Description

The board would like to welcome you to the traditional New Year's Reception in the new year. As always, the reception is the gathering where members can meet, catch up and meet new members. All over snacks and drinks. The chairman looks back on the 35th anniversary of the South Region and discusses the planned activities. During the meeting, Bob Ursem will give a highly informative and fascinating presentation on the technological possibilities hidden in plants.

In the world, the Botanical Garden TU Delft has now become a leading centre for new green technology. It grows 8,000 useful plants for humans and industry. When the garden was founded in 1917, latex, gum, resin and wood fibres from Indonesia, among others, were important for new technological applications. That has shifted to contemporary scientific innovations.

Recently, the Botanical Garden has become known for new technological inventions, such as a fine dust reduction system, a biological UV filter, new crystal-controlled motion systems, electric milking of secondary metabolite plant substances to monitoring plant evaporation with electricity in the European Space Agency programme. New technologies based or directly derived from plants from the garden

In addition to these inventions, the talk will also cover new applications of other plant technologies, such as the recently developed programme for LED lighting and plant cultivation. Also energy extraction from algae as biofuel such as the plans with IATA and the United Emirates in Kuwait and others to start large-scale energy extraction with macro algae, a special challenge to produce carbon dioxide neutral aviation fuel on the open sea. Very timely topics in the growing position of 'cradle to cradle' technology.

Members and their introducer(s) are welcome!

Speaker(s)

drs. ing. W.N.J.(Bob) Ursem, Scientific Director Section Botanical
Garden, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences TU Delft

Bob Ursum studied chemistry, biology and physics in Utrecht and held administrative positions in nature conservation for more than 30 years, at the World Wildlife Fund Netherlands and the Institute for Nature Conservation Education, among others. He participated in research trips to the North Pole and did a year of research in undisturbed tropical rainforest in Guyana. He was an associate professor at UU and the UvA, among others, and is currently in Delft. Ursum won international awards in the field of Bio UV filter, fine dust inventions for traffic and LED technology for plants. He has been chairman of the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens since 1998 and has held his current position at TU Delft since 2001

Location

Hall Centre Prinsenhof, Hoofdstraat 43,

5683 AC Best

Organiser

Region South

KIVI Students Eindhoven

Name and contact details for information

About reception and introduction: drs. ing. Cor van den Bosch, t: 06 50638128 e: jocobowi@onsbrabantnet.nl About the presentation: ing. E.J.A. (Gidi) van Heijst, e: Geveha@zonnet.nl