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Unraveling the complexity of oxygen reactions on Pt surfaces

Platinum (Pt) is a key material in automotive catalytic converters used to clean up the exhaust of the combustion engine. Pt particles in a ceramic matrix serve as an oxidation catalyst to eliminate toxic carbon monoxide (CO) and unburned hydrocarbons (CxH ...

2019

Process integration as a tool for the improvement of cruise ships energy efficiency

François Maréchal, Francesco Baldi

The growing trend of the cruise ship industry, together with increasing concerns over its impact on the environment, makes these ships a much relevant target for efforts toward increasing ship energy efficiency, thus ultimately reducing fuel consumption an ...

2018

Turbocompressors for Domestic Heat Pumps – A Critical Review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Jean-Baptiste Carré

Small-scale, oil-free radial compressors on gas lubricated bearings represent a promising alternative to state-of-the-art compressor technology for driving domestic sized heat pumps. The inherent characteristics of turbocompressors manage to fit the heat p ...

2017

Performance of a metal hydride store on the "Ross Barlow'' hydrogen powered canal boat

Andreas Züttel

This project involved the conversion of a British Waterways maintenance craft to a canal boat, powered by a combination of a solid-state hydrogen store, Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell, lead-acid battery pack and a high-efficiency, permanent magne ...

2011

Fission Rates Measured Using High-Energy Gamma-Rays from Short Half-Life Fission Products in Fresh and Spent Nuclear Fuel

Hanna Kröhnert

In recent years, higher discharge burn-ups and initial fuel enrichments have led to more and more heterogeneous core configurations in light water reactors (LWRs), especially at the beginning of cycle when fresh fuel assemblies are loaded next to highly bu ...

EPFL2011

Lightning Electromagnetic Fields at Very Close Distances Associated with Lightning Strikes to the Gaisberg Tower

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Pierre Zweiacker, Abdolhamid Shoory, Seyed Abbas Mosaddeghi

In this paper we present and discuss measurements of electric (vertical and radial) and magnetic fields from leaders and return strokes associated with lightning strikes to the 100 m tall Gaisberg tower in Austria obtained in 2007 and 2008. The fields were ...

American Geophysical Union2010

Implementation of a 2 x 2 MIMO-OFDM receiver on an application specific processor

Andreas Peter Burg

This paper describes the implementation of the hard computational kernels required for the baseband (BB) processing of a 2 x 2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-OFDM receiver on a design-framework for application specific processors. The employed low-c ...

2009

Implementation of a 2x2 MIMO-OFDM receiver on an application specific processor

Andreas Peter Burg

This paper describes the implementation of the hard computational kernels required for the baseband (BB) processing of a 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-OFDM receiver on a design-framework for application specific processors. The employed low-com ...

Elsevier2009

Development of a natural gas reaction mechanism for engine simulations based on rapid compression machine experiments using a multi-objective optimisation strategy

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne

The ignition delay times of CH4/C2H6/C3H8 mixtures representative of an average natural gas composition have been measured in a rapid compression machine (RCM) at the University of Lille. The pressure at the end of compression (EOC) varied from 13 to 21 ba ...

2008

A predictive algorithm for estimating the quality of vehicle engine oil

Paul Xirouchakis, Fabrizio Lo Conte

Recently, with emerging technologies, visibility of vehicle information over the whole lifecycle becomes possible. The visibility opens up new challenging issues for improving the efficiency of vehicle operations. One of the most challenging problems arisi ...

2008

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