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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

A Spatiotemporal analysis of photovoltaic electricity storage potential in electric vehicles

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Jérémy Dumoulin

Decarbonizing mobility and integrating more renewable sources in electricity production are necessary levers to meet the climate targets. Coupling electric vehicle (EV) charging with photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation could help to provide clean elec ...

Aalborg University2025

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

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

Jingjing Liang, François Maréchal, Du Wen

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 ...

2025

Hydrokinetic energy applications within hydropower tailrace channels: Implications, siting, and U.S. potential

Mirko Musa

Hydropower tailrace channels are unique and attractive locations for hydrokinetic energy harvesting due to fast currents, scheduled flow releases, proximity to existing structural and electrical infrastructures, and low risk of additional environmental imp ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2025

Fluorinated Poly(aryl piperidinium) Membranes for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Xile Hu, Harm-Anton Klok, Xingyu Wu, Nanjun Chen

Anion-exchange-membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) are a cost-effective alternative to proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The development of high-performance and durable AEMFCs requires highly conductive and robust anion-exchange membranes (AEMs). Howe ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Optimization and dynamic responses of an integrated fuel cell and battery system for an 800 kW ferry: A case study

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The recent targets by different countries to stop the sales or registrations of internal combustion engines (ICE) have led to the further development of battery and fuel cell technologies to provide power for different applications. The main aim of this st ...

ELSEVIER2022

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

Fuel cell system

Mahmoud Hadad

In a fuel cell system comprising a first zone (1) and a second zone (2), wherein the first zone (1) comprises a reaction area (4), wherein the second zone (2) comprises a fluidic connection (6, 7), wherein the fuel cell system comprises a decoupling struct ...

2022

Climate Change and Renewable Energy Generation in Europe-Long-Term Impact Assessment on Solar and Wind Energy Using High-Resolution Future Climate Data and Considering Climate Uncertainties

Kavan Javanroodi

Climate change can strongly affect renewable energy production. The state of the art in projecting future renewable energy generation has focused on using regional climate prediction. However, regional climate prediction is characterized by inherent uncert ...

MDPI2022

A membrane-less electrolyzer with porous walls for high throughput and pure hydrogen production dagger

Steven Alexandre Schenk, Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Pooria Hadikhani

Membrane-less electrolyzers utilize fluidic forces instead of solid barriers for the separation of electrolysis gas products. These electrolyzers have low ionic resistance, a simple design, and the ability to work with electrolytes at different pH values. ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Flexibility for large-scale deployment of PV systems in low-voltage grids

Jordan Holweger

To meet the net-zero emission target by 2050, Switzerland must install between 34 and 50 GW of distributed photovoltaic (PV). The inherent challenge with such an extensive integration of stochastic generation is to provide the flexibility for balancing sup ...

EPFL2021

Designing and assessing solar energy neighborhoods from visual impact

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Giuseppe Peronato, Pietro Florio

The optimal diffusion of Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) in cities requires diligent planning to arrange temporal and spatial distribution of energy, while preserving the aesthetics of city landscapes. Benefitting from an increasing quality of 3D ...

2021

A new wake model and comparison of eight algorithms for layout optimization of wind farms in complex terrain

Fernando Porté Agel

Layout optimization of wind farms constitutes an important and challenging task in complex terrain. This is especially due to the complex interactions of the boundary layer flows in complex terrain and wind turbine wakes, which renders wake modelling in co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

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

Viability limits of the renewable source in an electricity mix: The MIXOPTIM analysis methodology

Axel Guy Marie Laureau

In this article, we use a spectral and statistical analysis of load fluctuations to calculate plausible conditions that an electricity mix of power sources must satisfy to fulfill a variable power demand on a territory. These criteria can be applied to ele ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

Identification of Solid Oxide Cell Elementary Processes by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

Priscilla Caliandro

The energy sector is undergoing several transformations in an effort to tackle climate change, driving society towards reducing energy consumption and more sustainable energy conversion. In this context, electrochemical devices such as Solid Oxide Cell (SO ...

EPFL2018

Evolution of 3-D Transport Pathways and Triple-Phase Boundaries in the Ni-YSZ Hydrogen Electrode upon Fuel Cell or Electrolysis Cell Operation

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo, Pierre Burdet

The degradation of the Ni-YSZ electrode was investigated after SOFC or SOEC operation for up to 4,700 h and 10,700 h, respectively. 3-D FIB-SEM serial sectioning combined with 3-D EDS elemental mapping allowed the measurement of structural, material and el ...

2017