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Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Victoria Xu Hong He, Michele Gaffuri

The aggravation of climate change calls for the timely development and implementation of highly efficient, renewable, zero- or negative-emission energy solutions with high technological readiness and feasibility levels. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) consti ...

2023

Innovative Renewable Technology Integration for Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings within the Re-COGNITION Project

Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani

With the 2010/31/EU directive, all new buildings shall be nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB) from 2020 onward, with the aim of strongly reducing the energy consumption related to the building sector. To achieve this goal, it is not sufficient to focus on ...

MDPI2021

An Experimental Study of Gas Lubricated Foil Journal Bearings Using an Instrumented Rotor with Wireless Telemetry

Karim Magdi Zakaria Abdelrahman Shalash

In order to increase their efficiency and power-density, turbomachines are continuously pushed to run faster, and hotter rotors. These requirements create enormous engineering challenges that affect the design of turbomachines down to the component level. ...

EPFL2019

A Cogeneration System Based on Solid Oxide and Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells With Hybrid Storage for Off-Grid Applications

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Francesco Baldi, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) have developed to a mature technology, able to achieve electrical efficiencies beyond 60%. This makes them particularly suitable for off-grid applications, where SOFCs can supply both electricity and heat at high efficiency. C ...

2019

Thermoeconomic modeling for CO2 allocation in steam and gas turbine cogeneration systems

Thermoeconomics is a discipline that connects Thermodynamics and Economics concepts, usually used for rational cost assessment partition to the final products of a thermal plant, by means of a model that describes the cost formation process of the overall ...

2016

Design optimization of electrical hubs using hybrid evolutionary algorithm

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Integration of non-dispatchable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar into the grid is challenging due to the stochastic nature of energy sources. Hence, electrical hubs (EH) and virtual power plants that combine non-dispatchable energy sources, ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Design & Optimisation of an Innovative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell – Gas Turbine Hybrid Cycle for Small Scale Distributed Generation

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Emanuele Facchinetti

An attractive way toward a more rational conversion of fuel and biofuel is the decentralized power generation and cogeneration. The fuel cell-gas turbine hybrid cycles are emerging as the most promising candidates to achieve in decentralized generation com ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Design and Optimization of an Innovative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Gas Turbine Hybrid Cycle for Small Scale Distributed Generation

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Emanuele Facchinetti

Distributed power generation and cogeneration is an attractive way toward a more rational conversion of fuel and biofuel. The fuel cell-gas turbine hybrid cycles are emerging as the most promising candidates to achieve distributed generation with comparabl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

THERMOECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND OPTIMISATION OF AIR-BASED BOTTOMING CYCLES FOR WATER-FREE HYBRID SOLAR GAS-TURBINE POWER PLANTS

Raphaël Michel Adrien Marie Sandoz

Among the plethora of alternatives available, concentrated solar power (CSP) appears as one of the most favourable options. The stability and dispatchability of production achievable by the integration of storage and fuel-solar hybridisation are amidst the ...

2012

Feasibility analysis of a micro gas turbine for hybrid cycle

Angel Iglesias

Ce document présente la réalisation et les essais d’un générateur de gaz chauds offrant la possibilité de simuler les conditions de sorties d’une pile à combustible SOFC plane. Le document fait également part du design d’un banc d’essais visant à utiliser ...

2010

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