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Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland: a Survey on Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The tourism industry is particularly affected by climate change, being very climate- and weather- dependent. Moreover, particularly in the Alpine region, it is specially exposed to natural hazards. Nonetheless, this industry is an important pillar of the S ...

NCCR Climate - Swiss Climate Research2010

Thermo-economic modeling of fuel decarbonization processes

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

A systematic framework is developed for the thermo-environomic modeling, analysis and optimization of fuel decarbonization processes using precombustion routes to decarbonize the fuel by CO2 removal before burning the purified H2-rich gas in a gas turbine ...

2010

The facilitation of mini and small hydropower through institutional mechanisms for development

Nicolas Crettenand

Mini and small hydropower is a renewable, clean and efficient resource for the production of mechanical and electrical power. By offsetting thermal generation, it can be a leading technology in climate change mitigation and sustainable development. Small h ...

2010

Three steps toward modeling Swiss post-2012 climate policies

André Sceia

This thesis presents three steps toward a more precise modeling of climate policies using hybrid models. Specific hybrid models have been devised and used to analyze different post-Kyoto Swiss climate policies. Chapter 1 presents a rather simple hybrid mod ...

EPFL2010

Integrating life cycle costs and environmental impacts of composite rail car-bodies for a Korean train

Martyn Douglas Wakeman, Daniel Emery, Isabelle Blanc

A coupled Life Cycle Costing and life cycle assessment has been performed for car-bodies of the Korean Tilting Train eXpress (TTX) project using European and Korean databases, with the objective of assessing environmental and cost performance to aid materi ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Integration of LCA in a thermo-economic model for synthetic natural production from woody biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

Environmental impacts of emerging technologies such as the production of biofuels have become an important concern. To assess these impacts, life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-established and widely used method. However, conventional LCAs for these tech ...

2009

Process modeling and integration of fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass based on double acid hydrolysis

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Martin Gassner, Zoé Périn-Levasseur, Suping Zhang

Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as one of the most promising feedstocks for producing fuel ethanol because of its global availability and environmental benefits of its use. In this paper, the process of lignocellulosic ethanol production was investig ...

2009

Do Abatement Quotas Lead to More Successful Climate Coaliltions?

Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

This paper studies the effect of different treaty designs on the success of international environmental agreements (IEAs). We analyze the standard assumption of an efficient abatement scheme and three uniform abatement quota schemes. Apart from analytical ...

2008

Integrated Assessment of Swiss GHG Mitigation Policies after 2012 - Focus on the Residential Sector

Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, André Sceia

The residential sector presents a great potential for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation. We perform an integrated assessment of different mitigation policies for Switzerland focusing on the residential sector. We analyze the case of pure incentive taxes an ...

2008

Optimization of a Heating, Cooling and Power Generation District Unit based on a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Gas Turbine Combined Cycle from the Viewpoints of Cost and CO2 Emissions

Daniel Favrat, Meinrad Bürer

In this paper, a district heating, cooling and power generation unit has been evaluated from the viewpoints of cost and CO2 emissions. The superstructure considered includes a solid oxide fuel cell and gas turbine (SOFC-GT) combined cycle, a compression he ...

2002

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