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Wagenaar, Sjors (author)In some countries, drying processes use up to 20% of the total energy consumption. Within the agriculture sector, drying of food and flowering products is a necessary step in production. A lot of companies make use of hot air dryers where the heat is gained by burning natural gas. A novel method is to use a heat pump assisted drying systems...master thesis 2019
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ter Meulen, Ruben (author)A random periodic two-dimensional spring network us built using a Poisson disk distribution and computing the Delaunay triangulation of the centers of the disks. The edges of the network represent springs that obey Hooke’s law with an adjustment on the spring constant. The adjustment allows spring to soften and to break. The two-dimensional...bachelor thesis 2019
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Biesheuvel, Bas (author)TechnipFMC is pushing innovations to reduce the emissions of ethylene plants separations. This development is also driven by customer demands. They face increasingly strict legislation on \ce{CO2} emissions. Separation in distillation columns is one of the major energy intensive unit operations in an ethylene plant, and increasing their...master thesis 2019
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Hoogmoet, Gijs (author)The world’s climate is changing. In the Netherlands one of the consequences is that water boards and municipalities are preparing for an increase in extreme precipitation. To evaluate the consequences in case of extreme precipitation all Dutch municipalities and water boards have to perform a stress test. In these stress tests the response of...master thesis 2019
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Sijtsma, Lennard (author)In the Netherlands, wind power has the highest potential for future development compared to alternatives such as solar PV and biomass. The intermittent nature of the wind power resource calls for novel approaches to supply and demand management, as well as power quality assurance. Energy storage technologies allow for the separation between...master thesis 2019
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den Dekker, Pieter (author)Additional master thesisstudent report 2019
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Nair, Revathy (author)This study is part of a project titled: “Phenolic compounds degradation in AnMBR under mesophilic and thermophilic operation: BioXtreme-following up”. <br/>Phenol is a toxic contaminant found widely in industrial effluents. It is toxic to humans and animals even at very low concentrations. Anaerobic digestion uses phenol as a carbon source and...student report 2019
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Kumari, Pooja (author)Oxy-fuel gas cutting is the most widely applied industrial thermal cutting process due to its various benefits such as low cost equipment, versatility and flexibility in terms of manual or mechanized operation. It is employed in cutting mild steel plates with thicknesses ranging from 0.5mm to 250mm, to manufacture heavy equipment such as...master thesis 2018
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Florea, Radu (author)In this MSc. thesis, state estimation for a nanosatellite-class reaction wheel has been investigated. Two LPV observers, using different sensor information, have been synthesized. The performance of the designed observers has been evaluated using a detailed simulation of the reaction wheel (including disturbances that occur during the reaction...master thesis 2018
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Kralli, Vaso (author)Nourishments are considered to be a popular soft measure against coastal erosion. In the Netherlands, the concept of a localized mega nourishment has been introduced as an innovative approach, aiming to counteract the anticipated enhanced coastal erosion. The positive results of the Sand Engine implementation lead the way for applying the mega...master thesis 2018
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van Ommen, Trystan (author)Fixed support structures for offshore wind turbines are commonly used for shallow water (till 45 meters). In many countries shallow-waters are rare. Floating support structures may be the solution for these areas. Many concepts have been developed but three concepts have been analyzed (spar, semi-submergible and the tension leg platform (TLP))...master thesis 2018
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Sanchez Tobon, Diego (author)Gas injection processes suffer from poor volumetric sweep efficiency due to phenomena such as viscous fingering caused by density contrast between the injected gas and the displaced fluid, channeling due to heterogeneities in the reservoir and gravity override due to the inherent lower density of gas. One possible way to overcome these negative...master thesis 2018
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Liu, Xiaoyezi (author)The Pd-based metal membranes have been focused on many studies, because they are the most promising candidates for hydrogen separation. If Pd-based membranes are designed in nanoscale, then the introduced high volume fraction of grain boundaries can act as fast diffusion paths for hydrogen atoms that leading to an increase of hydrogen separation...master thesis 2018
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Kersbergen, Kieran (author)With most of the current research in quadrotor Loss-Of-Control (LOC) being focussed on specific failure cases e.g. sensor faults and Single-Rotor Failure (SRF), the growth that is expected in the drone industry will not be able to be sustained, in regards to the safety of individuals in urban areas. Without an assurance of reliability regarding...master thesis 2018
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Sathyadevan, Sruthi (author)Calibration of groundwater models can be done manually by comparing the measured and computed groundwater heads or automatically using algorithms which do the work for you. Modules for this purpose are included in or linked externally to traditional groundwater modelling software and used. One such module PEST (Parameter ESTimation) uses the...master thesis 2018
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Ergin, Mert (author)The thesis project is aimed at designing an unobtrusive method to find the obstruction location and severity for patients who are not diagnosed with Obstructive sleep apnea, during their non-sedated sleep using simple recording devices within uncontrolled environment. Similar to speech generation, which is enabled by opening and closing of the...master thesis 2018
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Hoogerwerf, Erwin (author)In recent years, the offshore wind industry has grown significantly. The wind turbines are constructed in wind farms, and are serviced with relatively small crew transfer vessels. These vessels transport repair crews from the mainland to the farms and back within a day. One of the big challenges is that these transits can cause motion sickness....master thesis 2018
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Ortega-Córdova, Lessie (author)3D city models are now common planning and analysis tools. Urban vegetation as a feature in these models, however, is neglected overshadowed by the focus on buildings, so its inclusion in 3D city models is often symbolic. On the other hand, urban vegetation improves the comfort and social well being of a city’s inhabitants and is a resource for...master thesis 2018
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Ayivor, Patrick (author)The search for new sources of ancillary services and the projected demand for hydrogen as a medium of energy storage has aroused considerable interest in the use of large scale electrolysers for power system ancillary services. As the number of large scale electrolysers is projected to grow, it is important that the dynamics of these plants are...master thesis 2018
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Koopman, Daan (author)This thesis adds to quantitative literature on terrorism by examining the relationship between various annual country statistics and the number of terrorist attacks. In addition, it assesses the potential of forecasting terrorism. Combining an extensive review of literature from social science, with data analysis of the Global Terrorism Database...master thesis 2018