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Steady increase in global energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and depletion of fossil energy resources, together with increased attention towards sustainable development has prompted researchers to discover economical and environmentally competit ...

EPFL2019

PREC 2019: Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching

Ayberk Özgür

Exercising is strongly recommended for prevention and treatment of pathologies with high prevalence such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that insufficient physical activity is one of the leading ...

IEEE2019

Hydrological and hydraulic solutions for the sustainability of habitat life in human altered streams

Amin Niayifar

In this thesis, I aim to contribute to the research towards improving the sustainability of habitat life in streams affected by anthropogenic activities. With the growing trend of altering natural water regimes due to hydropower operations, irrigation, and ...

EPFL2019

Exergy and environmental analysis of black liquor upgraded gasification in an integrated kraft pulp and ammonia production plant

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

Some byproducts of the Kraft pulp mills, such as the black liquor (1.4 t/t ADpulp, 15% solids), still contain more than half of the exergy content of the total wood fed to the digester. This residue represents a key supply of renewable energy to the pulp a ...

Silesian University of Technology2019

Conversion of food and kitchen waste to value-added products

Edgard Gnansounou

Food and kitchen waste - omnipresent in every corner of the world serve as an excellent source of value added products owing to high organic content. Regardless of existence of various traditional methods of land filling or biogas production used to harnes ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Deep learning in the built environment: automatic detection of rooftop solar panels using Convolutional Neural Networks

Roberto Castello, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Adrian Guerra, Martin Esguerra

Mapping the location and size of solar installations in urban areas can be a valuable input for policymakers and for investing in distributed energy infrastructures. Machine Learning techniques, combined with satellite and aerial imagery, allow to overcome ...

IOP Science2019

Biofuels: Alternative Feedstocks and Conversion Processes for the Production of Liquid and Gaseous Biofuels

Edgard Gnansounou

Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals: Biofuels: Alternative Feedstocks and Conversion Processes for the Production of Liquid and Gaseous Biofuels, Second Edition, provides general information, basic data and knowledge on one of the most promising renewable ener ...

Elsevier2019

The contributions of Prof. Jan Szargut to the exergy and environmental assessment of complex energy systems

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Tuong-Van Nguyen

This paper describes how the scientific contributions of Prof. Szargut and his co-workers have inspired the academic activities of the Exergy Team of the Laboratory of Environmental and Thermal Engineering (LETE) of the Polytechnic School of the University ...

2018

Governance Strategies for a Sustainable Digital World

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Digitalization is changing society by the increased connectivity and networking that digital technologies enable, such as enhancing communication, services, and trade. Increasingly, policymakers within various national governments and international organiz ...

2018

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy with Superconducting Junctions

Jacob Senkpiel

This thesis contains two major topics, the restriction of tunneling to only a few channels in the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the interaction of local magnetic impurities with superconductivity. At a temperature of 15mK, the quantum back-action ...

EPFL2018

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