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Pronk, P. (author)Ozon layer depletion and global warming by synthetic refrigerants forces refrigeration industries to switch over to natural but hazardous refrigerants like ammonia and hydrocarbons. A promising technology to safely use the latter refrigerants is the application of indirect refrigeration systems with ice slurry as heat transfer fluid. Ice slurry,...doctoral thesis 2006
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Elias Maxil, J.A. (author)This text presents an approach to assess the energy content (flow and temperature) at any point of the sewer system based on the coupling of a stochastic model to predict drinking water demand from households and a model to estimate the temperature distribution in the sewer network. An application example is given where the developed tool is...doctoral thesis 2015
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De Lange, M.F. (author)A novel class of materials, i.e. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), has successfully been developed that is extremely suited for application in heat pumps and chillers. They have a superior performance over commercial sorbents and may potentially contribute to considerable energy savings worldwide. Globally about 33 % of the energy consumption is...doctoral thesis 2015
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Setekera, R. (author)With the current increasing demand for faster and more reliable communication and computing electronic devices such as faster wireless communication networks, circuit designers are forced to carry out device optimization in order to achieve the maximum possible performance. To enable full circuit optimization, designers depend on compact models...doctoral thesis 2016
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Komorowska-Durka, M. (author)Utilizing microwave irradiation, a fundamentally different method of the energy transfer, to the chemical process units can potentially be advantageous compared to the conventional heating, inter alia due to the selective nature of interaction of the microwaves with the matter. This doctoral dissertation addresses some of the aspects associated...doctoral thesis 2015
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Theelen, M.J. (author)Thin film CIGS solar cells and individual layers within these solar cells have been tested in order to assess their long term stability. Alongside with the execution of standard tests, in which elevated temperatures and humidity levels are used, the solar cells have also been exposed to a combination of elevated temperature and humidity and...doctoral thesis 2015
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Mihailovic, M. (author)This thesis explores the employment of monocrystalline silicon in microsystems as an active material for different thermal functions, such as heat generation and heat transfer by conduction. In chapter 1 applications that need thermal micro devices, micro heaters and micro heat exchangers, are briefly introduced. The shortcomings of commonly...doctoral thesis 2011
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La Spina, L. (author)Nowadays, electrothermal effects (ET) are posing fundamental issues in nearly all branches of micro- and nano-electronics. Due to either a high power dissipation level or to the aggressive electrical isolation schemes adopted to increase the speed, both high and low power devices are affected by ET effects that limit their reliability and cause...doctoral thesis 2009
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Liu, Q. (author)Porous asphalt shows excellent performance in both noise reduction and water drainage. Although porous asphalt has these great qualities, its service life is much shorter (sometimes only half) compared to dense graded asphalt roads. Ravelling, which is the loss of aggregate particles from the surface layer, is the main damage mechanism of porous...doctoral thesis 2012
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Duan, Z. (author)There are millions of lakes and ten thousands of reservoirs in the world. The number of reservoirs is still increasing through the construction of large dams to meet the growing demand for water resources, hydroelectricity and economic development. Accurate information on the water balance components of lakes and reservoirs is deemed necessary...doctoral thesis 2014
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Rops, C.M. (author)New production techniques, which became available since the 1980’s, allowed the mass production of small sized fluidic systems. Reducing the size of a technical system alters the performance due to scaling effects. Physical phenomena which operate on volumes, such as gravity and inertia, become less important with respect to physical phenomena...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van de Bor, D.M. (author)In this thesis the technical and economic performance of compression-resorption heat pumps has been investigated. The main objective of this thesis was to improve the performance and reduce the investment costs of compression-resorption heat pumps applied in process industry. A model that is able to capture the performance of most heat pumps...doctoral thesis 2014
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- Van Rhoon, G.C. (author) doctoral thesis 1994
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Verdoold, J. (author)This dissertation focuses on turbulent thermal convection, which occurs in a wide range of (geo)physical situations, like in the atmosphere, the oceans, the interior of stars or planets, and engineering applications, like metal casting or crystal growth processes. In this work, a special type of thermal convection, Rayleigh-Bénard convection, is...doctoral thesis 2010
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Agung, A. (author)In this thesis a conceptual design of an innovative high temperature reactor based on the fluidization principle (FLUBER) is proposed. The reactor should satisfy the following requirements: (a) modular and low power, (b)) large shutdown margin, (c) able to produce power when the bed of particles expands and stop as soon as the coolant flow is...doctoral thesis 2007
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Ding, Y. (author)Characterising combustion of diesel engines is not only necessary when researching the instantaneous combustion phenomena but also when investigating the change of the combustion process under variable engine operating conditions. An effective way to achieve this goal is to parameterize the combustion process using a finite combustion stage...doctoral thesis 2011
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Bezrukavnikov, S.V. (author)Since the first protein structure reported, the understanding of how proteins fold so fast and efficiently into such peculiar shapes has quickly become one of the major problems of biology. Protein folding in the living cell features a new level of complexity due to highly crowded cellular environment. In order to overcome this problem, cells...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kerstens, N.F.H. (author)The purpose of this work is to investigate the factors influencing the resistance upset butt welding process to obtain an understanding of the metal behaviour and welding process characteristics, so that new automotive steels can be welded with reduced development time and fewer failures in production. In principle the welding process is rather...doctoral thesis 2010
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Badarnah Kadri, L. (author)Several biomimetic design strategies are available for various applications, though the research on biomimetics as a design tool in architecture is still challenging. This is due to a lack of systematic design tools required for identifying relevant organisms, or natural systems, and abstracting the corresponding generic principles for...doctoral thesis 2012
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- Chen, Qingyan (author) doctoral thesis 1988