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François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Martin Gassner, Suping Zhang

Models for hydrolysis, fermentation and concentration process, production and utilization of biogas as well as lignin gasification are developed to calculate the heat demand of ethanol production process and the amounts of heat and power generated from res ...

2009

Process modeling and integration of fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass based on double acid hydrolysis

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Martin Gassner, Zoé Périn-Levasseur, Suping Zhang

Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as one of the most promising feedstocks for producing fuel ethanol because of its global availability and environmental benefits of its use. In this paper, the process of lignocellulosic ethanol production was investig ...

2009

A quasi-Delphi study on technological barriers to the uptake of hydrogen as a fuel for transport applications : production, storage and fuel cell drivetrain considerations

François Richard Vuille

The introduction of hydrogen in transport, particularly using fuel cell vehicles, faces a number of technical and non-technical hurdles. However, their relative importance is unclear, as are the levels of concern accorded them within the expert community c ...

Elsevier2009

The generation 4 project "GFR fuel and other core materials"

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon

The GFR (Gas cooled Fast Reactor) combines the advantages of a fast neutron spectrum with those of high temperatures. Given the high core outlet temperatures exceeding 800 C, it is clear that conventional metallic core structures and fuel cladding will be ...

Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)2009

Localizing an Odor Source and Avoiding Obstacles: Experiments in a Wind Tunnel using Real Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Thomas Lochmatter, Nicolas Heiniger

We report on real-robot odor source localization experiments carried out in an environment with obstacles in the odor plume. The robot was equipped with an ethanol sensor and a wind direction sensor, and the experiments were carried out in a wind tunnel, i ...

2009

EQL3D: ERANOS based equilibrium fuel cycle procedure for fast reactors

Konstantin Mikityuk, Jiri Krepel

The advanced fast reactors of the fourth generation should be capable to breed their own fuel from poorly fissile 238U and to recycle the actinides from their own spent fuel. However, this recycling or actually the closure of fuel cycle has negative impact ...

Elsevier2009

Desensitised fuel cell system

Ravindranathan Thampi

The present invention relates to a system using and/or processing fuel, wherein a catalytically active element is desensitised to impurities present in the fuel. The inventors thus surprisingly found that a fuel processing system, which may be a fuel cell ...

2009

Electric Drive System for Automatic Guided Vehicles Using Contact-free Energy Transmission

Marcel Jufer

Four technologies, combining mainly innovative solutions, offer the possibility of clean and flexible vehicles, all using only electricity. The main common components are contact-free energy transmission, storage on super-capacitors, holonome axles integra ...

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Electric Drive System for Automatic Guided Vehicles Using Contact-free Energy Transmission

Marcel Jufer

2008

Nondestructive determination of fresh and spent nuclear fuel rod density distributions through computerised gamma-ray transmission tomography

Rakesh Chawla, Stefano Caruso, Fabian Jatuff

The morphology of single PWR UO2 fuel rods has been investigated by employing computerised gamma-ray transmission tomography. Four highly burnt fuel rods of different burnups (from 52 GWd/t to 126GWd/t) and a fresh rod have been investigated. This paper de ...

Atomic Energy Society of Japan2008

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