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December 19, 2025

Self-study module Introduction to Plant Biology - Water in plants

This self-study module is part of the series ‘Introduction to Plant Biology’ and focuses on the role of water in plants, explaining how water is taken up, transported, and regulated to support plant growth and survival. It is designed for students learning basic plant biology and for teachers seeking clear figures and explanations for educational use. The module covers water uptake by roots, long-distance water transport through the xylem and phloem, the relationship between stomata and transpiration, and examines how environmental factors influence these processes.

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Elysa Overdijk, Anniek Oosterwijk, Kayla Delvers

January 17, 2017

The Basics of Transport Phenomena

Have you ever wondered why ventilation helps to cool down your hot chocolate? Do you know why a surfing suit keeps you warm? Why iron feels cold, while wood feels warm at room temperature? Or how air is transferred into aqueous liquids in a water treatment plant? How can we sterilize milk with the least amount of energy? Or how do we design a new cooling tower of a power plant? Transport Phenomena addresses questions like these and many more, exploring a wide variety of applications ranging from industrial processes to daily life problems and even to bioprocesses in our own body. In Transport Phenomena, the transport and transfer of momentum, heat and mass are studied. To understand these processes which often take place simultaneously, the underlying concepts will be covered in this course.

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Robert Mudde, Peter Hamersma

June 27, 2019

Dredging Engineering: Special Topics

In dredging, production estimating is carried out mainly with analytical physical models of the different dredging processes. Slurry transport of settling slurries and cutting processes in sand, clay and rock are already covered in two other books by the author. Other processes like hopper sedimentation and erosion, water jet fluidization, cutter head spillage, pump/pipeline dynamics and clamshell dredging are covered in this Special Topics Edition. New topics may be added in the near future.

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Sape A. Miedema

April 2, 2025

Kennisbouwplaats: Thema Bouwlogistiek, de virtuele bouwplaats met bouwlogistieke kennisproducten

In ons land wordt de komende jaren fors gebouwd. Het transport van bouwmateriaal, mobiele werktuigen en personeel van en naar de bouwplaats zorgt voor extra drukte op de weg, extra uitstoot en knelpunten rond verkeersveiligheid en omgevingshinder. Proefprojecten in diverse steden laten zien dat bouwlogistieke maatregelen het aantal binnenstedelijke ritten verminderen en ook de productiviteit op de bouwplaats vergroten. Topsector Logistiek voert het programma Mobiele Werktuigen en Bouwlogistiek uit samen met bedrijven, overheden en onderzoeksinstellingen. Binnen dit programma wordt de impact van Schoon en Emissieloos Bouwen (SEB) in de praktijk onderzocht. De geleerde lessen worden vertaald naar kennisdocumenten en praktische oplossingen, die we actief delen met de bouwsector via bijvoorbeeld deze interactieve bouwplaats. Via deze interactieve bouwplaats vind je informatie over de transitie van schone en emissieloze mobiele werktuigen en bouwlogistiek. Binnen bouwlogistiek vind je bijvoorbeeld kennis over prefab bouwtechnieken, het gebruik van een bouwhub, transport over water en ketenaansturing.

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Onbekend Onbekend

April 15, 2024

Electrolysers, Fuel Cells and Batteries: Analytical Modelling

Electrochemical engineering deals with electrochemical devices like electrolysers, fuel cells, and batteries. While several excellent books exist in this long-standing and still growing field, their focus is usually on chemistry or phenomenology. In this textbook, we focus on mathematical modelling of the physical phenomena involved. Instead of resorting to numerical modelling, the aim is to derive simplified analytical models that maximise understanding. Porous electrodes, ion mass transport, and multiphase flow are central themes in this book. Examples include modelling the water saturation in a fuel cell diffusion layer, the gas fraction and current distribution in an alkaline water electrolyser, the potential distribution in a binary electrolyte inside porous battery electrode, and the concentration distribution in the flow channel of a redox flow battery. This makes for a diverse, challenging, and stimulating journey, for both students and researchers.

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Willem Haverkort

October 1, 2025

An analysis of the current developments and scenarios for the transition to a fossil-free energy society this century

This century, greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides must be significantly reduced. Greenhouse gases absorb and emit infrared radiation that contributes to global warming, which can lead to irreversible negative consequences for humans and the environment. Greenhouse gases are caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as crude oil, coal, and natural gas, but livestock farming and agriculture are also to blame. In addition, deforestation contributes to more greenhouse gases. Of the natural greenhouse gases, water vapor is the main cause of the greenhouse effect, accounting for 90%. The remaining 10% is caused from high to low by carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, chlorofluorocarbons, and ozone. In addition, there are industrial greenhouse gases such as fluorinated hydrocarbons, sulphur hexafluoride, and nitrogen trifluoride that contribute to the greenhouse effect too. Greenhouse gases are a major cause of climate change, with far-reaching consequences for the welfare of humans and animals. In some regions, extreme weather events like rainfall are more common, while others are associated with more extreme heat waves and droughts. Sea level rise caused by melting ice and an increase in forest fires are undesirable effects of climate change. Countries in low-lying areas fear that sea level rise will force their populations to move to the higher-lying areas. Climate change is affecting the entire world. An estimated 30-40% o f the carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels dissolves into the surface water, resulting in an increased concentration of hydrogen ions. This causes the seawater to become more acidic, resulting in a decreasing of carbonate ions. Carbonate ions are an important building block for forming and maintaining calcium carbonate structures of organisms such as oysters, mussels, sea urchins, shallow water corals, deep sea corals, and calcareous plankton.

