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Hoeksma, Bram (author)Currently, our society faces a pressing challenge: global warming. The solution lies in the energy transition, which replaces fossil fuels with clean sources. This requires a global effort across all sectors, including shipping. While a significant portion of shipping relies on polluting fuels, the European Union’s Green Deal aims for climate...master thesis 2023
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Verbaan, Floris (author)This master's thesis addresses the urgent need to reduce the marine industry's environmental impact. Van Oord, a marine player, aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The study investigates integrating methanol-fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and batteries into the cable laying vessel NEXUS's power plant.<br/><br/>The research shows that...master thesis 2023
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De Boom, Cédric (author)In order to meet the shipping industry's emissions reduction goals, it is imperative to explore and adopt alternative marine fuels. Methanol (or methyl alcohol) is expected to play a large role in the future. However, current regulations limit the attractiveness of methanol as marine fuel due to the inability to use the space around a venting...master thesis 2023
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Carbutto, Jaco (author)Electro-fuels (E-fuels) are a potential zero-carbon fuel option, that are able to reduce emissions from the marine sector. However, e-fuels still face several challenges, as currently, their production costs are high, and the implementation<br/>of e-fuels in the marine sector is still in a research and development phase. Therefore, this study...master thesis 2023
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Phongprueksathat, N. (author)Since the industrial revolution in the 1760s, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been rising incessantly driving global warming closer to the point of no return. The world requires urgent actions to not only reduce CO2 emissions but also capture the CO2 for utilization to mitigate the future environmental crisis. CO2 hydrogenation to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Sopar, Luca (author)With the increasing concerns of the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants and the push towards sustainable and greener means of transportation, there is a need for new drive systems running on alternative fuels. One fuel that holds significant potential as a marine fuel for the future is methanol. When produced utilising carbon...master thesis 2023
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Minderhoud, Max (author)The maritime industry faces a lot of uncertainty, and the energy transition has only increased this uncertainty. Ships will probably have to be converted to an alternative fuel during their lifetime and methanol seems to be the fuel with the most potential for offshore ships. By preparing for this, Design-for-Conversion to methanol, the costs of...master thesis 2023
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Hirs Alvarez, Aldo (author)Currently, the energy transition is a topic for discussion and many organizations are taking measures to reduce the effects of climate change. Armed forces are exempt of these new regulations on the grounds of national security, but some have already started taking steps to reduce the amount of harmful emissions. Due to the high efficiency and...master thesis 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author)Monitoring complex catalytic pathways under industrially-relevant conditions is one of the key challenges in catalysis chemistry and technology. Herewith we describe a direct technique called ‘fast scanning-pulse analysis’ (FASPA) that allows the direct characterization and detailed kinetic analysis of intimately interweaved catalytic...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author)The nature of hydrocarbon pool (HCP) intermediates in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) process has been thoroughly investigated, especially for BEA- and CHA-type zeolite catalysts like H-β and H-SAPO-34. Herein, we further reveal the dynamic mechanistic details of the MTH process over the H-ZSM-5 catalyst at 400 °C, based on the dual-cycle...journal article 2023
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Wirner, Luca C. (author), Kosaka, Fumihiko (author), Sasayama, T. (author), Liu, Yanyong (author), Urakawa, A. (author), Kuramoto, Koji (author)Recently, carbon capture and reduction (CCR) technology has gained interest to directly convert CO<sub>2</sub> to value-added products without requiring purification of CO<sub>2</sub> and its subsequent transportation. CCR to methanol in one dual function material (DFM) poses mechanistic and kinetic challenges. To counteract this, a process...journal article 2023
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Phongprueksathat, N. (author), Ting, Kah Wei (author), Mine, Shinya (author), Jing, Yuan (author), Toyoshima, Ryo (author), Kondoh, Hiroshi (author), Shimizu, Ken Ichi (author), Toyao, Takashi (author), Urakawa, A. (author)Low temperature and high pressure are thermodynamically more favorable conditions to achieve high conversion and high methanol selectivity in CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation. However, low-temperature activity is generally very poor due to the sluggish kinetics, and thus, designing highly selective catalysts active below 200 °C is a great...journal article 2023
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Živković, Aleksandar (author), Solsona-Delgado, Vanessa (author), van der Linden, B. (author), de Leeuw, Nora H. (author), Melián-Cabrera, Ignacio (author)A descriptor of active CuO-ZnO(Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) methanol-synthesis and water–gas-shift catalysts is the presence of high-temperature carbonates (HT-CO<sub>3</sub>) in the oxidic catalyst precursor. Previous reports have shown that such HT-CO<sub>3</sub> lead to an appropriate interaction between the oxides; as a result, a high Cu...journal article 2023
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Pothaar, Maarten (author)Progressing targets on GHG emission reduction urge the the Netherlands Ministry of Defense (NL MoD) to reduce the use of fossil fuels, as they announced to contribute to the Paris agreement by reducing its dependency on fossil fuels by at least 70% by the year 2050. However, without sacrificing striking power, because future naval combatants...master thesis 2022
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de Jong, Alex (author)In the effort against climate change the company ZEF has as its target to make methanol (CH3OH) out of atmospheric CO2; a process which can be seen as power-to-fuel and/or power-to-x. In light of the developmental cycle within ZEF a new reactor with an increased size and enhanced mass manufacturability is required. The...master thesis 2022
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Peeten, Vino (author)The offshore wind market is growing rapidly, and new offshore wind projects are being launched more than ever. To keep up with demand, parts for these wind turbines are being produced all over the world. To get all the parts needed to their destination on time, they must be transported on heavy transport vessels (HTVs).<br/><br/>Today, business...master thesis 2022
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van Iersel, Coen (author)The maritime sector faces major challenges to reduce its impact on global warming. The use of methanol as a fuel alternative is considered one of the more promising options to be implemented in a relatively short to medium time frame; based on the potential availability, emission reduction, energy density, potential to be synthetically produced,...master thesis 2022
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Zuidgeest, Sven (author)The current global fleet is still dependent on conventional fuels as energy source to transport goods to various places in the world. These conventional fuels, such as MGO or HFO, emit large amounts of greenhouse gasses and other pollutant emissions. Regulation concerning these emissions becomes stricter every day, therefore institutions and...master thesis 2022
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Juncker, Jesse (author)The maritime sector plays an important role in energy transition because offshore vessels are used for building offshore renewables but also have high emissions. The European Union (EU) has determined that from 2025 the maritime sector must pay per ton of CO2 emission. Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is an essential player in the maritime...master thesis 2022
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Kortenhorst, Rembert (author)To reduce the climate change impact of shipping and retain compliance with increasingly strict emission regulations, alternative fuels are required. Methanol is expected to be one of the renewable alternatives. However, it evaporates easily compared to for example Diesel and its vapours are toxic and flammable. Regulations prescribe the use of...master thesis 2022