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Alfred Rufer

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A new electrically driven gas booster is described as an alternative to the classical air-driven gas boosters known for their poor energetic efficiency. These boosters are used in small scale Hydrogen storage facilities and in refueling stations for Hydrog ...

MDPI2023

Hydrogen powered vehicles use high-pressure reservoirs from which the gas is transferred to the low-pressure fuel-cell via a classical pressure reduction valve. In these systems no expansion work is recovered and the question is addressed of the potential ...

MDPI2023

In the context of the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from personal transportation, a new process for the production of e-methanol is presented. It is a CO2 hydrogenation process, powered mainly by renewable energy sources such as pho ...

MDPI2022

Storage is an important domain of the energy sector, with its traditional, classical solutions for smaller and larger amounts of energy. Energy storage has become of higher importance in relation with the development of alternative energy sources, leading ...

UNIV NIS2021

A compressed air driven generator is proposed, where the pneumatic energy is converted into mechanical energy using two vane-type rotational actuators. The use of a second actuator with a higher displacement in order to produce a thermodynamic expansion al ...

UNIV NIS2021

Design and Control of a KE (Kinetic Energy) - Compensated Gravitational Energy Storage System

Alfred Rufer

A gravitational energy storage device is described where the kinetic energy to recover while braking a vertically moving mass is compensated by an auxiliary storage device based on supercapacitors. The characteristic power surge occurring by a fast decreas ...

IEEE2020

A Bidirectional Buffered Charging Unit for EV's (BBCU)

Alfred Rufer, Gabriel Fernandez

A bidirectional buffered charging unit for EV's is presented, allowing the charge with high power even if the line current capability is limited. The bidirectional buffer is connected to the AC line and is mainly dedicated to vehicles with on-board AC-DC c ...

IEEE2018

A bidirectional buffered charging unit for EV’s is presented, allowing the charge with high power even if the line current capability is limited. The bidirectional buffer is connected to the AC line and is mainly dedicated to vehicles with on-board AC-DC c ...

2018

Bidirectional buffered units for Multiports charging of EV’s are presented, allowing to charge with high power even if the line current capability is limited. The systems are also dedicated to operate as reactive power compensators, or to provide grid syst ...

2018

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A new feed-forward control technique for a DC-DC step-up converter based on the asymmetric Multistage Stacked Boost Architecture (MSBA) is proposed. The devel-oped feed-forward controller directly handles the load current and the perturbations that may be ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017