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Van den Broeck, Michael (author)The use of Taylor Series Integration (TSI) for the propagation of spacecraft trajectories and its combination with the relatively unknown Unified State Model (USM) coordinate system, resulting in the TSI-USM propagator, is known to allow fast propagation of interplanetary low-thrust trajectories. Unfortunately, the TSI-USM propagator is a...master thesis 2017
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Stijnman, Peter (author)Electrical properties tomography is the quantification of the conductivity and permittivity of different materials. In an MRI setting this can be used to map the electrical properties of tissue. These values can be used as a different contrast mechanism, for hyperthermia treatment or the improvement of antenna design for specific applications....master thesis 2017
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Galnares de la Garza, F.O. (author)In this work, gas phase toluene was degraded as model contaminant in an annular LED-based photocatalytic reactor under various light irradiance and illumination modes as a means to enhance the efficiency in illumination. The effect of controlled periodic illumination was first studied by exploring the effect of the duty cycle and the period and...master thesis 2017
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van der Hoeven, Jelmer (author), Coesoij, Richard (author)The Zebro is a six legged autonomous robot, designed to be deployed in swarms. Charging the battery is still done manually. To further increase the autonomous abilities of the Zebro, a wireless charging station and module is designed. The charging station is fully modular and interconnected by charging pads. This opens the possibility of...bachelor thesis 2017
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kunst, David (author)Areas are getting more and more populated causing new infrastructure lines to be constructed below the surface. A bored tunnel is one of the possibilities to create this subsurface infrastructure, but the construction process of a bored tunnel is a complicated one. Many loads and aspects are present in this construction process that can be...master thesis 2017
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Wang, T. (author)Demand driven building energy management system has gained significant interest in recent years. In order to provide insights for the demand driven building heating energy management at IDE building, TU Delft, this research develops an approach to access real time occupancy information by applying supervised machine learning (ML) classification...master thesis 2017
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Wasim, A.M.K.K. (author)For μCHP applications, micro gas turbines offer many potential advantages in comparison to other conver- sion technologies due to their compact size and high specific power, low vibration and noise, low mainte- nance requirements, low emissions and high-grade residual thermal energy. Optimisation of MTT compressor with a vaneless diffuser (OCVLD...master thesis 2017
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Merino Madrid, Cristian (author)Prediction of emissions from combustion systems is a complex problem involving the coupling between the flow field and chemistry. CFD analysis is the most commonly employed approach. However, it has the drawback that a very high computational cost prevents the use of detailed chemistry models. This master thesis, which focuses on NOx emissions,...master thesis 2017
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Lin, Pei-Chiang (author)The aim of this project is to improve passengers’ experience regarding boarding and alighting by designing the rear entrance and its vicinity. Based on the findings from literature researches on product experience and comfort, a series of extensive passenger researches were performed to explore passengers’ needs and wants of different levels....master thesis 2017
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Berckmoes, Dennis (author)X-core is a novel foam core material developed by Donkervoort Automobielen, it enables a unique one-shot process for seamless composite sandwich structures with mould-defined features all-around. The foam is co-cured to carbon fibre/epoxy prepregs, in this form the process is currently used to make car components for the Donkervoort D8 GTO RS....master thesis 2017
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Güroğlu, Duygu (author)Designing a bus seat with an increased comfort perception for the passengers with regards to physical and cognitive aspects was the assignment for my graduation project at the TU Delft executed in collaboration with VDL Bus & Coach.master thesis 2017
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Postma, T.J.W. (author)Over the past decade, a steep increase in the number of seismic events has been observed in the Groningen gas producing region of the Northern Netherlands. It is generally accepted that these are induced by compaction of the reservoir rock due to extensive field depletion, causing a buildup of strain energy which may be released seismically when...master thesis 2017
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Tanzer, Samantha (author)This thesis compares the performance of hypothetical biorefineries in Brazil and Scandinavia that produce biofuel for use in large marine vessels using one of three thermochemical technologies—hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), fast pyrolysis with hydrodeoxygenation (FP), and gasification with Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (GFT)—and one of ten...master thesis 2017
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van Rooijen, Willemijn (author)This study investigates the thermal recharge of deep geothermal reservoirs by free convection. A coupled numerical model that is built in Comsol Multiphysics is presented in order to estimate the thermal recharge during the first 30 years of production from a typical high enthalpy geothermal reservoir. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to...bachelor thesis 2017
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Hugtenburg, Stefan (author)Wireless sensor networks are commonly used to remotely and automatically monitor environments.<br/>One of the main challenges in wireless sensor networks is to use the limited available energy as efficiently as possible, to ensure longevity of the network. For such networks to survive their intended deployment period no energy may be wasted on...master thesis 2017
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Roorda, evelyne (author)During its lifetime a space launcher is subjected to extreme heat loads. To protect space vehicles from these heat loads and their resulting temperatures they are equipped with a Thermal Protection System (TPS). Heat loads are typically the largest during flight through the atmosphere. The research question addressed in the thesis is: how robust...master thesis 2017
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Spasojevic, Nino (author)This master thesis shows the redesign of a travel coach sleeping cabin. The sleeping cabin used to be an empty box with a mattress only, but after the redesign it has become a pleasant environment to sleep in and wake up in. The sleeping cabin contains several unique selling points which will help VDL distinguish themselves from their...master thesis 2017
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Bremm, M.J. (author)The mechanism of three-dimensional shock control bumps (SCBs) to reduce wave drag is widely understood. Further, it has been claimed potential for passive flow control of transonic buffet. Although the underlying mechanisms of how SCBs favourably influence buffet onset are thought to be understood in broad terms, no experiments of SCBs in an...master thesis 2017
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Requeno García, Laura (author)This MSc thesis presents a stochastic modelling approach to the multi-period airline fleet planning problem. Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) is used to model the impact of demand uncertainty on fleet decisions. The proposed ADP algorithm applies local value function approximations resulting from Gaussian kernel regressions to estimate...master thesis 2017