After years of protests from residents against Shell’s plan to inject 400,000 tonnes of compressed CO2 under a local shopping mall, the plan was finally scrapped last week by the new Dutch minister of economic affairs, Maxime Verhagen.
By lowering the EPC energy performance coefficient, the government aims to reduce energy use by buildings. Dr Olivia Guerra Santín has shown however that the EPC barely works.
Scientists of the department bionanoscience of the faculty of Applied Sciences have developed a new instrument to measure the torque in individual DNA molecules.
Scaling up wind turbines from the current 3 megawatts to 5, 10 or even 20 megawatts demands daring and creative concepts. Dr Deok-je Bang presented some in his thesis.
Name: Glenn Thuwis (25)
Nationality: Belgian
Supervisor: Professor Zafer Gürdal
Subject: Design of a variable stiffness composite skin for morphing high lift systems
Thesis defense: In two years
“Everyone who has ever heard an airplane taking off knows that it makes a lot of noise.
Laser distance measuring in air has been brought to its penultimate level: 100 metres at micrometer accuracy.
At first, the task seemed simple enough,” says Dr Nandini Bhattacharya (Applied Sciences), who co-supervised Dr Moxi Cui’s PhD research on distance metrology.
Bacteria in oil wells can be used to raise oil yields and they are also good indicators of the status of the petroleum field, says Dr Geert van der Kraan, who defended his dissertation on petroleum ecosystems last week.
The Al Manhal Group has invested 600 million euros in a large silicon production facility in the Dutch province of Limburg, NRC Handelsblad reported last week. It’s innovation in spite of the new government’s policy.
High-pressure water jets might be just the tools orthopaedic surgeons need. Biomechanical engineers have started working on their development.
