Publications associées à A systematic methodology for the synthesis of unit process chains using Life Cycle Assessment and Industrial Ecology Principles

Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment of Food and Energy Systems

To steer the sustainable transition in the food and energy sectors, reliable environmental data is required to answer environmental questions related to single agricultural crop, food product or energy technologies. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been wid ...

EPFL2022

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

Design Ontology Supporting Model-Based Systems Engineering Formalisms

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng, Han Li

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) provides an important capability for managing the complexities of system development. MBSE empowers the formalism of system architectures for supporting model-based requirement elicitation, specification, design, deve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: a case study

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

The building industry is responsible for 35% of all solid waste in Europe and more than a third of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To address this, applying circular economy principles to the building sector is crucial, for example by reusing building elem ...

2020

Upcycling of printed plastic films: LCA analysis and effects on the circular economy

Dimitrios Kyritsis

In this work, the environmental impacts caused by an innovative upcycling process of printed plastic scrap have been assessed through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology for the first time. The process consists of removing the inks from the plastic surfa ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase

Alexis Laurent, Xun Liao

Life cycle interpretation is the fourth and last phase of life cycle assessment (LCA). Being a "pivot" phase linking all other phases and the conclusions and recommendations from an LCA study, it represents a challenging task for practitioners, who miss ha ...

WILEY2020

Assessing the gap between a normative and a reality-based model of building LCA

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

Recognized as a powerful methodology for the evaluation of environmental burdens, life cycle assessment (LCA) must be performed with close-to-reality inputs to be robust and accurate. However, the necessary real-world data is hardly available at the design ...

2020

Life Cycle Analysis of Strengthening Existing RC Structures with R-PE-UHPFRC

Emmanuel Denarié, Amir Hajiesmaeili, Guillaume Habert

(PE)-UHPFRC, a novel strain hardening ultra high-performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) with low clinker content, using Ultra-High MolecularWeight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) fibers, was developed for structural applications of rehabilitation. A compreh ...

2019

Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach

Marilyne Andersen, Émilie Nault, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Katarina Slavkovic

While ambitious environmental objectives are being set for new constructions in Switzerland, the assessment of urban-scale projects and comparison of their performance to national targets are made possible by a growing number of life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...

IOP Publishing2019

Long-term performance and life cycle assessment of energy piles in three different climatic conditions

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Melis Sütman, Gianluca Speranza

The main purpose behind the use of energy piles is to enable the exploitation of geothermal energy for meeting the heating/cooling demands of buildings in an efficient and environment-friendly manner. However, the long-term performance of energy piles in d ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Comparative exergy and economic assessment of fossil and biomass-based routes for ammonia production

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The use of biomass gasification for partially or totally replacing methane in the integrated syngas and ammonia production plant is compared with the performance of the conventional route, typically based on steam methane reforming. However, by undertaking ...

Elsevier2019

Setting contextual life-cycle objectives in urban design: requirements for a decision-support method

Marilyne Andersen, Émilie Nault, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

A variety of building labels and norms exist that set evermore-ambitious environmental and energy performance targets. In parallel, a growing number of building performance evaluation tools are adopting the life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to allow ...

2018

An integrative approach for embodied energy: Towards an LCA-based data-driven design method

Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The built environment is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To tackle climate change, global targets have been set for this sector. Although life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods are typically used to evaluate a building project ...

2018

Methodologies for simultaneous optimization of heat, mass, and power in industrial processes

Maziar Kermani

Efficient consumption of energy and material resources, including water, is the primary focus for process industries to reduce their environmental impact. The Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21) highlighted the prominent role of industrial energy effici ...

EPFL2018

Findings from a survey on the current use of life-cycle assessment in building design

Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The built environment is facing environmental regulations more ambitious than ever before. In Europe, a law will lead all new buildings to the Nearly Zero-Energy performance level. However, even if a building does not have any energy consumption for its op ...

PLEA2018

Systems engineering perspective to the integration of the heating and current drive system in the EU DEMO: Analysis of requirements and functions

Ashley Richards Brown

In the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, the Work Package Heating and Current Drive (WPHCD) is undertaking the development and design of the DEMO Heating and Current Drive (HCD) system, supported by the Work Package Plant Level Systems Engineering, D ...

2018

Process-oriented Life Cycle Assessment framework for environmentally conscious manufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud

Environmental concern requires manufacturers to extend the domain of their control and responsibility across the product's life cycle. Much of the research has concentrated on assessment of environmental performance through the application of the Life Cycl ...

Springer2017

Virtual Prototyping Methodology for Power Automation Cyber-Physical-Systems

Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan

In this thesis, the author proposes a circular system development model which considers all the stages in a typical development process for industrial systems. In particular, the present work shows that the use of virtual prototyping at early stages of the ...

EPFL2017

On the necessity of improving the environmental impacts of furniture and appliances in net-zero energy buildings

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

There is now clear evidence regarding the extensive use of furniture and appliances in daily human life, but there is less evidence of their impact on the environment. Responding to this gap in knowledge, this study focuses on an assessment of the environm ...

Elsevier2017