An estimated 17 million tonnes of tires are discarded annually. Re-use is achieved by retreading (9%), recycling (39%), energy recovery (37%) and landfill (5%). A preferred, but complex way of recycling is to make new tires from discarded tire rubber. Vulcanised car tire rubber has to be devulcanized …

Kverneland Group Nieuw-Vennep is an agricultural machinery manufacturer located in the town of Nieuw-Vennep in the Netherlands. In the spring of 2015 the company will start the production of a new generation of trailed field sprayers and the desire is to assemble these machines as quickly and efficiently …

Turbine blade cooling has been a topic of significant interest, as increasing turbine entry temperatures result in higher cooling requirements. The present numerical method divides the blade into a finite number of elements in the span and peripheral directions and solves the heat transfer fundamental …

Gas-oppervlakte interacties staan centraal in talrijke natuurlijke en industriële processen. Het begrijpen van deze interacties is belangrijk voor de ontwikkeling van diverse toepassingen. Dit interactieproces wordt sterk beïnvloed door de energie van de atomen / moleculen in het gas. Bij het instituut …

In previous research a new type of greenhouse with an integrated concentrated photovoltaic system (CPV) was developed based on a circular covering geometry and an integrated filter for reflecting the near infrared radiation (NIR) of the greenhouse and exploiting this radiation in a solar energy system. …

Dit verslag beschrijft het ontwerpproces van een mechanische sensor die laagfrequente trillingen kan meten voor het reeds ontworpen Kolibriesysteem. Kolibrie is een trillingisolatiesysteem dat grondtrillingen over een grote bandbreedte kan reduceren met een factor van minimaal 100. De ontwerpopdracht …

In markten waar trillingen funest kunnen zijn voor productieprocessen of metingen is het belangrijk trillingen te kunnen isoleren. TNO heeft hiervoor Kolibrie bedacht. Dit verslag beslaat de verbetering op de sensor die in Kolibrie wordt gebruikt.

The purpose of this report is to investigate the industrial trade networks of Bulgaria for the manufacturing of machines, parts, tools and mechanical equipment. It was assigned by the marketing consultancy KommaNet in order to find out why its main client, the Dutch Centre for Promotion of Imports (CBI), …

In an previous research project a new type of greenhouse with an integrated concentrated photovoltaic system (CPV) was developed which has an integrated filter for reflecting the near infrared radiation (NIR) to the greenhouse and exploiting this radiation in a solar energy system. The performance of …

Innovation seems to be the most important element of activities of companies to stay vital in a very competitive international market. Innovation is the process of developing products or services in an organisation for a market. Especially small and medium-sized companies, for which it is difficult to …