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Modeling and optimization of PCB coils for inductive power transfer systems

The auxiliary power supply for medium voltage converters requires high insulation capability between the source and the load. Inductive power transfer technology, with an air gap between the primary and secondary coil, offers such high insulation capabilit ...

EPFL2024

Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential

Dusan Licina, Evangelos Belias

Residential ventilative cooling via natural ventilation is influenced by outdoor air pollution. However, relative to climate, outdoor air pollution is not comprehensively considered in determining the ventilative cooling potential of buildings. To assess t ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Efficacy of temporal and spatial abstraction for training accurate machine learning models: A case study in smart thermostats

Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Omid Ardakanian

Smart thermostats are increasingly popular in homes and buildings as they improve occupant comfort, lower energy use in heating and cooling systems, and reduce utility bills by automatically adjusting room temperature according to measurements of their bui ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Impact of the ventilated air-space behind traditional (passive) and BIPV (active) façades on the thermo-hydrodynamic performance of the building wall structures

Mohammad Rahiminejad

For many decades, ventilated cavities in wall assemblies of buildings have been essential for creating moisture-resilient constructions by allowing airflow within the air gap to promote drying. In addition to that, the airflow in the cavity can contribute ...

EPFL2022

Systematic Method for the Energy-Saving Potential Calculation of Air Conditioning Systems via Data Mining. Part II: A Detailed Case Study

Shen Yang, Xianlin Wang

Increased data monitoring enables the energy-efficient operation of air-conditioning systems via data-mining. The latter is projected to have lesser consumption but more comprehensive diagnosis than traditional methods. Following the companion paper that p ...

MDPI2021

Towards multifunctional building elements: thermal activation of a composite interior GFRP slab

Thomas Keller, Dolaana Khovalyg, Madeline Pugin

Modular multifunctional building elements can overcome major disadvantages of the traditional sequential design and become prospective design solutions for sustainable construction. Thus, this work explores lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) ...

IOP Science2021

Dynamic Thermal Management with Proactive Fan Speed Control Through Reinforcement Learning

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Federico Terraneo, Gabor Andras Csordas

Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) has become a major challenge since it directly affects Multiprocessors Systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) performance, power consumption, and reliability. In this work, we propose a transient fan model, enabling adaptive fan speed co ...

IEEE2020

Experimental Characterization of Different Condenser Technologies in a Passive Two-Phase Cooling System for Thermal Management of Electronics

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Chiara Falsetti

Passive two-phase, micro-channel cooling for thermal management of electronics represents an efficient and viable solution to augment conventional air-cooling systems with the potential for higher power dissipation densities, increased reliability, reduced ...

IEEE2019

High temperature heat pump using HFO and HCFO refrigerants – system design and experimental results

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

High temperature heat pumps (HTHP) with heat sink temperatures of 100 to 160 °C will increasingly become commercialized in the coming years, especially for industrial drying, sterilization and evaporation processes. In particular, the HFO R1336mzz(Z) and t ...

2019

Identification of optimal operating strategy of direct air-cooling condenser for Rankine cycle based power plants

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Xiang Li

Direct air-cooling condenser has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to the employment of Rankine-cycle based power plants from renewable (e.g., concentrated solar) or traditional (e.g., coal) heat sources in water-scarce areas. The opti ...

2018

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