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Gerdien de Vries bij RTL nieuws over klimaatnoodklok van David Attenborough

Weer luidt David Attenborough de klimaatnoodklok. De Britse bioloog riep het vaker, en zal de boodschap tot aan zijn dood blijven verkondigen. "Of je luistert, ligt eraan of je iemand ziet als autoriteit. De mensen die dat zo zien, die luisteren. Als je dat niet vindt, of je gelooft helemaal niet in klimaatverandering, dan luister je niet." zegt Gerdien de Vries bij RTL.

CO2 emissions reduced by separating waste

CO2 emissions reduced by separating waste Your coffee cups become toilet paper Let’s be honest, in the great scheme of things, the environmental impact of TU Delft’s circular coffee cups is limited, but we are still talking about 5 million coffee cups every year. The cups are collected from all lecture rooms, offices, restaurants and coffee corners before being picked up by the Logistics & Refuse Disposal Department. Of course, TU Delft produces other waste on campus, not just coffee cups: more than 2 million kilogrammes of it every year. It goes without saying that the collection of 5 million circular coffee cups starts with staff and students. Coffee finished? Throw the cup into one of the special cup bins. There are some 600 such bins spread over the whole campus. The bins are emptied into transparent bags, which are put into special on-site waste containers. The bags are transparent to make it easy to check what they contain, because other things – such as bottles, teabags and stirring sticks – are often thrown into the cup bins. If a bag contains too much aside from cups, it is rejected and sent to the general waste. Every Thursday, the electrically-powered Empty Cup Transport carts travel around campus to empty the special containers before the collected cups are deposited in the 500-litre wheelie bins. Renewi, the company in charge of waste collection from TU Delft, subsequently collects the cups for further processing. Michiel Faber (Coordinator at Logistics & Refuse Disposal) went on several field trips over the past year to see with his own eyes how the coffee cups are reused. Together with Philippe van der Pal, Process Coordinator at Catering Events & Horeca, he joined Renewi to explore every step of the waste processing chain. Faber: “All the way down to Swalmen in Limburg, where all parts of the cup – the ink, the layer of plastic and cardboard – are separated. The cardboard becomes toilet paper, the plastic is processed into raw materials for the plastic industry and the ink is used in corrugated fibreboard.” You can get an idea of the field trips here . ‘Dirty’ In addition to coffee cups, the Logistics & Refuse Disposal Department also collects less innocuous waste. It is for good reason that their site is secured by a large fence, and that smoking is strictly prohibited. You see, this is where Faber and his colleagues temporarily store all sorts of dangerous and combustible materials. Such as mercury waste, fly ash and nitric acid, resulting from research conducted on campus. There’s also a large round steel barrel on the grounds, with the word ‘Dirty’ painted on it in large letters. In a shed, there are boxes full of batteries and dozens of full glass bottles, all awaiting processing by staff wearing special suits with oxygen masks, ensuring that the air they breathe is constantly filtered. In 2017, more than 83,000 kilogrammes of combustible, corrosive and acidic waste was separated, strained and poured into bulk containers or barrels and prepared for removal and further processing. 13 waste flows and the rest There are a total of 13 different waste flows at TU Delft, all of which are separately collected and processed. Paper, biodegradable waste, wood and metal, for example. But also rubble, building and demolition waste, and organic waste from the catering facilities. General waste accounts for 46% of all waste produced at TU Delft. At many universities, general waste accounts for more than 50% of all waste flows. So in this regard, TU Delft is not doing at all badly. But there is still room for improvement. Through more efficient separation of plastics and wrappers, for example. “That’s something I do at home”, says Michiel Faber. “At a large organisation like TU Delft, it is not staff and students’ sandwich bags that are the primary issue, though, rather the bulk packaging.” Expense or the environment? A dilemma linked to waste separation is how to balance economic and environmental benefits. A new waste flow has to be collected separately. That results in additional costs. And additional journeys, which impact the environment. These can cancel out the environmental benefits of burning less general waste. The decision to create a new, separate waste flow is therefore not taken lightly. Reducing CO₂ emissions All this separated waste means that TU Delft prevents a total of 378,090 kilos of CO2 emissions (2018). That is the equivalent of travelling 1,890,449 km in a diesel car, for example, or charging 50,664 tablets for a whole year. Ambition wanted! In 2018, 53% of created waste was collected separately and more than 80% of the coffee cups were recycled (more than 3.6 million of the total of 4.5 million used cups). Michiel Faber is dedicated to raising these percentages every year. And therefore to reducing the amount of general waste and the corresponding CO 2 emissions created by burning this waste. It takes a lot of time and effort to create awareness and encourage people to improve their waste separation efforts.

