Towards a lifetime extension strategy for civil structures: Development of a maturity-based decision making framework for the lifetime extension of civil structures, in the context of the oil and gas industry, civil engineering and asset management

Wind Turbines along highways: Feasibility study of the implementation of small scale wind turbines along the Prins Bernardweg Zaandam to Bolswarderbaan highway in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has the goal to have 14% of the total energy production in 2020 generated in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, onshore wind turbines need to have a combined capacity of 6000 MW and the offshore capacity needs to be increased to 4450 MW. The onshore wind industry is however quite saturated. Experts forecast that...

Accelerating the urban energy transition by data analytics

The aim of this study is to express the impacts of building-related sustainability measures in a generic set of performance indicators, exploiting fine-grained city data. A data enrichment method is described for energy consumption data and municipal administration data, that gives accurate estimations of the current energy performance of...

Exploring Factors for Establishing an Aviation Biofuel Supply Chain: An Agent Based Modelling Approach

An Agent Based Model is devised of the Brazilian bio-ethanol system in order to experiment with the emergence of a biokerosene supply chain within this existing market. The results show how the government blending mandate enforces a biomass competition for biofuels which means that the price of biokerosene can not reach kerosene price parity.

A business model for the introduction of home energy management services in the Netherlands

Characterizing stakeholders: Comparing the mindset, role, interest and control of each stakeholder

The Netherlands has an excellent infrastructure, it is one of the main points of entry and hub for goods into Europe. Other countries in Europe are expanding their industry and infrastructure to overtake this position, that is why it is very important for the Netherlands to maintain its position by investing in new industry and infrastructure....

Success of early equipment management, autonomous maintenance and training & education in the start-up of a new production line: A case study at Heineken

Manufacturing organizations have to become more competitive. There are two important things a company can do: become more efficient in all operations and introduce new products. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a production philosophy that contributes to more efficiency. The introduction of new products sometimes require new production...

Long term planning for the water supply system of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam under new water saving regimes of the retail customers: Understanding the system and addressing uncertainties

The centralized drinking water supply system of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam, operated and owned mainly by Waternet, has high performance indicators and satisfies the full demand for water in the urban grid and surrounding areas on a full cost recovery basis. Social and technological developments, stemming mainly from (i) the increasing...

Transactional Actor Analysis of the Sulphur Value Chain: New insights on policy guidelines for Sulphur emissions and content regulations

Distributed renewable energy systems for rural village electrification: The case of Bhutan