One-off ocean nitrogen fertilization as carbon dioxide removal strategy?: Exploring its long-term carbon sequestration potential

To limit global warming to 2 °C or below, the IPCC emphasizes the need for large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) alongside emissions reductions. There is a growing recognition of ocean-based CDR techniques and expanded research is needed. This thesis investigated the long-term (>100 years) carbon sequestration potential of enhancing the...

Designomics: The Role of Financial Literacy in Design Innovation

Financial literacy is an essential component in design innovation projects, holding the potential to transform both the practice and education of design. The capacity to make effective financial decisions, encompassing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, is pivotal in the context of innovation (Warmath & Zimmerman, 2019). This capacity...

Making the Production of Green Hydrogen by Electrolyser Economically Viable

Green hydrogen plays an important role in the energy transition. It can function as a storage medium, as well as a replacement for fossil fuels in transport or high-temperature heat processes. However, the economic feasibility of electrolysers has proved to be a problem. Even though a lot of research has been done to the electrolysis technology,...

Design implication and performance assessment of iron fuelled ships

In order to meet climate change mitigation targets, the shipping industry must change to an alternative fuel. From a ship design perspective, the switch to an alternative fuel is often a downgrade with respect to the use of conventional fuels. For instance, most alternative fuels have a low energy density, rely on technology that is not fully...

The Osservanza: an integrated adaptive reuse project

Historical campuses enabled post-Age of Enlightenment organizations’ operations and allowed them to adapt with times, supporting their processes of adaptive reuse transformation throughout the institutions’ recursive managerial cycles. However, the radical reforms which concerned these organizations since the second half of the 20th century,...

Facilitating The Internal Adoption Of Radical Innovation Concepts: A strategic design approach to facilitating the decision-making process behind the internal adoption of radical innovation concepts for further development

Radical innovation is a critical source for creating competitive advantage and value for potential customers. However, radical innovation has inherent characteristics that make a radical innovation project difficult to manage, such as: increased generativity – the aspect that describes how radical innovation outcomes are creative and novel,...

Venturedam- Bridging boundaries through innovations: Facilitating Dutch energy startups to expand their business in India

The concept of Venturedam was developed to solve societal challenges in India by nurturing the strength of the innovations made in the Netherlands. For Dutch startups to expand to a new market like India that has a considerable difference in the context, it is first required to redefine the value proposition and the business model specific to...

A methodology for assessing power performance of Wave Energy Converters, applied to a quasi-rigid submerged pressure differential device

In the transition to renewable energy, harvesting the power from oceanic waves is often mentioned to be next step after the deployment of wind energy technology. Although many different solutions for wave energy conversion (WEC) are being developed and financial support schemes exist, commercially extracting this energy seems however to be...

Exploring the viability of AGV implementation in warehouses of express delivery companies: A case study at TNT/FedEx

The demand for express delivery services is growing rapidly and the express delivery market is getting more competitive. To secure their competitiveness, these enterprises are pressured to invest in technologies that could sustain their future growth and keep their operating costs as low as possible. The Automated guided vehicle (AGV) technology...

Automatic Cell Viability Determination In Bright-Field Microscope Images

Quantification of non-viable cells in bright-field microscope images allows for an in vitro assessment of the viability of cultured cells. The identification and quantification of non-viable cells in a cell culture is conventionally achieved with viability stains. A disadvantage of viability stains is that they might be invasive and even toxic...

Feasibility, beneficiality, and institutional compatibility of a micro-CHP virtual power plant in the Netherlands

Dutch households are responsible for a significant part of the total Dutch energy consumption and CO2 emissions. One option for decreasing household energy consumption and CO2 emissions is to deploy micro-combined-heat-power (?CHP) units. A micro-CHP virtual power plant (VPP) is a cluster of grid connected ?CHP units that is monitored and...