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This paper presents a careful study related to a more efficient energy management between lithium battery (with rated voltage of 24V) and Ultracapacitors (UC) for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) applications. This association is due to the present trend in the field, knowing that the major drawback of the HEV is the autonomy problem. Thus, using the Hybrid energy source (such as UC + battery) and with a good energy management improves the HEV performances. In this paper, battery and Ultracapacitors (10 cells of 2.7V in series) are coupled to DC-bus using two buck-boost converters. The main contribution of this paper is focused on DC-bus voltage and currents control strategy based on polynomial (RST) controller. Through some simulations in MATLAB/Simulink software and experimental results, the authors present an improved energy management for HEV.

After a halt of four years, the n TOF spallation neutron facility at CERN has resumed operation in November 2008 with a new spallation target characterized by an improved safety and engineering design, resulting in a more robust overall performance and e cient cooling. The rst measurement during the 2009 run has aimed at the full characterization of the neutron beam. Several detectors, such as calibrated ssion chambers, the n TOF Silicon Monitor, a Mi- croMegas detector with 10B and 235U samples, as well as liquid and solid scintillators have been used in order to characterize the properties of the neutron uence. The spatial pro le of the beam has been studied with a specially designed \X-Y

Confidentielle jusqu'au 31 décembre 2013Co-encadrement de la thèse : Maroun Nemer; Distillation columns are one of the main methods used for separating the components of the air. Their inconvenient is the high energy consumption. In order to produce the oxygen needed for oxycombustion with low energy costs, a diabatic distillation column for cryogenic air separation is designed and modeled. It consists of a shell and tubes heat exchanger where the tubes constitute a first column operating at low pressure and the shell a second one operating at high pressure. Coupled mass and heat transfers are modeled and the diabatic column simulated. A comparative exergy analysis between three types of distillation columns for cryogenic air separation shows that the exergy efficiency of the diabatic column designed is 23 % higher than that of the conventional double columns. The distribution of the mixtures in the tubes and the shell is a key point in the distillation process in the shell and tubes heat exchanger. The different forms of uneven distribution are studied and solutions are proposed. A pilot is designed in order to validate experimentally the theoretical concept of diabatic distillation of cryogenic air.; Les colonnes de distillation de l'air constituent l'un des procédés principaux de séparation des composants de l'air mais posent le problème des consommations énergétiques élevées. Dans le but de produire les quantités d'oxygène nécessaire pour les procédés d'oxycombustion à faibles coûts énergétiques, une colonne de distillation diabatique pour la séparation de l'air cryogénique est conçue et modélisée. Elle consiste en un échangeur tubes-calandre où les tubes constituent une première colonne opérant à basse pression et la calandre en constitue une deuxième opérant à haute pression. Les transferts de masse et de chaleur couplés sont modélisés et le fonctionnement de la colonne est simulé. Une analyse exergétique comparative entre trois types de colonnes de distillation d'air cryogénique montre que l'efficacité exergétique de la colonne diabatique conçue est 23 % fois plus élevée que celle des colonnes doubles conventionnelles. La distribution des mélanges dans les tubes et dans la calandre est un point clé dans le procédé de distillation dans l'échangeur tubes-calandre. Les différentes formes de mal répartition sont étudiées et des solutions proposées. Une colonne pilote est dimensionnée pour valider expérimentalement le concept théorique de la distillation diabatique de l'air cryogénique.

Abstract A flame shape bifurcation in the liquid-fueled two-stage swirled BIMER combustor is studied using Large Eddy Simulations. This combustor, developed at the EM2C Laboratory to study Lean Premixed Prevaporized (LPP) burners, is composed of a two-stage injection system: a central swirled pilot stage fueled with a pressure-swirl atomizer, to sustain a piloting flame, and an outer swirled stage fed with a multi-point injection, to generate the LPP regime. After ignition in the pilot-only operating condition, a V flame is stabilized near the Inner Shear Layer (ISL). When switching to multipoint-only injection, a flame shape transition is observed and the flame bifurcates into a M-shape. In this work, we identify the mechanisms that lead to this bifurcation, and we show that the transition is driven by a complex coupling between the flame, the chamber acoustics and the ISL vortices. By switching to a multipoint-only injection, the fuel is essentially given to the ISL flame, which is mainly premixed. Because of the increased heat release rate and thanks to positive Rayleigh criterion, the quarter wave mode of the chamber is promoted. The ISL vortices, locked to this mode, increase in size until they are large enough to merge the flame in the CRZ, the radial momentum budget forcing the flow topology to switch to a bubble-like structure. Therefore, these results show that it is the existence of two possible flow topologies that renders this flame shape transition possible, the instability being responsible for transferring sufficient energy to the flow to enable the transitioning and the flame then changing its shape simply to adapt to the new topology.

The present study questions the sensitivity and the accuracy of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for determining the maturity of natural organic matter (NOM). It focuses on the definition of optimized experimental parameters in order to maximize the quality of the Raman signal and control the accuracy and reproducibility of measurements. A series of 11 coals has been investigated, sampling a wide maturity range (2-7% vitrinite reflectance VR). The role of experimental parameters is first investigated. An excitation wavelength of 514.5 nm gives better results than 457.9 and 632.8 nm, minimizing the fluorescence background observed in the spectra of low-rank coals. Both Raman and fluorescence spectra were investigated with time-resolved experiments in air and argon. These data show that fluorescence and Raman spectra are sensitive to acquisition time and laser power parameters, and reveal a physicochemical instability of the samples under laser irradiation, mostly due to photo-oxidation processes. These data clearly show that the experiments, especially in air, should be performed with strictly constant acquisition parameters. In addition, the results of a whole series of coal measurements performed in air under constant experimental conditions show that Raman spectroscopy is definitely sensitive to the maturity of coal samples with VR> approximately 1%. The most sensitive spectral maturity tracers are the width of the D-band (FWHM-D), the ratio of the peak intensities of the D- and G-bands (I(D)/I(G)), the normalized ratio of the band integrated intensities A(D)/[A(D)+A(G)] for the maturity range VR=3-7% and the width of the G-band (FWHM-G) for VR=1-5%. However, the accuracy and reproducibility are definitely weaker in such measurements compared to the standard VR. Future work must solve the problem of sample stability under laser irradiation, and greatly increase the number of samples to improve the statistical significance of the results.

In this paper, a linear mathematical and numerical model for analysing the dynamic response of a flexible electroactive wave energy converter is described. The Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is a floating elastic tube filled with slightly pressurised sea water. It is made of Electroactive Polymers (EAPs).Under simplifying assumptions, a set of governing equations is formulated for the flow inside the tube, the flow outside the tube and the behaviour of the tube wall. By combining them, the evolution of the flow velocity in the tube can be written as a wave equation. The corresponding eigenmodes of vibration are calculated. Then, using spectral decomposition, the equation of motion for the response of the tube in waves is derived. Experiments were carried out on a scale model of the wave energy converter in the wave tank of Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 2011. Numerical results are compared with experimental results in regular waves, showing rather good agreement, which validates the model and the initial modelling assumptions. Finally, estimates are made for the energy performance of a possible prototype.