Optimal handling and fault-tolerant speed regulation of heavy haul trains

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Optimization and control of a large-scale solar chimney power plant by Pretorius, Johannes Petrus

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Exergy, techno-economic and exergoeconomic analyses for improving energy efficiency of a typical sugar mill and designing integrated biorefineries by Dogbe, Eunice Sefakor

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Optimization of Contractor’s Cash Flow Based on Subcontractor’s Payment Management Plans by Ghali, Helen

“…Various researchers have developed models to optimize contractors’ cash flow financing costs however considering that activities are self-executed and neglect the subcontractor’s credit arrangements. …”
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Optimization and characterisation of plant produced Human Papillomavirus pseudovirions in Nicotiana benthamiana by Adams, Ayesha

“…The burden of HPV is also highest in low-income countries for which the vaccine costs are still quite high, and therefore alternative methods of vaccine production and testing are needed. …”
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Removal of lead from industrial wastewater using a low cost waste material by Amer, Hayam Ahmed Talaat

“…Several industries utilize heavy metals in their industrial processes, eventually discharging them in their wastewater. …”
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Effect of conductor size on the total cost of electricity distribution feeders in South African electrification by Carter-Brown, Clinton Geoffrey

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A cost analysis of the treatment of first-line uncomplicated malaria in the Tonga district of Mpumalanga by Wilkins, Justin

“…In vivo drug resistance was used to create a resistance variable, which was used to assess the 1997 relative costs to the health care system of employing the two drugs, analysing factors such as drug costs, staff time, transport costs, maintenance costs, utility costs, training costs and consumables costs to generate an average cost-effectiveness ratio. …”
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El Serafy User costs and their implications for macroeconomic policy in Africa's mineral rich economies by Moussi, Sopp Louis Romain

“…The outcome reveals that using GDP as an anchor as opposed to an ‘appropriate’ measure that adjust for mineral resource depletion by policy-makers may lead to the implementation of sub-optimal economic policies which are detrimental for sustainable income growth and development. …”
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Condition monitoring of train wheels using a cost-effective smart rail pad

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Optimised geospatial model for renewable resource allocation to minimise dependence on costly ancillary services by Oosthuizen, Theunis

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Operational cost and emissions minimisation of a multi-microgrid system through energy management

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The cost to employers of limiting the catchment size from which they employ their staff. Viola Proctor. by Proctor, Viola

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Performance and thermo-mechanical cost evaluation of API 661 air-cooled heat exchangers by Ackers, Mogamat Sadley

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An Evaluation of The Performance and Comparative Cost of Ground-mounted and Rooftop Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Systems by Leighton, Michael

“…However, financing the photovoltaic systems causes most interest to be abandoned, largely due to the cost required to replace a building's asbestos roof. …”
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Novel, low-cost, CFRP pressure vessel design for hydrogen fuel cell applications by Mawire, Nyasha Nigel

“…The outcome was that the CFRP pressure vessel design was thus, novel, low-cost and lightweight with the potential to be used in other gas storage applications for example in Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) applications. …”
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Near-optimum cost minimisation of transporting bioenergy carriers from source to intermediate distributors by Roberts, Theari

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Site location and techno-economic analysis of utility-scale concentrating solar power plants in South Africa by Brodrick, Joshua JL

“…This dissertation comprises a two-part study concerned with the identification and quantification of potential Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) sites in South Africa; and the performance and cost modelling, optimisation and analysis of two CSP technologies in three locations. …”
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Spectral efficiency optimization with channel state information of a massive MIMO System by Chingore, Paul Chakanetsa

“…Mm-Wave communication motivates the utilization of massive-MIMO. However, they are some limitations in the use of massive-MIMO since large –scale antenna arrays have high cost as well as the high-power consumption of huge Radio Frequency (RF) chains. …”
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