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Folkert Koopman

January 31, 2022

Ports and terminals

By nature port planning is a multidisciplinary activity. It involves expertise in the field of transport economics, shipping, nautical matters, safety and logistics. But also knowledge of waves and currents, sediment transport and coastal morphology, dredging and land reclamation, and design of breakwaters and quays. Hence port planning is teamwork. But within this team the port planner plays a central role in developing the concepts and obtaining the required expertise at the right time. Most port planners are civil engineers with hydraulic engineering training and experience. The first part of this book (Chapter 1 through 6) is aimed at providing the basic elements to perform this planning process. In Chapter 7 the detailed planning of container terminals is treated, including the logistic process. Further attention is paid to design aspects, typical for such terminals. The objective is to provide the basis for an all-round port engineer, somebody who can participate in the design of any given type of port or terminal. Chapters 8-14 present the planning aspects of other types of terminals.

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Han Ligteringen

June 6, 2021

RElastiCity: An urban resilience game

Games are safe environments where players can experiment freely with complex and uncertain decisions. RElastiCity is a game about urban resilience. In the game, the players are responsible for the resilience of a city, they have to protect the city against stresses and adapt the city to become more resilient. In this way, the players experience the choices that have to be made and the consequences of the choices. In this version of the game, a fictional city is simulated, a city that is similar to an average Western-European (Dutch) city. It is also possible to customize the game to any other city in the world. In the files you can find a facilitator manual for the teachers about how to use the game and how to prepare. Second you find the rulebook, which explains the rules in detail and can be given to the players (in principle they can play without a facilitator). And you find the materials for the game (General materials A3Format, general materials A4format, Materials set built environment, energy, urban water and transport). For the background of the content of the game, you can use the systems analysis report). Besides the basic game that can be printed, you can also develop your own content. In the facilitator manual you can find some ideas and you can use the blank_materials set to develop new cards. Learning Objectives After playing the game, the participants: Understand different perspectives of resilience and how they influence key performance indicators and decision making Experience the impact of disasters on the environment of the system Experience the consequences of different measures on disasters Experience the consequences of different measures on other systems (counter intuitive effects): a. effect of measure during implementation and under normal conditions, b. effect of measure to protect one disaster on effects when another disaster happens Experience how to organize disaster prevention and mitigation. The game is primarily developed as an introduction for engineering students (in higher education) to the topic of resilience. This can be part of a course about resilience or related to a resilience topic within a course. As the focus is engineering, the content of the game is more focused on the engineering challenges and less on the societal issues. In a broader perspective, the game can also be used for professional training, in resilience research projects or in any other interested group of players. The content of the game can be adapted to make a closer fit with the city or area of interest. More information about the use and adaptation of the game can be found in the facilitator manual. Credits: this game was developed by the TU Delft gamelab (website: https://seriousgaming.tudelft.nl/).

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Geertje Bekebrede, Gracia Bovenberg-Murris, Linda van Veen, Carissa Champlin

April 2, 2025

Kennisbouwplaats: Thema Gebiedsgerichte aanpak. De virtuele bouwplaats met bouwlogistieke kennisproducten

Nederland staat voor een enorme woningbouwopgave, die vaak binnenstedelijk wordt gerealiseerd. Dat leidt tot veel extra transporten. Hetzelfde geldt voor de verduurzaming van woningen en de transitie naar een circulaire economie. Stedelijke ambities zoals veiligheid, bereikbaarheid en luchtkwaliteit staan hierdoor onder druk. Tegelijkertijd maakt het toenemend aantal regels, voertuigbeperkingen en verkeersopstoppingen het voor bouwers lastiger om in de stad te bouwen. Een gebiedsgerichte aanpak waarbij overheden en marktpartijen actief samenwerken over meerdere projecten in een stadsgebied, leidt tot efficiënte en duurzame bouwlogistiek. Diverse instrumenten bieden overheden en marktpartijen handvatten om met deze werkwijze aan de slag te gaan. Benieuwd naar de mogelijkheden van transport over water? Klik op de link! Topsector Logistiek voert het programma Mobiele Werktuigen en Bouwlogistiek uit samen met bedrijven, overheden en onderzoeksinstellingen. Binnen dit programma wordt de impact van Schoon en Emissieloos Bouwen (SEB) in de praktijk onderzocht. De geleerde lessen worden vertaald naar kennisdocumenten en praktische oplossingen, die we actief delen met de bouwsector via bijvoorbeeld deze interactieve bouwplaats. Via deze interactieve bouwplaats vind je informatie over de transitie van schone en emissieloze mobiele werktuigen en bouwlogistiek. Binnen bouwlogistiek vind je bijvoorbeeld kennis over prefab bouwtechnieken, het gebruik van een bouwhub, transport over water en ketenaansturing.

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Onbekend Onbekend

October 5, 2020

Pluvial floods in Rotterdam-2

Rotterdam, a city located at the delta region and only 35 km to the sea, suffers from increasingly frequent intensive rainfall due to the climate change. The pluvial flood it causes overwhelms the urban drainage system first and then damages the transport systems. Residential and industrial infrastructures in the city and local ecology will be influenced as well. Ethically, it causes anxiety and conflictions among citizens, even triggers people’s unsatisfaction and denouncement. Solutions provided here focus on urban drainage and discharge system, water retention facilities, infiltration zones/ green spaces, protection of vulnerable infrastructures and government regulations. This report consists of seven parts: introduction to pluvial flood, affected parts of urban networks, condition till 2050 under climate change, ethical consequences, solution strategies, ethical implications of solutions and effect monitor.

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Zhang Luqianxue