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The paper aims to evaluate the technical potential and the institutional feasibility of small storage and pump-storage hydropower (

2011

Renewable energy sources and energy efficiency for building's greening: From traditional village houses via high-rise residential building's BPS and RES powered co- and tri-generation towards net ZEBuildings and Cities, 2011 IEEE 3rd International Symposium on Exploitation of Renewable Energy Sources (EXPRES)

Dusan Licina

As an introduction to the current approaches to building's greening and sustainability this paper outlines the intrinsic harmony of the traditional village houses encompassing efficiency and balanced use of renewable materials and energy sources. Further p ...

2011

Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

Edgard Gnansounou, Javier Dominguez, Luis Alberto Panichelli

The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes induced by the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In this pap ...

Elsevier2011

Multi-Objective Optimization of Biomass Conversion Technologies by Using Evolutionary Algorithm and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

François Maréchal, Samira Fazlollahi

The design and operation of energy systems are key issues for matching the energy supply and consumption. Moreover, in the present context of finding ways to decrease CO2 emission, poly-generation technologies, together with the integration of renewable en ...

2011

Renewable energy solutions for Clip-Air project

Benjamin Vuitel

The concept of passenger air transport has not changed since its beginning. However it has to transport more and more people. Clip-Air provides a revolutionary concept for air transport by carrying up to three capsules (about an A320 without wings and tail ...

2011

The role of actors in the transition towards energy self-sufficient regions: the case of Güssing, Austria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

This paper discusses the role of actors in the transition towards an energy self- sufficient region in Güssing, Austria. Regions with the vision of energy self-sufficiency are often called “energy regions”. We identify and describe the states, phases and m ...

2011

Efficient Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid Using an Iron Catalyst

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Matthias Beller

Hydrogen is one of the essential reactants in the chemical industry, though its generation from renewable sources and storage in a safe and reversible manner remain challenging. Formic acid (HCO2H or FA) is a promising source and storage material in this r ...

2011

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry

Luis Treviño Villarreal

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Solar Water Splitting: Progress Using Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) Photoelectrodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells offer the ability to convert electromagnetic energy from our largest renewable source, the Sun, to stored chemical energy through the splitting of water into molecular oxygen and hydrogen. Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) has emerged ...

2011

Implementation of spatio-time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy for studying local carrier dynamics in a low dislocation density m-plane InGaN epilayer grown on a freestanding GaN substrate

Nicolas Grandjean, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Munehito Kagaya

Spatio-time-resolvedcathodoluminescence (STRCL) spectroscopy isimplemented to assess the local carrier dynamics in a 70 nm-thick, very low threading dislocation (TD) density, pseudomorphic m-plane In GaN epilayer grown on a freestanding GaN substrate by me ...

2011

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