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Role of process integration and green technologies utilization for the decarbonization of the watchmaking sector

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Pullah Bhatnagar, Vibhu Baibhav

Decarbonizing the watch industry and improving its sustainability requires enhancing the energy efficiency, intensifying the waste heat recovery and integrating renewable energy resources to significantly reduce the energy consumption and reduce the overal ...

PSE Press2025

Effects of CO2 and H2 limitations on Methanococcus maripaludis

Jie Xue, Wenyu Gu

Hydrogenotrophic methanogens play a key role in anaerobic ecosystems by catalyzing the bioconversion of hydrogen (H 2 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into methane (CH 4 ) and water. This metabolic process is the basis of biological power-to-methane (PtM) tech ...

American Society for Microbiology2025

The thermodynamic and life-cycle assessments of a novel charging station for electric vehicles in dynamic and steady-state conditions

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The current study performs the thermodynamic and life-cycle assessments (LCA) of a novel charging station in two system designs. The goal is to design an efficient charging station for electric vehicles with high efficiencies and low environmental impacts ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Individual and combined benefits of different nonequilibrium proofreading mechanisms

Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Stefano Zamuner, Adélaïde Alice Mohr

Genome duplication, transcription, and translation are among many crucial cellular processes that need to be performed with high fidelity. However, those extremely low error rates cannot be explained with simple equilibrium thermodynamic considerations. Th ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

A 1-GS/s 6-8-b Cryo-CMOS SAR ADC for Quantum Computing

Edoardo Charbon

This article presents a two-times interleaved, loop-unrolled SAR analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operational from 300 down to 4.2 K. The 6-8-bit resolution and the sampling speed up to 1 GS/s are targeted at digitizing the multi-channel frequency-multipl ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Enabling renewable Europe through optimal design and operation

Alessio Santecchia

Europe is currently transitioning from fossil energy sources to renewable generation of electric power. Although fundamental to reach net-zero targets, intermittent renewables are disrupting conventional methods used in operational planning and design of p ...

EPFL2022

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

Decreasing the Stability of Borohydride with Ionic Liquids for Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Conversion

Loris Giovanni Lombardo

The world needs to move from a fossil fuel to a renewable energy based society. With the increasing electricity production from wind and PV, short and long term energy storage are becoming one of challenge of the 21st century. While batteries are the prefe ...

EPFL2021

The challenges of studying change in carbon-intensive urban consumption practices: Exploring the dynamics of practice change and of normative considerations in knowledge production

Franziska Meinherz

Problem. To reach international greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, the carbon intensity of urban resource and energy consumption must be reduced. Technological innovation alone is not sufficient: The practices that constitute urban household demand for ...

EPFL2021

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Jonas Warmuth

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

Low-temperature carbon-based electrodes in perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jaekeun Lim

Carbon-based electrodes have been widely applied in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) because of their chemical inertness and compatibility with up-scalable techniques, signifying their solid potential for mass-production. The material scarcity and complexity ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Stream Temperature Evolution in Switzerland: Recent past and future

Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Nander Wever, Tristan Jonas Brauchli, Adrien Michel

Climate change has already affected many components of our natural environment which are well described in the literature. Water temperature has received less interest despite the fact that it is recognized as key variable for assessing water quality of fr ...

2020

Modifier Adaptation as a Feedback Control Scheme

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

As a real-time optimization technique, modifier adaptation (MA) has gained much significance in recent years. This is mainly due to the fact that MA can deal explicitly with structural plant-model mismatch and unknown disturbances. MA is an iterative techn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020