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Considering current environmental issues (e.g. climate change, air pollution) related to energy consumption, this thesis focuses on data characterisation and integrated optimisation methods for waste heat valorisation at the building, city and regional sca ...

EPFL2017

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François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand

Industrial waste heat is abundant and represents significant energy inefficiency for many processes. With increasing emphasis on improving industrial energy efficiency, heat pump systems (including refrigeration) offer a solution by valorizing low-temperat ...

Elsevier2017

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Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo, Violette Mounier

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Elsevier2017

Combined water and energy integration in industrial processes with restricted connections

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani

Reducing the environmental impact of industrial processes is highly linked with decreasing consumption of natural resources, energy, and water. In the context of climate change, as discussed during the Conference of Parties in Paris (COP21), the efficient ...

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Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Reducing primary energy consumption by utilizing heat recovery systems has become increasingly important in industry. In many sectors, heating and cooling is required at different temperature levels at the same time. For this purpose, heat pumps are highly ...

2016

Key Energy and Technological Aspects of Three Innovative Concepts of District Energy Networks

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Samuel Henchoz, Patrick Chatelan

Energy needs in urban areas are heterogeneous by their nature, spatial distribution and temperature level required. Three concepts of district energy networks that could provide the energy services efficiently to a city centre are compared. The focus is on ...

2016

Multi-temperature heat pumps: A literature review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This review highlights the major advantages and challenges of mechanically driven heat pumps and refrigeration systems with focus on multi-temperature applications. Different design strategies are presented, including cycles with multi-stage compressors, e ...

Elsevier2016

Two-Stage Heat Pump using Oil-Free Turbocompressors – System Design and Simulation

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Adeel Javed

The combination of multi-stage heat pump cycles with small-scale oil-free turbocompressor technology running on gas bearings could be a promising way to increase performance in domestic and commercial heat pumps. This paper presents a novel two-stage heat ...

2016

Multi-temperature heat pumps: A literature review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Elsevier2016

Analysis, Synthesis and Optimization of Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems using Mathematical Programming

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani

Evaporation processes are used within the process industries in order to produce concentrated products by evaporating part of water from different feeds-diluted water solutions. Concentrated products can represent final products (fruit and vegetable juices ...

2016

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