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van der Starre, Thom (author)Hall spars, a leading innovator in the composite mast-building industry with a long history of successful projects, provided a challenge which is the inspiration of this thesis. This thesis aims to contribute to the challenge: Joining techniques for the internal bonding of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer components into carbon fibre-reinforced...master thesis 2023
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de Vries, David (author)Ethiopia’s energy demand is expected to increase sevenfold in the coming 30 years, resulting in increased variable renewable electricity (VRE) production by solar PV and wind. Energy storage acts as a buffer that mitigates the effects of over- or under-capacity in production by VRE. With 97% of global bulk energy storage, pumped hydro storage is...master thesis 2023
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Ruminy, Justine (author)The climate emergency calls for a global shift towards a low-carbon economy, to preserve natural resources and biodiversity, while limiting global warming and its consequences. This project focuses on the impact of distribution centres, intended for the storage of commercial goods. Warehouses are characterised by large flexible spaces and simple...master thesis 2023
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Winiarczyk, Kevin (author)Nowadays, air ducts components for ventilation used in offices, hospitals and schools are made from non-renewable materials mainly sheet metal and plastics. Continuing to feed the high demand of metals is a challenge and could result of depletion of natural resources. This raises the importance to look into renewable resources with a lower...master thesis 2023
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Michailidou, E. (author), Visser, P. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Kosari, A. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Baert, K. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author)The corrosion inhibiting effect of lithium carbonate has been studied over the pH range relevant for atmospheric corrosion conditions at the polymer/metal interface. It is demonstrated that lithium carbonate offers optimum corrosion protection under moderately alkaline conditions attributed to the formation of a protective layer identified as...journal article 2023
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Belo Gomes Brito, C. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Villegas, I.F. (author)This paper evaluates the potential of changing the welding force and the compliance of the energy director (ED) to reduce the effects caused by misaligned adherends, which were: increased through-thickness heating, reduced size of welded area and increased heating time. In the methodology that was followed, we welded adherends misaligned by...journal article 2023
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Valero Romero, M.J. (author), García-Mateos, F. J. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Rodríguez-Mirasol, J. (author), Cordero, T. (author)Cobalt-containing lignin-based fibers were synthesized in one step by electrospinning of Alcell lignin solutions as carbon precursor, a low-cost and renewable co-product of the paper making industry. The lignin fibers were thermostabilized in air to avoid the fusion during the carbonization process between 500 and 800 °C to obtain cobalt...journal article 2023
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Peña, Álvaro (author), Matatagui, Daniel (author), Ricciardella, F. (author), Sacco, L.N. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Otero, Daniel (author), López-Sánchez, Jesús (author), Marín, Pilar (author), Horrillo, Mari Carmen (author)Nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>) is a potential hazard to human health at low concentrations, below one part per million (ppm). NO<sub>2</sub> can be monitored using gas sensors based on multi-layered graphene operating at ambient temperature. However, reliable detection of concentrations on the order of parts per million and lower is...journal article 2023
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Vasileiadis, A. (author), Li, Yuqi (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Hu, Yong Sheng (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)There are several questions and controversies regarding the Na storage mechanism in hard carbon. This springs from the difficulty of probing the vast diversity of possible configurational environments for Na storage, including surface and defect sites, edges, pores, and intercalation morphologies. In the effort to explain the observed voltage...journal article 2023
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Polat, H.M. (author), de Meyer, Frédérick (author), Houriez, Céline (author), Coquelet, Christophe (author), Moultos, O. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)We investigated the effect of temperature and monoethanolamine (MEA) concentration on the self-diffusivity of acid gases, CO<sub>2</sub>, and H<sub>2</sub>S in aqueous MEA solutions. For this purpose, we computed densities of pure MEA and 30 wt% MEA/water solutions while scaling the LJ energy (ϵ) parameter and point charges of MEA. Results...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)Transition towards a carbon-neutral district energy community calls for carbon elimination and offsetting strategies, and phase change materials (PCMs) with substantial potential latent energy density can contribute significantly to carbon neutrality through both carbon-positive (like PCM-based thermal control in solar PVs) and carbon...review 2023
