A Solarpunk Energy Landscape: Decentralizing the Energy Transition Towards Sustainable Energy Communities

The EU Green Deal aims to ensure a socially just energy transition, but the shift towards renewable energies often replicates the centralized, top-down approach of traditional fossil fuel systems, negatively impacting rural areas. This report reimagines this paradigm by advocating for decentralized energy communities, particularly in regions...

A Study into Cloud Forests: The installation of a long-term setup to investigate the impact of a cloud forest canopy on the Mestelá River catchment and its effect on various stakeholders

The research question addressed in this study is ”To what extent does the presence of a cloud forest canopy impact the Mestelá River catchment and how will this affect the various involved stakeholders?”. The study aims to investigate the importance of cloud forests in the Mestelá River catchment, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, related to water...

Summer in the city: Sun, Swimming - and Sleepless Nights?: Understanding nuisance problems in relation to citizen reporting on nuisance experiences and interventions in the context of urban summer recreation in green-blue open spaces in Amsterdam-east

Over the last decade, summer recreation in urban green-blue open spaces has become increasingly popular in Amsterdam, but so has the amount of reported nuisance because of summer recreation. In this thesis, the nuisance that has been reported by citizens during the summer recreation season from 2020 has been analysed by coding the reports in...

Reducing wireless control communication for a water irrigation system

For this thesis we have compared communication times of different control schemes on a wireless control network for a water irrigation system. Therefore a control application which can run different protocols was created. We have shown that a significant reduction of communication time can be achieved by using event-triggered control (ETC), and...

Assessing the susceptibility of existing pipelines to Hydrogen Embrittlement: A combined modelling and in-situ experimental approach

With fossil fuels being phased out and growing global interest in a hydrogen economy, there is demand for re-purposing existing pipelines for transportation of hydrogen gas. However, hydrogen is known to have adverse affects on the properties of steels. Hydrogen will dissolve in the steel matrix and contribute to a reduction of mechanical...

A new convective model of the Weddell Polyny: Deep convection in the Southern Ocean

The Weddell Polynya, a large hole in the Antarctic sea ice, reappeared in 2017. The polynya forms due to deep convection, which is caused by static instability of the water column. Observations and model studies show periodic heat accumulation in the subsurface layer prior to a polynya. This heat accumulation could be caused by internal ocean...

Facilitating the next market of electric vehicles: increase adoption with user centered services

This report is the result of a graduation project at the TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. The assignment was commissioned by Eneco Group, with the aim to increase the adoption of the electric car among private consumers. <br/><br/>Problem definition<br/>Over past decades, the electric car has received an increasing amount of...

Coastal erosion management in Cha-am & Hua Hin, Thailand: Evaluation of the current situation & recommendations for the future

Multidisciplinary project report - This report is a documentation of the analyses and conclusions on the erosion problem along a coastal stretch in the ChaWam and Hua Hin area.

Visualisation of Component Alert Data for an Analysis by Machine Learning Algorithms

In recent days, the products and services provided by banks have moved to the digital domain more and more. Since most people rely on these services in their day to day lives, availability and reliability are very important in the success of a bank. In an effort to increase automation in this regard, ING Bank wants to employ machine learning to...

United Nations Environmental Council: A Workshop for Sutainability

The United Nations Environmental Council is a new sixth council for the United Nations and will coordinate information on sustainability. This new council will be located next to the headquarters of the United Nations in Manhattan, New York.

Constructieve schade: Een onderzoek naar de constructieve schade in bouwwerken en de wijze waarop wet- en regelgeving een rol spelen bij het waarborgen van de constructieve veiligheid

Constructieve veiligheid blijkt de laatste jaren niet vanzelfsprekend en staat daarom erg in de belangstelling. Dit afstudeeronderzoek geeft inzicht in de oorzaken en andere aspecten van constructieve schade. Hiertoe zijn 151 bouwincidenten onderzocht. De bron van het onderzoek zijn vonnissen van arbitrage-instituten.

Near-field verspreiding van het overvloeiverlies van een sleephopperzuiger

In opdracht van Directie Noordzee is onderzoek gedaan naar de verspreiding van het overvloeiverlies bij sleephopperzuigers. Dit onderzoek is gericht op de vraag: wanneer treedt er menging van het overvloeiverlies met de waterkolom op en wanneer gedraagt het overvloeiverlies zich a1s een dichtheidsstroom. In geval van een dichtheidsstroom komt...

Invloed van laagfrequent-onderdrukking op de transmissie van een bijna gebalanceerd quaternair signaal

Binaire signalen met een random karakter hebben een vrij grote laagfrequent energie-inhoud, waardoor zij gevoelig zijn voor het afsnijden van lage frequenties. Dit afsnijden is een onvermijdelijk gevolg wanneer voeding voor de repeaters en het signaal over dezelfde kabel getransporteerd worden. Een remedie hiertegen is het toepassen van een...