Assessing seasonal energy storage with value stacking to support South Africa’s energy transition by Vivier, Tiaan

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Optimisation towards a wind resistant air-cooled condenser for the modern energy sector. by Marincowitz, F. S.

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Photocatalytic degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol using silver halides catalysts

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Studying binary clathrate hydrate of hydrogen and deuterium using raman spectroscopy by El.Ghazaly, Moaaz

“…About 6.4 trillion tones of methane-hydrates are found to be deep on ocean floor, which represent a significant source of energy just requires an efficient and economic method to be used. …”
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Adsorption of heavy metals cations in wastewater using cement kiln dust by El Zayat, Mohamed Abdel Kareem

“…The SEM and EDX were done using different magnifications in order to better understand the physical and elemental characteristics of CKD before and after adsorption.Hydrated lime as a prime source of CaO, the major constituent of CKD, was also examined at a bench scale as well and compared to CKD in heavy metals uptake. …”
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Automated feature synthesis on big data using cloud computing resources by Saker, Vanessa

“…Furthermore, the entire process is complicated by Big Data factors such as processing power and distributed data storage. There is an open-source package, Featuretools, that uses an innovative algorithm called Deep Feature Synthesis to accelerate the feature engineering step. …”
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An analysis of the socio-economic consequences of biosafety regulation : the case of maize trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa

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Using morphological and physiological factors to evaluate six cowpea varieties for drought tolerance by Abdou, Razakou Ibrahim B.Y.

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Unbiased spontaneous solar fuel production using stable composite nanofiber photocatalysts by Hasan, Menna

“…It is becoming more urgent every day to find an efficient alternative to fossil fuels. This need motivates the search for a low-cost and stable photocatalysts to split water and generate hydrogen gas as a clean and renewable source of energy. …”
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Geo-tiles: manufacturing tiles from copper mine tailings using geopolymerisation by Makole, Karabo

“…This study investigated the technical feasibility of using aluminosilicate-rich mine waste, termed tailings, as the primary raw material to produce tiles using the low-energy geopolymerisation process. …”
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The radiation characteristics of microwave antennas using the planar near-field measurement technique by Botha, Jeandre

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Sustainable point-of-use solar disinfection system for roof-harvested rainwater treatment by Strauss, Andre

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Investigations into the use of a novel graphene wool sampler for organic air pollutants

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African horse sickness outbreak investigation and disease surveillance using molecular techniques

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The energy demand and fulfilment thereof for electric minibus taxis in Sub-Saharan Africa by Giliomee, Johannes Human

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In situ bioremediation of hexavalent chromium by permeable reactive barrier using wastewater sludge bacteria

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A study of impact breakage of single rock specimen using discrete element method by Oladele, Temitope Philip

“…Numerical simulations were conducted using ESyS-particle 2.3.5, an open-source discrete element method (DEM) software package which uses Python-based libraries to generate geometries and simulations and a C++ engine for mathematical computations. …”
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Manufacturing bio-bricks using microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation and human urine by Lambert, Suzanne

“…However, the urea present in urine naturally degrades and this process needs to be delayed if urine is to be used as a urea source for MICP. This was achieved by “stabilising” the urine with calcium hydroxide. …”
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Accelerated deconvolution of radio interferometric images using orthogonal matching pursuit and graphics hardware by Van Belle, Jonathan

“…In particular, we show that OMP correctly identifies more sources than CLEAN, identifying up to 82% of the sources in 100 test images, while CLEAN only identifies up to 61% of the sources. …”
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