Infrastructure for water & energy

1. 10 november 2015
Infrastructure for Water & Energy
Deltares portfolio and research
program
Francois Clemens, Ivo Pothof, Femke Verhaart Henk
Kruse

2. Relevant trends
• Share of water-related renewable energy (like Aquifer Thermal
Energy Storage, tidal energy etc.) will continue to increase in the
future energy mix.
• Critical infrastructures in urban areas deteriorate at an unknown
pace.
• Risk based design, operation and management demands for a
fundamental understanding of failure mechanisms.
• Operation of water & energy related infrastructure becomes more
complicates (smarter) posing new design challenges
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3. Goals 2018
• To improve performance, safety and robustness of Water & Energy
Infrastructures
• Design
• Providing tools for a proper choice of design tools (scale test,
numerical models, field measurements, expert rules).
• Research into failure mechanisms provides a basis for risk-
based design and asset management.
• Operation & Maintenance
• Smart operation of water and energy infrastructures become
“Powered by Deltares”.
• Methods and tools are developed for assessing ageing
processes.
• Engineers around the world use Deltares tools and are trained at
Deltares academy.
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4. R&D overview 2015
Topic Status Budget (370 k€ total)
Geothermal (shallow)
+ PhD projects
+ Monitoring
Finished
Ongoing
40
District Energy Systems Ongoing 50
Pipeline Integrity/Rehabilitation:
+ Integrated platform
+ Monitoring Tools
New
Ongoing
150
Future Sanitation Transportability Ongoing 30
Pump performance New 30
Tidal Energy Ongoing 60
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5. Schedule
10 november 2015
13:25Introduction to R&D track Infra for Water & Energy
13:30
FOME-BES – Fibre-Optic Monitoring of Efficiency of
geothermal energy systems
13:45
Aquifer Thermal Energy Systems (ATES) – PhD projects on
interference and bioremediation opportunities.
14:00
Sensor Technology Applied to Pipeline Infrastructure (STOOP)
for early warning and cost-effective asset management – large
scale validation tests.
14:15Software integration for pipelines and underground stresses
14:30
Advanced control of Smart Thermal Grid – case Campus Delft
University, a demonstration project for the transition of a district
heating system from gas boiler heating to multiple sustainable
sources.
14:45Break

6. Schedule
10 november 2015
15:15
Transportability of concentrated domestic slurries – physical and
numerical investigations on feasibility of concentrated domestic slurry
systems for future sanitation concepts
15:30Pump performance in unfavourable flow conditions
15:45
Energising Delta – Performance and impact of tidal turbines in storm
surge barriers
16:00Discussion
16:30Drinks