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Offshore oil and natural gas production is an energy-intensive activity and is responsible for the emission of significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The main emitting source is the simple-cycle gas turbines (SCGT) of the utility system ...
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Health effects of power plant emissions through ambient air quality

Christine Choirat

Coal burning power plants are a frequent target of regulatory programmes because of their emission of chemicals that are known precursors to the formation of ambient particulate air pollution. Health impact assessments of emissions from coal power plants t ...
2020

Triple-mode grid-balancing plants via biomass gasification and reversible solid-oxide cell stack: Concept and thermodynamic performance

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang, Tzu-En Lin, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Yumeng Zhang, Chengzhou Li

Biomass-to-electricity or -chemical via power-to-x can be potential flexibility means for future electrical grid with high penetration of variable renewable power. However, biomass-to-electricity will not be dispatched frequently and becomes less economica ...
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Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...
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Frequency stability assessment of modern power systems: Models definition and parameters identification

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One of the fundamental concerns in the operation of modern power systems is the assessment of their frequency stability in case of inertia-reduction induced by the large share of power electronic interfaced resources. Within this context, the paper propose ...
2020

Accelerated Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) For Energy Related Applications

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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of materials that consist of metal ions which are linked with organic ligands via coordination bonds to form extended networks. MOF structures consists predominantly of open voids which makes them among ...
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Progress in the Design of a Hybrid HTS-Nb3Sn-NbTi Central Solenoid for the EU DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Rainer Wesche

State-of-the-art high field solenoids make use of hybrid designs exploiting the superior high field performance of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) in the innermost region. The benefits of a hybrid Central Solenoid in a pulsed tokamak like the EU DEM ...
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Case study of rotor lifting in a pumped storage hydropower plant in Norway

Giovanni De Cesare, Daniel Kevin Pace

The Duge pumped storage power plant in Norway currently experiences a problem with rotor-lifting. One of the two vertical 100 MW units lifts up off its bearings when operated above a certain load. The vertical forces on the units have been known to be marg ...
2020

Analysis of the West African Power Pool (WAPP) and its development potential

First of all, it is necessary to specify that this study is an academic work carried out by a student. The hypothesis and the line of reasoning that aect the results obtained are proposed in the context of a master thesis. Electricity supply is a big chall ...
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Renewal of alpine hydroelectric plants according to the spatial and temporal scales of analysis

Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Vincent Gaertner

Since the adoption of the "Energy Strategy 2050" by the Federal Council in 2017, Switzerland has been looking for new energy alternatives to the nuclear sector and ways to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in particular by promoting the development of r ...
2019

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