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Perspective Alkaline electrolyzers: Powering industries and overcoming fundamental challenges

For the sustainable development of the renewable hydrogen sector, alkaline electrolysis appears to be a technology of choice. Nevertheless, despite its long history that showed its reliability in the industrial field and despite the traditional belief from ...

Cell Press2024

Expert perceptions of game-changing innovations towards net zero

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana

Current technological improvements are yet to put the world on track to net-zero, which will require the uptake of transformative low-carbon innovations to supplement mitigation efforts. However, the role of such innovations is not yet fully understood; so ...

2023

Directly Photoexcited Oxides for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Linfeng Pan

Artificial photosynthesis promises to become a sustainable way to harvest solar energy and store it in chemical fuels by means of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells. Although it is intriguing to shift the fossil-fuel-based economy to a renewable carbon-neutr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Next generation cogeneration system for industry - Combined heat and fuel plant using biomass resources

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Ayse Dilan Celebi

The requirement for sustainable development has prompted the researchers to explore solutions for better utilization of renewable energy resources in the future. Biomass is a promising resource and it can be converted to multiple products and services incl ...

Elsevier2019

Technologies for Integration of Large-Scale Distributed Generation and Volatile Loads in Distribution Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Jagdish Prasad Achara

As fossil fuel reserves are limited in stock and there is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprint, distribution grids urgently need to move towards heavy use of local and distributed generation of electricity using renewable energy sources. Another p ...

2018

Optimal design methods applied to solar-assisted hydrothermal gasification plants

Alberto Mian

The gasification of highly watered waste residues may help to reduce fossil fuels consumption, as well as emissions, all the while improving efficiency. The integration of supercritical gasification with solar energy may improve the performances of both ne ...

EPFL2016

Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide in Pressurized Systems

Patrick Voyame

The depletion of carbon-based fossil fuels and the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will force an inevitable change in the future global energy landscape. CO2 reduction presents the advantages of decreasing its atmospheric concentration and ...

EPFL2016

Metal-organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

Berend Smit, Cory Matthew Simon, Jian Liu

Nuclear energy is among the most viable alternatives to our current fossil fuel-based energy economy. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate r ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Energy Strategy Formation in the Middle East and North Africa Using a Technology-Driven Energy Planning Approach : Application to the Case of Ras Al Kaimah

Ralf Matthias Dyllick-Brenzinger

The constituent countries of the MENA region---defined in this thesis in conformity with the regional definition of the International Energy Agency and encompassing 17 Muslim countries in North Africa, in the Levant, on the Arabian Peninsula, and Iran---ha ...

EPFL2014

ECOS: Integrated and practical energy planning for new districts

François Maréchal, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager, Cédric Dorsaz

In this paper, we propose a unified method for the integrated energy planning during the development of new districts for all involved actors. Taking energy related problems such as equipment choice and size, costs and environmental impact early into consi ...

2013