Heating and cooling when you need it!

Heating and cooling when you need it! There’s heat in the summer and cold in the winter: energy that’s freely available for nothing. But what we want is heating in winter and cooling in the summer; we don’t need the energy when it’s actually available. The best solution is to store the heat and cold more effectively. Underground, in order to pump it up when you need it. A tried-and-tested sustainable solution TU Delft was one of the first major organisations in the Netherlands to store heat and cold underground. The first groundwater well was drilled in 1996, followed in 1998 by four more to heat and cool the EEMCS building. TU Delft is increasingly making use of aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES). It is a tried-and-tested sustainable solution, as the figures clearly reveal. In the winter of 2017, the ATES for the EEMCS building alone supplied 1.3 GWh of heat. That amounts to a gas saving and CO2 reduction of 20% for the EEMCS building. The new systems use a heat pump and the connected buildings are now all gas-free. ATES not only saves on gas, but also consumes less electricity. The source pump that pumps water from the groundwater well needs much less electricity than a regular cooling system. Better for the environment TU Delft now has a total of nine ATES systems. The heating and cooling systems of eleven buildings are connected to them. In 2016, these supplied 16,000 GJ of heat in total, achieving a saving of 500,000 to 600,000 m3 in gas consumption. That amounts to approximately 5% of TU Delft’s total gas consumption, 10 million m3. In terms of reduced CO2 consumption, that is the equivalent of 1,000 tCO2, 5% of TU Delft’s total CO2 footprint. From a semi-collective to a ring system TU Delft currently applies a semi-collective system for its ATES, which means that no more than two buildings are connected to a single ATES. However, more may be possible. The options of a “ring system” are currently being investigated, potentially enabling one ATES to cool more than two buildings. In addition, any excess heat from one building could then immediately be transferred to another building, with no need for storing it in the ground first. This offers advantages of scale and is even more sustainable. How does an ATES system work? Below the area surrounding TU Delft, there are 24 hot water and cold water wells underneath the campus. The deepest go down to 140 m. The newest ATES systems use heat pumps. Annually, 1.2 billion litres of water are pumped to the cold and hot groundwater wells. If all ATES systems are activated at the same time, they pump 750,000 litres of water every hour!

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What trees teach us about sustainable production of materials

Trees are excellent teachers when it comes to making materials for load-bearing structures with as little resources and energy as possible. One of their secrets? When a tree grows, the direction of the wood grain adapts itself to fit the load that part of the tree is going to bear.

Exhale Sluitingsweek: A week of free events to say goodbye to Exhale and cosy up for Winter

De allerlaatste Exhale Week vindt plaats van 25 november tot 1 december en staat volledig in het teken van afscheid nemen van Exhale en het omarmen van de winter.

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins Q-Park thesis award

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins the 2024 Q-Park Student Award with her thesis called: Stories of Aging and Access - Exploring capabilities and challenges of accessibility for urban elderly through microstories. Her award-winning thesis can be found here .

