Projects

• Smart Thermal Grid TU Delft Campus

Other recent projects that contribute to a fossil free future energy system:

• Thermal interference between district heating and drinking water pipes
• Model-Based Monitoring of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (MoBaMo-TES)
• Smart Drainage for sustainable water management

Expertise

Mr. Ivo Pothof (PhD, MSc, 1972) is part-time guest researcher Sustainable District Heating Cooling at the Water Management department, faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.  He initiates multidisciplinary (applied) research projects to accelerate the heat transition. His research interest includes digital twins, data-model-integration, performance monitoring, robust (model-predicitve) control, system integration and failure mechanisms in thermal energy systems and pipe networks. At Deltares, he is senior specialist Renewable Energy and Industrial flows. He initiates strategic R&D projects in the cross-over between water, renewable energy and smart control of water and energy infrastructure. Ivo Pothof wants to contribute to the development of smart, affordable, sustainable district heating (cooling) grids and their integration in future smart energy systems.

Biography

Ivo Pothof has been supporting the development of an interfacultary research group on sustainable district heating cooling at TUDelft since 2018. Pothof is one of the principal investigators at Deltares in the portfolio on renewable energy from water and subsoil since 2012. He was a member of the Scientific Council of Deltares from 2013 until 2016 and a member of the LOC of the 36th IAHR World Congress in The Hague in 2015. Mr. Pothof has a background as an industrial hydrodynamics specialist at Deltares. Joining Delft Hydraulics (currently Deltares) in 1997, he became specialist in fluid transients, optimal control of pipeline systems and air-water pipe flows in the water and energy sector. His book chapter on transients in water supply systems has been downloaded over 25,000 times worldwide. His PhD thesis on air-water flows in downward sloping pipes is directly applicable to (waste)water, cooling water and hydropower outlet works. The technical guideline on design and operation of wastewater mains, derived from Pothof’s PhD thesis, has become the de-facto standard in the Netherlands and has been issued as an IWA publication. Ivo Pothof was guest editor for Urban Water Journal for a special issue on air-water flows in urban drainage systems (vol 12 (6)). He has published in various peer-reviewed journals, numerous conference proceedings and national popular-scientific journals. He has 20 years of teaching and training experience in the Deltares course series Hydrodynamics of Pipeline Systems and as guest lecturer at Delft University and UNESCO-IHE.

Ivo Pothof graduated in 1995 in Systems and Control Theory at the University of Twente, faculty Applied Mathematics; his MSc thesis was awarded the KIVI price for best MSc thesis on Systems and Control.

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