Publications related to A High-Speed, High-Temperature Micro-Cantilever Steam Turbine for Hot Syngas Compression in Small-Scale Combined Heat and Power

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Manufacturing protocol and post processing of ultra-thin gas diffusion layer using advanced scanning techniques

The typical commercial size of a Gas Diffusion Layer (GDL) for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) application is around 180 μm up to 290 μm. GDL facilitates the diffusion of reactants to the catalyst layers and liquid removal from the membrane to t ...

Nature Research2024

Investigation of Biomass Hydrothermal Conversion Products by HRMS

Daniil Salionov

The dependency on fossil fuels and their impact on the environment is a matter of great concern for the future sustainability of modern society. The development of the "green" technologies which utilize renewable energy sources is now under investigation. ...

EPFL2023

Multi-Scale Study of High-Temperature Latent Heat Storage With Metallic Phase Change Materials

Nithin Mallya

Energy storage is a central issue in the green economy with half the global end energy usage being heat. Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) provides an energy dense heat storage solution with a well-defined discharge temperature. Utilizing low-cost ...

EPFL2022

Hydrothermal interactions in energy walls

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Jacopo Zannin

Energy geostructures (EGs) employ heat exchangers embedded in concrete geostructures, such as piles, walls, tunnels, and sewers. In this study, energy walls (EWs) are studied with an emphasis on the following objectives: (1) to understand the fundamentals ...

2021

Optimized hierarchical nickel sulfide as a highly active bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting

Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen

Rational design of non-noble metal electrocatalysts with high intrinsic activity for both the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is extremely impressive for sustainable electrocatalytic water splitting systems. However, i ...

2021

Influence of Large Relative Tip Clearances for a Micro Radial Fan and Design Guidelines for Increased Efficiency

Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Patrick Hubert Wagner

The blade tip clearance loss was studied experimentally and numerically for a micro radial fan with a tip diameter of 19:2mm. Its relative blade tip clearance, i.e., the clearance dividedby the blade height of 1:82mm, was adjusted with different shims. The ...

2021

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

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Shivom Sharma

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

Multiphase flows in Microfluidic Reactors

Pooria Hadikhani

Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is a clean option for storing energy from renewable sources. Low-cost hydrogen production requires efficient water electrolyzers that can produce pure hydrogen at high production throughputs. Membrane-less ele ...

EPFL2020

Solar-Electrochemical Devices for Water Splitting and Chlorine Generation

Enrico Chinello

Solar technologies hold the potential to ultimately counteract the effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the intermittency of sunlight poses technical challenges regarding the storage of the surplus production and the supply of the deficit. The generat ...

EPFL2019

Generic superstructure synthesis of organic Rankine cycles for waste heat recovery in industrial processes

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand

Waste heat accounts for up to 70% of input energy in industrial processes which enunciates the importance of energy recovery measures to improve efficiency and reduce excessive energy consumption. A portion of the energy can be recovered within the process ...

2018

Pumps running as turbines for energy recovery in water supply systems

João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Pressurised water supply systems are infrastructures that offer a potential for energy recovery in locations where these systems operate with an excessive pressure. The integration of micro hydropower plants for energy recovery is a challenge, as these sys ...

EPFL2018