Steven Lecompte

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Steven Lecompte is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Lecompte has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 27 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Steven Lecompte's work include Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems (58 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (27 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines (27 papers). Steven Lecompte is often cited by papers focused on Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems (58 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (27 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines (27 papers). Steven Lecompte collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Greece. Steven Lecompte's co-authors include Michel De Paepe, Martijn van den Broek, Henk Huisseune, Bruno Vanslambrouck, Davide Ziviani, Aditya Pillai, Sven De Schampheleire, Bernd Ameel, Vincent Lemort and Guido Francesco Frate and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Steven Lecompte

92 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Review of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) architectures for waste heat recovery

2015 566 citations Steven Lecompte, Henk Huisseune et al. profile →
Carnot battery technology: A state-of-the-art review

2020 289 citations Aditya Pillai, Steven Lecompte et al. Journal of Energy Storage profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Lecompte Belgium	22	2.2k	771	580	231	225	101	2.6k
Martijn van den Broek Belgium	20	3.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	798 1.4×	207 0.9×	256 1.1×	68	3.5k
Arash Nemati Iran	23	1.2k 0.6×	559 0.7×	399 0.7×	271 1.2×	168 0.7×	50	1.7k
A.H. Mosaffa Iran	25	2.0k 0.9×	439 0.6×	881 1.5×	219 0.9×	169 0.8×	39	2.1k
L. Garousi Farshi Iran	25	1.9k 0.9×	556 0.7×	552 1.0×	235 1.0×	168 0.7×	39	2.1k
Mahmoud Bourouis Spain	27	1.6k 0.7×	232 0.3×	469 0.8×	264 1.1×	197 0.9×	90	2.1k
Henk Huisseune Belgium	23	1.9k 0.9×	459 0.6×	379 0.7×	479 2.1×	149 0.7×	63	2.3k
Sébastien Declaye Belgium	11	2.2k 1.0×	782 1.0×	574 1.0×	140 0.6×	162 0.7×	20	2.3k
Bertrand F. Tchanche Greece	6	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	771 1.3×	156 0.7×	158 0.7×	6	2.6k
Shahriyar Ghazanfari Holagh Iran	20	1.0k 0.5×	285 0.4×	343 0.6×	341 1.5×	269 1.2×	34	1.5k
Davide Ziviani United States	22	1.4k 0.6×	315 0.4×	288 0.5×	146 0.6×	162 0.7×	122	1.6k

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Beyne, Wim, et al.. (2025). Numerical investigation on the influence of the skid coolant temperature on the reheating furnace performance. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 60. 103502–103502.

Lecompte, Steven, et al.. (2025). Assessing renewable energy installations in pig farms from a financial and environmental perspective: a case study in the EU. Renewable Energy. 256. 124291–124291. 1 indexed citations

Paepe, Michel De, et al.. (2025). Sensitivity study of a partially evaporating organic Rankine cycle model with non-equilibrium expansion. Applied Thermal Engineering. 276. 126682–126682.

Paepe, Michel De, et al.. (2024). High-temperature heat pumps in industrial heating networks: A study on energy use, emissions, and economics. Applied Thermal Engineering. 259. 124799–124799. 6 indexed citations

Lemort, Vincent, et al.. (2024). Assessing the influence of compressor inertia on the dynamic performance of large-scale vapor compression heat pumps for Carnot batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 101. 113948–113948. 3 indexed citations

Kosmadakis, George, et al.. (2024). Hybrid solar-biomass residential micro – Combined Heat and Power systems driven by the Partially Evaporating Organic Rankine Cycle – A case study in Southern Europe. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 55. 102906–102906. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Maike, et al.. (2024). CHESTER: Experimental prototype of a compressed heat energy storage and management system for energy from renewable sources. Energy Conversion and Management. 311. 118519–118519. 9 indexed citations

Najafabadi, Hamed Abedini, et al.. (2023). A comprehensive analysis of binary mixtures as working fluid in high temperature heat pumps. Energy Conversion and Management. 277. 116652–116652. 53 indexed citations

Kosmadakis, George, et al.. (2023). Numerical modeling of flashing in TFC expanders for the efficient exploitation of low-grade heat. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 46. 102171–102171. 2 indexed citations

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Lecompte, Steven, et al.. (2023). Computationally efficient alternative to a full-scale transient simulation of a reheating furnace. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 40. 101775–101775. 11 indexed citations

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Beyne, Wim, et al.. (2022). Techno-economic assessment of Carnot batteries for load-shifting of solar PV production of an office building. Renewable Energy. 199. 1133–1144. 37 indexed citations

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Beyne, Wim, et al.. (2021). A charging time energy fraction method for evaluating the performance of a latent thermal energy storage heat exchanger. Applied Thermal Engineering. 195. 117068–117068. 14 indexed citations

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Pillai, Aditya, Alihan Kaya, Michel De Paepe, & Steven Lecompte. (2019). Performance analysis of an organic rankine cycle for integration in a Carnot battery. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4 indexed citations

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Lecompte, Steven, Johan Van Bael, Robbe Salenbien, et al.. (2019). Corrosion behaviour of different steel types in artificial geothermal fluids. Geothermics. 82. 182–189. 21 indexed citations

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Lecompte, Steven, et al.. (2018). Energetic and financial assessment of the implementation of an absorption heat pump in an industrial drying system. Drying Technology. 37(15). 1939–1953. 6 indexed citations

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Ameel, Bernd, et al.. (2018). Comparative performance assessment of plate heat exchangers with triangular corrugation. Applied Thermal Engineering. 141. 186–199. 14 indexed citations

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Beyne, Wim, et al.. (2017). Steady state modeling of a fire tube boiler. UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria).

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Lecompte, Steven, Martijn van den Broek, & Michel De Paepe. (2016). Optimal part-load operation of an 11 kWe organic Rankine cycle for waste heat recovery. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Lecompte, Steven, Henk Huisseune, Martijn van den Broek, & Michel De Paepe. (2015). Thermodynamic optimization of organic rankine cycle architectures for waste heat recovery. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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Lecompte, Steven, Martijn van den Broek, & Michel De Paepe. (2013). Second law analysis of zeotropic mixtures as working fluids in organic Rankine cycles. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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