Safety Analysis and Condition Assessment of Corroded Energy Pipelines under Landslide Disasters

Corrosion poses a significant risk to the safety of energy pipelines, while landslide disasters emerge as the primary threat responsible for triggering pipeline failures across mountainous areas. To date, there is limited research focused on the safety of energy pipelines considering the synergistic effect of corrosion and landslides. The...

Assessment of the Conditions of Abandoned Wells in Potential CO2 Storage Reservoirs

This project is part of the larger REX-CO2 project, which assesses the re-usability of abandoned wells in reservoirs targeted for CCS operations. It comes as a necessity to also assess the abandoned wells that will not be re-purposed, by assessing the risk they pose in terms of allowing the stored CO2 to resurface across them, which is the focus...

Ship collision on temporary structures: Combi-walls under collision loading

When designing a construction pit adjacent to a navigation channel, the event of a ship colliding with the structure is something to take into account in the design of the pit. However, several aspects regarding ship collisions, i.e. the probability of occurrence of a collision, the magnitude of the collision force and the influence on the...

Generic Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis on Pressurized Water Reactors

Nuclear energy is one of the most sustainable and clean energies in the world. It has been widely applied for electricity generation since 1954. However, the safety issues are always perceived as the big concerns for nuclear power development. Therefore, level 2 PSA has been developed in order to investigate the accident progression and...

Effects of the foreshore and heterogeneities of the subsoil on the safety analysis of piping

In this thesis, the effects of the foreshore and heterogeneities of the subsoil on the piping safety analysis are determined. The effects are searched for by use of the numerical model D-Geo Flow. The results of this research give more insights in when and how a foreshore has to be included in the safety analysis. It is also concluded that...

Autonomous Conflict Detection and Resolution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: On integration into the Airspace System

In the last decade, the commercial values of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), defined as devices that are capable of sustainable flights in the atmosphere that do not require to have a human (pilot) on-board, become widely recognized thanks to the advancement of technology in materials, sensors, computation, and telemetry. As UAVs are becoming...

Stability analysis quay structure at the Amazonehaven, port of Rotterdam

The stability of any structure is an important aspect in civil engineering. The subject of this thesis is the stability of the quay structure at the Amazonehaven, port of Rotterdam. The reason for writing this report is to investigate the safety and stability of the quay structure, which was built in 1990, throughout its service lifetime while...

Model Predictive Control applied to the Dutch delta, a probabilistic safety analysis

As many areas in The Netherlands are located below or slightly above mean sea level, or adjacent to large rivers, a lot of effort is put into ensuring the Dutch keep dry feet. The prevention of flooding is the most important and internationally well-known layer in the Dutch water safety policy. Nowadays this takes place by means of taking...

Multidisciplinary design approach and safety analysis of ADSR cooled by buoyancy driven flows

Transmutation is useful to reduce the storing time and the amount of nuclear waste to be stored in the geological repository. Transmutation can be achieved in all types of reactors: thermal systems, fast systems, critical and subcritical systems. Fast spectrum systems have significant advantages because they offer higher transmutation efficiency...

Veiligheidsberekening van het ComCoastconcept op Breebaart-polder

Dit rapport beschrijft een veiligheidsanalyse van het ComCoast-concept voor de BreeBaart-polder te Groningen. Het ComCoast-concept gaat uit van een brede waterkering, waarbij de primaire dijk overslagbestendig is en de achterliggende polder wordt benut voor het opvangen van het overslaande water.

Safety Analysis of ComCoast Concept at Nessmersiel

This report provides a safety analysis of the ComCoast concept at Neersiel in Germany. The ComCoast concept is to use a wide coastal area for water defence purposes. The wide coastal area can be referred to as a coastal defence zone. The primary dike will be provided with a overtopping resistant revetment allowing more seawater to overtop the...

Integrale veiligheid spoortunnels

Het doel van dit afstudeeronderzoek is het optimaal integreren van een onderbouwde veiligheidsfilosofie in het ontwerp van de tunnel onder het Groene Hart ten behoeve van de HSL-Zuid. In dit eerste deelrapport is de veiligheidsfilosofie voor de HSL-Zuid vergeleken met de veiligheid bij andere infrastructurele projecten. Het resultaat van deze...