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Elpenhof, Chris (author)Mining projects around the world face a significant challenge to reduce their footprint and be more environmentally friendly. Research has shown that mineral processing is of major influence, due to the use of heavy chemicals that are both expensive and polluting. Currently, electrowinning (the electrodeposition of metals) is only used in the...master thesis 2019
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Halvawala, Pooja (author)The presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic ecosystem has been threat to public health and environment. To produce drinking water, removal of natural organic matter has been of importance due to formation of DBPs. Of the many available treatments, ion exchange (IEX) has the potential to remove natural organic matter (NOM)....master thesis 2019
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Sikkes, Louis (author)This thesis has researched the automation of performance evaluation of vehicle routing heuristics. The trade-off between solution quality, which is composed of multiple variables, and runtime make performance evaluation challenging. Therefore, it is often done by human experts. The research question of this thesis is: “How can we determine a...master thesis 2019
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Buurmans, Kristijn (author)Railways are facing the challenge to simultaneously increase the capacity and the operational performance of their network. Automatic train operation (ATO) can be one of the technologies to increase the capacity of the railway network. The specifications for ATO over the European Train Control System (ETCS) automatic train protection system have...master thesis 2019
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Zaccà, Gabriele (author)The response of a sound system in a room primarily varies with the room itself, the position of the loudspeakers and the listening position. The room boundaries cause reflections of the sound that can lead to undesired effects such as echoes, resonances or reverberation. Knowledge of the location of these large reflecting surfaces can help to...master thesis 2019
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Shah, Samad (author)Low voltage direct current (LVDC) networks used as electricity distribution systems for a community have the potential of operating at higher efficiencies and can integrate various distributed renewable energy sources and storage elements. However, their emergence is being hindered due to the lack of reliable fault protection techniques. DC...master thesis 2019
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Encalada Flores, Katherine Stephanie (author)The so-called “hydrogen economy” became one of the scientific targets among the different renewable energies alternatives, as a result of the efforts to transition from fossil fuels to environmentally-friendly energy sources. In this context, various options to transport and store hydrogen are being explored. Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT)...master thesis 2019
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Zafiropoulou, Fay (author)This graduation project was part of the studio Heritage & Architecture. The chosen ensemble is located at the Hembrug terrain which forms a green peninsula with buildings of industrial heritage. The terrain used to be the heart of the fortification of the Stelling of Amsterdam and was the base for the Dutch military industry. The Ladder...master thesis 2019
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Menon, Amritasree Menon (author)Climate change has been largely attributed to global temperatures rising over the years. This has been further mitigated by the increased usage of fossil fuels, deforestation, increased livestock farming, and chemical emissions, as a result of the large-scale industrialization of developing nations, combined with the increased consumption of...master thesis 2019
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Toren, Carin (author)Hembrug was back in the days responsible for the production and storage of weapons and ammunition for the Dutch army. The location has been chosen very carefully by the Stelling of Amsterdam and nowadays it is located between the two big growing cities Amsterdam and Zaandam. Because of is secrecy and abandoned, Hembrug can been seen as a new...master thesis 2019
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Kholodov, Yaroslav (author)This study investigated the potential of ex-post fare policy evaluation utilising smartcard data. It looked into how to identify and measure the actual outcomes of a policy, define the degree of its success, and even find some unexpected side-effects of high importance. The study is based on a case of the public transport fare policy introduced...master thesis 2019
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Liu, Danyan (author)Wetlands are the most important ecosystems on Earth, which can be found in many parts of the world. However, demand for food and economic development in the last century had driven many wetlands in the world being completely drained for cultivation and to the extent that no longer retain any natural wetland characteristics such as the Everglades...master thesis 2019
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Heijmans, Itai (author)The surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals that originate from skeletal muscle electrical activity, are used clinically and experimentally to determine muscular behaviour, e.g. amplitude, area under the curve and onset of activity. Surface EMG signals are inevitably contaminated by noise and artefacts from the site between the skin and...master thesis 2019
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de Winkel, Jasper (author)Energy-harvesting devices have enabled Internet of Things applications that were impossible before. Power failures are the norm for these battery-less devices, imposing a challenge to maintain a continued notion of time on these energy restricted devices. To address this challenge we introduce a novel time measurement architecture for energy...master thesis 2019
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Seminario Thulin, Andres (author)Urban flooding is a problem faced by many mayor cities around the world nowadays. That is the case of several areas of the Greater Miami Area. Rapid urbanization and the depletion of natural buffer zones that used to storage rain water, added to climate change effects, specifically the increase of heavy rainfalls and sea level rise have only...master thesis 2019
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Ruiz Reina, Juan Camilo (author)The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare is expected to set a paradigm shift to medical practice because these systems will have a significant role in applications such as diagnosis-support and image analysis. However, this implementation does not come without risks. There are important ethical concerns that...master thesis 2019
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Tegelberg, Joost (author)Repetitive construction projects allow for planning to be done systematically, but performance is hard to predict due to inherent uncertainties. The goal of this research is to evaluate planning choices in repetitive construction projects. In order to evaluate the planning of these projects to quantify the risk of overruns, an adaptable...master thesis 2019
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Donk, Rick (author)Turret structures within FPSO's are subjected to a variety of repeated loads, due to the harsh environment they operate in during their service live, meaning that fatigue is a governing limit state in turret structural design. Turret structural components are connected by arc-welded joints which are considered particularly susceptible to fatigue...master thesis 2019
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Klement, Marianne (author)The Dutch PV Portal is a website on photovoltaic (PV) energy generation in the Netherlands, developed within the Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Group (PVMD) of the Delft University of Technology. A version 2.0 was launched in 2018. The core of this website is an online PV system performance calculation model which involves three main...master thesis 2019
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Dankert, Thomas (author)Deregulation within the aviation market led to constant decreasing revenue of airfares while airlines across the market spectrum sharpen their focus on ancillaries. The objective of this thesis project is to utilize revealed preference data in a case-study of KLM Royal Dutch Airways to better understand the customer relation towards ancillaries....master thesis 2019