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Browsing Chemical Engineering by Supervisor "Brink, Hendrik Gideon"
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Mathe, Lebani Oarabile Joy
(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-29)
Nitrogen and phosphorus form the backbone of most lifeforms on earth, however, improper management of these nutrients has devastating effects on the environment. These effects can be lessened by the use of the anaerobic ...
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Mokwatlo, Sekgetho Charles
(University of Pretoria, 2020-08-28)
Biofilms of the bovine rumen bacterium Actinobacillus succinogenes have demonstrated their exceptional capabilities as biocatalysts for high productivity, titre and yield production of succinic acid (SA). Succinic acid is ...
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Kpai, Yawo Patrick
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The current study aimed at investigating the bioremediation removal effectiveness of Pb(II) by metabolically inhibited microbial cultures: a) Waste activated sewage sludge obtained from a local wastewater treatment plant ...
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De Zoete, Amber Yasemin Shirin
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Current agricultural practices have proven unsustainable due to high reliance on chemical fertilizers. Several
environmental problems such as leaching of nitrogen into water bodies and the release of NOx gasses emerge
from ...
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Gonde, Lonestar
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Anaerobic digestion is a process whereby microorganisms break down waste material into simpler compounds, while simultaneously producing biogas that is generally high in methane and carbon dioxide content (60 –70 % and 30 ...
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Ngcobo, S.E.
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Background
The South African Government is spending huge amounts of money (about R64 billion for the fiscal years 2015/16 to 2018/19 as per the revised strategic plan – vote 36) and more than R30 billion was targeted ...
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Neveling, Olga
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
The study focused on determining the microbial precipitation abilities of two bacterial strains, Paraclostridium bifermentans and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from an industrially obtained microbial consortium. Previous ...
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da Silva, Maria Emelia Jesus
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Poor agricultural practices involving synthetic fertilizers have caused many environmental
issues which leads to the pollution of all biospheres of the earth. In order to meet the
ever-increasing demand of fertilizer it ...
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Tendenedzai, Job Tatenda
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Selenium (Se) in the aquatic environment is predominantly found as the soluble selenium oxyanions; selenate (SeO42-), and selenite (SeO32-). These oxyanions are toxic, and they readily bio-accumulate in the food chain. ...
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Muedi, Khathutshelo Lilith
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Water contamination is one of the leading challenges faced by the global community. This is due to the escalating population growth and anthropogenic activities which have led to water supply being inversely proportional ...
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Swart, Reuben Marc
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
The four-carbon dicarboxylic acid, fumaric acid, of the tricarboxylic acid cycle remains a promising bio-based platform chemical. To date the most promising organism for pro- ducing fumaric acid is Rhizopus oryzae (ATCC ...