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Smart measuring with rubber ducks and floats
16 May 2012
Pupils from Year 8 of the Openbare Montessorischool Jan Vermeer will be helping TU Delft to chart the flow of water through the city’s canals. On the morning of Monday 21 May they will hold a rubber duck race as a warming-up exercise, and then they will help to track 1,100 floats – which have been fitted with special tags – as they float through the canals of Delft, to see exactly where they go...
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Kick-off for Delft Urban Water Centre May 29th
07 May 2012The Delft Urban Water Centre has been active behind the scenes for some time now and the network of Delft urban water scientists is steadily expanding. The time has now come for the Delft Urban Water Centre to go public, with its official kick-off event on Tuesday, 29 May 2012. At the event, the three major research themes for the upcoming period will be featured in detail: ‘Urban water and...
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Dutch and German biobased economy consortia to collaborate
03 May 2012On 1 May two European public-private consortia in the area of the biobased economy – the Dutch BE-Basic and the German CLIB2021 – have signed a memorandum of understanding to confirm their plans to collaborate. The parties signed the contract during the Bio World Congress on the bio economy in Orlando, Florida.
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European Inventor Award nomination for Nereda water purification technology
02 May 2012The European Patent Office (EPO) has nominated TU Delft’s Dr. Merle de Kreuk, Prof.Dr. Sef Heijnen and Prof.Dr. Mark van Loosdrecht for the 2012 European Inventor Award (EIA) for the development of the water purification technology Nereda® in cooperation with the engineering consultancy firm DHV and the Dutch water boards. The invention enables the purification of industrial and household waste...
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