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3D-ICE 3.0: efficient nonlinear MPSoC thermal simulation with pluggable heat sink models

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Federico Terraneo

The increasing power density in modern high-performance multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) is fueling a revolution in thermal management. On the one hand, thermal phenomena are becoming a critical concern, making accurate and efficient simulation a nec ...

2021

Designing and assessing solar energy neighborhoods from visual impact

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Giuseppe Peronato, Pietro Florio

The optimal diffusion of Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) in cities requires diligent planning to arrange temporal and spatial distribution of energy, while preserving the aesthetics of city landscapes. Benefitting from an increasing quality of 3D ...

2021

Combined exergy analysis, energy integration and optimization of syngas and ammonia production plants: A cogeneration and syngas purification perspective

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

Modern ammonia production plants are equipped with efficient energy integration networks able to recover an important fraction of the waste heat exergy available throughout the chemical system. However, in order to drive the endothermic reforming reactions ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Optimization based approach to assist the transition of large energy users to low temperature networks

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alberto Mian, Francesca Belfiore

Distric Energy System (DES) represents a promising opportunity to improve energy efficiency and boost the decarbonization of the European energy sector. If most of the studies focus on small consumers typically located within urban areas, large energy user ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2020

Reliability and Performance of Model Predictive Control for Demand Response with Residential Heat Pumps

Frédéric Louis-Pierre Raphaël Marie Amblard

Distributed energy resources like solar panels and wind turbines are increasingly replacing fossil fuel energy sources. Due to their natural fluctuations they cause imbalance in the power grid when their production does not overlap with demand. Thus, there ...

EPFL2020

Thermally regenerative copper nanoslurry flow batteries for heat-to-power conversion with low-grade thermal energy

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Sunny Isaïe Maye

Low-grade heat (below 200 °C) is available in vast quantities from industry, or from standard roof-top solar thermal collectors. However, the production of electric power from these heat sources is challenging with existing technologies. Thermally regenera ...

2020

Co-designing electronics with microfluidics for more sustainable cooling

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Georgios Kampitsis, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

Thermal management is one of the main challenges for the future of electronics1,2,3,4,5. With the ever-increasing rate of data generation and communication, as well as the constant push to reduce the size and costs of industrial converter systems, the powe ...

2020

Mechanical and Morphological Properties of Lignin-Based Thermosets

Cédric Terrier

The need for renewable alternatives for fossil-based aromatic material constituents is evident for a more sustainable society. Lignin is the largest source of naturally occurring aromatic compounds but has mainly been considered as waste material or energy ...

2020

District scale prediction of subsurface waste heat flows

Due to increasing urbanization and scarcity of land, the need to include the underground in urban planning is growing, especially in cities. The human-made underground structures generate an anthropogenic heat flow which has a significant impact on the gro ...

2020

Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage

Sunny Isaïe Maye

An important part of the electricity production relies on heat conversion. Indeed power plants burn fuels like natural gas, coal or use nuclear fission to produce heat that can be transformed into electricity through a thermodynamic cycle and the mechanica ...

EPFL2020

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