Flood Prevention Guayaquil: A feasibility study on local stormwater storage and the effect of sea branch closure to prevent pluvial and coastal flooding

The city of Guayaquil suffers from regular floods. During the wet season, typically from late December until late April or early May, multiple floods per week can occur. Mainly the excessive rainfall in combination with high tide penetrating into the city results in a high flood risk, but some flood-prone areas can also flood in case of spring...

Exergy Analysis as a Thermodynamic Tool for Gaining New Insights into Chemical Processes: Demonstrated on the SNC Pernis Isopropylalcohol Process

This thesis demonstrates how exergy analysis can be used to gain new insights into chemical processes. Exergy analysis has been applied to the SNC Pernis Isopropylalcohol process in order to introduce the concepts of exergy and exergy analysis together with its applications to Shell personnel and to show the strength and the usefulness of an...

Richten van VECTRA

Dit praktikum is uitgevoerd in Materiaalkundig Praktikum materiaalkundestudenten. het kader van het voor derdejaars De doelstelling van dit praktikum is de kennismaking met fundamenteel materiaa1onderzoek. Dit is gedaan door onderzoek te doen naar de mogelijkheid om van het materiaal VECTRA de ketens te richten. VECTRA is een zogeheten...