Publications associées à AIDRES Final Report, Methodology and results for EU industrial production routes in 2030 and 2050 (D3.1), Supporting document to the EU industrial plants database

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Personalised environmental Control Systems (PECS) usage thresholds: a dynamic simulation approach to assess energy, cost, and emissions saving

Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS) have emerged as a solution to customise thermal conditions at individual workstations, potentially reducing overall energy consumption. However, their energy performance under diverse building operating con ...

2025

A review of participatory modelling techniques for energy transition scenarios

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Mert Duygan, Jaïr Kees Evert Karel Campfens

Energy transitions are pivotal for sustainability, yet their complexity and uncertainty pose significant challenges for effective planning and implementation. Participatory modelling has emerged as a promising approach to support these transitions, as it i ...

Elsevier BV2025

From Local Energy Communities towards National Energy System: A Grid-Aware Techno-Economic Analysis

Joseph René Hubert Loustau, François Maréchal, Cédric Terrier, Dorsan Alexis A. Lepour

Energy communities are key actors in the energy transition since they optimally interconnect renewable energy capacities with the consumers. Despite versatile objectives, they usually aim at improving the self-consumption of renewable electricity within lo ...

MDPI2024

network-based constraint to evaluate climate sensitivity

Athanasios Nenes, Lucile Anna Ricard

The 2015 Paris agreement was established to limit Greenhouse gas (GHG) global warming below 1.5°C above preindustrial era values. Knowledge of climate sensitivity to GHG levels is central for formulating effective climate policies, yet its exact value is s ...

Nature Research2024

Experiments and modeling of solid oxide co-electrolysis: Occurrence of CO2 electrolysis and safe operating conditions

François Maréchal

Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) has attracted considerable attention for its potential scalability and high energy conversion efficiency. It is capable of electrolyzing both H2O and CO2 simultaneously, generating syngas that can be further synthesized ...

2024

Strategic factors to design the next generation of molecular water oxidation catalysts: Lesson learned from ruthenium complexes

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Energy conversion through sustainable means is essential to counter global warming and an urgent solution through a multidisciplinary approach is required. The temperature change stems from the emission of greenhouse gases largely contributed by burning fo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Techno-economic comparison of 100% renewable urea production processes

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle

Urea is widely used in agriculture, industry, and food, while it is also a potential fuel. Large-scale urea production relies on fossil fuels, thus there is a strong need for green urea given the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources. A potent ...

2021

Drainage Canals in Southeast Asian Peatlands Increase Carbon Emissions

Mateusz Kozinski, Doruk Oner

Drainage canals associated with logging and agriculture dry out organic soils in tropical peatlands, thereby threatening the viability of long-term carbon stores due to increased emissions from decomposition, fire, and fluvial transport. In Southeast Asian ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2021

Rational Design of Photoelectrodes for the Fully Integrated Polymer Electrode Membrane-Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting System: A Case Study of Bismuth Vanadate

Hannah Elizabeth Johnson

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) reactors based on polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers are an attractive alternative to improve scalability compared to conventional monolithic devices. To introduce narrow band gap photoabsorbers such as BiVO4 in PEM ...

2021

Techno-economic assessment of postcombustion carbon capture using high-performance nanoporous single-layer graphene membranes

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Marina Micari

High-performance membranes have emerged as an energy-efficient alternative to absorption-based postcombustion carbon capture. So far, the techno-economic analyses have been centered around the polymeric membranes. Recently, nanoporous single-layer graphene ...

2021

Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach

Maher Kayal, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Demand Response (DR) is progressively moving from a centralized, unidirectional structure to a set of advanced decentralized mechanisms that better balance distributed supply and demand. This paper presents a decentralized cooperative DR framework to manag ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage

Sunny Isaïe Maye

An important part of the electricity production relies on heat conversion. Indeed power plants burn fuels like natural gas, coal or use nuclear fission to produce heat that can be transformed into electricity through a thermodynamic cycle and the mechanica ...

EPFL2020

Towards Win-Win Policies for Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Switzerland

Arnaud Dauriat, Suren Erkman

The first Swiss national dietary survey (MenuCH) was used to screen disease burdens and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of Swiss diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, slimming), with a focus on gender and education level. The Health Nutritional Index (HENI ...

MDPI2020

The role of storage in the Swiss energy transition

François Maréchal, Stefano Moret, Xiang Li

The transition towards more sustainable, fossil-free energy systems is interlinked with a high penetration of stochastic renewables, such as wind and solar. In this context, energy storage technologies of different kinds - namely electrical, thermal and ch ...

2019

Improving self-consumption of on-site PV generation through deploying flexibility in building thermal mass

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Piotr De Silva

As PV is considered prospective for decarbonizing the building sector, the self-consumption of on-site PV generation, which is susceptible to the temporal mismatch between solar radiation and energy demand, greatly affects the overall performance of improv ...

IOP2019

Can timber lower the environmental impact of tall buildings?

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

The building sector is responsible for 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UNEP, 2009). Recent energy efficiency measures have helped reduce the operational carbon related to the use phase of the building, but a lack of industry attention ...

Taylor & Francis Group2019

The Vanishing Hand: Efficient Market Design for Future Power Systems

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Transition to low-carbon power systems is in progress, fuelled by policy-driven accelerated deployment of new renewable electricity generation technologies (wind and solar), smart electrification, prosumerisation and digitisation. Largely occurring against ...

2016

Integration of Solar Energy Technologies in Switzerland : From Building to Nanoscale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

The Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has been involved in research and technological development of solar energy for building applications since the middle of the seventies. Focusing first ...

2006