Een eerste haalbaarheidsstudie naar grootschalige implementatie van waterkrachtcentrales in de toekomstige Maas-stuwen: Een casestudie naar de vervangingsopgave van de stuw bij Grave

With the growing demand for expanding sustainable energy production in the Netherlands, investigating potential renewable energy sources has become imperative. Scheduled replacement projects for weirs along the river Meuse within the next decade present an excellent opportunity to assess the feasibility of integrating hydropower plants into...

Rooting for biobased retaining structures

Riparian ecosystems are crucial for maintaining ecological balance in riverine landscapes, offering diverse habitats, regulating water quality, and preventing soil erosion. However, these ecosystems are vulnerable to slope instability, leading to detrimental effects such as land loss, habitat destruction, and increased sedimentation in water...

An interface-enriched finite element method for electromagnetic analysis and optimization of 2D problems

Nanophotonics is the study of structures’ interaction with light with features at or below the nanometer scale. It has gained the interest of many researchers, as it can be used to control the flow of light very effectively in the design of, e.g., solar cells, highly efficient biosensors or lasers. The design of such devices can be non-intuitive...

A dynamic design and analysis of the flexible hose of the deepsea mining system

Climate change is a recurring topic in the news and goes side by side with the energy transition. The energy transition focuses on using clean energy generated by resources like wind and water. Due to the increasing demand for technology that focuses on generating and storing clean energy, the demand for metals grows. These metals are currently...

Potential Hydrogen Export Port in Río Negro: A Multi-Criteria Analysis on the Optimal Location for a Potential Hydrogen Export Port in the Province of Río Negro, Argentina

Over the last years, the urge to reduce the world’s air pollutants is rapidly growing. New possibilities in order to replace fossil fuels have been explored and one of them is the usage of green hydrogen. The Argentinian, North Patagonian, province of Río Negro, has a great potential to generate green hydrogen on a large scale, due to the...

Drift-free Localization of Ship Hull Cleaning Robots on Flat Bottoms: A Sonar-based Framework

Fleet Cleaner B.V. is a Dutch company which deploys a wheeled hull-fixed Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to clean biofouling off the Vertical Sides (VSs) and the Flat Bottom (FB) of the hull of seagoing cargo vessels, while berthed at the harbour. To ensure maximal cleaning coverage, accurate localization to keep track of the robot trajectory on...

The Dialogue of the City: Implementing a productive Citizen Participation Method for Urban Node Development, in Delft the Netherlands

Participatory processes have become unexceptional in Dutch planning. Due to the communicative turn in urban planning, collaborative planning moved up on the local and national government agenda: in 2021 the new environmental act will come into place, which firmly encourages participation in an early stage of the process. Within those...

Public support for Tradable Peak Credits as an instrument to reduce congestion: A stated choice experiment that is simultaneously used to investigate the influence of content and medium of stated choice introductions

Tradable Peak Credits (TPC) is a new instrument to reduce congestion. It is expected to have a higher public support than traditional road pricing. So far, research has mainly been conducted into behavioral effects and effects on the road network of implementing such systems. This study investigates the public support for TPC and how this...