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Water Electrolysis Technologies: the Importance of New Cell Designs and Fundamental Modelling to Guide Industrial-scale Development

Large-scale, sustainable, low-cost production of hydrogen can reduce the negative effects of climate change by decarbonising energy infrastructure. Low-carbon hydrogen can be synthesised via water electrolysis. Today, however, this only constitutes a minor ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Renewable methyl acetate production from dimethyl ether carbonylation in a fluidized bed reactor

Zezhong Li

The carbonylation of bio-based dimethyl ether (DME) using ferrierite offers a renewable approach to methyl acetate (MA) production with a potential reduction in carbon emissions. This work showcases the feasibility of employing fluidized-bed reactors in th ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

A holistic platform for accelerating sorbent-based carbon capture

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Elias Moubarak, Joren Jozef M. Van Herck

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions urgently requires the large-scale deployment of carbon-capture technologies. These technologies must separate CO2 from various sources and deliver it to different sinks1,2. The quest for optimal solutions for specifi ...

2024

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Numa Joy Bertola, Célia Marine Küpfer

As floors typically account for the largest share of a building embodied carbon footprint, new strategies to build low-carbon floors must be developed and implemented. Among these strategies, the reuse of existing components is a promising circular approac ...

Novus Press2023

Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

Solar control strategies are essential for the glare control and decreasing cooling needs or overheating risks (in the absence of active cooling system), however, they come with their own embodied energy. With the carbon neutrality objective looking at the ...

2021

Environmental preferences of occupants: A multi-domain approach in the Swiss open office case study

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Dolaana Khovalyg, Dusan Licina, Caroline Karmann, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee

Defining indoor environmental conditions that meet the needs and preferences of occupants in open space offices can be challenging since the same space might be occupied by people with different individual needs and preferences regarding what constitutes a ...

IOP Science2021

Technologies for development: From innovation to social impact

Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its ...

Springer International Publishing2018

Strategic energy planning under uncertainty

Stefano Moret

Various countries and communities are defining or rethinking their energy strategy driven by concerns for climate change and security of energy supply. Energy models, often based on optimization, can support this decision-making process. In the current ene ...

EPFL2017

Influence of surface shapes on the mechanical behaviour of friction welded wood bonds

Yves Weinand, Bernhard Stamm, Benjamin Hahn

Friction welding of wood is a fast and adhesive-free bonding technology for the production of timber joints with good mechanical characteristics making this type of connection interesting for applications in timber construction. However, the moisture stabi ...

Springer2015

Multi-objective design and optimization of district energy systems including polygeneration energy conversion technologies

Céline Weber

In the present context of finding ways to decrease CO2 emissions linked with human activity, district energy systems including polygeneration energy conversion technologies are likely to play a major role. District energy systems meet the heating, hot wate ...

EPFL2008