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ROSMOSE: A Web-based Optimization Tool to Aid Decision-making for the Design and Operation of Industrial and Urban Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Cédric Terrier, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Michel Lopez, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

Energy efficiency is crucial for the sustainable operation of all industrial and urban sectors. However, practicing engineers have seldom access to open-source tools that can readily evaluate and compare scenarios in terms of energy consumption, cost, and ...

2023

Atlas Narratives of Anthropogenic Transformations across the Vietnamese Mekong Delta's Urban-Rural Territories: Water Ecosystems as Subject for the Social Ecological Transition

Sylvie Tram Nguyen

Well beyond the impact of climate change, anthropogenic modifications of the Vietnam Mekong Delta's ecosystems have resulted in environmental degradation and subsequent loss in ecosystems. The environmental impacts include but are not limited to accelerate ...

EPFL2023

Containergy-A Container-Based Energy and Performance Profiling Tool for Next Generation Workloads

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Wellington Silva De Souza

Run-time profiling of software applications is key to energy efficiency. Even the most optimized hardware combined to an optimally designed software may become inefficient if operated poorly. Moreover, the diversification of modern computing platforms and ...

2020

A Holistic Methodology for Optimizing Industrial Resource Efficiency

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher

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 ...

2019

Fifth generation district energy systems for low carbon cities

Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The focus and challenge for energy engineering in the context of rapid climate change is summarised by the Europe 20-20-20 targets, committing to a reduction in energy consumption of 20%. The most logical approach to achieve these goals is to target the mo ...

EPFL2019

An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning

François Maréchal, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Ivan Daniel Kantor

The industrial sector has a large presence in world energy consumption and CO2 emissions, which has made it one of the focal points for energy and resource efficiency studies. However, large investments are required to retrofit existing industrial plants, ...

2019

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

Robust multi-objective optimization of solid oxide fuel cell–gas turbine hybrid cycle and uncertainty analysis

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

Chemical process optimization problems often have multiple and conflicting objectives, such as capital cost, operating cost, production cost, profit, energy consumptions and environmental impacts. In such cases, Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is suitab ...

2018

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

Techno-Economic and Environmental Optimization of Palm-based Biorefineries in the Brazilian Context, 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Due to the global increase in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and the depletion of fossil energy resources, the research presented here is focused on finding economically and environmentally competitive renewable energy resources. Fuel produc ...

Elsevier Science2017

Consommations énergétiques et cadres de vie : analyses en termes de modes de vie

Lorris Tabbone

The detailed analysis of energy consumption requires a global approach to behaviour and individual action registers. This makes it possible to investigate the question between the different spheres of activity of people, from housing to habitat and from ha ...

EPFL2017

Techno–economic design of hybrid electric vehicles and possibilities of the multi-objective optimization structure

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The design criteria for modern sustainable development of vehicle powertrain are the high energy efficiency of the conversion system, the competitive cost and the lowest possible environmental impacts. In this article a multi-objective optimization methodo ...

2016

Multi-objective Optimization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell–Gas Turbine Hybrid Cycle and Uncertainty Analysis

François Maréchal, Emanuela Peduzzi, Ayse Dilan Celebi, Shivom Sharma

Chemical process optimization problems often have multiple and conflicting objectives, such as capital cost, operating cost, production cost, profit, energy consumption and environmental impact. There are several conversion technologies that can convert Sy ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Combined water and energy integration in industrial processes with restricted connections

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Ivan Daniel Kantor

Reducing the environmental impact of industrial processes is highly linked with decreasing consumption of natural resources, energy, and water. In the context of climate change, as discussed during the Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21), the efficient ...

2016

Strategic energy planning for large-scale energy systems: A modelling framework to aid decision-making

Daniel Favrat, François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, Stefano Moret

Concerns related to climate change and security of energy supply are pushing various countries to make strategic energy planning decisions. This requires the development of energy models to aid decision- making. Large scale energy models are often very com ...

2015

A production planning in highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements

Paul Xirouchakis, Yong Chan Choi

This paper focuses on a production planning problem in a highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements. The system consists of several closely interconnected sub-systems such as the processing s ...

Springer London Ltd2014

MEU: An urban energy management tool for communities and multi-energy utilities

Gaëtan Cherix, François Maréchal, Massimiliano Capezzali, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager, Damien Rebeix

In order to facilitate urban energy management and energy planning, the project MEU developed a web based tool as a decision support system for decision makers. Using a web based approach minimizes the effort on the client site as no software needs to be i ...

2013

Le mur à haute performance thermique : évolution et perspectives de la façade porteuse en béton préfabriqué à Genève dès 1973

Thierry Voellinger

The scope of this research includes the development of composite concrete façade elements that are thin, loadbearing and of high thermal performance. The research applies to manufactured precast concrete elements and focuses on improving their structure in ...

EPFL2012

Decentralized Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles at intersections

Denis Gillet, Laleh Makarem

In this paper, the decentralized coordination of point-mass autonomous vehicles at intersections using navigation functions is considered. As main contribution, the inertia of the vehicles is taken into account to enable on-board energy optimization for cr ...

2011

Construction en pierre massive en Suisse

Stefano Zerbi

«For me, to build an air terminal with stone would be a stupidity, not to say a madness. But to use dynamic structures to fit three-roomed flats with kitchen in buildings from three to ten floors, is not less aberrant.»1 Provocation of a reactionary archit ...

EPFL2011