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On the Economic Uncertainty and Crisis Resiliency of Decarbonization Solutions for the Aluminium Industry

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Dareen Zuhir Omar Dardor, Antoine François L Marchal

The aluminium industry emits approximately 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2-eq annually, contributing about 2% of global industrial emissions. Decarbonization pathways aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, but this requires making decisions today for technol ...

PSE Press2025

Decarbonising the glass industry: A comprehensive techno-economic assessment of low-emission pathways

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The glass industry faces critical decarbonisation challenges due to high energy demand and reliance on fossil fuels. This study presents a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of diverse decarbonisation pathways for flat glass production, including elect ...

Elsevier BV2025

Meteorological Assessment of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Energy Microgeneration Potentials Across Two Swiss Cities Located in Complex Terrain

Gabriele Manoli, Aldo Brandi

Wind energy is the most mature renewable energy technology; however, its exploitation in cities is often met with skepticism. Thanks to their ability to operate at low wind speed regardless of direction, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) offer an attract ...

Wiley2025

Spaces of Interface: Proximity in the Diffusion of Energy Innovations

Gloria Serra Coch

Context. Technical and social innovations are central to the transition to renewable energy systems. Despite the availability of innovative technologies for renewable energy production, management, and e-mobility, their widespread societal adoption remains ...

EPFL2025

Initiating social tipping dynamics in energy transitions: A novel analytical approach for exploring feedback loops and intervention points

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Mert Duygan, Jaïr Kees Evert Karel Campfens

Social tipping dynamics illustrate how minor interventions can catalyse non-linear changes in energy transitions. Despite their importance, the feedback loops driving these dynamics are often analysed in isolation and predominantly qualitatively. This stud ...

2025

Sustainable One-Pot Production and Scale-Up of the New Platform Chemical Diformylxylose (DFX) from Agricultural Biomass

François Maréchal, Jeremy Luterbacher, Marie Jane Francine Jones

The large-scale production of platform chemicals from biomass requires efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable methods. Here, we present three one-pot synthesis routes for producing diformylxylose (DFX), a sugar-based solvent and platform chemical, usin ...

2024

Research data supporting "High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes"

Michael Graetzel, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Dan Ren, Linfeng Pan, Lu Chen, Meng Xia, Wenzhe Niu

Included in the dataset are detailed information into the crystallography, morphology, electronic properties, (photo)electrochemical and carrier dynamics of both single-crystal Cu2O thin films and polycrystalline Cu2O with favored crystal orientations. Mul ...

Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository2024

Catalytic Biomass Transformation to Hydrocarbons under Supercritical Conditions over Nickel Supported on Schungite

Lioubov Kiwi

Liquid fuel production from biomass-derived molecules has received great attention due to the diminished fossil fuel reserves, growing energy demand, and the necessity of CO2 emission reduction. The deoxygenation of oils and fatty acids is a promising proc ...

MDPI2024

Enhanced Frequency Containment Reserve provision from battery hybridized hydropower plants: Theory and experimental validation

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Elena Vagnoni, Francesco Gerini, Martin Seydoux

This paper presents a solution to address wear and tear of Run-of-River (RoR) Hydropower Plants (HPPs) providing enhanced Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR). In this respect, the study proposes the integration of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) wit ...

Elsevier2024

Improving land-use efficiency of solar power in China and policy implications

Yuxin Yin

Improving the power output of solar photovoltaic (PV) farms is critical to maximize the potential of PV power and reduce extensive land use in the context of large-scale deployment of renewable energy. In this paper we developed an integrated solar power p ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2024

Extraction and Surfactant Properties of Glyoxylic Acid-Functionalized Lignin

Monique Bernardes Figueirêdo, Esther Amstad, Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella, Gaia De Angelis, Claire Laura Marion Charline Bourmaud

The amphiphilic chemical structure of native lignin, composed by a hydrophobic aromatic core and hydrophilic hydroxy groups, makes it a promising alternative for the development of bio-based surface-active compounds. However, the severe conditions traditio ...

2022

A smart battery free system for wireless condition monitoring using piezoelectric energy harvester

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

A machine failure is often characterized by a sudden increase in the vibration acceleration level. We propose a wireless and battery-free vibration sensor and a method for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of vibrating objects such as machine ...

IEEE2022

An occupant-centric control framework for balancing comfort, energy use and hygiene in hot water systems: A model-free reinforcement learning approach

François Maréchal, Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

Occupants' behavior is a major source of uncertainty for the optimal operation of building energy systems. The highly stochastic hot water use behavior of occupants has led to conservative operational strategies for hot water systems, that try to ensure oc ...

2022

Crack-Free Monolayer Graphene Interlayer for Improving Perovskite Crystallinity and Energy Level Alignment in Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Hiroyuki Kanda, Shiqi Huang, Yen-Cheng Liu

Inverted planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have intrigued great promise in negative hysteresis, simple fabrication process, and flexible substrate implementation, in which the shared hole transport materiel is NiOx. However, the low-temperature solution ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Do rebound effects matter for Switzerland? Assessing the effectiveness of industrial energy efficiency improvements

Philippe Thalmann, Vincent Moreau, Frank Vöhringer, Michel Zimmermann

In energy policy, efficiency improvements are conventional means for reducing industrial energy use as well as related environmental and climate externalities. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements in reducing energy use is kno ...

2021

Ti-1-graphene single-atom material for improved energy level alignment in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zaiwei Wang, Hongwei Zhu

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are widely accepted as stable, cost-effective photovoltaics. However, C-PSCs have been suffering from relatively low power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) due to severe electrode-related energy loss. Herein, we r ...

2021

Effects of Work Function and Electron Affinity on the Performance of Carrier-Selective Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells Using ZnSnx Ge-1 (-) N-x(2) as a Case Study

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Julien Hurni

This work reports the electrical characterization of ZnSnx Ge1 - xN2 (ZTGN) layers (10% < x < 90%) deposited on glass by combinatorial sputtering and further assesses the performance of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells featuring them as electron-se ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Thermodynamic stability screening of IR-photonic processed multication halide perovskite thin films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Brian Irving Carlsen, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Natalie Flores Diaz

We report a material screening study for phase transitions of multication hybrid halide perovskite films. Two hundred sixty-six films processed with flash infrared annealing were optically and structurally characterized. This data was compiled into a datab ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021