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Heat Exchanger Anchors for Thermo-active Tunnels

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Thomas Mimouni, Sophie Minon

Shallow geothermal power represents an important energy resource for the heating and cooling of the buildings. Due to relatively low temperature levels encountered at shallow depths in the soil, between 10°C and 20°C, heat pumps are required to process the ...

Swiss Association of Road and Transportation Experts2013

Theoretical and Experimental Study of a Thermally Driven Heat Pump Based on a Double Organic Rankine Cycle

Jonathan Demierre

Nowadays, one of the main alternatives for a more rational use of energy in heating applications is the heat pumping technologies. The market is dominated by two kinds of heat pump systems: the electrically driven vapor compression heat pumps (EHP), which ...

EPFL2012

Thermoeconomic Analysis of a Solar Enhanced Energy Storage Concept Based on Thermodynamic Cycles

Samuel Henchoz

Large scale energy storage may play an increasingly important role in the power generation and distribution sector, especially when large shares of renewable energies will have to be integrated into the electrical grid. Up to now pumped-hydro is the only t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Thermal variability of the internal friction in clay in a cylindrical thermo-mechanical problem

Lyesse Laloui, Bertrand François

Variability of the internal friction angle with temperature is studied in a boundary value problem numerically simulating the impact of a cylindrical heat source on the stress and strain in soil mass in which it is emplaced. Even if the thermal increase of ...

International Center for Computational Engineering (IC2E)2011

Application of Photoluminescent Measurement Techniques for Quantitative Assessment of Turbine Film Cooling

Magnus Jonsson

Reduction of the specific fuel consumption of gas turbines can be achieved by maximizing the turbine inlet temperature. However, this requires a detailed understanding of the cooling performance in order to ensure safe and economical operation of the engin ...

EPFL2010

Understanding the thermo-mechanical response of heat exchanger piles

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, Mathieu Nuth

Although the adaptation of deep foundations into heat exchangers is receiving growing attention, geothermal research is focusing mostly on energy optimization aspects. Meanwhile, the primary bearing function of the foundation must remain unaltered. Also, p ...

International Centre for Computational Engineering2009

Investigations on the mechanical behavior of a heat exchanger pile

Lyesse Laloui, Mathieu Nuth

The geothermal use of concrete geostructures (piles, walls and slabs) is an environmentally friendly way of cooling and heating buildings. With such geothermal structures, it is possible to transfer energy from the ground to fluid-filled pipes cast in conc ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway Nw, Ste 300, Boca Raton, Fl 33487-2742 Usa2008

Low power ORC-ORC systems for heat pump applications

Daniel Favrat, Jonathan Demierre

This paper presents a study of a residential (about 20kW) ORC-ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) thermally driven heat pump. The system works with three different temperature levels similar to absorption heat pumps. The proposed concept is a hermetic system using ...

2008

Scale-down approach

This thesis deals with the combined utilisation of a reaction calorimeter, the RC1® commercialised by Mettler Toledo and equipped with a 2 L glass reactor, and the heat transfer dynamics modelling of industrial reactors. By doing so, the temperature evolut ...

EPFL2006

Behavior of a dual-purpose pile as foundation and heat exchanger

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Vulliet

The behaviour of a pile subjected to thermo-mechanical loads was studied in situ with the aim of quantifying the thermal influence on the bearing capacity of heat exchanger piles. To accomplish this, a pile situated in a building under construction was equ ...

National Research Council Canada2003