Characterising emission plumes of individual aircraft operations using low-cost sensor nodes

Aircraft emissions can pose a health threat by degrading air quality. The actual pollution footprint of aircraft is however not well understood. This research therefore explores the potential of performing near-runway measurements with low-cost sensor nodes to analyse the plume composition and pollutant contribution of individual aircraft. The...

Air pollution impacts and trade-offs of ammonia as a road transportation fuel

Ammonia shows great potential for decarbonizing the road transportation sector because it does not produce CO₂ emissions during combustion. On the other hand, ammonia-fueled engines emit gases such as (unburned) ammonia (NH₃), and nitrogen oxides (NO)_x, which contribute to air pollution and adversely impact human...

Refresh: Cultivating a new paradigm of integrated farming as mitigation of air pollution in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Air pollution poses a significant threat to human health globally, with Southeast Asia being one of the most affected regions. Chiang Mai, as the largest cultivated area in northern Thailand, faces severe haze pollution due to traditional farming practices, especially during the burning season. As urban areas encroach upon agricultural land and...

The Impact of Different Aircraft Categories on Emissions, Air Quality, and Human Health

Previous studies have estimated that over 16,000 annual early deaths are induced by global aviation emissions. Combined with a growing industry, this calls for sustainable developments to reduce the negative impact on human health. However, the potential application of more sustainable technologies varies amongst aircraft size and range. Thus,...

Urban Facades: Integration of TiO2 coating into facade elements of historical buildings in Athens for air purification purposes

In the last few decades, air pollution constitutes a major global problem that results in adverse effects on human’s health, nature and the built environment. Many abatement strategies have been adopted for its combat in all these different fields. This graduation project focuses on the built environment and tackles the application of TiO2 on...

Quantification of Aviation's Impact on Air Quality near Schiphol Airport using Low-Cost Gas Sensors

A lowcost multipollutant sensor box is developed, calibrated and deployed to quantify aviationattributable air quality impacts at Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The sensor box contains four lowcost electrochemical gas sensors that respond to CO, NO, NO2 and O3 concentrations in ambient air. Additional sensors in the sensor box allow the...

Breathing city: Mitigating air pollution through urban microclimate design

In recent years, with the deepening of the urbanization process, high-density urban development models have led to a series of climatic problems such as poor urban ventilation and air pollution. Urban morphology forms a unique microclimate in the city, which has an important impact on the diffusion and distribution of pollutants inside the urban...

Influence of 3D City Layout on Air Quality

In 2021, noise pollution monitoring will be mandatory in the Netherlands, which requires data on traffic that can be re-used for air quality estimation models. One of the important input parameters for the latter is the street type, which is required by the dilution parametrisation used within the air quality model.<br/>The goal of this project...

Empower people's perception of air and ability to improve indoor air quality

Air pollution is a widely accepted problem in today’s world. Nine out of ten people does not breathe healthy air due to rapid urbanization and human activities that cause increased severe air pollution. Over the years people have had a tendency to comfort themselves with everything they need inside. However, they may not be aware that the amount...

AMC Amsterdam as green lung for its inhabitants and environment

The Academic Medical Center (AMC) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands and it is located in the Bijlmer district. The complex was built in 1981 and consists of 64 hectares of land. The complex is surround by a green belt where also the former psychiatric center was located. The AMC can be seen as a stand-alone city, with daily...

PM2.5 concentration prediction and early warning system of extreme conditions based on the LSTM

This thesis project developed an alternative PM2.5 concentration prediction model and early warning system of extreme air pollution based on the long short-term memory (LSTM) and achieved satisfying performance. To research more deeply, we divided the task into two parts. The first task was predicting the PM2.5 concentration of next 24 hours and...

Increasing awareness about the influence of air quality and noise on well-being

The aim of this master thesis is to create a product that can increase awareness about the influence of air quality and noise on well-being. About 6% of the total burden of disease can be accounted to influences of the natural environment on well-being. Part of the problem is the unawareness of people about these influences. In order to improve...

Cleaning the air: Mitigating air pollution through Urban Design

When thinking of air pollution, most of the people refers to Asian countries such as China or India where the air is often unbreathable. However, despite the common believes, air pollution poses the single largest environmental risk in Europe today (EEA, 2015) and, among all the countries, Italy has the highest rate of deaths related to air...

ATLAS: A placemaking design strategy and P.S.S. to promote awareness for invisible environmental effects

In this master thesis a data based Product Service System is proposed, which will trigger and raise awareness regarding the unperceived environmental factors affecting our life quality and enable users to take action. The Atlas Network serves as a boundary object bridging the gap between our perception of environmental effects and their harmful...

Living along the highway

Recent researches indicate that in the Netherlands a trend is to be noticed in people moving to cities, which are denser areas, due to the fact that these provide easy access to facilities and mobility. Areas along highways provide the necessary space for expansion, but as these areas are highly polluted by noise and air pollution, a careful...

La Vision Verte

Business premises for governmental and non-governmental business supporting green development of Paris + Information centre for the Parisien inhabitants. Redesign of an old warehouse next to Canal Saint Martin, which contributes to the plan to make Paris a greener and healthier city.

A Catalogue of Urban Strategies towards better air quality in cities

Working on the Urgency of air pollution in future cities, the thesis proposes a catalogue of architectural(and less architetural) solutions or strategies, providing a means to reduce air pollution to the guidelines as drafted by the World Health Organization. The thesis consists of: 1)An introduction on the urgency. 2)The catalogue. 3...