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Integration of Life Cycle Assessment in the conceptual design of renewable energy conversion systems

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-established methodology that has been extensively used for the environmental evaluation of emerging technologies in the field of renewable energy conversion systems. In order to identify effective solutions for impact ...

EPFL2012

Life cycle assessment of SNG from wood for heating, electricity, and transportation

Christian Ludwig, Bernhard Steubing

The conversion of wood to synthetic natural gas (SNG) via gasification and catalytic methanation is a renewable close to commercialization technology that could substitute fossil fuels and alleviate global warming. In order to assure that it is beneficial ...

Elsevier2011

Environomic optimization of SNG production from lignocellulosic biomass using Life Cycle Assessment

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

This paper discusses strategies for the environomic optimization of renewable energy conversion technologies that are at the conceptual process design stage and produce multiple energy services, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It is illustrated by an ap ...

2010

Optimal technologies for the thermochemical production of Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) from lignocellulosic biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to methane is a promising way to distribute a renewable resource as a versatile energy vector in an existing grid. Potentially more efficient than the production of liquid fuels, it can be used as Synthetic Natural ...

2010

Increasing Conversion Efficiency in Fuel Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Polygeneration - and a Paradoxon between Energy and Exergy in Process Integration

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

In the public and scientific debate on biofuels, ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass is generally the most popular alternative that may allow for a sustainable production. Compared to thermochemical processing of biomass which assures a complete conversio ...

2010

Process integration aspects of the design of a gas separation system for the upgrade of crude Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) to grid quality in a wood to methane process

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

The present paper investigates the prospects of process integration of the biogenic production of crude synthetic natural gas (SNG) and its upgrade to grid quality. At the example of a separation by means of a membrane cascade, a holistic design approach t ...

Elsevier Science, Reg Sales Off, Customer Support Dept, 655 Ave Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Integration of LCA in a thermo-economic model for multi-objective process optimization of SNG production from woody biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

This paper presents a methodology to integrate life cycle assessment (LCA) in models used to design energy conversion systems. It is illustrated by an application to a thermo-economic model for the multi-objective optimization of synthetic natural gas (SNG ...

2009

Integration of LCA in a thermo-economic model for multi-objective process optimization of SNG production from woody biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

2009

Transport of methane and noble gases during gas push−pull tests in variably saturated porous media

Graciela Gonzalez Gil

The gas push−pull test (GPPT) is a single-well gas-tracer method to quantify in situ rates of CH4 oxidation in soils. To improve the design and interpretation of GPPT field experiments, gas component transport during GPPTs was examined in abiotic porous me ...

2008

Optimal process design for thermochemical biofuel production plants

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Martin Gassner

Transport applications are a major global source of greenhouse gas emissions and the production of fuels that are renewable and neutral in CO2 is an important issue in chemical process research and development. Contrary to the biological routes that produc ...

2007

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