Browsing Research Articles (Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering) by UP Author "Mokobodi, Tlou"

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Free-fall gravitational acceleration measurement using a pneumatically controlled catch-and-release-system in a semi-rotating vacuum chamber

Mokobodi, Tlou; Greeff, Pieter; Kruger, Oelof; Theron, Nicolaas J. (De Gruyter Open, 2018)

Knowledge of gravitational acceleration in metrology is required for traceable force and pressure calibrations, furthermore the redefinition of the SI base unit of kilogram requires absolute accomplishment of the ...
Initial experimental testing of a hybrid solar-dish Brayton cycle for combined heat and power (ST-CHP)

Swanepoel, Jonathan Kyle; Le Roux, Willem Gabriel; Roosendaal, Casey; Madani, Seyed H.; De Wet, Gideon Jacobus; Nikolaidis, Theoklis; Roosendaal, Westley; Onorati, Chase; Sciacovelli, Adriano; Liu, Yize; Mokobodi, Tlou; McGee, Duncan S.; Craig, K.J. (Kenneth) (Elsevier, 2024-07)

The Solar Turbo Combined Heat and Power (ST-CHP) project developed a novel solar-gas hybrid prototype for combined heat and power generation in Pretoria, South Africa. A vacuum-membrane faceted parabolic dish with a ...

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