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Kool, Juliette (author)The Mara Wetland in Tanzania has an important role in regulating the quality, timing and magnitude of the flow of water into Lake Victoria. In addition, the wetland provides natural resources for local communities and habitat for variety of species. The planned dam construction upstream of the wetland and projected changes in the local climate...master thesis 2021
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Felicita, Maria (author)The implementation of timber as a load-bearing and stabilizing material for high-rise structures has significantly increased over the last decades due to its potential of reducing the environmental footprint of a structure. Timber structures present a reduced global stiffness and self-weight compared to structures incorporating traditional...master thesis 2021
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van Oostrum, Joep (author)A new form of high-speed transportation, which involves a magnetically levitated vehicle that travels through a vacuum tube, is currently under development. Those parts of the trajectory along which the tube is supported by columns---which possess both axial and bending stiffness---requires the use of a model that allows to study a form of...master thesis 2021
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Kolly, A.S. (author)In this report, we address the problems of water hammer and transient phenomena in water-filled pipes. Indeed, water hammer and vibrations cause troubles and damages on hydraulics installations. Here, we report a numerical approach to understand and avoid the problems inherent to these two phenomena. A Method Of Characteristics (MOC)...master thesis 2021
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Buitelaar, Maarten (author), Rademaker, Rolf (author), Lengkeek, Robert (author), Wever, Jason (author)In this assignment we simulate a two meters wide dike stretch which is subjected to overflow. Three failure mechanisms could occur due to overflow: full erosion of the soil of the dike, macro instability of the levee if too much soil is eroded away, leading to insufficient counterweight on the inside of the levee, and surface slip failure due to...student report 2021
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Rijneveld, Martin (author)For railway travel the Insulated Rail Joint (IRJ) is a critical part in most railway safety systems but at the same time also considered a weak link. The IRJ creates a discontinuity in stiffness and geometry that leads to wheel-rail impact forces. The angled IRJ is a proposal to reduce these impact forces. Despite the real-world experiences with...master thesis 2021
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Opschoor, Tobias (author)Industrial and municipal wastewaters often contain a high concentration of NH4+<br/>To prevent excessive discharge into the environment, these wastewaters need to be treated. Electrodialysis has been shown to be a suitable technique for the removal and recovery of NH4+ from both synthetic and real wastewaters such as digestate rejection water...master thesis 2021
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Storm, Joep (author)Designing engineering structures relies on accurate numerical simulations to predict the behaviour of a structure before its realization. In the design process, many variables influence the final structure. There is an incentive for optimizing the design based on the desire for cheaper structures and less material usage. Although a wide variety...master thesis 2021
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Christiaanse, Jakob (author)Continuous sea level rise and growing environmental awareness have led to increasing implementation of nature-based solutions to counter coastal erosion. An example in the Netherlands is the Sand Engine---a mega-scale sand nourishment designed to feed the Dutch coast over a period of 20 years. For such designs to work, a good understanding of...master thesis 2021
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van der Voort Maarschalk, Joost (author)Drag in pipelines is composed almost solely of skin friction drag. The most common technique to achieve drag reduction (DR) is by adding drag-reducing agents. However, in the aerospace industry, various impressive passive drag-reducing techniques have been suggested to reduce skin friction drag in the past decades. Among these techniques,...master thesis 2021
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van Adrichem, Steve (author)The aim of this research is to find the influence of rapid drawdown on dike stability with the Delta21 project as case study. The Delta21 project is a proposed plan for a waterdefence system in front of the Haringvliet, The Netherlands. Its main element is a water retaining lake with an extensive pumping and turbine system. Whenever other storm...master thesis 2021
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Maltha, Niels (author)Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is a geothermal technique that is an important component in the transition towards renewable energy in the heating and cooling industry, which accounts for half of the world's energy consumption. However, the technology has not yet been implemented in many countries. The main reason is that extensive...master thesis 2021
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van Dijk, Mathijs (author)The world faces an increasing energy problem, forcing people to search for sustainable energy sources. Offshore wind energy has shown great potential to financially compete with traditional energy sources. Recent developments like the slip-joint connection increase this potential. However, for further optimization of the design of a slip-joint,...master thesis 2021
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Bleker, Lazlo (author)As of writing this thesis little research has been done in truss layout optimization for multiple design alternatives. A hybrid scheme is proposed in which the fast gradient-based search of the Ground Structure Method (GSM) is employed for the search of optimal topology and size, while a population-based meta-heuristic algorithm explores the non...master thesis 2021
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Chen, Cheng (author)Accurate rainfall intensity measurements are important to many applications like weather monitoring and forecasting, economics, urban design, agriculture and so on. A weather radar is one of the instruments to measure rainfall by reflected microwave signal from raindrops. However, the rainfall rate estimated by weather radar has various errors...master thesis 2021
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TANG, JIANYI (author)Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is a high organic pollution produced during the palm oil mill process, with a brownish color and stingy odor at high temperatures. Given the popularity in palm oil output over the years, the massive amount of POME causes growing concern. The enforcement of wastewater discharge standards and laws, as well as energy...master thesis 2021
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Sigel, Luis (author)An increasing amount of the worlds coastal regions suffer from structural erosion due to anthropogenic influences. A prime example for this phenomenon is the Oosterschelde, Netherlands, where the partial closure of an estuary lead to a decline of the local intertidal flats, threatening the valuable functions they provide as an ecosystem and for...master thesis 2021
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de Groot, Suzanne (author)Rivers provide many of our day-to-day needs. They allow, for instance, the production of drinking water and the movement of goods via inland waterways. However, river systems experience disturbances, such as droughts and pollution plumes. These disturbances can impair the functioning of river systems and their ability to provide the desired...master thesis 2020
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van der Poel, S. (author)New techniques are urgently demanded to remove organic micropollutants (OMPs) such as endocrine disrupting compounds, pharmaceuticals and pesticides from our drinking water sources. With increasing salinity of surface waters in coastal regions, salt removal has also become an issue in the production of drinking water. When advanced oxidation...master thesis 2020
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Scholten, J. (author)As climate change takes hold, extreme weather events increasingly pressure the performance of the railway infrastructure. A first insight has been obtained into the impacts of climate change for the train system and the railway network, but there are almost no studies on the impact of our changing climate on railway stations. This study...master thesis 2020
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