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Barendsen, Lot (author)In the Netherlands, dikes are the most commonly used structures to retain water and provide safety against flooding. In order to ensure the safety of these dikes against a number of different failure mechanisms such as backwards erosion piping, wave overtopping and macro stability, a detailed safety assessment has been created. The focus of this...master thesis 2020
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van Gils, Martijn (author)Pre-piling templates are often used in the offshore industry to ensure the vertical installation of foundation piles for jacket structures. Boskalis is currently preparing a project that uses these templates in the Taiwan Strait, which is a region known for its relatively soft soils and seismic activity. Consequently, the piles are very long in...master thesis 2020
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Spannenburg, Trevor (author)Amsterdam and many other cities consist of a network of old quay walls, which sometimes have been constructed over a century ago. A large uncertainty exists concerning the current safety of these quay walls and their remaining service lifetime. In the current framework for the assessment of old urban quay walls, the influence of timber creep in...master thesis 2020
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Ruis, Sidi (author)The ongoing worldwide energy transition has prompted significant scientific interest in energy storage. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have become a standard for energy storage in mobile devices and electric vehicles for their mass-energy density. While industry standard lithium-ion cells are currently based on liquid electrolytes, solid...bachelor thesis 2020
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Carver, Lindsey (author)Pre-fermentation of influent has been proposed as a method to improve phosphorus removal capacity, granulation, and simultaneous nitrification denitrification for aerobic granular sludge plants. This thesis sought to determine the influence of increasing VFA concentrations on performance of aerobic granular sludge plants and key considerations...master thesis 2020
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Bindhu Sreevalsan, Devika (author)Over the past few decades, there has been a steep increase in efforts to generate electricity from clean and renewable energy sources so as to reduce consumption of fossil fuels. A considerable amount of research is in progress to explore the scope of various sustainable power sources; among which tidal energy is estimated to have a huge...master thesis 2021
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Tarantini, Daniele (author)In the last decades, the excessive increase in average global temperature related to a massive rise in greenhouse gas emissions showed the world how the fossil fuel society we live in today is drastically modifying and destroying the world we live in and is turning it in an un-habitable planet. Scientist all over the world made it clear that if...master thesis 2021
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van Duijn, Joël (author)The goal of this thesis is to characterise diesel-ammonia combustion using a mean value first principle approach, and to implement this characterisation of diesel-ammonia combustion in a time domain two-stroke engine model. This model will be used to indicate the technical feasibility of diesel-ammonia as a marine fuel. The main research...master thesis 2021
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Ammerlaan, Dion (author)Experimental investigation of swirling vertical gas-liquid flow regimes. Different columnar flow patterns were observed and were used to construct flow regime maps. Four swirl elements were used to investigate the effect of swirl intensity on the flow regimes. An attempt was made to model the transitions between these columnar flow patterns.master thesis 2021
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Postma, Jelmer (author)Surface compositions play a predominant role in the efficiency and lifetime of membranes and catalysts. The surface composition can change during operation due to segregation, thus controlling and predicting the surface composition is essential. Computational modelling can aid in predicting the alloy's stability, along with designing surface...master thesis 2021
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Schouten, David (author)One of the preferred features of plastic is its high durability. This merit is its main disadvantage in the natural environment. When poorly disposed of, plastic waste can enter rivers from surface waters and subsequently end up in the ocean. Here, plastic spreads out over the entire ocean and ultimately ends in ocean gyres....master thesis 2021
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Neuman, Joris (author)The aviation sector accounted for 3.4 to 4.0% of the total anthropogenic radiative forcing in 2015. The sectors’growth is several percentage points larger than the annual fuel efficiency gain, resulting in an increasing climatechange impact. The world formulated goals for 2050 to limit anthropogenic climate change, the aviation sectorrequires a...master thesis 2021
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van Noort, Rieneke (author)Coral reefs are vital to the prosperity of the world and the local communities by providing food and coastal protection. Coral reefs are home to 25% of marine life and have therefore gained the nickname ’rainforest of the sea’. However, the reefs are being damaged by climate change and human intervention, resulting in an alarming rate of...master thesis 2021
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van Beers, Jasper (author)As research endeavours and commercial applications demand more of the quadrotor, it is only natural to develop models which can facilitate this. Currently, analytical descriptions of the quadrotor are rudimentary and most data-driven quadrotor models are identified from flight data collected indoors. Therefore, existing quadrotor models are...master thesis 2021
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Lin, Steven (author)As the intensity and frequency of urban heat wave increases in Europe, evaporative cooling from watering pavements has been considered as a promising strategy to regulate urban temperature. The aim of this research is to include evaporative cooling modelling and enhance the surface temperature model SURF-TEMP, which is in development at the...student report 2022
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Halvorsen, Stijn (author)Wind energy plays an essential role in the transition to a sustainable future and wind turbines allow us to utilize it. Wind turbines are often installed in close proximity to make the best use of the given space and to save costs. This also has the disadvantage that the turbines influence each other due to wakes. This is where wind farm control...master thesis 2022
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Reuchlin, Sweder (author)Currently, in remote off-grid locations, electricity is primarily generated using diesel generators, which is expensive and has significant carbon emissions. Alternatively, these remote locations have a huge potential for utilizing renewable energy sources. In such locations, airborne wind energy (AWE) systems could have an advantage over...master thesis 2022
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Saini, Raghav (author)Engineering has a significant cultural component in addition to its widespread perception as an engine of innovation and economic growth. This cultural component corresponds to how users and communities react or adapt to technological innovations and their influence on the advancement of such innovations. Hence, it is critical to prioritize the...master thesis 2022
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Grolleman, Sven (author)At the moment, Tata Steel emits 12.6 Mt CO2 per year while producing 7.2 Mt steel per year. To reduce these emissions, Tata Steel has decided to replace the blast furnaces with direct reduced iron (DRI) plants in combination with reducing electrical furnaces. The DRI plants will first operate with a 100% natural gas feed. Whenever green hydrogen...master thesis 2022
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Kouzelis, Antonios (author)Electric vehicles (EVs) equipped with vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) and EVs with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can support in overcoming power grid challenges emerging from the energy transition. Despite the widespread benefits that VIPV and V2G have to offer, their potential impact on battery life governs their economic viability....master thesis 2022