MERMAID: Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation

Offshore Renewable Energy Sector

In the near future, the European oceans will be subjected to a massive development of marine infrastructures. The most obvious structures include offshore wind farms, constructions for marine aquaculture and the exploitation of wave energy….

Cutting maintenance costs for offshore wind farms using improved forecasts

Offshore (wind) energy

Hard winds, strong currents or high waves. Maintenance vessels for offshore wind farms often have to stay in port, or return to shore, when bad weather suddenly blows in. The resulting costs for the dozens…

Koopmanspolder testing ground: a paradise for water birds

Water supply in urbanising delta’s

The Netherlands needs new types of water management in order to be prepared for the impact of climate change. Deltares has teamed up with Rijkswaterstaat to develop the ‘inland shore’ concept, a new approach to…

GO-FRESH: Geohydrological Opportunities FRESH water supply

Water supply in urbanising deltas

In the SW delta of the Netherlands, the agricultural sector is confronted with growing impacts of water shortage and salinization. Farmers and government are aware of the negative influence on the development of the agricultural sector. A reliable freshwater supply is…

FOME-BES: Fibre-Optic Monitoring of the Energy Balance and Performance of Ground Energy Systems

Sustainable energy from water and subsoil

Ground energy systems can make an major contribution to achieving CO2 mitigation targets. Unfortunately, not all ground energy systems perform optimally. That can result in unnecessarily low energy and financial yields, excessive groundwater claims, ineffective…

FAST: Foreshore Assessment using Space Technology

Hydro- and morphodynamics during extreme events

The European Programme for Research is funding a consortium of five European institutions: the Netherlands (Deltares and NIOZ), United Kingdom (University of Cambridge), Romania (GEOECOMAR) and Spain (University. of Cadiz), to work on the FAST…

Mississippi Barrier Island Restoration

Coastal Developments

The Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) was initiated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The aim was to return the sediment budget of the Mississippi Barrier Island system to its natural state as much as possible….

Harbour Sedimentation Harlingen – Delft3D Flexible Mesh pilot

Coastal Developments

Harlingen harbour, which is located in the Dutch Wadden Sea, suffers from high annual sedimentation rates that entail high maintenance-dredging costs for the municipality of Harlingen. To reduce these costs and take appropriate mitigation measures,…

Morphological studies for Al Faw port

Coastal Developments

Iraq wants to build a modern port as part of its long-term commitment to transforming Iraq into a transportation corridor between the Middle East and Europe. This will be the Al Faw Grand Port, which…

Transportability of domestic slurries

Infrastructure for water and energy

Delft University of Technology and Deltares have been awarded a research grant (from technology foundation STW) to investigate the transportability of domestic slurries, which is the missing link for future sanitation systems. Many researchers of…