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Decarbonizing the fertilizers sector: an alternative pathway for urea and nitric acid production
François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos
In order to alleviate the environmental impact that nitrogen fertilizers production is responsible for, several efforts have been addressed to incentivize the partial or total decarbonization of the supply chains of ammonia and its derivatives. The decarbo ...
2024Data Champions Lunch Talks - Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability
Miguel Peon Quiros, Francesco Varrato, Chiara Gabella, Manuel Simon Paul Cubero-Castan
For this edition of the DC Lunch Talks series, the discussion centered around Data-Driven Approaches to sustainability at EPFL, a topic of significant relevance in the contemporary academic landscape. The event featured a series of short talks by experts w ...
2024Optimal Design Operation Strategies of a Hyperloop Transportation System
In the last decades, transportation demand growth has played a major role in the increase of global CO2 footprint. At the same time, a number of countries have scheduled measurable and substantial cutback of CO2 emissions by 2050. As the transportation sec ...
EPFL2023Estimating Future Costs and Carbon Footprints of PEMEC and SOEC Manufacturing
The net-zero emission target necessitates a significantly expanded deployment of clean technologies compared to their current utilization. Precisely estimating the future potential of these technologies requires a thorough understanding of their cost and c ...
2023Comparative Exergy and Economic Assessment of Fossil and Biomass-Based Routes for Ammonia Production
François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego
Due to the increasing concerns about the marked dependence on fossil resources and their intrinsic economic uncertainty, as well as motivated by more stringent environmental regulations, the pursuit of alternative energy resources for the synthetic fertili ...
Silesian University of Technology2023Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola
As floors typically account for the largest share of a building embodied carbon footprint, new strategies to build low-carbon floors must be developed and implemented. Among these strategies, the reuse of existing components is a promising circular approac ...
Novus Press2023Molecular simulation on two-dimensional nanoporous material for energy-efficient separation
The energy-consumption by the chemical and petrochemical industry in the European Union (EU) accounts for about quarter of its energy footprint. Approximately half of this energy goes toward chemical separation, currently dominated by thermally-driven pro ...
EPFL2023Integrated production of urea and nitric acid in the pulp industry: techno-economic and environmental analysis of black liquor gasification-based processes
François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Shivom Sharma, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos
The pursuit of alternative energy sources for the nitrogen fertilizers sector has recently earned renewed interest due to increasing concerns regarding the world dependence on non-renewable energy resources and also motivated by the more stringent environm ...
2023Greening the Swiss National Bank's Portfolio
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Eric Jondeau
Central banks are increasingly concerned about climate-related risks and want to ensure that the financial system is resilient to them. As they integrate these risks into financial stability monitoring, they also discuss how to apply environmental criteria ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment of Food and Energy Systems
To steer the sustainable transition in the food and energy sectors, reliable environmental data is required to answer environmental questions related to single agricultural crop, food product or energy technologies. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been wid ...
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