Projects
Innovative Future-Proof Testing Methods for Reliable Critical Components in Wind Turbines KU Leuven
The future wind turbines will require flexible and economically affordable PDPs to obtain reliable and validated new concepts for bigger wind turbines or already installed turbines.
One of the most critical components that have a high contribution to wind farms OpEx costs are the bearings (selected Case Studies 1 and 3 during INNTERESTING) and gearboxes (selected Case Study 2 during INNTERESTING). Since both components transfer ...
Investigation of microbial long-distance electron transport via spectroscopy and electrochemistry. University of Antwerp
Towards water sensitive cities: Is leapfrogging realistic? KU Leuven
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we are facing as humanity. Cities are suffering both floods and droughts and an innovative response towards these challenges is the "water sensitive cities" (WSC) strategy, implemented in large cities such as Rotterdam and Melbourne. Due to the positive results of the projects implemented in those cities, lately pilot projects are being implemented worldwide in both large cities and middle size ...
The quest for climate-smart bananas: screening the banana diversity from plant to cell level KU Leuven
The rise in global mean temperature, frequency of hot temperature extremes, and geographic and temporal shifts in precipitation, increasingly exert pressure on agricultural systems, thereby altering the distribution of highly productive agricultural areas. Approximately 60 % of the area currently under banana cultivation has been predicted to become unsuitable by 2060. To enhance the resilience of our agricultural systems, increased crop and ...
Children as change makers in a household’s sustainable food consumption. Exploring how in-store marketing interventions targeting children can affect sustainable food literacy, -attitudes and - choices in children and their parents. Ghent University
Stimulating consumers towards more sustainable food consumption (consumption activities which provide for the needs of the current generation while preserving the needs of future generations) is becoming increasingly important for governmental and academic actors and the food industry. For retailers, it can become a path to economic growth, because providing sustainable food options can lead to positive consumer responses. Reaching children ...
Unravelling and modulating the complex conformational cycle of the Roco protein family Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2% of the population above age 65. However, ...
Analysis and utilization of mass and photon transport phenomena in aerosol media KU Leuven
The world is transitioning towards green chemistries and sustainable processes. Playing a key role in many fields, aerosols can facilitate this transition due to their intrinsic properties. In chemical industry, mass transfer limitations are a main concern in reactor design and operation for multiphase reactions. Mass transfer limitations occur when diffusion rate of molecules is slower than reaction rate. These limitations decrease ...
Extinctive prescription in private law : integrating factual circumstances KU Leuven
The extinctive prescription rules or statute of limitations are a legal tool to avoid the need for old disputes to be settled by a court. It is a difficult exercise, after all, having to decide a dispute that took place a long time ago. A central problem in this context is evidence. Due to the passage of time, written documents have disappeared or been destroyed, statements by the parties are doubtful or vague, witnesses can no longer be ...
Exploiting space weather simulations and observations with data analysis KU Leuven
The field of space weather studies the effects of highly energetic phenomena created by the Sun on the near Earth space environment. High velocity plasma emanated by the Sun travels through the interplanetary space and interacts with the magnetic field of the Earth. Sometimes it causes magnetic reconnection, a restructuring of the magnetic field lines. This disturbs our natural magnetic field, allowing high-energetic particles from the solar ...