Vorige week kreeg de TU Delft een vergunning om te zoeken naar aardwarmte. De universiteit wil heet grondwater van kilometers diepte oppompen om gebouwen mee te verwarmen.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to ‘Piece of Family’, a multimedia device for the elderly that Sanne Kistemaker designed two years ago?
Researchers at the department of water management (faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) want to cover Africa with inexpensive weather stations made out of electronic gadgets, such as the Wii.
The train driver who, back in november 2006, crashed a freight train into a commuter train is not to blame for the accident, a judge ruled last week. This ruling was partly supported by a TU Delft researcher’s criticism of the rail signaling system.
Modifying burners to flameless combustion can drastically reduce the emissions of industrial furnaces. Research is ongoing, while industry cautiously innovates.
How do dunes cope with being bashed by the sea during storms? A new model accurately maps the erosion processes that occur during storms.
The light from electricity devouring old-fashioned bulbs will soon be extinguished. The European Union recently restricted the sale of incandescent light bulbs.
Sounds like the deal of the century: store your CO2 in a coal layer and get methane in return. PhD-student Patrick van Hemert built an instrument to study this process.
Name: Paolo Massioni
Nationality: Italian
PhD supervisor: Prof. Dr Michel Verhaegen (Delft Center for Systems and Control, 3mE)
Subject:Distributed control for large scale systems
Thesis defence: One year to go
“Most people have no idea what control engineers like me do.
