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Thermodynamic analysis of a tri-generation system using SOFC and HDH desalination unit

The lack of freshwater in many countries pushes authorities to utilize desalination units. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) have shown promising results to provide the power to establish a multi-generation system using hydrogen as a renewable source. In this ...

2021

Electric vehicle charging station using fuel cell technology: Two different scenarios and thermodynamic analysis

Jan Van Herle, Martin Daniel Gay, Hossein Pourrahmani

This study evaluates two different scenarios of an integrated system to generate electricity for a charging station using proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). To improve the efficiency, the exhaust heat of these two ...

ELSEVIER2021

Multi-criteria optimization of a renewable hydrogen and freshwater production system using HDH desalination unit and thermoelectric generator

Hossein Pourrahmani

This article presents the exergoeconomic evaluation of a new geothermal-based integrated system, which produces hydrogen and freshwater. The proton exchange membrane electrolyzer (PEME) and humidifier-dehumidifier (HDH) units are responsible for hydrogen a ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Exergoeconomic optimization of a solar driven system with reverse osmosis desalination unit and phase change material thermal energy storages

Hossein Pourrahmani

The goal of the current article is to suggest a novel solar system to produce power, fresh water, and cooling. As solar energy is unavailable at nights, a novel thermal storage system (TES) based on phase change material (PCM) is used to store the required ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

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

Integration of Organic Rankine Cycles for Waste Heat Recovery in Industrial Processes

Matthias Bendig

Developing a methodology that allows identifying maximumelectricity production with the help of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) from the waste heat of an industrial process, at the lowest specific cost, without jeopardising the increase of the industrial proc ...

EPFL2015

Thermo-Economic Modelling and Process Integration of CO2-Mitigation Options on Oil and Gas Platforms

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Laurence Tock

The offshore extraction of oil and gas is an energy-intensive process associated with large CO2 and CH4 emissions to the atmosphere and chemicals to the sea. The taxation of these emissions has encouraged the development of more energy-efficient and enviro ...

Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC2014

Renewable energy sources and energy efficiency for building's greening: From traditional village houses via high-rise residential building's BPS and RES powered co- and tri-generation towards net ZEBuildings and Cities, 2011 IEEE 3rd International Symposium on Exploitation of Renewable Energy Sources (EXPRES)

Dusan Licina

As an introduction to the current approaches to building's greening and sustainability this paper outlines the intrinsic harmony of the traditional village houses encompassing efficiency and balanced use of renewable materials and energy sources. Further p ...

2011

Phase change behavior of ammonia-water mixtures in corrugated plate heat exchangers

Thomas Wicht

The present report describes the work realized in the frame of a Mas- ter Pro ject in collaboration between the company EnBW Energie Baden- Württemberg AG (Germany) and the Section of Mechanical Engineering of the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne ...

2011

Defining Optimal Configurations of Geothermal Systems Using Process Design and Process Integration Techniques

François Maréchal, Léda Gerber

The use of geothermal resources for the polygeneration of energy services has recently gained interest and is expected to know an important development in the future. Major research questions concern the increase of the efficiency in the usage of geotherma ...

Aidic Servizi Srl, Via Giuseppe Colombo 81/A, Milano, Mi 20133, Italy2011

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