TU Delft jointly wins XPRIZE Rainforest drone competition in Brazil

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests. Drones that autonomously deploy eDNA samplers and canopy rafts uncover the rich biodiversity of these complex ecosystems while revealing the effects of human activity on nature and climate change. On November 15, 2024, after five years of intensive research and competition, the ETHBiodivX team, which included TU Delft Aerospace researchers Salua Hamaza and Georg Strunck, achieved an outstanding milestone: winning the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize for outstanding effort in co-developing inclusive technology for nature conservation. The goal: create automated technology and methods to gain near real-time insights about biodiversity – providing necessary data that can inform conservation action and policy, support sustainable bioeconomies, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities who are the primary protectors and knowledge holders of the planet’s tropical rainforests. The ETHBiodivX team, made of experts in Robotics, eDNA, and Data Insights, is tackling the massive challenge of automating and streamlining the way we monitor ecosystems. Leading the Robotics division, a collaboration between TU Delft’s Prof. Salua Hamaza, ETH Zurich’s Prof. Stefano Mintchev and Aarhus University’s Profs. Claus Melvad and Toke Thomas Høye, is developing cutting-edge robotic solutions to gather ecology and biology data autonomously. “We faced the immense challenge of deploying robots in the wild -- and not just any outdoor environment but one of the most demanding and uncharted: the wet rainforests. This required extraordinary efforts to ensure robustness and reliability, pushing the boundaries of what the hardware could achieve for autonomous data collection of images, sounds, and eDNA, in the Amazon” says prof. Hamaza. “Ultimately, this technology will be available to Indigenous communities as a tool to better understand the forest's ongoing changes in biodiversity, which provide essential resources as food and shelter to the locals.” . . . .

Moving the Closet

You simply cannot miss it, it is big and magenta: the Pink Closet . On 12 November 2024 the Pink Closet will head to the Main Hall of the TU Delft Library for the first time! The Pink Closet will take its place at the Nook, where it will feature as part of the Studium Generale programme on loneliness. More information on events that coincide with and incorporate the Pink Closet at TU Delft Library will soon be available on the website of Studium Generale .

Green ammonia remains a challenge, but researchers make significant progress

The production of ammonia, essential for fertiliser production, is responsible for almost 1.5% of global carbon emissions. This needs to be greener, which is why researchers have been looking for sustainable alternatives for years.

"Measuring brain activity through the skull with ultrasound opens new doors"

PhD Candidate Rick Waasdorp is looking for ways to correct the distortion caused by the skull when using Ultrasound technology. ‘’My goal is to develop an adaptive method for skull corrections that automatically measures the skull of new patients.’’

NWO funding for flexible power demand in electrically driven industry

NWO is funding two projects to explore ways to make the power demand of industry more flexible, allowing it to better align with future energy supplies. One of these projects, “DEFLAME,” is led by Machteld van den Broek from TU Delft.

