How Decaying Shells Help Preserve the Alkalinity of the Seas

Calcium carbonates produced by sea creatures help to maintain the ocean’s alkalinity — and also serve as a natural sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide. To better understand essential but obscure deep-sea galvanization processes, Olivier Sulpis of Utrecht University developed an innovative 3D reactive-transport model that shows how seashells help preserve calcite grains in seafloor sediments.

Application of Materials in the High Tech Industry

Last week the course Application of Materials in High Tech Industry started for the second time. It was kicked off by a presentation of Pieter Kappelhof, director Technology of the Hittech Group. This master course at the Delft University of Technology was the result of an initiative of the High Tech Industry, initiated by Hittech in 2020.

Discovering species with AI

The robot will use sensors, cameras and other technology to create images that must be converted into usable data. Dorin: “We have to train the AI system in such a way that it classifies the data from the sensors and the images extremely accurately.” That is important to identify existing species, but also to find species that we don’t…

A short explanation of cogging in iron core direct drive motors

Cogging force is a phenomenon caused by the attraction of the iron lamination stack of the motor to the permanent magnets. The direction of this force is either the same or opposite to the moving direction. By moving the motor over the magnet track the cogging effect can be noticed, the motor has a…

Shape Optimization in Electromagnetics: Part 1

Shape optimization can be used to improve designs in many different physics areas. In this blog post, we will focus on shape optimization in wave optics. We will go over the shape optimization features in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software and show what you can expect to achieve when these features are used for wave optics applications.

Sioux into space

A piece of Sioux’s technology was launched into space with the SubOrbital Express 3 for scientific purposes. Sioux Technologies’ biological research lab is part of a total of 12 experiments which went into space with the rocket. Edwin Langerak, project manager at Sioux, tells more about the road to the launch and Sioux’s expertise…

Wat is een Mass Flow Controller?

Als je gas, damp of vloeistof aan een chemisch proces wilt toevoeren, dan zijn mass flow controllers hiervoor geschikt. Mass flow controllers (ook wel MFC genoemd) worden gebruikt in processen die te maken hebben met:

* dosering van gas in bioreactoren voor bacteriegroei

* aeratie van industrieel roomijs of slagroom

* toevoeging…