Heating and cooling in the desert: towards a universal approach to climate control: The case of Palm Springs and the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California

Housing, industry, and transport are equally responsible for CO2 emissions into the atmosphere on a global scale. In the home, air conditioning is a major source of these emissions. This dissertation looks at the innovation that this technology represented in the early 1930s. Using texts, advertisements and analyses of houses built at the time,...

An Interdisciplinary Study on the Parana Delta of Argentina

With combined efforts from water management, architectural and hydraulic engineering students, an interdisciplinary and resilient design is set up for the Paraná Delta. The design relates to all the current environmental, architectural and flood risk challenges - among others, as well as the potential issues in the future since the Paraná Delta...

Privacy issues of mobile phone companies’ usage of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology: Analysing the use of UWB in mobile phones from a multi-actor perspective, magnifying privacy concerns and formulating guidelines

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology became unregulated within the EU in 2007. Most recently, it was integrated into mobile phones in 2019, notably Apply and Samsung adding it to all their newer models. While UWB is characterised as a radio technology with any signal above 500 MHz, it operates within the 6-9 GHz<br/>range in mobile phones. This...

The end of an era, start of new beginnings: The legacy of the Women’s Studies section at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft (1978-1998)

This thesis focuses on the Women’s Studies section at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, active from 1978 to 1998. The initial goal of the section was to contribute to the elimination of women's oppression by expanding the knowledge of this social reality. The emergence of the second feminist wave in 1960 in the Netherlands motivated women to...

The validity of informed consent with regard to human genetic sequencing

Modern societies manage an ever increasing amount of data. By mining<br/>these data-sets, it is possible to gain understanding of problems. Through a<br/>process of informed consent companies have been able to sequence the genome<br/>of large populations. Providing insight to the consumer about their family<br/>lineage and possible future risks...

Feasibility Study on Deep Seawater Solutions for Manado: ROTEC

Due to climate change and growing cities, water scarcity is becoming one of the futures biggest problems. On top of that, the population and prosperity of cities around the equator are growing fast. Meaning that the need for electricity, cooling and drinking water will grow fast in the following decades. ROTEC’s vision is that these growing...

Modelling and design of a flat plate fixed film photoreactor for phenol degradation

This paper presents the mathematical modelling and design of a flat plate photoreactor with a fixed film photocatalyst to degrade phenol. Phenol was used as target pollutant as it is one of the most studied contaminants in photocatalysis and it is present in many of the wastewater streams containing pesticides, drugs, and dyes which cannot be...