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CEBRA is a machine-learning method that can be used to compress time series in a way that reveals otherwise hidden structures in the variability of the data. It excels at processing behavioural and neural data recorded simultaneously, and it can decode act ...

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A High Efficiency Pneumatic Drive System Using Vane-Type Semi-Rotary Actuators

Alfred Rufer

A compressed air driven generator is proposed, where the pneumatic energy is converted into mechanical energy using two vane-type rotational actuators. The use of a second actuator with a higher displacement in order to produce a thermodynamic expansion al ...

UNIV NIS2021

Combined Shear-Flexural Verification Of In Plane Loaded Reinforced And Unreinforced Masonry Walls

Lorenzo Benedetti

The safety verification of in-plane loaded masonry panels requires the evaluation of at least three different collapse conditions connected with overturning, shear sliding, and shear - compression failure at the panels' toe. In reinforced panels, the resis ...

INT CENTER NUMERICAL METHODS ENGINEERING2021

Pneumatic supply system parameter optimization for soft actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Soft actuators using pressurized air are being widely used due to their inherent compliance, conformability and customizability. These actuators are powered and controlled by pneumatic supply systems (PSSs) consisting of components such as compressors, val ...

2020

Reversible solid oxide systems for energy and chemical applications – Review & perspectives

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Ligang Wang, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes

This paper presents a mini-review in the field of energy storage using reversible solid oxide cells (rSOCs) for development of energy storage systems for the future. Such energy storage systems fall under the category of power-to-X-to power systems where e ...

2019

Interaction of a rotating two-phase flow with the pressure and torque stability of a reversible pump-turbine operating in condenser mode.

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Pierre Leroy

The operation of a reversible pump-turbine in condenser mode requires to dewater the impeller by closing the guide vanes and injecting compressed air in the draft tube cone to reduce the friction torque on the impeller blades. A water discharge is injected ...

2018

Testing and modelling of a novel oil-free co-rotating scroll machine with water injection

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

Efficient compressed air energy storage requires reversible isothermal compression and expansion devices. The isothermal compression and expansion processes can either be approached by several stages with intercooling or by the more convenient injection of ...

Elsevier2017

Multi-objective optimization and exergoeconomic analysis of a combined cooling, heating and power based compressed air energy storage system

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Erren Yao

Compressed air energy storage technologies can improve the supply capacity and stability of the electric- ity grid, particularly when fluctuating renewable energies are massively connected. While incorporating the combined cooling, heating and power system ...

2017

Gasoline hybrid pneumatic engine for efficient vehicle powertrain hybridization

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The largest applied convertors in passenger cars are the internal combustion engines – gasoline, diesel, adapted also for operating on alternative fuels and hybrid modes. The number of components that are necessary to realize modern future propulsion syste ...

Elsevier2015

Environomic design of vehicle integrated energy systems

Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

To meet the targets of sustainable development and greenhouse emission reduction of the future vehicles fleet, the automotive industry needs to deploy cost-competitive and efficient advanced energy conversion systems for the future commercial personal vehi ...

EPFL2015

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