Publications by Christian Blanc

Modeling of a vanadium redox flow battery electricity storage system

Today, the electricity industries are facing new challenges as the market is being liberalized and deregulated in many countries. Electricity storage is undoubtedly a disruptive technology that will play, in the near future, a major role in the fast develo ...

EPFL2009

Optimization of the Operating Point of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Alfred Rufer, Christian Blanc

Modeling a vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) is intrinsically a multiphysics task based on electrochemistry and fluid mechanics. The electrochemical model predicts the stack voltage and determines the internal losses and the vanadium concentrations within ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2009

Multiphysics and Energetic Modeling of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Alfred Rufer, Christian Blanc

Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRB) are large stationary electricity storage systems; their performance is enhanced when they are operating under optimal conditions. The multiphysics model developed in this paper offers a good understanding of the VRB oper ...

2008

Modeling of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Alfred Rufer, Christian Blanc

New concepts of power generation, the emergence of renewable energies as well as the liberalization of the electrical market have recently raised strong intereset in electricity storage technologies. The vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) is among the new s ...

2007

Modélisation d'un système de stockage de type électrolyseur réversible au vanadium

Alfred Rufer, Christian Blanc

L’apparition de nouveaux concepts de production décentralisée d’électricité et le développement des sources renouvelables suscitent un vif intérêt pour les techniques de stockage de l’énergie. Parmi les nouvelles techniques de stockage, cet article présent ...

2006

PROGRESS IN STACK POWER DENSITY USING THE SOFCONNEX™ CONCEPT

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Raphaël Ihringer, Alexandre Closset, Zacharie Wuillemin, Nordahl Autissier, Diego Larrain, Christian Blanc, Emily Thorn

Our SOFC stack development technology is based on the unique SOFConnexTM concept, using flexible gas distribution layers between metal sheet interconnect and thin ASE cells. Flexibility is given both in material and design. This ensures proper electrical c ...

The Electrochemical Society2005

Acoustic Mapping for Active Transformer Quieting Applications Based on a Modular DSP Platform

Alfred Rufer, Christian Blanc, Eric Van Lancker

The Laboratoire d’Electronique Industrielle has realized an active noise controller. The system is designed to efficiently attenuate low frequency transformer noise where passive methods are either ineffective or tend to be very expensive. This paper descr ...

2005