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Boorsma, Reinder (author)
The Wadden Sea is of great ecological importance. Key elements in the Wadden Sea are the extensive intertidal flats. These contain vast amounts of life, serve as feeding grounds for millions of birds, and provide ecosystem services such as coastal protection. It follows that it is important to be able to understand and predict how these vital...
master thesis 2024
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van 't Geloof, Bart (author)
The objective of this study is to generate insights into the application of the reliability of a W2H system and its impact on the techno-economic performance. This involves examining the case of a single system to analyse on a micro-level the underlying conditions affecting performance, as well as exploring W2H farms to observe performance and...
master thesis 2024
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KARYSTINOU, DIMITRA (author)
The advancement of floating wind turbine technology in recent years necessitates accurate predictions of their behaviour using various simulation tools. Utilizing multi-fidelity tools like OpenFAST allows for comprehensive calculations of the entire floating wind turbine structure. However, the precision of these calculations is challenged by...
master thesis 2023
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Koetzier, Daan (author)
Floating offshore wind turbines offer a means to access wind resources in waters that are too deep for bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines. To operate a floating wind farm, it must be possible to perform maintenance on the turbines. A critical maintenance aspect is the exchange of a major component such as a blade. It involves a lift of a large...
master thesis 2023
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O'Hanrahan, Mike (author)
Understanding wind profiles in urban areas is vital for various applications including urban planning and environmental science. This study aims to characterise the modification of wind profiles in The Heat Square through anemometer observations, focusing on the influence of building morphology. Previous studies have endorsed methodologies that...
student report 2023
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Prinsen, Jop (author)
Wind farm control is an area of research that looks to maximise the performance of individual but most importantly the collective performance of wind farms. The performance of turbines located in a wind farm is heavily dependent on the effects of turbine wakes, and improving the efficiency of wind farms by mitigating the wake effects is an...
master thesis 2023
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Ralph, Ben (author)
Offshore wind is a rapidly maturing renewable energy technology and is expected to play a central role in future energy systems. It has the potential to generate more than 420,000 TWh per year worldwide, an amount approximately equal to eighteen times the global electricity demand today. While many of the most abundantly resourceful sites are at...
master thesis 2023
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Mikail, Davey (author)
The increasing demand for renewable energy sources, to achieve ‘green goals’ such as the Paris agreement, and their related projects, are becoming increasingly challenging to accomplish. Nowadays, offshore wind farm projects move into deeper waters and require larger individual Offshore Wind Turbines<br/>(OWT’s), which results in larger...
master thesis 2022
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Rosenboom, Bas (author)
As the world economy and population grow, energy consumption grows too at a never before seen pace. Reducing costs and increased environmental awareness resulted in renewable energy sources being the fastest-growing sources in the last decade. Due to its high potential, many offshore wind turbines will be installed in the coming years. These...
master thesis 2022
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FU, RUNNAN (author)
Planting trees is widely considered an effective way to create a good urban wind environment, improve air quality, mitigate heat island effects, improve pedestrian wind comfort and reduce building energy consumption. To assess tree effects and find suitable tree setups in urban areas, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations can be used.<br...
master thesis 2022
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Mendapara, Jit Hareshbhai (author)
Increasing awareness about climate change and increasing interest in renewable energy is fueling the rise of wind energy. One of the main challenges currently faced by the wind energy industry is to improve the reliability and availability of wind turbine in order to keep the industry financially attractive. Optimising operations and maintenance...
master thesis 2021
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Willis, Ashok (author)
This dissertation aims to contribute towards the research on just transitions by providing insight into the extent of the employment impacts caused by a potential energy transition in South Africa. South Africa is in the process of transforming its electricity mix. The majority of electricity is currently sourced from coal-fired power plants....
master thesis 2021
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Liu, Yuan (author)
Since the introduction of the first offshore wind farm in 1991, the demand for offshore renewable wind energy has experienced exponential growth all around the world. To supply this demand, the power rating and corresponding dimensions of offshore wind turbines have grown significantly. Due to the ever-shrinking availability of easily accessible...
master thesis 2021
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van Beek, Maarten (author)
Wind farms experience significant efficiency losses due to the aerodynamic interaction between turbines. A possible control technique to reduce these losses to a minimum is yaw-based wake steering. This thesis investigates the feasibility of this technique by calibrating a surrogate model called the FLOw Redirection and Induction in Steady-state...
master thesis 2020
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Bekkers, Casper (author)
A method is developed to automatically analyze over 200000 images of a single mature tree. This method is assessed and applied to a tree located at Risø in Roskilde, Denmark, next to two meteorological masts. Image aspects such as the surface area and the center of area are extracted from the images and they are related to the wind statistics....
master thesis 2020
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Trommel, Kars (author)
During the preparation for the Olympic Sailing Competition, held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, the Dutch National Sailing Team encountered days with unpredicted wind behaviour. To gain more understanding in the wind patterns occurring, a deep learning based approach is taken. The goal of this research is to find out if unsupervised learning methods...
master thesis 2020
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Bakker, Floor (author)
To exploit its socio-economic functions, engineering measures are regularly applied in estuaries. Estuaries are, however, known to be very complex systems. Stemming from this complexity is the generation of a so-called estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM), which poses great siltation problems to the engineering measures. An engineering measure,...
master thesis 2020
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Ottenhoff, Matthijs (author)
As a result of the current evolution in the ATM system, a fundamental shift in the ATC work domain is foreseen from ad-hoc tactical to more strategic, 4D (i.e., space and time) trajectory management. Both the SESAR programme in Europe<br/>and the NextGen programme in the US envision a central role for the human operator, to be aided by high...
master thesis 2020
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Brouwer, Patriek (author)
Our present-day society is utterly dependant on electricity. This dependence will only grow as electrification of sectors such as manufacturing, transportation and building heating takes off. Most of the electricity these days comes from conventional plants running on coal and natural gas. Despite that these are reliable and cheap, the...
master thesis 2019
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Dhawale, Abhishek (author)
During the Paris Agreement of 2015, 195 UNFCCC members pledged to improve the global response to climate change by reducing the carbon emissions and contributing to keeping the average global temperature increase well below 2° above the pre-industrial levels. The whole world is gradually shifting towards renewable resources but this transition...
master thesis 2019
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