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Yang, Yueming (author), Wang, Xurong (author), Hooman, K. (author), Han, Kuihua (author), Xu, Jinliang (author), He, Suoying (author), Qi, Jianhui (author)Recently, the supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO<sub>2</sub>) power cycle has become a hotspot in the field of energy-efficient utilization. The utilization of additives in the power cycle has been proven to be an effective way to improve the SCO<sub>2</sub> power cycle efficiency. As one of the core components of the system, the influence of...journal article 2023
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Wang, J. (author), Yan, Xin ping (author), Boersma, B.J. (author), Lu, Ming jian (author), Liu, Xiaohua (author)Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHE) are designed to improve heat recovery and energy saving in supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> (S-CO<sub>2</sub>) power cycles. In the current study, a modified channel PCHE is proposed based on the regular straight channel and a zigzag channel. The thermal–hydraulic performance of four different types of PCHE...journal article 2023
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Wu, F. (author), Muller, Adrian (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)Biomass is a growing renewable energy source in Europe and is envisioned to play a role for realising carbon neutrality, predominantly using dedicated energy crops. However, dedicated biomass is controversial for reasons including its competition with food production or its land-use and emissions impacts. Here we examine the potential role of a...journal article 2023
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Potapenko, Tatiana (author), Döhler, Jessica S. (author), Francisco, Francisco (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Temiz, Irina (author)Decarbonization of ports is a major goal to reduce their global carbon footprint. The port of Hvide Sande is located on the coast of the North Sea in Denmark and it has the potential to utilize various renewable energy sources. Wind and solar thermal parks are already installed there. Wave energy is an alternative to solar and wind energies and...journal article 2023
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Werker, A. (author), Pei, R. (author), Kim, Kevin (author), Moretto, Giulia (author), Estevez Alonso, A. (author), Vermeer, C.M. (author), Arcos-Hernandez, Monica (author), Dijkstra, Jelmer (author), de Vries, Erik (author)Past studies have repeatedly demonstrated the technical feasibility to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) using bacterial biomass of mixed microbial cultures (MMCs). Commercial quality grades of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate), PHBV, can be produced with control of average monomer composition. However, demonstration of PHBV...journal article 2023
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Falcetelli, F. (author), Cristiani, D.L.M. (author), Yue, N. (author), Sbarufatti, Claudio (author), Sante, Raffaella Di (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) show several inherent benefits with respect to conventional strain-sensing technologies and represent a key technology for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). Despite the solid motivation behind DOFS-based SHM systems, their implementation for real-time structural assessment is still unsatisfactory...conference paper 2023
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Brudzisz, Anna (author), Giziński, Damian (author), Liszewska, Malwina (author), Wierzbicka, Ewa (author), Tiringer, U. (author), Taha, Safeya A. (author), Zając, Marcin (author), Orzechowska, Sylwia (author), Jankiewicz, Bartłomiej (author), Taheri, P. (author), Stępniowski, Wojciech J. (author)The low-voltage (< 5 V) anodization of copper in aqueous solutions of sodium bicarbonate was studied for the first time. As demonstrated, this method leads to the formation of microstructures on a copper surface, that are composed of malachite (CuCO<sub>3</sub>·Cu(OH)<sub>2</sub>). Moreover, by tuning the operating conditions, i.e.,...journal article 2023
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Sacco, L.N. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author)The fabrication and design of carbon-based hierarchical structures with tailored nano-architectures have attracted the enormous attention of the materials science community due to their exceptional chemical and physical properties. The collective control of nano-objects, in terms of their dimensionality, orientation and size, is of paramount...review 2023
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sharifian, rezvan (author), van der Wal, H. C. (author), Wagterveld, R. M. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)To assist reaching net-zero emissions, the dissolved carbon in the ocean can be extracted to enable an indirect air capture. An electrochemical bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED) is a sustainable method for such capture. The BPMED enables a pH-swing that manipulates the oceanic carbonate-equilibrium using electricity. However, at...journal article 2023