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van Dooren, K.S. (author)
The aeronautical industry has set ambitious goals to reduce its environmental impact and become sustainable. Addressing rising emissions involves strategies such as reducing structural weight, due to its direct impact on fuel consumption, and the use of new materials and manufacturing techniques. Research and development on thermoplastic...
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Angevare, J. (author)
Advanced Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) exhibit significant self-heating and require thermal management to prevent overheating. Sensors for this application should be not only small so that they can be placed ubiquitously, but they should also achieve moderate accuracy and resolution within 1 ms so that the die temperature can be monitored with...
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Zhang, A. (author)
Bio-mediated methods, such as microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) and enzyme induced carbonate precipitation (EICP), have gained considerable attention as alternatives to invasive ground improvement techniques. MICP and EICP use biogeochemical processes to drive carbonate precipitation and bind soil grains, thereby improving the...
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Kaaks, B.J. (author)
Over the next couple of decades, the world will face the challenge of drastically reducing carbon emissions. Innovative Generation-IV nuclear reactor designs can play an important role in driving this energy transition. One of these designs is the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR), characterized by a fast neutron spectrum and the use of a liquid...
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Pavez Jara, J.A. (author)
This thesis research investigated the dynamics of nutrient release and the formation of melanoidins during thermal hydrolysis processes (THP) of waste activated sludge (WAS) preceding mesophilic anaerobic digestion (AD). In Chapter 2, a fractionation of THP-sludge allowed for researching the distribution of nutrients and melanoidins over the...
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van der Maden, W.L.A. (author)
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from <i>curatorial</i> AI in YouTube to <i>generative</i> AI in ChatGPT, demonstrates both potential for progress and risks of harm. Adopting a Positive Design approach aimed at directly enhancing human wellbeing, this dissertation develops the concept of...
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Manss, C. (author)
The operation of robotic systems on extraterrestrial missions involves long distance communications, which have large delays and make the control of any agent complicated. This problem becomes even more dominant if multiple robotic systems are used. One solution to this problem is to increase the autonomy of each robotic system such that each...
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Pelka, S. (author)
The potential of households to adapt their energy use to the conditions of the energy system remains largely untapped due to shortcomings in consumer governance (i.e., the organization of household energy use). A lack of price signals and services leads to uncoordinated household energy use. Various proposals exist for updating consumer...
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van Heijst, S.E. (author)
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials have attracted the interest of the scientific community following the discovery of graphene and its extraordinary properties. Of particular interest is a class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The materials within this class were discovered to show similarly...
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van der Veen, J.R. (author)
In this dissertation, the charge transport mechanism in the conductive fibres of cable bacteria is investigated. In Chapter 1, the research field of bacterial electricity is introduced. Three kinds of bacterial nanowires are discussed: Shewenella nanowires, Geobacter nanowires and the conductive fibres fromcable bacteria. Even though the three...
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Sewalt, E.J.G. (author)
Evaporating solute-containing droplets tend to temporarily become sticky as they transition from wet droplets to dry particles. Stickiness plays a crucial role in promoting beneficial powder properties through agglomeration but also in potential fouling of drying equipment. Spray drying, a processing technology turning a swarm of droplets into...
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Sarkar, A. (author)
As bigger quantum processors with hundreds of qubits become increasingly available, the potential for quantum computing to solve problems intractable for classical computers is becoming more tangible. Designing efficient quantum algorithms and software in tandem is key to achieving quantum advantage. Quantum software engineering is...
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Wang, Weizheng (author)
Considering that the IoT is giving rise to new sensing infrastructures with stringent requirements, we are posed with new trade-offs. On one hand, there is a need to develop systems that have a low cost, complexity, and ecological footprint, while being privacy-aware. On the other hand, despite these constraints, there is a need to still...
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Chen, L. (author)
Microbial drinking water quality is of great importance to human health. Drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) are designed as the final barriers for delivering and maintaining the biosafety of drinking water. Though the drinking water produced is usually safe and clean, it is common that the water quality deteriorates during the...
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Lussenburg, K.M. (author)
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, offers a new paradigm for the way functional products are designed, manufactured, and assembled. Its additive nature provides the ability to create complex-shaped parts, without an increase in production time or costs, which would be difficult to produce with conventional manufacturing. In addition,...
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Boricic, Aleksandar (author)
Climate change is one of the most dangerous and simultaneously most complex threats humanity has ever faced. The key response to this threat has been an unprecedented strategic shift in the energy sector, known as the<i> energy transition</i>. Electricity powers the modern world and is at the very centre of the energy transition. The shift to...
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Hennig, R.J. (author)
Two concurrent developments lead to challenges for electric distribution networks: On the demand side, there is an increase in the electrification of heating, transportation, and industrial processes, and on the supply side, there is significant growth in the capacity of intermittent electric generation based on wind and solar. Both of these...
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Owen, C.C. (author)
The imminence of anthropogenic climate change has motivated a global energy transition towards sustainable power generation. Offshore wind—an important contributor to the energy transition—is expanding, not only in turbine size and number of installations, but also into regions with harsher environmental conditions. One of those conditions in...
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Solidario de Souza Benatti, G. (author)
This doctoral dissertation delves into the complex challenge of smallholder productive inclusion within the biodiesel value chain in Brazil. The focus is on the National Policy for Biodiesel Production and Use (PNPB) and its instrument to promote smallholder inclusion: the Social Biofuel Seal (SBS). Productive inclusion of smallholders in value...
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Wesdorp, J.J. (author)
The growing understanding of the physics of superconductor-semiconductor nanostruc- tures is a key driver for the development of emerging quantum technologies. The elemen- tary excitations of these hybrid nanostructures are Andreev bound states. To further our knowledge about their intricate physics, new tools must be used to study them. This...
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