Ammonia Decarbonisation Pathways and Their Effects on Life Cycle Assessments: Integrating future ammonia scenarios into background data for prospective LCAs

Using the IEA Ammonia Roadmap aligned with the IMAGE electricity scenarios, an extensive database was produced allowing for prospective LCAs across three storylines from 2020 to 2050 (SSP2-Base, SSP2-RCP26, SSP2-RCP19). The scenarios correspond respectively to 3.9, 2.0, and 1.5°C of global warming in 2100 (vs. pre-industrial levels). Regionally,...

Catalyzing collaboration for the future of food: A service proposition to accelerate sustainable innovation in the food value chain

As the world’s population is constantly growing, there is increased pressure on agricultural food value chains to deliver sustainable food production, distribution, and consumption, forcing core stakeholders in the food value chain (FVC) to change to meet those needs. One of the most significant barriers is a lack of collaboration, which risks...

A coupled propulsion and thermal management system for hybrid electric aircraft design: A case study

Air transport is facing an important challenge when it comes to the reduction of its environmental footprint. Hybrid electric aircraft offer a potential solution to reduce in-flight emissions. The essence of hybrid electric aircraft is to combine multiple energy sources and energy conversion systems, in order to improve the overall energy...

A Roadmap to the Future of Radiology Staff Resilience: Enhancing employee engagement of Millennials

With the introduction of the Quadruple Aim at Philips, healthcare staff experience is recognized as an important health system performance indicator. Engaged healthcare employees are related to retention, patient-centered care, high patient safety and improved quality of care provided. However, burnout seems to be a common phenomenon among...

The future of cash: Designing for the continued support of cash

An analysis of the declining use of cash within the Netherlands and the eurozone. Recommendations and a redesign are created to tackle the challenges of both a declining cash cycle and a society with limited cash use.

Exploring the Value Enabled by Big Open and Linked Data in Smart Cities: A foresight study for the smart cities Rotterdam and The Hague

Despite the high expectations regarding the potential value that Big Open and Linked Data (BOLD) can enable in smart cities, the research on the topic is scarce. The present study responds to this need by conducting a foresight study with core interest the long-term impact of BOLD on smart cities. Moreover, the research develops a model for...

The path ahead: a qualitative scenario analysis for Dunlop protective footwear

Dunlop Protective Footwear is a global leader in the protective footwear market for the boots segment. Innovations in the niche market of Dunlop are incremental compared with the radical pace of the general footwear industry lead by brands like Nike. Driven by different factors, the industries to which Dunlop deliver their boots are in constant...

Looping Forward: Towards more Proactive Service Design

Within the Customer management department of Vodafone the Service Design & Implementation managers are responsible for initiating, designing and implementing new services for the customer service. At the moment the service ideas that are implemented by the SD&I managers most of the times originate from other departments or from other Vodafone...