Diesel fuel has been found to contain highly concentrated organo-sulphur compounds which have bad impact economically, environmentally, and health-wise. Adsorptive desulphurization (ADS) is one of the promising processes ...
The challenge facing South African foundries today are compliance with the environmental legislations while maintaining a high production rate. The focus of this study is to assist foundries to comply with National Environment ...
The Vaalkop water treatment works (WTW) abstracts water from the Vaalkop Dam, which is situated in the Crocodile West/Marico Water Management Area of South Africa. The bulk of the inflow into the dam is through a canal fed ...
The purpose of this preliminary document, a forthcoming article, is to contextualize, review and critique a selection of Brian Allen Theodor Sandrock’s numerous buildings at the University of Pretoria and the University ...
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This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the influence of green-synthesized nano-TiO2 on the characteristics of wood ash (WA) cement mortar. Mortar specimens were prepared by partial ...
This dissertation examines the structure and properties of chitosan membranes regarding their applicability in fuel cells. The objective of this work is to synthesize a polymer membrane with improved properties such as ...
Biography of C Strauss Brink (1920-1992), South African Architect and Town Planner and Professor of Architecture at the University of Cape Town from 1965 to 1974
Power-to-chemicals processes hold tremendous potential to enable the widespread adoption of
renewable sources of energy and to open many avenues to the green hydrogen economy. These
processes will play a critical role ...
The electrochemical corrosion behavior of mild steel in apple, grape, mango, orange and the mixture of these juices was investigated in this study. Open circuit potential and weight loss analytical techniques were employed ...
Glycerol is considered as the major waste from biodiesel production since every 1L of biodiesel
produced is accompanied by 0.1 L of glycerol by-product. Utilizing this waste as a biorefinery
feedstock will not only ...
This dissertation develops a systematic targeting method based on the C-H-O ternary diagram for the conceptual design of gasification-based biorefineries. The approach is applied using dimethyl ether (DME) as case study. ...
This study investigated the influence of the attainable region technique to ball milling as applied in reactor technology. Flow rate, ball filling, mill speed, ball size and mill density were varied. When each was varied, ...
In this paper a closer look is taken at the role that creativity plays in the design process. The purpose of the paper is to establish whether creativity is an essential ingedient in the design process. 'Design' and ...
The article commences with an overview of the development of planning theory and culminates in an evaluation of scenarios of the relationship between the individual and the spatial environment. Andreas Faludi's book 'Planning ...
The global community has accepted Fischer Tropsch synthesis as one of the sustainable pathways to transportation fuels and chemicals due to the ever-depleting reserves of fossil fuels and its detrimental impact on the ...
A key engineering challenge is a transition to cleaner sustainable energy supply that is derived from renewable resources. Furthermore, affordable access to this modern sustainable energy services for communities in ...
Water is the source of life because all living organisms cannot survive without it and it is the
most important liquid in the ecosystem hence protecting water resources and ensuring water
quality should always be an issue ...
Crude oil is an unrefined petroleum which forms because of dead organisms buried under mud over a long period of time (million years). The mud is then converted to sedimentary rocks, which create intense heat and pressure, ...