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Dear readers, I found a very interesting video on TED. Most of the things you will already know if you followed my blog. But i think that the part of batteries is very interesting. And for this applications wireless energy … Continue reading
The first wireless transformator
Dear reader, Everybody knows Nicolas Tesla. He was de scientist who invented the alternating current. But that was not without any annotation. the big competitor of Tesla was Thomas Edison. They fought the “war of currents”. On the one side … Continue reading
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Water treatment, why it’s needed and what can we do about it?
Without human activities, water treatment is the result of a cycle of natural cleaning and pollution. If waterplants, algae, organisms die they pollute the water with dead organic matter. In the presence of oxygen, aerobic bacteria will make sure to … Continue reading
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Eutrophication, a consequence of water pollution
I promised to talk about some of the consequences of water pollution and one that is well known by now is eutrophication. For a quick summary watch the following video, if you want more details, just keep on reading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqZsSuG7ao … Continue reading
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Dissolved oxygen and organic matter polution sources:
In my previous posts, I talked about some parameters that are applied in waste water treatment installations. This post is all about the dissolved oxygen and how it’s influenced by polution sources of organic matter. First let’s talk about the … Continue reading
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Still a long way to go?
The breakthrough of electric cars definitely not only depends on the technology issues. The purchase of an electric car is more expensive, in spite of the fact that your driving cost is a multiple times less than a combustion car. … Continue reading
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Sci-fi is already here!
Hello fellow bloggers, I regret to inform you all that this will be my last post (for now). Maybe I’ll pick up blogging again when all my deadlines are over and I have time. In this final post, I’d like … Continue reading
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Volatile fatty acids(VFA’s): indicators of process imbalance in anaerobic waste water treatment
Jeroen Boonen mentioned the importance of VFA in the interview I previously posted. In this post I’ll talk about the importance of this parameter. Since the start of implementations of anaerobic processes, research has been done to find a reliable … Continue reading
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wireless charging, solution to many problems
Dear readers To come back to the fact that the efficiency of wireless charging is less than the classic way of charging your devices. Wireless charging makes it possible to transfer energy without wires between the device and the charging … Continue reading
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Interview with a water treatment process engineer
For this blog I interviewed Jeroen Boonen. I had some general questions about the UASB, the reactor I am doing my thesis about, see my first post for more information. Jeroen Boonen is a process engineer at the company I … Continue reading
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