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Valorisation
FLOW
(Outgoing) Minister of Economic Affairs Van der Hoeven has assigned a 19,5 million euro subsidy to the innovation project FLOW, Far and Large Offshore Wind. These funds complement 19,5 million euros assigned to the project by the companies in the FLOW consortium. More information only available in Dutch.
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Valorisation
Unique Delft pilot facility makes sustainable economy possible
Scaling up from laboratory to industrial scale presents a bottleneck when it comes to converting biobased residues such as agricultural waste into raw materials for building materials, chemical and pharmaceutical products and biofuels. The European Regional Development Fund, the Ministries of Agriculture, Nature & Food Quality and Economic Affairs, the Province of South Holland and the Municipalities of Rotterdam, Delft and The Hague, knowledge institutions and industry have planned a mutual investment of more than 100 million euros in a pilot facility in Delft. This will enable companies and knowledge institutions from all over the world to test whether their ideas can be scaled up, and if so, how.
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Research
Grant for Organic Rankine Cycle Turbines
Piero Colonna of the Energy Technology section (Process and Energy Dept, 3mE) has been awarded a grant from STW (Open Technology programme), which together with funds from industrial partners, adds up to a substantial sum. The research will be focused on the fluid dynamics of dense vapors, specifically non-classical gasdynamic phenomena. Colonna hopes to demonstrate the existence of rarefaction shock waves. The research results can eventually be applied to Organic Rankine Cycle turbines. These are similar to steam turbines used in power plants, but they use an organic fluid instead of steam in order to achieve high efficiency for low power capacity. These fluids make it possible to exploit heat at lower temperatures and convert it into electricity. Colonna: “STW considers the project of great scientific excellence with a high potential for "utilization".
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Research
Yellow energy: most ingenious
The team of engineering consultancy firm DHV, including researchers from the Process & Energy Department at TU Delft, won this year’s ‘Vernufteling-award’. The consortium won both the jury and the audience award for their design of a new water purification technology that extracts nitrogen compounds in the form of ammonia from sewage and waste water. The ammonia can then be reused as fuel for a particular type of fuel cell creating electricity and heat: yellow energy. The Vernufteling-award is assigned by KiviNiria, NL Ingenieurs and technology magazine De Ingenieur to the most ingenious project of the year. More information only available in Dutch.
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Collaboration
A visit from Nanjin
On 17 May Vice President Weiqing Liu of the Nanjing University of Technology in China visited TU Delft to explore the opportunities for collaboration. Prof. Weiqing Liu, a civil engineer himself, spoke with a number of (energy) researchers.
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Collaboration
AIRE
Also Steve Goodnick, the director of the Arizona Institute for Renewable Energy (AIRE) and director of the Arizona Institute for Nanoelectronics (AINE) paid a visit to TU Delft. He visited TU Delft on 31 May and 1 June to discuss mutual research interests and possible collaboration.
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Invitation
IDEA League summer school on climate responsible engineering
From 21 – 26 June the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology will organise an IDEA League Summer School for PhD students about ‘climate responsible engineering in a warming world’. The summer school, to be held in Delft, will focus on the ethics of engineering from a perspective of climate change: What is responsible innovation? How can engineering design affect the world? What is the responsibility of engineers in the future?
Speakers include Jeroen van der Hoven, scientific director of the 3TU centre, Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington and Andrew Light at the George Mason University and Center for American Progress. It is still possible for PhD students to register.
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Spring: time for student initiatives (1)
NovaBike: students present biofuel race bike
In the last weekend of May TU Delft students participated in the Open Dutch Championship with a sustainable motorbike. The NovaBike, a motorbike on biofuels, raced against conventional motorbikes on the racing circuit of Assen during the Ducati Club Races.
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Spring: time for student initiatives (2)
Delta Lloyd Solar Boat
On 26 May D66-leader Alexander Pechthold and Wubbo Ockels baptised the Delta Lloyd Solar boat, a hydrofoil boat powered by solar cells, designed and built by a team of TU Delft students. The team will race in the Frisian Solar Challenge in July. More information only available in Dutch
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Spring: time for student initiatives (3)
Roll out Formula Student biofuel race car
On Tuesday 1 June the latest biofuel formula student car was officially launched on the Markt in Delft. The current team is the tenth team of TU Delft students to design and build a racing car to compete in the worldwide Formula Student competition. The team will race on several well known race tracks, the first being Silverstone on 14 July.
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Vacation period
No Energy Newsletter in July and August
Due to the vacation period there will be no Newsletter in July and August. The Energy Newsletter of September will be available on 7 September. We wish you an energetic summer!
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