Potential Fuel Benefits of Optimized Continuous Climb Operations at Schiphol

Continuous Climb Operations aim at improving the efficiency of a flight's climb phase by reducing the number of level-offs. The associated fuel-benefits help airlines and airports to comply with future emission demands, rising fuel prices and modernizing airspace requirements. Previously, most studies in this field only considered the effect of...

Modeling of the exhaust plume of a submerged exhaust system: A numerical analysis of a submarine exhaust

The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) operates four diesel-electric submarines, the Walrus class. The submarines sail submerged on electric engines and periodically recharge the batteries with diesel engines at periscope depth. The exhaust gases are dispelled at the back of the sail below water level. During the sea trials it was observed that the...

The temporary citizen: and the spatial implications of the next mode of energy in Vlissingen

With a new scale of operating and constructing large offshore wind farms, harbours and adjacent cities are facing a transition. This transition will include an increase of work migration and temporary citizens within the area. The construction of a wind farm from the port of Vlissingen-Oost will result in a comings and goings of all kind of high...

Making IMPaCt: a blockchain based solution for consumer centred privacy control

The increase of data collection and analytics over the past few years the control over personal data has become an important issue. Control over data is the execution of privacy and the ability to protect the individual identity. Solutions to give consumers more control have failed in the past due to security and privacy concerns. On top of that...