Students Amos Yusuf, Mick Dam & Bas Brouwer winners of Mekel Prize 2024

Master students Amos Yusuf, from the ME faculty (Mick Dam, from the EEMCS faculty and graduate Bas Brouwer have won the Mekel Prize 2024 for the best extra scientific activity at TU Delft: the development of an initiative that brings master students into the classroom teaching sciences to the younger generations. The prize was ceremonially awarded by prof Tim van den Hagen on 13 November after the Van Hasselt Lecture at the Prinsenhof, Delft. They received a statue of Professor Jan Mekel and 1.500,- to spend on their project. Insights into climate change are being openly doubted. Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn. Short clips – so called “reels” – on Youtube and TikTok threaten to simplify complex political and social problems. AI fakes befuddle what is true and what is not. The voices of science that contribute to those discussion with modesty, careful argument and scepticism, are drowned in noise. This poses a threat for universities like TU Delft, who strive to increase student numbers, who benefit from diverse student populations and aim to pass on their knowledge and scientific virtues to the next generation. It is, therefore, alarming that student enrolments to Bachelor and Master Programs at TU Delft have declined in the past year. Students in front of the class The project is aimed to make the sciences more appealing to the next generation. They have identified the problem that students tend miss out on the opportunity of entering a higher education trajectory in the Beta sciences – because they have a wrong picture of such education. In their mind, they depict it as boring and dry. In his pilot lecture at the Stanislas VMBO in Delft, Amos Yusuf has successfully challenged this image. He shared his enthusiasm for the field of robotics and presented himself as a positive role model to the pupils. And in return the excitement of the high school students is palpable in the videos and pictures from the day. The spark of science fills their eyes. Bas Brouwer Mick Dam are the founders of NUVO – the platform that facilitates the engagement of Master Students in high school education in Delft Their efforts offer TU Delft Master Students a valuable learning moment: By sharing insights from their fields with pupils at high school in an educational setting, our students can find identify their own misunderstandings of their subject, learn to speak in front of non-scientific audiences and peak into education as a work field they themselves might not have considered. An extraordinary commitment According to the Mekel jury, the project scored well on all the criteria (risk mitigation, inclusiveness, transparency and societal relevance). However, it was the extraordinary commitment of Amos who was fully immersed during his Master Project and the efforts of Brouwer and Dam that brought together teaching and research which is integral to academic culture that made the project stand out. About the Mekel Prize The Mekel Prize will be awarded to the most socially responsible research project or extra-scientific activity (e.g. founding of an NGO or organization, an initiative or realization of an event or other impactful project) by an employee or group of employees of TU Delft – projects that showcase in an outstanding fashion that they have been committed from the beginning to relevant moral and societal values and have been aware of and tried to mitigate as much as possible in innovative ways the risks involved in their research. The award recognizes such efforts and wants to encourage the responsible development of science and technology at TU Delft in the future. For furthermore information About the project: https://www.de-nuvo.nl/video-robotica-pilot/ About the Mekel Prize: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/our-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethics-philosophy-of-technology/mekel-prize

The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund

Are you a student at TU Delft or another ENHANCE university with a passion for promoting diversity and inclusion? The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund is your chance to turn that passion into action. ENHANCE provides funding to support innovative, student-led projects that address key challenges related to inclusion and diversity within our academic communities. Key Details: Funding Available: Up to 1500 Euros per project in the 1st round! Eligibility: Students from ENHANCE member universities. Staff can also join student-led initiatives. Application Deadline: 8 January 2025. More information: Join the online Information Event on the 26 November 2024 16:00-17:00 CET on Zoom . More information: enhanceuniversity.eu/diversity/diversityseedfund/

New catheter technology promises safer and more efficient treatment of blood vessels

Each year, more than 200 million catheters are used worldwide to treat vascular diseases, including heart disease and artery stenosis. When navigating into blood vessels, friction between the catheter and the vessel wall can cause major complications. With a new innovative catheter technology, Mostafa Atalla and colleagues can change the friction from having grip to completely slippery with the flick of a switch. Their design improves the safety and efficiency of endovascular procedures. The findings have been published in IEEE. Catheter with variable friction The prototype of the new catheter features advanced friction control modules to precisely control the friction between the catheter and the vessel wall. The friction is modulated via ultrasonic vibrations, which overpressure the thin fluid layer. This innovative variable friction technology makes it possible to switch between low friction for smooth navigation through the vessel and high friction for optimal stability during the procedure. In a proof-of-concept, Atalla and his team show that the prototype significantly reduces friction, averaging 60% on rigid surfaces and 11% on soft surfaces. Experiments on animal aortic tissue confirm the promising results of this technology and its potential for medical applications. Fully assembled catheters The researchers tested the prototype during friction experiments on different tissue types. They are also investigating how the technology can be applied to other procedures, such as bowel interventions. More information Publicatie DOI : 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464672 Toward Variable-Friction Catheters Using Ultrasonic Lubrication | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore Mostafa Atalla: m.a.a.atalla@tudelft.nl Aimee Sakes: a.sakes@tudelft.nl Michaël Wiertlewski: m.wiertlewski@tudelft.nl Would you like to know more and/or attend a demonstration of the prototype please contact me: Fien Bosman, press officer Health TU Delft: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733

Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis

In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change. "We scientists should not merely outline doomsday scenarios," says Professor Chris Zevenbergen. "Create a vision for people to believe in and work towards.”

