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The Soralux Daylighting System: Passive Solar Illumination for Deep-Plan Building Spaces

Daylight is a valuable resource for both energy and human health. However, this resource is often underutilized in buildings due to the difficulty of controlling the changing qualities of daylight. Deep-plan building spaces pose an especially challenging p ...

2011

An environmental optimization model for bioenergy plant sizes and locations for the case of wood-derived SNG in Switzerland

François Maréchal, Christian Ludwig, Léda Gerber, Bernhard Steubing

Bioenergy from woodfuel has a considerable potential to substitute fossil fuels and alleviate global warming. One issue so far not systematically addressed is the question of the optimal size of bioenergy plants with regards to environmental and economic p ...

2011

Innovative Timber Constructions

Yves Weinand

Practical and material orientated academic research has become increasingly important for architectural practice. This is due to several reasons. First of all, it contributes to contemporary concepts in architecture and improves their implementation. Today ...

2011

An Adaptive Field Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks in Dynamic Environments

Alcherio Martinoli, William Christopher Evans, Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok

The efficiency of distributed sensor networks depends on an optimal trade-off between the usage of resources and data quality. This workshop paper addresses the problem of optimizing this trade-off in self-configured distributed sensor networks. In our cas ...

2011

Optimal technologies for the thermochemical production of Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) from lignocellulosic biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to methane is a promising way to distribute a renewable resource as a versatile energy vector in an existing grid. Potentially more efficient than the production of liquid fuels, it can be used as Synthetic Natural ...

2010

Pump-Storage Integration with Renewables – Meeting the Needs Using Various Concepts

Christophe Nicolet, Basile Kawkabani

One of the primary tasks of Pumped Storage Power Plants (PSPP) in this era of rapidly growing renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy is to provide for energy storage while contributing to the stabilization of the electrical grid. Fast reaction ...

2010

Short-term scheduling and control of active distribution systems with high penetration of renewable resources

Mario Paolone

Among the innovative contributions to electric distribution systems, one of the most promising and qualified is the possibility to manage and control distributed generation. Therefore, the latest distribution management systems tend to incorporate optimiza ...

2010

The Power of Bioenergy-Related Standards to Protect Biodiversity

Sébastien Haye

The sustainable production of bioenergy is vital to avoiding negative impacts on environmental goods such as climate, soil, water, and especially biodiversity. We propose three key issues that should be addressed in any biodiversity risk-mitigation strateg ...

2010

Technological innovation strategy in natural resource based industries

Bettina Lynda Bastian

This thesis analyses innovation and technology strategy within a primary industry, notably the upstream oil and gas industry. Industries that exploit and produce finite natural resources are challenged by specific external risks that do not receive much at ...

EPFL2009

Autochthony, natural resource management and conflicting rights in West Africa

Jérôme Chenal

Global phenomena such as nationalism, extremism and xenophobia are related today to discourses on autochthony and citizenship. Given current processes of democratisation and economic liberalisation, and the scarcity of natural resources, interaction betwee ...

Geographica Bernensia2009

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