Publications associées à Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory - Activity Report 2018

Publications associées (9)

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

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

Decision analysis related to solar farm investments based on analysis hierarchical process and fuzzy AHP for sustainable energy production

Jérôme Chenal

Renewable solar energy is one of the most preferable clean energy sources with no environmental impacts. The Marrakech Safi region (Moroccan context), with its arid and semi-arid climate, can ensure sustainable energy production-oriented for a green econom ...

WILEY2022

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

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

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Dynamics and mechanisms of interfacial photoinduced electron transfer processes of third generation photovoltaics and photocatalysis

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Christophe Bauer, Joël Teuscher, Arianna Marchioro, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski, Elham Ghadiri, Jelissa Risse, Angela Punzi

Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) across molecular/bulk interfaces has gained attention only recently and is still poorly understood. These interfaces offer an excellent case study, pertinent to a variety of photovoltaic systems, photo- and electrochemi ...

2011

Architectural integration of solar thermal systems

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

The amount of solar energy reaching the Earth in one hour equals the total amount of primary energy used in the world during one year. Thanks to the different solar technologies presently available, most energy needs of buildings can today be covered by so ...

2010

Decoupling Feature Size and Functionality in Solution-Processed, Porous Hematite Electrodes for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet

We introduce a simple solution-based strategy to decouple morphological and functional effects of annealing nanostructured, porous electrodes by encapsulation with a SiO2 confinement scaffold before high temperature treatment We demonstrate the effectivene ...

American Chemical Society2010