Publications associées à Liquid drug delivery micropump

Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Yi Sun, Yegor Piskarev, Matteo Righi

In minimally invasive surgery, such as cardiac ablation, magnetically steered catheters made of variable-stiffness materials can enable higher dexterity and higher force application to human tissue. However, the long transition time between soft and rigid ...

2024

Small-scale turbopumps for waste heat recovery applications based on an organic Rankine cycle: a study from pre-design to experimental validation

Sajjad Zakeralhoseini

The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is among the technologies applied to exploit waste heat in vehicles. Since common organic fluids have lower latent heat than water, higher mass flow rates are required to convert the same waste heat, considerably incr ...

EPFL2023

Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems

Herbert Shea, Vito Cacucciolo, Michael James Henry Smith

Incorporating pressurized fluidic circuits into textiles can enable muscular support, thermoregulation, and haptic feedback in a convenient wearable form factor. However, conventional rigid pumps, with their associated noise and vibration, are unsuitable f ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Interest in bioinspired peristaltic pumps has grown in popularity among the scientific community in the last decade thanks to their extreme flexibility and their intrinsic compliance. In this paper, we propose a soft peristaltic pump exploiting ballooning. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

InP/Si3N4 Hybrid External-Cavity Laser with sub-kHz Linewidth Acting as a Pump Source for Kerr Frequency Combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

We report on an InP/Si3N4 hybrid integrated ECL that relies on 3D-printed coupling elements such as intra-cavity photonic wire bonds and facet-attached microlenses. We demonstrate 90 nm tuning range, SMSR above 60 dB, and intrinsic linewidths of 979 Hz. We ...

IEEE2022

Non-evaporable getter pump operations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Frédéric Dolizy, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz

A non-evaporable getter pump using the ZAO alloy was installed on TCV and operated during the 2019 experimental campaign. The pump performance, determined from in-situ pumping speed measurements, indicates that current getter pump technologies are well sui ...

2021

CFD simulations of a Y-junction for the implementation of hydraulic short-circuit operating mode

François Avellan, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Daniel Biner

In the framework of the XFLEX HYDRO H2020 European Project, one of the demonstrators focuses on the implementation of the hydraulic short-circuit on the pump storage power plant of Grand-Maison owned by Electricite De France (EDF). The Grand-Maison power p ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Electrically-Driven Soft Fluidic Actuators Combining Stretchable Pumps With Thin McKibben Muscles

Herbert Shea, Vito Cacucciolo

Soft wearable robots could provide support for lower and upper limbs, increase weight lifting ability, decrease energy required for walking and running, and even provide haptic feedback. However, to date most of wearable robots are based on electromagnetic ...

2020

Vortex siphon - from 1:1 scale physical model to SPH simulation and prototype

Giovanni De Cesare

The rail link between Geneva Cornavin Station, Eaux-Vives Station and Annemasse (CEVA) is currently under construction including a cut-and-cover tunnel built by slurry walls located in the alluvium of the Foron River. The covered trench cuts the groundwate ...

2019

Oxygen diffusion through air–water free surfaces in a pump–turbine operating in condenser mode

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Pierre Leroy

The present research aims at understanding the mass transfer of air into water in a reversible pump turbine operating in condenser mode. In particular, the diffusion of oxygen through the water free-surface both in the vaneless gap between the impeller bla ...

2019

Potential and Challenges of ORC driven Heat Pumps Based on Gas Bearing Supported Turbomachinery

Violette Mounier

Electrically Driven Heat Pumps (EDHPs) have been identified as a key technology to reduce the energy consumption in the domestic space heating sector. However, since EDHPs require electrical power, they face issues related to network overload at peak-time, ...

EPFL2018

Probing cardiac metabolism by hyperpolarized 13C MR using an exclusively endogenous substrate mixture and photo-induced nonpersistent radicals

Arnaud Comment, Rolf Gruetter, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Andrea Capozzi, Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara

Purpose To probe the cardiac metabolism of carbohydrates and short chain fatty acids simultaneously in vivo following the injection of a hyperpolarized 13C-labeled substrate mixture prepared using photo-induced nonpersistent radicals. Methods Droplets of m ...

Wiley2018

Simulation of pump-turbine prototype fast mode transition for grid stability support

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Nicolas Ruchonnet, Antoine Béguin, Olivier Braun

The paper explores the additional services that Full Size Frequency Converter, FSFC, solution can provide for the case of an existing pumped storage power plant of 2x210 MW, for which conversion from fixed speed to variable speed is investigated with a foc ...

2017

Novel scanning method for distortion-free BOTDA measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

Systematic errors induced by distortions in the pump pulse of conventional Brillouin distributed fiber sensors are thoroughly investigated. Experimental results, supported by a theoretical analysis, demonstrate that the two probe sidebands in standard Bril ...

Optical Society of America2016

Numerical characterization of bump formation in the runaway electron tail

Joan Decker

Runaway electrons are generated in a magnetized plasma when the parallel electric field exceeds a critical value. For such electrons with energies typically reaching tens of MeV, the Abrahamâ Lorentzâ Dirac (ALD) radiation force, in reaction to the synch ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

85 W VECSEL output at 1270 nm with conversion efficiency of 59 %

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman

We report on 1270 nm vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) with up to 59% conversion efficiency and maximum output power of 8.5 W (pump limited), at 5 degrees C heat sink temperature. These VECSELs comprised wafer-fused gain mirrors in ...

Optical Society of America2015

Nonlinear plasmonics of metallic heptamers

Simon Rivier, Olivier Martin, Krishnan Thyagarajan

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) from centrosymmetric nanostructures originating from the breaking of inversion symmetry at their surfaces is a well-known phenomenon and is extensively used as a surface probe in nonlinear optical microscopy. In recent year ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2012

Prototype of a thermally driven heat pump based on integrated Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC)

Daniel Favrat, Jonathan Demierre, Samuel Henchoz

The concept studied in this work is a low power ORC-ORC heat pump system (providing about 20 kW heat at the condenser) and that is composed of an ORC power cycle driving a reversed ORC heat pump cycle, both cycles using the same fluid. The centrifugal comp ...

2012

Microfabricated All-Around-Electrode Ac Electroosmotic Pump With Simple Design And Increased Velocity Generation

Nico de Rooij, Luca Ribetto

AC electroosmosis is a convenient valveless method to pump liquids, whilst avoiding electrolysis and gas generation. Basic designs presented in the literature often have limited velocity or pressure capabilities. This paper reports a simple approach to the ...

IEEE2012

Continuous-wave four-wave mixing in cm-long Chalcogenide microstructured fiber

Camille Sophie Brès

We present the experimental demonstration of broadband four-wave mixing in a 2.5 cm-long segment of AsSe Chalcogenide microstructured fiber. The parametric mixing was driven by a continuous-wave pump compatible with data signal wavelength conversion. Four- ...

2011