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Energy integration of CO2 networks and Power to Gas for emerging energy autonomous cities in Europe

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The concept of urban CO2 networks has been developed to deploy heat pump based district heating and cooling systems in dense urban areas. The use of the CO2 phase change reduces the cost of the heat distribution while allowing to recover waste heat that is ...

2018

Multi-energy networks are going to play an important role in dense areas (cities) for the energy transition and the integration of renewable energy sources [1]. The IntegrCiTy project uses a co-simulation approach at urban scale in order to maximize the pe ...

2018

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Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources has renders the power network operator task of balancing electricity generation and consumption increasingly challenging. Aside from heavily investing in additional storage capacities, an interesting soluti ...

2018

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Energy system design should take into account the hourly, daily and seasonal variations of both the energy demand and the considered utilities, and therefore requires a multi-time-resolution problem formulation. Multi-period / multi-time optimization is ne ...

Elsevier B.V.2018

Solar thermal and geothermal integration with low temperature CO 2 DENs

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

Taking into account the high efficiency of solar thermal collectors and the fact that heating demands represent around 80% of the total energy needs in residential buildings, it is of interest to integrate solar thermal systems to supply HVAC services. How ...

Elsevier2018

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In the optic of providing guidelines for the optimal integration of renewable energy in a connected multi-energy context, this report presents EPFL - IPESE and EPFL - PV-lab’s common work on the initial assessment of Romande Energie (RE) demonstration site ...

2017

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CO2 is used more and more as a refrigerant in the commercial and food retail industries and a majority of experts believe that its share in the field of residential heating, commercial refrigeration and mobile air conditioning across Europe will be higher ...

2017

Novel district heating and cooling energy network using CO2 as a heat and mass transfer fluid

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Luc Girardin, Samuel Henchoz

Compact district energy networks in a temperature range of 10 to 16°C have a great potential for energy savings by providing a heat source for decentralized heating heat pumps, a cold source for air-conditioning and a heat sink for refrigeration or cogener ...

2017

IntegrCiTy - D2.3 Report - Enabling and integrating a common IT structure: Definition of a back-end layer architecture

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Jessen Page, Gillian Jean Bernard Basso

The concept of the IntegrCiTy platform is built around the development of a single application as a suite of independent software: project partners will mutualize a certain number of tools that shall be integrated in the IntegrCiTy platform. Therefore, a r ...

IPESE-EPFL2017

SCCER-FURIES - Report on the role of multi-carrier, multi-services, multi-grids integrated energy conversion systems and their possible role in the Swiss energy 2050 - Deliverable D1.5.3

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

The optimisation of distributed and renewable energy systems in buildings has shown that zero energy systems, using existing technologies, is within reach in the household sector where the thermal and the systems can support each other to increase renewabl ...

2017