Promotor: W. Jaffe, Co-promotor: K. Meisenheimer

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Op donderdag 16 november 2017 is Thomas Leclerc gepromoveerd op zijn proefschrift ‘A Corrective Approach to Reduce Aircraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Contribution to the Study of Interactions between Legal Orders of International Law’. Zijn promotoren zijn prof.dr. P.M.J. Mendes De Leon en prof. L.…

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

Vinasse is a major by-product generated by the sugarcane biofuel industry. It is a source of microbes, nutrients and organic matter and often it is recycled as fertilizer.

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

Has the industrial sector in China effectively been decarbonizing in recent years, across different regions and subsectors, and is it plausible that it will reduce its CO2 emissions in conformity with national and internationally pledged emission goals?

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

In this thesis, I studied the origin and evolution of the non-thermal radiation in merging galaxy clusters.

Promotor: F.P. Israel, Co-Promoter: R. Meijerink

This thesis focuses on protoplanetary disks: flattened structures of gas and dust around young stars in which planets are expected to form and grow.

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

This thesis focuses on the X-ray spectral analysis of merging galaxy clusters and the plasma code development for future high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy observations.

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Examining if large scale application of new energy pathways can be constrained by materials and emissions.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

An overview is given of the flows of chlorine and chlorinated hydrocarbons through the Europian Union.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

This thesis aims to improve the detection from ultra-weak single emitter by enhancing their emission properties with plasmonic nanostructures. We exploit the wet-chemically synthesized single crystalline gold nanorods (GNRs) as our basic frameworks in the whole studies, simply because of their unique…

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Promotie

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely tied to the cyclic feedback processes between stars and the interstellar medium (ISM).

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

EXIOBASE is a global, detailed Multi-regional Environmentally Extended Supply and Use / Input Output (MR EE SUT/IOT) database. It was developed by harmonizing and detailing SUT for a large number of countries, estimating emissions and resource extractions by industry, linking the country EE SUT via…

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

In this study the flows of PVC and its additives through the Swedish Society were followed from the cradle to the grave (from production to waste treatment).