reversible Solid Oxide electrolyser (rSOE) is a promising solution for long-duration energy storage due to its exceptional features such as inherent reversibility, co-electrolysis capability in electrolysis mode, high efficiency, adaptability to multiple f ...

CO2 conversion plays a vital role in addressing climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a circular carbon economy. Rather than releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide recycling technologies allows transformatio ...

The present thesis studies climate policy design. It focuses on decarbonising energy systems thanks to combinations of policy instruments rather than stand-alone carbon pricing. Indeed, virtually eliminating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy by 20 ...

The greenhouse, in its modern conception, is a relatively recent artefact in the history of Western architecture. Its emergence and widespread adoption are inextricably linked to colonial context. Initially designed as enclosures for the conservation of ex ...

Aluminium is recognized as an essential material for the global energy transition. However, its production is extremely energy-intensive and largely dependent on fossil fuels. The aluminium industry emits more than 1.11 Gt CO2-eq annually. Multiple obstacl ...

The transition to a low-carbon economy can create new job opportunities but may cause job displacement in some sectors that heavily rely on fossil fuels. In order to gain a balanced appraisal in understanding the broader consequences of climate policies, t ...

The aluminium sector relies on natural gas for the conversion of recycled scrap into new feedstock, which results in substantial atmospheric emissions. Hydric resources are also impacted, as they serve as heat sinks for the waste heat generated during the ...

The recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe have underscored the vulnerability of the current energy system to the volatility of energy carrier prices. In the prospect of defining robust energy systems ensuring sustainable energy supply in the future, the ...

Healthcare sector buildings, particularly hospitals, significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals require a substantial amount of steam, including the essential hygienic or " clean steam, " that is currently ...

This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

Building climate risk assessment involves benchmarking a building's energy use intensity against decarbonisation pathways to mitigate the impacts on climate change. Various climate risk assessment tools and frameworks are used for commercial buildings in d ...

The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

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 ...

Frontal polymerisation has the potential to bring unprecedented reductions in energy demand and process time to produce fibre reinforced polymer composites. Production of epoxy-based fibre reinforced polymer parts with high fibre volume content, commonly e ...

Energy piles represent an innovative technology that can help provide sustainable geothermal heating or cooling energy for thermal conditioning purposes. In hot-dominated climates, the interest is to inject heat in the ground and extract energy for space-c ...

The global construction industry contributes to 37% of carbon emissions associated to both building operations and construction. To help achieve the net-zero targets set by 2050, it is mandated to achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. As we ...

In recent years, many efforts have been made to find alternative renewable energy sources that can ideally replace the use of fossil fuels in all aspects. One of the new emerging energy technologies is the bioelectrochemical system, of which two types are ...

The EPFL Campus in Lausanne: New Energy Strategies for 2050

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

Evaluation of Energy Transition Pathways for Industries with Low-Temperature Heat Demand: The Case of Laundry and Syrup Sectors

A systemic study for decarbonizing secondary aluminium production via waste heat recovery, carbon management and renewable energy integration

Reversible solid oxide electrolyser for energy storage: levelized cost of storage estimation

Low-Power Tunable Micro-Plasma Devices for Efficient and Scalable CO2 Conversion

Mixes of policy instruments for full decarbonisation by 2050

Neither House nor Garden. Greenhouses as Domestic Space and the Question of Climatic Typology

Decarbonizing the aluminium industry: A comprehensive review of pathways and process integration perspectives

Industrial European regions at risk within the Fit for 55: How far implementing CBAM can mitigate?

Renewable energy integration and waste heat valorization in aluminum remelting for co-producing kerosene and methanol

Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

Climate risk assessment of buildings: An analysis of operating emissions of commercial offices in Australia

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

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

Self-catalysed frontal polymerisation enables fast and low-energy processing of fibre reinforced polymer composites

Performance of energy piles foundation in hot-dominated climate: A case study in Dubai

An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode