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Verhoeven, Cas (author)The urban heat island effect is a well-known and pressing problem in cities today related to urbanisation. It is the phenomenon of an increased ambient air temperature in cities compared to the surrounding rural areas. The use of nature-based solutions has been proposed as a way to help solve this problem. These interventions use nature and...master thesis 2023
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Zimba, H.M. (author)Through precipitation retention and evaporation (by both interception and transpiration), woodlands play a significant role in the global moisture cycle. Evaporation is the largest, but at the same time, the most difficult flux to observe in a woodland. Accounting for woodland evaporation is important for hydrological modelling for the efficient...doctoral thesis 2023
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Yan, J. (author), Zhao, J. (author), Wang, H. (author), Kerklaan, Mels (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Ibrahim, B. (author), Savenije, T.J. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Multiple-source thermal evaporation is emerging as an excellent technique to obtain perovskite (PVK) materials for solar cell applications due to its solvent-free processing, accurate control of stoichiometric ratio, and potential for scalability. Nevertheless, the currently reported layer-by-layer deposition approach is afflicted by long...review 2023
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Jansen, Femke A. (author), Jongen, Harro J. (author), Jacobs, Cor M.J. (author), Bosveld, Fred C. (author), Buzacott, Alexander J.V. (author), Heusinkveld, Bert G. (author), Kruijt, Bart (author), van der Molen, Michiel (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author)Land cover controls the land-atmosphere exchange of water and energy through the partitioning of solar energy into latent and sensible heat. Observations over all land cover types at the regional scale are required to study these turbulent flux dynamics over a landscape. Here, we aim to study how the control of daily and midday latent and...journal article 2023
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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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Burghoorn, Niels (author)Medical technology has seen great progress over the last centuries, developing increasingly more specialised therapy to benefit human health. The rise of the pharmaceutical industry and the research it drives are contributors to this success. However, in humanity's attempt to tackle more and more complex health issues, the conventional methods...master thesis 2022
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Kerklaan, Mels (author)Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are an emerging and promising photovoltaic technology that have demonstrated impressive power conversion efficiencies exceeding 25% after only fourteen years of development. This rapid progress can mostly be attributed to the development and optimisation of PSCs fabricated by solution-based methods, because of their...master thesis 2022
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Harms, Koen (author)Scientific literature points to several models used to calculate the transpiration of vegetable crops inside a greenhouse but the results are hard to compare since different experiment setups were used. This study aimed to analyse the accuracy of four different transpiration models, Penman-Monteith, Stanghellini, Priestley-Taylor, and Takakura...master thesis 2022
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Schilperoort, B. (author)Forests cover a large part of the globe, and are responsible for a large amount of evaporation and the fixation of carbon. To be able to better understand this atmospheric exchange of forests, and how the forests will behave under future climate change, both accurate measurements as well as models are required. However, due to their height and...doctoral thesis 2022
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Lin, Steven (author)As the intensity and frequency of urban heat wave increases in Europe, evaporative cooling from watering pavements has been considered as a promising strategy to regulate urban temperature. The aim of this research is to include evaporative cooling modelling and enhance the surface temperature model SURF-TEMP, which is in development at the...student report 2022
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Bieling, Thijs (author)Evaporation can induce acoustic emissions in microfluidic devices. The origin of these emissions and their damping remains elusive. This thesis studies acoustic emissions from 3D printed microfluidic tubes mimicking xylem vessels in plants. We show the time and frequency domain signature of these emissions. From these signatures, we identify...master thesis 2022
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Zhao, J. (author), Li, Jia (author), Liu, X. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Bruno, Annalisa (author), Savenije, T.J. (author)Co-evaporation of metal halide perovskites by thermal evaporation is an attractive method since it does not require harmful solvents and enables precise control of the film thickness. Furthermore, the ability to manipulate the Fermi level allows the formation of a graded homojunction, providing interesting opportunities to improve the charge...journal article 2022
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Foroozesh, Jamal (author), Hosseini, S. H. (author), Ahmadian Hosseini, A. J. (author), Parvaz, F. (author), Elsayed, K. (author), Uygur Babaoğlu, Nihan (author), Hooman, K. (author), Ahmadi, G. (author)The rising energy demand for buildings has enhanced public awareness of sustainable energy sources and technologies. In particular, natural ventilation systems such as wind-catchers have attracted considerable new attention. A new wind-catcher design with single-stage direct-air evaporative cooling was proposed for indoor air conditioning. An...journal article 2022
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Singh, Vishal (author), Singh, Pushpendra Kumar (author), Jain, Sanjay Kumar (author), Jain, Sharad Kumar (author), Cudennec, Christophe (author), Hessels, T.M. (author)This study explores recent changes in evaporative demand and water availability across 100 river sub-basins in India by partitioning the actual evapotranspiration (AET) into green water evapotranspiration (ET-Green) and blue water evapotranspiration (ET-Blue). For computation of ET-Green and ET-Blue, the Budyko framework is applied to long...journal article 2022
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Lin, Yan (author), Qian, Chengduo (author), Shi, Jingtao (author), Zhang, Yuzhen (author), Ren, S. (author), Nan, Guozhi (author), Kong, Xiangjun (author), Fan, Weiyu (author)Compared with traditional asphalt, emulsified asphalt occurs to be a better low-temperature usability and environmental adaptability, which can reduce environmental pollution and energy consuming during road construction. The low-temperature ductility is a very important indicator to evaluate the environmental adaptability of emulsified asphalt....journal article 2022
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Nespoli, Jasmeen (author)Among the emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies under development, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) stood out in the last decade as one the fastest advancing solar technology to date, reaching a power conversion efficiency of 25.5% in 2020. Perovskite (PVK) absorbers show great versatility thanks to compositional and bandgap engineering. In this...master thesis 2021
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Muh Fadhil Albab B, Fadhil (author)Perovskite materials gain a huge interest in the photovoltaic (PV) community due to its unique characteristics, including long carrier diffusion length, widely tunable bandgap, light absorption potential, and low processing cost. Nowadays, most perovskite fabrication methods employ a solution-based process due to its simplicity and production...master thesis 2021
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Kolff, Reneke (author)To reach the goals of the European Green Deal (CO2 emission reduction of 55% by 2030 and climate neutral by 2050), North-Western Europe has to import sustainable energy as locally produced renewable energy will not be sufficient to meet the total demand. This will be realised by importing green hydrogen from areas with a surplus of renewable...master thesis 2021
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Geertzen, Sander Geertzen (author)Drought and subsidence are two out of several water-related urban climate adaptation challenges many cities in the Netherlands currently face. Drought is expected to increase in frequency and extent due to climate change. Therefore, drought is likely to further pressurize (subsiding) urban areas in the coming decades. Although the impact of...master thesis 2021
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Touloumidis, D.T. (author)The assessment of potential evaporation or reference combined evaporation and transpiration is among the most important components for many hydro-climatic applications such as irrigation design and management, water balance assessment studies, and assessment of aridity classification indices. Aridity classification indices such as UNEP,...student report 2021