报告题目：Environomic optimization of integrated energy systems
报告人：Daniel Favrat 教授， 主任
Director of the Industrial Energy Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne
报告时间：（2013年7月23日，星期二，下午1:30 pm）
报告地点：农业与生物-ok138cn太阳集团古天乐·太阳3-101
语言：英文
邀请人：刘荣厚教授、博导（农业与生物-ok138cn太阳集团古天乐·太阳）
Brief CV of Professor Daniel Favrat
Daniel Favrat graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) with a MS (1972) and PhD (1976) in Mechanical Engineering. He then spent twelve years in industrial energy research centers in Canada and in Switzerland. Since 1988 he is professor at EPFL and director of the Industrial Energy Systems Laboratory. Since 2001 he was successively director of the Institute of Energy Sciences and of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. His fields of research and teaching include thermodynamics, the optimization of energy systems, and the design of advanced energy conversion technologies. He is author of more than 100 journal papers and of several books on “Thermodynamics and energy systems“. He is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, of the French academy of technology, and vice-chair of the energy committee of WFEO (World Federation of Engineering Organizations). He is also a member of the editorial board of Energy.
Main content of the presentation:
The World is facing major challenges regarding environmental threats and resource constraints. Energy engineering is at the core of the actions to be undertaken to meet these challenges within the framework of strong economic constraints. Dealing efficiently with these issues requires holistic design and planning methodologies, which ideally imply the simultaneous consideration of numerous factors. Energy systems are not fixed but like living bodies they evolve in adapting to their environment, which primarily consists of economic conditions and environmental regulations. We will show that superstructure based mono- or multi-objective optimization approaches, in particular using evolutionary algorithm, allow to deal with the highly non-linear, non-contiguous solution spaces involved. Modern approaches need to consider the environomic[1] trilogy energy, economics and environment as early as possible in the design and planning phase. Application examples will include cogeneration combined cycle plants with or without CO2, district energy systems, trigeneration in parts of cities and the energy system of an oasis in Sahara. Finally a brief mention will be made of advanced technology concepts currently under study in our laboratory.
