Essays about: "cistern"

Found 5 essays containing the word cistern.

  1. 1. Urban Uncertainties

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Josephine Harold; [2022]
    Keywords : Urban development; threshold; Stockholm; continuity; zine; urban planning; city; biodiversity; contamination; appropriation; re-use; alteration; Bergs Hamn; Bergs gård; Nacka; up-cycling; cistern;

    Abstract : Throughout the last decades the linear urban development in Stockholm can be retraced to the idea of supply and demand, society’s view on the elimination of risk, while increasingly detaching from natural processes. This thesis offers a critical evaluation of the socio-economic situation of space production, while trying to argue for a new semantic recodification of urban organisational processes while reconnecting to a socio-biodiverse narrative. READ MORE

  2. 2. Nynäshamn´s City hall

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Felix Wahlgren; [2019]
    Keywords : City hall; Nynäshamn; oil cistern;

    Abstract : Nynäshamn is a city with a rich industrial history, its municipal arms consist of partly an achor, and partly three gears. The identity of the city has been greatly impacted by the industry which today consist mainly of the harbour and the oil refinery. READ MORE

  3. 3. Improvements in milking management through imitation of calf behaviour

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Ida Eriksson; [2013]
    Keywords : pre-stimulation; milk ejection; oxytocin; inhibition; post-stimulation; machine milking;

    Abstract : Approximately 20% of the milk within the udder of a cow is stored in the cistern and immediately available for milk removal, while activation of the milk ejection reflex is required for removing the remaining milk stored in the alveolar compartment. The aim of this literature review is to describe, evaluate and consider implications of the three different suckling activities that the calf displays during a suckling bout. READ MORE

  4. 4. Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Heat Transfer Study with Use of Comsol and Matlab

    University essay from KTH/Energiteknik

    Author : Petter Johansson; [2011]
    Keywords : Thermal Heat Energy Storage; thermodynamics; comsol; heat; transfer;

    Abstract : The interest in storing latent energy in phase change materials has risen over the last years as the need grows for more energy efficient systems. By storing energy, free chilling and heat can be saved for later use during high load hours. Thus the gap between supply and load can be overcome. READ MORE

  5. 5. A minor field study for combined rainwater andpond harvesting system and purification technology in the village Macedonia, Amazon basin, Colombia

    University essay from Institutionen för teknik och samhälle

    Author : Anna Tjus; Annie Johansson; [2008]
    Keywords : Rainwater harvesting; Amazon basin; Colombia;

    Abstract :   This study is a bachelor degree project which focuses on the lack of safe drinking water in a small village known as Macedonia in the Amazon basin in Colombia. The inhabitants of the village are 850 to the number and have never had access to safe drinking water. READ MORE