Publications by Massimiliano Capezzali

Assessing the sustainability of biofuel production from camelina in Spain, results of the ITAKA project - analysis of GHG emissions

Purpose With the rapid growth and increased consumption of biofuels worldwide, and the multitude of policy decisions supporting this expansion, growing concerns about the biofuels sustainability have arisen. Therefore, the European project ITAKA, aiming at ...

2018

Evaluation and recommendation of a subsidy instrument for new large hydropower plants, use case of Switzerland

Daniel Favrat, Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet

2018

Study of the drivers and asset management of pumped-storage power plants historical and geographical perspective

François Avellan, François Richard Vuille, Ludovic Gaudard, Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet, Franco Romerio

PSP (Pumped-storage power plants) represent the only mature option for large-scale electricity storage, and offer a wide range of grid management services, ranging from peak power production to ancillary services. This technology has undergone drastic prog ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Territorial energy systems: A methodological approach and case study

Gaëtan Cherix, Massimiliano Capezzali, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager

Energy transition emphasizes the role of local authorities towards a sustainable future: energy productions are increasingly more decentralized by valuing renewable energies often rooted in territories. Management and operation of local energy systems are ...

2015

Le Jatropha : une plante écologique et un biocarburant durable?

Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet

La culture du Jatropha pour la production d’agrocarburants a suscité beaucoup d’espoir dans les années 2005 à 2008. Malheureusement, malgré les nombreuses opportunités de marché, la filière souffre de graves problèmes de fond. Aussi, en octobre 2014, les m ...

2015

Smart cities : la métamorphose

Gaëtan Cherix, Massimiliano Capezzali

Le concept de « villes intelligentes » est aujourd’hui largement répandu et utilisé, de même que celui de « réseaux intelligents ». Or, dans les villes européennes et suisses, nous sommes pour l’instant dans une situation très éloignée par rapport à ces ob ...

2013

MEU: An urban energy management tool for communities and multi-energy utilities

François Maréchal, Gaëtan Cherix, Massimiliano Capezzali, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager, Damien Rebeix

In order to facilitate urban energy management and energy planning, the project MEU developed a web based tool as a decision support system for decision makers. Using a web based approach minimizes the effort on the client site as no software needs to be i ...

2013

Toward Ultrafast Charging of Electric Vehicles

Alfred Rufer, Hans Björn Püttgen, Massimiliano Capezzali, Michail Vasiladiotis, Hardi Hõimoja, Stefano Grioni

The paper is devoted to the problems arising from the ultrafast (≤ 10 min) charging of an electric vehicle (EV). An ultrafast charging station (UFCS) must provide high power output with minimal influence on the electricity transmission system, which can on ...

2012

An algorithm to allow humerus translation in the indeterminate problem of shoulder abduction

Alexandre Terrier, Arne Christian Vogel, Alain Farron, Massimiliano Capezzali

The shoulder is one of the most complex joints of the human body, mainly because of its large range of motion, but also because of its active muscular stabilisation. Actually, the numerous stabilizing muscles and degrees of freedom yield indeterminate biom ...

2007

Internal structure of fluctuating Cooper pairs

Massimiliano Capezzali

In order to obtain information about the internal structure of fluctuating Cooper pairs in the pseudogap state and below the transition temperature of high Tc superconductors, we solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the two-electron propagator in order to ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2006