Circulating fluidized bed of biomass gasification: Product compound prediction by application of a constrained equilibrium model

Biomass as a renewable energy resource and a carbon neutral feedstock has a big potential to replace fossil fuel. Gasification as one of thermochemical process routes in biomass utilization draws attention with regards to its broad product range. The circulating fluidized bed with the advantages of higher and rapid conversion performs as the...

Enhanced Kalman filtering for a 2D CFD Navier-Stokes wind farm model

Wind turbines are often grouped together for financial reasons, but due to wake development this usually results in decreased turbine lifetimes and power capture, and thereby an increased levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Wind farm control aims to minimize this cost by operating turbines at their optimal control settings. Most state-of-the-art...

The influence of pedalling on the lateral dynamics of cycling: A modelling approach

There are still important knowledge gaps regarding stability and safety of bicycle riding. Every year around 60,000 people need hospital treatment for single sided accidents in the Netherlands alone. Supporting the need for understanding lateral bicycle dynamics. One of the prominent disturbances on lateral bicycle and rider behaviour is...

On the development of a surgebin

Research on the design of surgebins, used in the wet mining cycle. A 1.5D advection diffusion model is created and validated with experimental tests.

The effect of sloshing in partially filled spherical LNG tanks on ship motions

This report describes two methods to analyse the effect of sloshing on ship motions. The first method applies linear potential theory on both the barge and the internal tanks. For the barge the radiation, diffraction and incoming wave potentials are solved. For the internal tanks only the radiation potential is calculated, as there are obviously...

Acoustical Monitoring of Model System for Vascular Access in Haemodialysis

Stenosis is the main reason of the failure of a vascular access in haemodialysis. Its presence engenders an increase of the morbidity and an increase of the hospitalization for hemodialysed patients and its early detection consists thus in an important issue. Digital phonoangiography or digital acoustical analysis is an alternative to the...

Muscle parameters for musculoskeletal modelling of the human neck

This study presents a consistent anatomical dataset, containing the musculoskeletal geometry (muscle attachment sites, fibre length, tendon length, bony landmarks) and muscle contraction parameters (physiological cross sectional area, optimal fibre length) of the complete neck musculature. A dissection experiment was performed on the left side...