After more than one century from its first use for electric power production, steam cycles are
still the object of continuous research and development efforts worldwide. Indeed, owing to …

Methanol is considered a promising solution for decarbonizing the transportation and
chemical industry sectors, being a worldwide traded commodity that can be synthesized …

This paper assesses the optimal design criteria of a flexible power and biomass to methanol
(PBtM) plant, conceived to operate both without green hydrogen addition (baseline mode) …

The competitiveness of biofuels may be increased by integrating biomass gasification plants
with electrolysis units which generate hydrogen to be combined with the carbon-rich syngas …

This work investigates the design optimization of aggregated energy systems (multi-energy
systems, microgrids, energy districts, etc.) with (N-1)-reliability requirements. The problem is …

Composition regulation of zeotropic mixture working fluid for a thermodynamic cycle is an
effective way to improve energy conversion efficiency, which offers the potential to construct …

Organic Rankine cycles can produce power from various low-to-medium temperature heat
sources efficiently, and may be integrated into industrial processes to recover low-grade …

The aim of the ISORC/OPTIMISER project is to increase and improve the use of solar
thermal energy in district heating networks. One of the main tasks of the project is to develop …

This paper focuses on the combined maintenance and routing optimisation problem in a
multi-period environment that consists of scheduling maintenance operations for a set of …

This work proposes a simultaneous approach for the synthesis and design optimization of
industrial refrigeration cycles integrated with heat exchanger networks. Given the process …