Gas pockets in wastewater transport pipelines are a nuisance for sewage treatment plants. For his graduation research, Gieljam Schutgens (26) tried to find out just how problematic these bubbles are.
If you’re working on biofuels, funded by the army, would you hesitate if they asked you to help develop green explosives? Nature reports on the recent worries of some US synthetic biologists.
A recent article on colon cancer, published in ‘Nature Genetics’, identifies many more cancer genes than expected. The biologists used a data analysis tool developed at TU Delft, in collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Hydroinformatician Michael Siek developed a chaos-based computer model, which seems to predict storm surges better than the models currently in use. Siek would like to see his model put to the test.
More alcohol
Ten percent more alcohol from fermentation. That is what biotechnology researchers from Professor Jack Pronk’s group (Applied Sciences) achieved in collaboration with Brazilian colleagues from the University of Sao Paulo and the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
PhD student Tim Snijders of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering is investigating how well airplanes can fly on synthetic kerosene. After years of ground tests he is about to take off.
“I found the picture on internet,” says Dr Chenggang Shen. “I chose this one called ‘particles’ because it shows small particles, degrees of separation and light.
Name: Teus van Vianen (31)
Nationality: Dutch
Promoters: Professor Gabriël Lodewijks and Dr Jaap Ottjes (Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering – marine and transport technology section)
Subject: Design and operational control of dry bulk terminals
Thesis defence: In 2.5
Navigation prize
Every user knows gps devices generally do not perform too well in city centres (where you need them most).
