Projects
Development of an extended animal model for perinatal drug testing for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia KU Leuven
Premature birth affects 11% of all pregnancies and is the leading cause of death in neonates worldwide. Advances in perinatal medicine have resulted in the more accurate prediction of preterm birth and more timely interventions leading to increased neonatal survival rates also for extreme preterm babies (≤28 weeks). However, the associated morbidity in survivors remains significant, especially in the pulmonary and central nervous system. At ...
A cardiovascular simulator for medical device testing KU Leuven
Cardiovascular simulators are a class of tools reproducing the human physiology of the cardiovascular system. With the increasing of computer power, simulators improved in the past decades in terms of accuracy and complexity. The use of simulators is currently increasing in the medical fields and is encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission with the Avicenna Alliance. Simulators can be used to test new medical ...
Residential heating using heat pumps and hot water storage tanks - Tank sizing to minimize environmental impact in a renewable energy context KU Leuven
Global warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission is expected to have long lasting effects on the environment, ecosystems and human society in the near future unless emissions are decreased. Electrifying residential heating loads through the use of heat pumps, can contribute to reducing residential greenhouse gas emissions. The addition of a dedicated thermal energy storage tank can provide additional flexibility to the ...
Development of a Smart Selective Laser Melting Process KU Leuven
The main objective of this dissertation is to improve the quality and robustness and to be able to estimate the quality of the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process. This is realised by carefully examining the complete SLM process chain and by improving the intelligence of the system by predicting the quality and improving the robustness.
To improve the robustness and quality, the job preparation is implemented in an in-house developed ...