Projects
Mixed reality for mission-critical teamwork. University of Antwerp
Market effects of a grid injection limit algorithm and optimal storage deployment KU Leuven
Timing and sizing the need for implementation of battery storage might be an important parameter for cost-effective integration of renewables in the system and balancing the electricity system in a cost-effective way. This PhD contributes to a broader research project, in which a power injection limitation on static and dynamic basis controlled by the grid operator is assessed. In this PhD, the interaction between such a power injection ...
The Analysis of Thermal Hydraulic Phenomena in the MYRRHA Heavy Liquid-Metal Pool-type Reactor in Forced and Natural Circulation KU Leuven
SCK•CEN, the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, is at the forefront of Heavy Liquid Metal nuclear technology worldwide with the development of the MYRRHA Accelerator Driven System. MYRRHA is an innovative flexible fast-spectrum pool-type research reactor cooled by Lead Bismuth Eutectic.
The use of passive systems to achieve safety functions is one of the guiding principles of the MYRRHA design and safety approach. Natural circulation in ...
Determining the concentrations of cargo vapours around a ship's superstructure by wind tunnel experiments and CFD. University of Antwerp
Storage via Power-to-Gas in Future Energy Systems: the Need for Synthetic Fuel Storage in Systems with High Shares of Intermittent Renewables KU Leuven
Rising global temperature concerns drive unprecedented changes in the electrical power system like the massive deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources. Such large-scale renewables deployment requires a variety of flexibility options for the electrical power system to be operated reliably. A possibly important flexibility option is storage. Next to battery storage and pumped hydro storage, which have a comparably small storage ...
Large-eddy Simulation and Optimal Coordinated Control of Wind-farm Boundary Layers KU Leuven
In wind farms, velocity deficits in the wakes originating from upstream turbines result in a significant decrease in power extraction in downstream turbine rows. The current control paradigm in industry optimizes power extraction at the turbine level, and does not account for these interactions, leading to sub-optimal wind-farm efficiencies. The current dissertation investigates the use of a coordinated control approach that maximizes power ...
Microscopic Theory of Relaxation of Magnetization in Single-molecule Magnets KU Leuven
The work will comprise the investigation of physical mechanisms
governing the magnetic relaxation in polynuclear nanomagnets with strong
magnetic anisotropy on the metal sites and the development of efficient tools
for their quantitative description. The approach will based on the theory of
quantum relaxation combined with a realistic treatment of the electronicstructure of nanomagnets. The questions tobe addressed in the ...
Chemisorption reaction mechanisms for ruthenium atomic layer deposition (ALD): an atomistic insight. KU Leuven
In this thesis, we have explored and applied different computational techniques, i.e. density functional theory (DFT), multiconfigurational perturbation, coupled cluster, and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods in order to solve different chemical problems of transition metal (TM) complexes.
In gas phase, we have established a general procedure using high-quality ab initio methods to efficiently study binding energies of ...
Modeling, Optimal Control and HVAC Design of Large Buildings using Ground Source Heat Pump Systems KU Leuven
Since May 2010, the directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament compels its Member States to drastically decrease the energy use of buildings, to increase their energy efficiency and to increase the relative amount of renewable energy they use. One of the technologies recommended by the directive is the heat pump which efficiently uses electricity to extract thermal energy from a heat or cold source. In this work, buildings equipped with ...