Long-term water balance of a combined capillary barrier-methane oxidising landfill cover system

Capillary barrier systems (CBSs) have been demonstrated to be effective in deviating infiltration in a landfill cover. However, their performance when combined with a cover soil optimised for methane oxidation had not been tested in the field yet. This study aimed to describe the water balance of a test field where such a configuration was built...

An exploratory analysis of the societal impacts of demand congestion: A case study of Amsterdam following a mixed-methods approach

The integration of variable renewable sources and electrification is straining electricity grids worldwide, resulting in congestion events. This research aims to understand the consequences of unmet electricity demand caused by demand congestion, to support informed decision making. Using a mixed methods approach, the study focuses on the medium...

Kalman filtering approaches to enhance scanning speed and precision in automated microscopy

Fast and accurate diagnosis of illnesses or other health complications is not accessible in many locations around the world. Due to this, illnesses are unnecessarily left untreated. Therefore, AiDx Medical has developed a portable automated diagnostic microscope with re liable and rapid AI-assisted detection specifically for low-resource...

Truck arrival management systems at liquid bulk terminals: Case study for a new set-up of truck logistics at Vopak Terminal Vlaardingen

This thesis contributes to the research of a complementary Truck Arrival Management system in order to increase the efficiency of the Liquid Bulk Terminal as a system in a global intermodal supply chain. Nowadays, terminals often suffer from congestion, despite the use of a Truck Arrival Management system. A Truck Arrival Management system...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A qualitative study into the influence a private developer could exert in shaping an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Entrepreneurs are indispensable to our society. They translate innovative ideas into valuable products and services which in several cases also contribute to a more sustainable, convenient, and ethical world. Moreover, entrepreneurship is one of the most significant drivers of economic growth in a particular area. The entrepreneurship literature...

Softening the harder ground: Researching the potential of new street profiles to include a 50% green surface.

The Netherlands is facing urbanisation and densification, and the domination of car use in our mobility system. Both challenges result in built structures and hard surfaces claiming the public space and leaving less space for green and other functions, resulting in the imbalance in public space demand. Within public spaces the green has a low...

In Between Nature: Nature-based placemaking for Rotterdam's territories in-between

Territories in-between (TiB) have gained increased attention the past decades among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. These territories are identified as territories somewhere in-between the urban and rural. Typical land uses in the TiB are warehouses, sport complexes, allotment gardens and small-scale industrial activities....

Design a digital experience that delivers value to smart home users: Inspire and guide people to automate their homes, so they can live a carefree life

A smart home can be defined as a system of connected devices that are controlled remotely from one central place. Smart home solutions used to be for early adopters who like the novel and fun part of this new technology. Currently the smart Home market is moving to mainstream users. Hombli is a smart home brand established in 2019 in the...

Medical Sensor System: System designed for: Non-invasive ‘Sensor Patch’ used to monitor newly born infants

In this research a sensor patch for newborns is proposed. This sensor patch is a device which would be attached to the skin of a newborn in order to monitor vital health signs such as: temperature, heart rate, respiration rate and oxygen saturation. Furthermore, a bilirubin sensor will be included to check the newborn for jaundice. Thereafter,...

Growing Smaller: Optimizing productivity within an intersectural circular system to relieve the pressure on land

The province of South-Holland is located in a delta, where the Netherlands have been changing the landscape for centuries to keep out the water and create the productive, highly urbanised and well connected landscape it is now. Due to climate change, the water system brings about an increasing pressure in both the rivers as well as the sea. In...

Identification of mine blast interaction pressure on excited plates: Using transient adjoint optimization for solving the inverse problems

Mines and improvised explosive devices are the cause of many mortalities of vehicle occupants. Both experimental and numerical research in this field aims to improve the safety of military vehicles. TNO has advanced Finite Element (FE) models to simulate such events. The numerical research is done to better understand mine blasts. Another aim is...

Growing up in the city: Creating a safe environment for young families in the center of Amsterdam

The design of this family friendly building complex in the city center of Amsterdam is the result of the Dutch Housing graduation studio, Stronghold Amsterdam 2017 - 2018. This project focusses on the city living of Amsterdam, where high density and future orientation are very important.<br/><br/>There is an increasing amount of young families...

Design of a Setup for Modal Testing of Micro-Cantilevers Immersed in Liquid

To facilitate research on the dynamics of micro-cantilevers immersed in liquid, a modal test setup was designed. Modal testing is a powerful form of dynamic testing whereby the system's natural frequencies, modal masses, modal damping ratios, mode shapes, and weight of each of these modes at a certain frequency are determined. Micro-cantilever...

Design of a novel blood collection device for PSA analysis

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer for Dutch males. 1 out 9 males is diagnosed with prostate cancer during his life. 48% Of the diagnosis is for men older than 70 (IKNL, 2014). Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital and Nederlands Kanker Instituut do research in cancer diagnostics. This graduation project focuses on the development of a...