Marc LeBreux

TL;DR: In this article, a nonintrusive inverse heat transfer procedure for predicting the time-varying thickness of the protective phase-change ledge on the inside surface of the walls of a high-temperature metallurgical reactor is presented.

TL;DR: It is shown that the proposed inverse heat transfer procedure becomes increasingly reliable and accurate for predicting the bank thickness as it shrinks, of the utmost interest for preventing the sudden and accidental loss of the protective banks of industrial furnaces filled with molten material.

TL;DR: In this paper, a controller for operating a hybrid thermal energy storage system (HTESS) is presented, where the storage system accumulates solar energy during sunny days and releases it later at night or during cloudy days.

TL;DR: In this article, a control model for operating a system that stores simultaneously sensible heat from solar and electric energy is proposed, which consists of two types of controllers: a fuzzy logic controller for estimating the daily amount of thermal electric energy to be stored and a feed forward controller for determining the electricity consumption profile of the heating element during off-peak hours.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nonintrusive inverse heat transfer procedure for predicting the time-varying thickness of the phase change ledge on the inside surface of the walls of a high-temperature metallurgical reactor is presented.