The oven, rebirth of the social communal centre within a household: Graduation Project for Miele and TU Delft

1.Assignment In deliberation with Miele and the TU Delft an assignment was formulated for this graduation project, focusing on a new oven concept. The title of the assignment is: The oven, rebirth of the communal social center within a household 1.1 Introduction The oven, stove or fireplace has been the central meeting place within living areas...

Aging of Bitumen and Asphalt Concrete: Comparing State of the Practice and Ongoing Developments in the United States and Europe

Aging is a crucial factor in pavement performance and being able to determine its effect on a mixture is necessary to link its initial properties to the properties over time in order to ensure the intended service life. This is becoming more important now that climate change leads to increased variation in weather conditions, while environmental...

Development of a dynamic multi-bed Pressure Swing Adsorption process for high purity hydrogen production from Coke Oven Gas: A mathematical modeling approach

Coal is certain to play a major role in the world’s energy future due to its low cost and widespread distribution around the world. At the same time, being the largest contributor to global CO2 emissions from energy use, coal faces significant environmental challenges in terms of air pollution and global warming. The study focuses on developing...

Requirements for Industrial Symbiosis by cluster development for by-product hydrogen and regional hydrogen mobility

The Master's programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology - An emerging strategy for industry to reduce environmental impact is the utilization of by-products. Steel manufacturer Tata Steel IJmuiden in the Netherlands has identified a large potential source of by-product hydrogen...

Disruptive change and the reconfiguration of innovation ecosystems

This conceptual paper extends the traditional view of disruptive change, which considers the effects of rivalry between an incumbent and new entrant firm, by examining the impact of disruption upon the ‘innovation ecosystem’ in its entirety – the group of organisations that collaborate in creating a holistic value proposition for the end-user...

A Wheatstone Bridge Temperature Sensor with a Resolution FoM of 20fJ.K ²

Temperature sensors intended for embedded applications should be both energy-and area-efficient. The combination of Wheatstone-bridge (WhB) sensors and continuous-time ADCs has proven to be highly energy efficient [1], [2]. However, their area (> 0.25 mm{2}) is still larger than that of comparable BJT-based sensors [3], [4]. This paper...

Hydrogen production from coke oven gas using pressure swing adsorption processaA mathematical modelling approach

Coal is playing a major role as a reductant and as an energy source in the present world steel production due to its low cost and widespread distribution around the world. At the same time, being the largest contributor to global CO2 emissions, coal faces significant environmental challenges in terms of air pollution and global warming....

Daily Bread: An exploration of how we should deal with our primary needs: food, warmth and community

The project is situated in the neighbourhood of Bressoux in the post-industrial city Liege in Belgium. Bressoux felt at first as a deserted place. It gave the impression that only people live here because of financial necessity. The people with better jobs move away, the ones left behind seem forgotten and neglected. “The winner takes it all!”...