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Evaluation of perhydrodibenzyltoluene dehydrogenation parameters and durability using noble metal catalysts for hydrogen production
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Hydrogen storage using liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology offers numerous advantages over conventional hydrogen storage systems. LOHCs are organic compounds that can store and release hydrogen through catalytic ... -
Design and evaluation of a vibration ore flow restore machine
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Ore passes provide a low cost method for gravitational transport of broken ore and waste rock through long vertical distances to lower levels of an underground mine. A hang-up or blockage in an ore pass is undesirable as ... -
Limitations of current cooling water treatment processes to control cooling water chemistry in wet cooled power plants
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)In a coal-fired power plant, recirculating cooling water exchanges latent heat energy with the exhaust steam in the condenser and transports the heat to the cooling tower for evaporative cooling. The water lost in the ... -
Modifying software systems to improve user adoption
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Industry 4.0 has driven the digitisation of large scale industrial and mining operations. This introduced the burden of large volumes of data to process. Data from industrial systems is usually processed by specialised ... -
Development of a strategic decision-making model for the South African nuclear sector
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)The main objective of this research study was to develop a strategic decision-making model for the South African (SA) nuclear sector in response to lack of expansion. Since 1994, this lack of growth was marked by two ... -
Carbon dioxide capture from flue gases using dry sorbents
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)The project entails capturing CO₂ produced from industrial flue gases with dry adsorbents through gas adsorption to mitigate the CO₂ emissions. Four commercially available activated carbon samples (CQ006, CQ30P, CQ650 and ... -
The development of autothermal microchannel reactor technology for hydrogen-based gas processing
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Key challenges associated with the production, transport, storage and continuous use of hydrogen (H₂), generated from renewable energy, is the natural intermittency of some renewable resources such as solar photovoltaic ... -
Mapping the job potential of the industrial engineer: a web-investigation
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)The industrial engineering discipline is inherently interdisciplinary and broad, with many areas of specialization. It interfaces with both the hard sciences and the soft sciences to solve a wide variety of problems in all ... -
Arde, G. 2020. War party: How the ANC’s political killings are breaking South Africa [Book review]
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Shillington, K. 2021. Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire [Book review]
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Towards a community engagement turn? Historians debate forms of engagement in 21st century-higher education
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)Should the luxury we currently enjoy of focusing our research mainly on debating and/or philosophising about the discipline of History in centres of Higher Education and Training (HET) not be transformed in the 21st ... -
Marriage in the Mother City: The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town, 1865-1960
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)As a social institution that permeates almost all societies, marriage trends and practices are studied across the social sciences. Yet South African marriages, past and present, remain understudied, notably because of a ... -
“Inkosi Yetu Ngu Kamuzu Yedwa” (Our Only King Is Kamuzu): The M’mbelwa Ngoni’s relations with Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi from 1964 to 1994
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article examines the cultural experiences of the M’mbelwa Ngoni who occupied the modern Mzimba District in Malawi from 1964 to 1994. Using written (primary and secondary) and oral sources, the article argues ... -
“Volkekunde” in the academic and rugby world of South Africa’s Dr Danie Craven
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article is a foray into the field of anthropology (“volkekunde” in Afrikaans) and sport history. It examines aspects of the sport-related thinking of a noted luminary in South Africa’s rugby world, Dr Danie Craven ... -
The Phelophepa train, “train of hope, train of healing”
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article explores the significance of the Phelophepa train, also known as the Phelophepa Health Care Train (HCT). This train started out with only three coaches but because of the need for its services and its ... -
Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)The involvement of Cape businessmen in the ice or frozen water trade, and their contribution to its globalisation during the nineteenth century, is a neglected aspect of South Africa’s water history. During the period ... -
Natal Afrikaner women and the South African War (1899-1902)
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)In this article, the variety of experiences of Natal Afrikaner women as British subjects who were related by blood and culture to the Boers of the Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, with which the ... -
Race and ethnicity in South African urban history : A call to investigate “mingling” as well as “separation” in the city
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article argues that more methodical attention should be given by historians to both the extent and nature of racial and ethnic mingling of people, ideas and cultures across the range of such potential divides in ... -
"Bloed" (uit Melk): Tuiskoms in Afrika
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2021)‘n Groot gedeelte van Elsa Joubert se vroeë oeuvre word tematies oorheers deur die wyse waarop die mens van Afrika telkens nuwe insigte vorm omtrent die werklikheid van diepgeankerde wortels in verskillende wêrelde: ... -
'n Ontleding van die skynbare agteruitgang in prestasie van leerlinge in standerds sewe, agt en nege in 'n aantal vyf-keuse-vrae van die N.B.-wiskundetoets
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1971)"No Abstract"
