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

Mohammad Jamshidmofid, Fernando Porté Agel

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 ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Nanoengineered Photonic Materials for Advancing Solar Redox Flow Batteries

Jiaming Ma

The intermittent nature of renewable solar energy poses a significant challenge to the power grid, requiring technologies for energy storage. In this regard, integrating a photoelectro-chemical (PEC) cell with a redox flow battery (RFB) presents an attract ...

EPFL2024

Decentralized coordination between active distribution network and multi-microgrids through a fast decentralized adjustable robust operation framework

Yuning Jiang

Due to the autonomous characteristic and heterogeneity of the individual agents in active distribution network (ADN) with multi-microgrids (MMG), this paper proposes a fully decentralized adjustable robust operation framework achieving the coordinated oper ...

ELSEVIER2023

Zn3P2 as an earth-abundant photovoltaic material: from growth to device

Rajrupa Paul

The development of cost-effective and earth-abundant semiconducting materials is imperative for the sustainable deployment of photovoltaic technology. Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a promising candidate for terawatt-scale electricity generation. It has a near- ...

EPFL2023

Reinforcement Learning for proactive operation of residential energy systems by learning stochastic occupant behavior and fluctuating solar energy: Balancing comfort, hygiene and energy use

François Maréchal, Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

When it comes to residential buildings, there are several stochastic parameters, such as renewable energy production, outdoor air conditions, and occupants’ behavior, that are hard to model and predict accurately, with some being unique in each specific bu ...

2022

Cost-Based Decision Support System: A Dynamic Cost Estimation of Key Performance Indicators in Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

An attempt is made to translate five generic key performance indicators (KPIs) into a continuous real-time cost function in a batch order-based manufacturing environment. The challenge of controlling and optimizing resource utilization, production efficien ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Photonic nanostructures mimicking floral epidermis for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hobeom Kim

Here, we report photonic nanostructures replicated from the adaxial epidermis of flower petals onto light-polymerized coatings using low-cost nanoimprint lithography at ambient temperature. These multifunctional nanocoatings are applied to confer enhanced ...

ELSEVIER2022

Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen dagger

Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

The production of hydrogen fuels, via water splitting, is of practical relevance for meeting global energy needs and mitigating the environmental consequences of fossil-fuel-based transportation. Water photoelectrolysis has been proposed as a viable approa ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

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

Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory - Activity Report 2018

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

EPFL2019

Optimal Control of Part Load Vortex Rope in Francis Turbines

François Avellan, François Gallaire, Simon Pasche

The mitigation of the precessing vortex core developing in the draft tube of Francis turbines operating under part load conditions is crucial to increase the operation flexibility of these hydraulic machines to balance the massive power production of inter ...

ASME2019

Methodology for efficient use of thermal energy in the chemical and petrochemical industry

Elfie Marie Méchaussie

The current European energy regulation, aligned with the European Union energy strategy and targets for the next decade, requires large industrial companies to regularly assess their energy performance and implement energy efficiency improvement measures. ...

EPFL2018

Targeting Optimal Design and Operation of Solar Heated Industrial Processes: A MILP Formulation

François Maréchal, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Araz Ashouri

The intermittence of solar irradiation displays a great challenge for industrial applications, which often require a constant heat supply. Transient or dynamic simulation software, such as TRNSYS and EnergyPlus, enable modeling of such systems and the resp ...

Elsevier2016

Self-assembled photosystem-I biophotovoltaics on nanostructured TiO2 and ZnO

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The abundant pigment-protein membrane complex photosystem-I (PS-I) is at the heart of the Earth's energy cycle. It is the central molecule in the "Z-scheme'' of photosynthesis, converting sunlight into the chemical energy of life. Commandeering this intric ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

Toward Ultrafast Charging of Electric Vehicles

Alfred Rufer, Hans Björn Püttgen, Massimiliano Capezzali, Michail Vasiladiotis, Hardi Hõimoja, Stefano Grioni

The paper is devoted to the problems arising from the ultrafast (≤ 10 min) charging of an electric vehicle (EV). An ultrafast charging station (UFCS) must provide high power output with minimal influence on the electricity transmission system, which can on ...

2012