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Enhanced Geothermal Systems represent a major field of study in the context of renewable energy resources. To create extractable energy from those reservoirs, a high enough fluid flow rate for production needs to be achieved. This fluid flow rate is direct ...

2020

Experimental studies of hydro-mechanical couplings in Enhanced Geothermal Reservoirs

Mateo Alejandro Acosta

Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) allow for worldwide geothermal electricity production. They target deep (3-5 km), fractured rock reservoirs whose permeability is artificially increased through hydraulic stimulations (fluid injections). The injections mod ...

EPFL2020

Hydraulic Transport Through Calcite Bearing Faults With Customized Roughness: Effects of Normal and Shear Loading

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Mateo Alejandro Acosta

Understanding fluid flow in rough fractures is of high importance to large scale geologic processes and to most anthropogenic geo‐energy activities. Here we conducted fluid transport experiments on Carrara marble fractures with a novel customized surface t ...

2020

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Understanding the physical processes involved in snow avalanche‐obstacle interaction is essential to be able to estimate the pressure exerted on structures. Although avalanche impact pressure has been measured in field experiments for decades, the underlyi ...

2020

The Diffusion Hygrometer: A commercial failure

Jean-François Loude

Louis Dufour (1832-1892), professor at the Academy of Lausanne (Switzerland), had observed in 1874 a pressure difference across a porous wall separating moist air and a vessel containing either water or a desiccant, pointing to the possibility to use this ...

2020

Design and fabrication of miniaturized shape memory alloy gripper prototype

Grippers, currently used in Industry, are not suited for clean room application. Thus, a novel type of smart gripper is being designed using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). In the development of this Smart Gripper, the modelling of the material is quite critica ...

2019

Solid-state nanopores are man-made, nano-sized openings in membranes separating two chambers containing an electrolyte solution. When applying an electric field across the membrane, the nanopore provides the only path for mobile ions to pass from one side ...

EPFL2019

On the hysteresis of cavitation incipience and desinence in hydraulic machines

Mohamed Farhat, Ali Amini, Martino Reclari

The omnipresent vortical structures in hydraulic machines are extremely prone to the occurrence of cavitation. It is well known that besides the flow parameters, the incipience, development, and disappearance of cavitation within a vortex is very sensitive ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Electrical transport in onion-like carbon-PMMA nanocomposites

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Claudio Grimaldi, Maryam Majidian

We report electrical conductivity measurements of polymethyl-methacrylate filled by onion-like carbon particles with a primary particle size of approximate to 5 nm. We show that the conductivity sigma is exceptionally high even at very low loadings and tha ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Propagation of a Radial Fluid-driven Fracture in Nonlinear Solid --around the tip of a fluid-driven fracture: process zone vs deviated fluid flow

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Dong Liu

Deviations from conventional hydraulic fracturing simulators’ predictions are sometimes observed in the field and laboratory. This questions the basic assumptions adopted in linear hydraulic fracture mechanics (LHFM): a linear elastic solid and a simplifie ...

2018