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Angelov, Svetoslav (author)Gas turbines (GT) play a crucial role in the transition to fully sustainable energy. Conversely, the expected growth of the GT market is met with more stringent regulatory requirements. Clearly, an increasing turbine inlet temperature (TIT) is beneficial for the efficiency of GT cycles. With increasing TIT, however, the magnitude of the thermal...master thesis 2021
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Giannakopoulos, George (author)Power systems nowadays are experiencing a significant energy transition characterized by the progressive increment of power electronic interfaced units. Voltage source converters are extensively utilized to interconnect renewable energy sources at various transmission levels, facilitate the asynchronous interconnection of system areas through...master thesis 2021
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Matser, Abel (author)For more than 130 years there have been efforts to automate human services. One such automation is the use of computer-based solving methods to aid engineers in their search for their ideal goal, such as automated planar mechanism design. Contrary to creating mechanisms manually, automatic methods are able to create and evaluate mechanisms in...master thesis 2021
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Pinho Ferreira, João (author)For a hub airport, capturing transfer passengers and offering better connections are key elements that largely influence its future growth and profitability. This research aims to develop a strategic stand planning model capable of selecting profitable turnarounds that will expand the network of a hub, integrating those turnarounds into the pre...master thesis 2021
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Klerkx, Sean (author)Open-pit mining blast patterns are designed to safely break rock mass at desired boundaries and to produce uniformly sized fragments that lead to the optimal performance of subsequent mining operations. An issue that is often overlooked, however, is the deviation of drillhole locations with respect to their coordinates as designed in the...master thesis 2021
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Amer, Hakim (author)Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (FWMAV) technologies are emerging due to the vast number of applications that they can be utilized in. Researchers and scientists are constantly seeking to push the boundaries to the extreme in terms of miniaturization of this technology, making it smaller, lighter and better performing. In order to achieve this...master thesis 2021
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Joon, Peter (author)Planning the on-site transportation of large manufacturing sites is a complex process. Currently these plans are made based on the on-site logistics constraints rather than on KPIs. Research has been focused on either analysis of system parameters or generally on KPIs, but lacks the combination of both on real-life cases. This gap is closed by...master thesis 2020
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van der Tas, Veerle (author)More and more parcels are delivered all over the world, by numerous carriers. Collaboration between couriers can benefit both companies and their customers, as it has the potential to reduce cost and reduce the number of couriers stopping at the same location. Furthermore, autonomous driving is gradually picking up traction opening up another...master thesis 2020
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Kruik, Melvin (author)Damping vibrations of flexible structures is a subject of importance in several industries, as the aerospace and high-tech industry. Especially when the ratio of damping over weight needs to be high. In literature optimization of this ratio is achieved in several manners, through optimization of individual damping methods, ie. active and passive...master thesis 2020
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den Ottelander, Tom (author)Computer vision tasks, like supervised image classification, are effectively tackled by convolutional neural networks, provided that the architecture, which defines the structure of the network, is set correctly. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a relatively young and increasingly popular field that is concerned with automatically optimizing...master thesis 2020
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Keshav, S. (author)Big data sources can play an important role in revolutionizing the field of water resources research. Time series data with high temporal and spatial dimensions encapsulates with itself numerous factors essential for coming up with robust decisions. In this thesis, we assess one such big data source for efficient water management in the Oum Er...master thesis 2020
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van Berkel, Thijs (author)A watertaxi can reduce the travel time through the city of Rotterdam in comparison with public transport. To make estimations on the average reduced travel time within Rotterdam, a generic method is developed. This method is capable of finding locations for watertaxi jetties. To achieve this, the watertaxi, public transport, and the walking to...master thesis 2020
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Tsiakos, Dimitrios (author)This project investigates the newly proposed Belgian Rectifier, a novel three-phase boost power factor correction rectifier which is advantageous for AC-to-DC conversion in applications, such as, off-board and on-board chargers for electric vehicles. The Belgian rectifier can achieve very high levels of efficiency<br/>and power density, while...master thesis 2020
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de Vries, Niels (author)Bulk materials such as iron ore transported by bulk carriers are commonly unloaded by the use of grabs. The unloading process is time consuming and increasing the unloading capacity is of big importance for terminals. A validated co-simulation developed by the TU Delft in cooperation with Nemag enables to test grabs in the virtual environment....master thesis 2020
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Schröder, Casper (author)Code quality of software products often degrades while they grow. Counteracting the degradation of code quality or improving it requires immense effort. Tools that reduce this effort are a hot topic in software engineering research. Software Modularization in particular aims to aid in the process of improving the quality of code structure, by...master thesis 2020
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Verhagen, Jeroen (author)Water, energy and food resources are fundamental for human survival and are critical for supporting economic development. However, ensuring adequate supply is a major concern for the entire world, specifically in some countries and regions. Under the pressure of population growth, economic development, international trade, urbanization,...master thesis 2020
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van der Heyden, Laurens (author)Previous trajectory proposals with the purpose of exploring the Kuiper Belt have been limited to identifying trajectories to fly by a single pre-selected Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). Furthermore, these proposals were often limited to high-velocity flybys that pass through the Kuiper Belt in a limited number of years, or are based on the assumption...master thesis 2020
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Bosma, Jan (author)The first part of this thesis provides a mathematical description for bipartite quantum correlations, aiming to analyze the geometry of several sets of correlations. We explain why quantum entanglement can be used to simulate shared randomness: C<sub>loc</sub>(Γ) ⊆ C<sub>q</sub><sup>d</sup>(Γ) for a sufficiently large d. The known bound for this...bachelor thesis 2020
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Goveas, Akhilesh (author)The rapid growth in world population and increasing demands have led to the lack of fresh water, taking a toll on several of earths reserves, mainly the fresh water supply reserves. Water stress deters economic growth, leads to conflicts and has a direct impact on the health of humans. Studies show the trends in the<br/>increase of water...master thesis 2020
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Sinha, Nitish (author)The advancement of innovative PV technologies has led to an all-time high integration of the same in the urban environment. Furthermore, development of decentralized power systems complements this rise as it supports in-situ power consumption. Due to space availability constraints in urban environments and a need for appealing aesthetics,...master thesis 2020