Inaugural address: machine optimisation key to more efficient logistics system

The processing and transport of materials can be made much more efficient, says TU Delft professor Dingena Schott in her inaugural address, ‘Advancing Transport and Processing: from Model to Impact’. She will deliver her address on 15 November. Her research focuses on the interaction between machines and materials, with a special emphasis on granular materials.

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students to apply for the Ambitious Project Grant or the Event Grant of up to €15.000!

Education demonstration in Utrecht cancelled

Safety cannot be guaranteed In our post of 22 October , we announced that students and staff of TU Delft will have the opportunity to take part in protests against the cabinet's plans to cut higher education. Today it has been announced that the demonstration against the cuts to higher education and science on 14 November in Utrecht has been cancelled because the safety of the demonstrators cannot be guaranteed. Read the reaction of Universiteiten van Nederland to the cancellation of the education demonstration in Utrecht (Dutch only).

Young Investigator Award for Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna

Gabrielle has won the technical Young Investigator Award at Euroson 2024 (congress of the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology) with her presentation entitled: “Ultrasound imaging in bones: tissue characterization, anatomical images
and blood flow measurements”.

Ilaria Orsi joined ImPhys as PhD student

Ilaria started her PhD program in the Renaud group about ultrasound imaging inside bones, contributing to the advancement of such non-invasive technique to characterize tissue composition and to quantify blood flow.

First prize for ZhenZhen Wu at the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards

ZhenZhen Wu's poster, “Absolute Voltage Imaging in Developing Zebrafish,” won first prize in the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards, competing against over 150 posters. The BioPM Poster Prizes are awarded to the best posters presented at the NWO Biophysics Conference, and the winners are selected by a jury. ZhenZhen Wu z.wu-3@tudelft.nl

Enrolment for new courses open on 13 November

The new courses will start from Monday 18 November. Enrolment for these starts from Wednesday 13 November at 08.00! In the second quarter, a new series of courses awaits you. You can find out more on the website. Maybe you already know that you want to attend your favourite course again or maybe you want to discover and try something new; it's all possible. The enrolment moment for the course depends on the day the course takes place. At 08:00 enrolments for Monday's courses open, at 10:00 for Tuesday's courses, at 12:00 for Wednesday's courses, at 14:00 for Thursday's courses and at 16:00 for courses on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Enrolments go fast Enrolment for our courses always runs fast, so don't wait too long or be surprised by a course where spots are still available! Enrolment closes Enrolment closes on Friday 22 November at 16.00.

Contributions of SPTL at the CVS Congress (21-22 November, Utrecht)

On November 21 and 22, the 51st edition of the CVS congress is held in the Railway museum in Utrecht. Members of the Smart Public Transport Lab contribute to the following sessions: Knus in de bus op dinsdag; zijn alle werkdagen nog wel hetzelfde? Thursday, November 21, 16:00-17:30 Julia Bickel, Maxim Meijers and Niels van Oort [abstract] Stedelijkheidsgraden in transportmodellen: Een analyse over de impact van de ruimtelijke omgeving op reisgedrag Thursday, November 21, 16:00-17:30 Janine Grauss, Justin Hogenberg and Niels van Oort [abstract] Van en naar het treinstation: Voorkeuren van reizigers voor gedeelde elektrische micromobiliteit Friday, November 22, 11:30-13:00 Nejc Geržinič, Mark van Hagen, Dorine Duives and Niels van Oort [ abstract ] Gamen maakt de toekomst – Serious gamen voor een optimale mobiliteitsmix Friday, November 22, 11:30-13:00 Tessa Leferink, Niels van Oort and Sander Lenferink [abstract] De verkenning van de potentie van fietsparkeren bij het ov: een casus in Den Haag Madeline Lai, Dorine Duives, Stefan Talen, Nejc Geržinič and Niels van Oort Friday, November 22, 14:00-15:30 [abstract]