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Accessible triple-phase boundary length: A performance metric to account for transport pathways in heterogeneous electrochemical materials

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo

The performance of materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage depends upon the number of electrocatalytic sites available for reaction and their accessibility by the transport of reactants and products. For solid oxide fuel/electrolysis ce ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Design optimization of electrical hubs using hybrid evolutionary algorithm

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Integration of non-dispatchable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar into the grid is challenging due to the stochastic nature of energy sources. Hence, electrical hubs (EH) and virtual power plants that combine non-dispatchable energy sources, ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Exact Convex Modeling of the Optimal Power Flow for the Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks with Energy Storage Systems

Mostafa Nick

The distribution networks are experiencing important changes driven by the massive integration of renewable energy conversion systems. However, the lack of direct controllability of the Distributed Generations (DGs) supplying Active Distribution Networks ( ...

EPFL2016

Thermo-economic optimization of a combined cooling, heating and power system based on small-scale compressed air energy storage

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Erren Yao

Energy storage systems are important for dealing with the fluctuation of renewable energies in course of their increasing penetration into the energy market. Small-scale compressed air energy storage (CAES) with artificial air vessels can improve the suppl ...

2016

Colloidal Chemistry to Advance Studies in Artificial Photosynthesis

Raffaella Buonsanti

This article presents an overview of our research in the field of colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and their implementation into water splitting and CO2 reduction electrochemical cells. We discuss our approaches to tailormade novel material platforms to adv ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2016

Complex and liquid hydrides for energy storage

Elsa Callini, Ping Chen

The research on complex hydrides for hydrogen storage was initiated by the discovery of Ti as a hydrogen sorption catalyst in NaAlH4 by Boris Bogdanovic in 1996. A large number of new complex hydride materials in various forms and combinations have been sy ...

Springer2016

Nanostructured materials for solid-state hydrogen storage: A review of the achievement of COST Action MP1103

Andreas Züttel, Elsa Callini

In the framework of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action MP1103 Nanostructured Materials for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage were synthesized, characterized and modeled. This Action dealt with the state of the art of energy storage ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Quench Detection and Protection of the HTS Insert Coils

Natalia Hanna Glowa

As a result of extremely high upper critical fields B_c2, high temperature superconductors (HTS) have the potential to be used as high field insert coils in magnet systems where the background field is provided by low temperature superconductors (LTS) with ...

EPFL2016

Control of a Modular DC-DC Converter Dedicated to Energy Storage

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Émilien Luc Henri Coulinge

A DC-DC converter system is presented based on an Input-Series/Output-Parallel Dual Active Bridge structure, in a full modular design. The association of 4 elementary modules leads to a one stage DAB. The proposed converter is dedicated to interface a DC-v ...

2015

Optimal siting and sizing of distributed energy storage systems via alternating direction method of multipliers

Mario Paolone, Mostafa Nick

Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) will have an important role in the optimal operation of Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). Within this context, this paper focuses on the problem of ESSs optimal siting and sizing. Following similar approaches already propos ...

Elsevier2015

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