Browsing by Supervisor "Van der Walt, Izak J."

Browsing by Supervisor "Van der Walt, Izak J."

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  • Plasma biomass gasification in a 15 kW pilot facility 
    Maseko, Keabetswe (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    Plasma gasification experiments were conducted on sucrose and crushed macadamia nutshells. The pilot-scale plasma gasification system used comprises a 15 kW DC plasma torch fitted to a 5 L gasification reactor. The DC ...
  • Plasma gasification of organic waste 
    Makaringe, Nkateko Petra (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    Four biomass materials, namely peach pips, pine wood, bamboo and Napier grass, and one example of chemical waste, lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6), were studied. The biomass types were selected because they were easily ...
  • The Synthesis and Characterisation of Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) Copolymers 
    Kili, Tando (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    This work details research on the semi-continuous copolymerisation of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and hexafluoropropylene (HFP) in aqueous medium using different monomer ratios. A main objective of this dissertation was to ...