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The current global energy landscape is characterized by an increasing demand for affordable and sustainable energy sources, leading to an ever increasing integration of intermittent renewable energy resources into the grid. The intermittent nature of these ...

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Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...

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American Institute of Chemical Engineering2023

Enabling renewable Europe through optimal design and operation

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Europe is currently transitioning from fossil energy sources to renewable generation of electric power. Although fundamental to reach net-zero targets, intermittent renewables are disrupting conventional methods used in operational planning and design of p ...

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3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators

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Optimization of a hybrid solar-geothermal energy system at building scale

Building sector decarbonisation involves large scale integration of renewable energy sources within the energy mix commonly used to fulfil the heat demand. For this, to combine several energy sources and to control conversion systems based on a systemic ap ...

HEPIA Geneva University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland2021

SCCER JA-RED - A list of possible ancillary services for enhanced grid operation and implementation of the most effective ones at the RE demo site - Deliverable 1.2.3

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There is a need by distribution system operators and power suppliers to propose ancillary services to enhanced grid operation allowing the optimal deployment of photovoltaic panels, cogeneration technologies and distributed storage. This deliverable theref ...

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Assesment of green mobility scenarios on European energy systems

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The paradigm shift in the energy policy of the European Union confronts the member states with the task of developing future renewable and fossil-free energy systems. This change involves the installation of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wi ...

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A 170μW Image Signal Processor Enabling Hierarchical Image Recognition for Intelligence at the Edge

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We propose an ultra-low power (ULP) Image Signal Processor (ISP) that performs on-the-fly in-processing frame (de)compression and hierarchical event recognition to exploit the temporal and spatial sparsity in an image sequence to achieve a 16× imaging syst ...

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