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Cogeneration

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The physics base for the ITER Physics Design Guidelines is reviewed in view of application to DEMO and areas are pointed out in which improvement is needed to arrive at a consistent set of DEMO Physics Design Guidelines. Amongst the proposed improvements, ...

IOP2013

Methodology and Thermo-Economic Optimization for Integration of Industrial Heat Pumps

Helen Carla Becker

This thesis presents a systematic methodology, based on pinch analysis and process integration techniques, to integrate heat pumps into industrial processes. The main goals are to decrease the energy consumption and the corresponding operating costs, and t ...

EPFL2012

20 ans de contribution du LENI-EPFL à la recherche sur les pompes à chaleur

Daniel Favrat

Throughout the years LENI-EPFL spent a significant part of its research activities on heat pumps be it for industrial heat recovery or for domestic or district heating and cooling. Methodological contributions include the improvement of the formulation of ...

2012

Interpretation of the effects of electron cyclotron power absorption in pre-disruptive tokamak discharges in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Daniele Brunetti, Hartmut Zohm

Tokamak disruptions are events of fatal collapse of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) confinement configuration, which cause a rapid loss of the plasma thermal energy and the impulsive release of magnetic energy and heat on the tokamak first wall components. T ...

Amer Inst Physics2012

A Techno Assessment of Different Solvent- based Capture Technologies Within an IGCC-CCS Power-station

Jeremy Urech

Detailed IGCC coal power-plant thermo models, including different CO2 capture such as the chemical absorption MDEA and the hot potassium carbonate UNO Mk1, and the physical absorption Selexol are presented in this work. Based on these models, energy integr ...

2012

Heat pump integration in a cheese factory

François Maréchal, Helen Carla Becker

The aim of process integration is to increase the efficiency and to reduce the energy consumption, operating costs and CO 2 emissions of an industrial process. The proposed methodology is applied to a real case study of a cheese factory with non-simultaneo ...

2012

Synthesis and parameter optimization of a combined sugar and ethanol production process integrated with a CHP system

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

The combined sugar and ethanol production process from sugar cane is a paradigmatic application for energy integration strategies because of the high number of hot and cold streams involved, the external hot utility requirement at two temperature levels fo ...

2011

The Optimized Integration of Biomass Fuel in the District Energy System in Poznan, Poland: Part 1

This work includes the development of the biomass conversion technologies designed to provide the required heat demand to the district heating network. Biomass is considered here as the only fuel utilized in the proposed conversion systems as the competiti ...

2011

A Laboratory Investigation on Thermal Properties of the Opalinus Claystone

Mohammad Monfared

Some aspects of the thermal behavior of the Opalinus claystone are investigated through laboratory tests conducted on a new hollow cylinder triaxial apparatus specially designed for studying the thermo-hydromechanical behavior of very low permeable materia ...

Springer Vienna2011

Numerical Simulations of a Prechamber Autoignition Engine Operating on Natural Gas

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne, Grégory Millot

At our laboratory extensive research has been conducted on the conversion of conventional Diesel cogeneration engines to operation on natural gas and biogas. In the framework of this research, a numerical simulation of a prechamber autoignition gas engine ...

2011

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