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Browsing Research Articles (Civil Engineering) by UP Author "Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes"
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2019-06)
Energy consumption in water supply and
distribution networks represents 7% of
the world’s consumption of energy. According to the Key
World Energy Statistics published by the
International Energy Agency,
the water ...
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco; Bhagwan, Jayant
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2016-06)
The electrification of urban areas in South Africa, including many informal settlements, reached its culmination during recent years. However, the electrification of rural areas still has a long way to go before most of ...
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco; Cavazzini, Giovanna
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020-05)
Potential for energy recovery exists at any point within a water distribution system where the mechanical energy of excess water pressure can be converted into electrical energy. Energy conversion decreases the average ...
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco; Bhagwan, Jayant Narsee
(Water Research Commission, 2016-10)
Large numbers of households and communities will not be connected to the national electricity grid for the foreseeable
future due to high cost of transmission and distribution systems to remote communities and the relatively ...
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco; Cavazzini, Giovanna
(Elsevier, 2019-04)
The purpose of this paper is to bridge the gap between the awareness of potential for energy recovery within Municipal Water Distribution Systems and the lack of knowledge of the extent and location of such potential so ...
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Bonthuys, Gideon Johannes; Van Dijk, Marco; Cavazzini, Giovanna
(MDPI, 2020-08-31)
Excess pressure within water distribution systems not only increases the risk for water losses
through leakages but provides the potential for harnessing excess energy through the installation of
energy recovery devices, ...