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Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Fernando Porté Agel, Mohammad Jamshidmofid, Ahmad Arabkoohsar

Healthcare sector buildings, particularly hospitals, significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals require a substantial amount of steam, including the essential hygienic or " clean steam, " that is currently ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

Philippe Aubin

The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

EPFL2024

Sofc system with anode off-gas recirculation

Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Zacharie Wuillemin, Patrick Hubert Wagner

The present invention concerns an SOFC system comprising an anode off-gas recirculation arrangement in which anode off-gas is pumped by a fan or pump of a coaxial turbine-fan assembly, the system comprising a condenser for condensing water contained in sai ...

2020

Design of Stable Palladium-Based Zeolite Catalysts for Complete Methane Oxidation by Postsynthesis Zeolite Modification

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

Catalytic methane oxidation is used in exhaust gas aftertreatment to reduce methane emissions from lean burn natural gas vehicles as well as in stationary combustion processes. Pd/zeolite catalysts provide high activity for this reaction, but they deactiva ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Demetri Psaltis, Thomas La Grange, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Jae-Woo Choi, Ye Pu, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Methodology for efficient use of thermal energy in the chemical and petrochemical industry

Elfie Marie Méchaussie

The current European energy regulation, aligned with the European Union energy strategy and targets for the next decade, requires large industrial companies to regularly assess their energy performance and implement energy efficiency improvement measures. ...

EPFL2018

Theoretical analysis of steam generation methods - Energy, CO 2 emission, and cost analysis

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

A theoretical case study on steam generation has been performed. Different methods of producing steam by vapour compression, direct electrical heating, gas heating, heat pumping, use of waste heat, and a mixture thereof, were theoretically analysed. The fi ...

Elsevier2017

Enhanced simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of pretreated beech wood by in situ treatment with the white rot fungus Irpex lacteus in a membrane aerated biofilm reactor

Robert Lawrence Shahab

The aim of the present study was to investigate the combination of steam pretreatment and biological treatment with lignin degrading fungal strains in order to enable efficient bioprocessing of beech wood to ethanol. In a sequential process of steam and fu ...

Elsevier2017

Thermo-economic and environmental comparison of supercritical water and enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse in a biorefinery concept

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

In this study, we discuss the difference regarding thermo-economic and environmental (water intake) aspects between two methods of biomass hydrolysis. A thermo-economic model was developed using Aspen Plus® and MATLAB software in order to analyze the energ ...

2017

Integrated System Design of a Small-scale Power-to-Methane Demonstrator

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Alberto Mian

Power-to-methane technology has been considered as a promising alternative to cope with seasonal storage of renewable energy and the utilization of CO2 captured from various sources, due to the existing infrastructure for massive methane storage and distri ...

2017