The pollution of South Africa’s water resources puts a strain on an already stressed natural resource. One of the main pollution sources is industrial effluents such as acid mine drainage (AMD) and other mining effluents. ...

The rapid development in nuclear technology worldwide has created the need for an efficient power conversion unit to extract the energy from the new generation IV reactors. The generation IV reactor currently under ...

Public transportation in South Africa is characterized by little or no consideration for energy efficiency and use of cleaner fuels. In the case of transport planning in South African cities, no assessment of the economic ...

The effects of the so-called energy-crisis are being felt world-wide. Dwindling natural resources has seen an increase in research efforts to develop new energy efficient technologies, and to manage existing facilities ...

In recent times, the aviation industry has needed continuous improvement to raise customers’ satisfaction levels and Lean philosophy is one of the managerial procedures that an organisation can use to achieve continuous ...

The ability to localise objects and persons is a useful ability, that is currently used in everyday life in the form of Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation. Localisation is also useful in data networks. The ability ...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the largest cause of death globally. This is worrying considering the substantial investments made in the research and prevention of CHD. It may be possible that the current reductionistic ...

In this study, the effect of implementing Network Coding on the aggregated throughput in Wireless Mesh Networks, was examined. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are multiple hop wireless networks, where routing through any ...

This thesis presents the cooperative control of an active magnetic bearing (AMB) and sensorless drive system. Traditionally, these two systems are considered as independent modular components within a larger system. The ...

This work develops a one dimensional, slab geometry, multigroup collision probability code named Oklo which solves both criticality calculations and fixed source problems. The code uses the classical collision probabilities ...