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Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition

Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...

London2023

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

Hydrogen storage in the carbon dioxide/formic acid system, using homogeneous iron(II)-phosphine catalysts in aqueous solution

Mickael Montandon-Clerc

The valorization of carbon dioxide and its transformation into useful chemicals is essential as mankind consumes more and more fossil fuels, thus producing equivalent wastes. The storage of hydrogen, a promising energy carrier, is also of great interest in ...

EPFL2018

Can a circular economy provide a backbone for a more sustainable, fair and social market economy in europe?

Most of us would readily subscribe the statement that our planet needs a transition towards a circular economy decoupling raw material use from economic growth. In a circular economy deserving this label, pressure on our earth’s natural resources will defi ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting Reactions

Lucas-Alexandre Stern

At the dawn of the 21st century, mankind is facing an important energy challenge. Future energy demand can only be met by large scale exploitation of renewable energy resources. Solar energy is abundant, with a sufficient capacity for the growing energy de ...

EPFL2017

Conversion of biomass into value-added chemicals

Sviatlana Siankevich

Green house gas emissions, the depleting of non-renewable resources, and poor waste management have a detrimental environmental and socioeconomic impact. Consequantly, the development of alternative processes that alleviate these problems is imperative. Ap ...

EPFL2016

Carbon dioxide for hydrogen storage via formic acid derivatives and methanol

Katerina Stefania Sordakis

Securing our energy future while minimizing the associated environmental impacts is a challenging endeavor and the fundamental aspect of sustainable development. The choice of energy resource and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon ...

EPFL2016

Methodology for energy audits in the framework of the Energy Efficiency Directive

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Elfie Marie Méchaussie

The Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU (EED) was released in October 2012 and transposed in June 2014 by Member States. The Directive requires large companies to carry out an energy audit before December 2015, which has to be repeated every 4 years. A ...

2015

On the stability enhancement of cuprous oxide water splitting photocathodes by low temperature steam annealing

Michael Graetzel, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Stanley David Tilley, Ludmilla Steier

Given the intermittent nature of solar radiation, the large-scale use of solar energy requires an efficient energy storage solution. So far, the only practical way to store such large amounts of energy is in the form of a chemical energy carrier, i.e., a f ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Thermo-economic modeling of membrane processes for CO2 capture

Quoc Nhat Nam Pham

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered as a promising option, especially for power plants applications. Three different concepts are mainly investigated; pre-, oxy-fuel and post-combustion captu ...

2013

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