Author:Mbele, CM; Malik, Humma H; Pretorius, JHCDate:Jun 2022Pipeline structural integrity challenges highlight the need for pipeline operators to prioritise inline inspection technologies as part of risk-based condition assessment. This initiative is motivated by increased regulatory and economic ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Archibald, SA; Frost, PDate:Nov 2008Fires are a natural and common feature of many of South Africa's landscapes. They are necessary for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems and for biodiversity, but they also do extensive damage to crops, plantations, houses and livestock, and ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Archibald, S; Frost, PDate:Nov 2008Fires are a natural and common feature of many of South Africa's landscapes. The research has three main goals namely, to quantify the nature of the risks associated with vegetation fires, to assess how these risks may change in future and ...Read more
Author:Tredoux, G; King, P; Cave, LDate:Oct 1999The Atlantis Water Resource Management Scheme uses artificial recharge of urban storm water and treated wastewater to augment the natural groundwater resource. The key to the success of the scheme is the fractionation of the storm water into ...Read more
Author:Kunstmann, FH; Van Rensburg, MJJDate:1967The presence of manganese in South African coals is well known, but no figures on the manganese content of these coals or their ashes were hitherto available. In this paper the manganese content of 33 South African coals is reported, and some ...Read more
Author:Rambau, Khavharendwe MA; Musyoka, Nicholas M; Palaniyandy, Nithyadharseni; Manyala, NDate:Jan 2021Herein, we report a method of recycling spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) cathode materials by utilizing them as a metal feedstock for the synthesis of Mn-based metal-organic frameworks (Mn-MOF). Spent cathodes were converted to manganese ...Read more
Author:Rossouw, Claire A; Raju, Kumar; Zheng, Haitao; Ozoemena, Kenneth IDate:Jul 2017Manganese-doped lithium iron phosphate (LFMP) integrated with reduced graphene oxide (RGO) has been prepared via microwave-assisted synthesis and investigated as lithium-ion energy storage system in aqueous Li2SO4 electrolyte. The doping of ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, CP; Kleynhans, W; Salmon, BPDate:Apr 2015The detection of ships at sea is a difficult task made more so by uncooperative ships, especially when using transponder based ship detection systems. Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery provides a means of observation independent of the ships ...Read more
Author:Lunga, D; Prasad, S; Crawford, M; Ersoy, ODate:Aug 2013Advances in hyperspectral sensing provide new capability for characterizing spectral signatures in a wide range of physical and biological systems, while inspiring new methods for extracting information from these data. Hyperspectral image ...Read more
Author:Lunga, D; Prasad, S; Crawford, M; Ersoy, ODate:Jan 2014Interest in manifold learning for representing the topology of large, high dimensional nonlinear data sets in lower, but still meaningful dimensions for visualization and classification has grown rapidly over the past decade, and particularly ...Read more
Author:Dudley, Angela LDate:Jul 2016This presentation focuses on the manipulation of structured light. Structured light manipulation allows people to dynamical change the spatial profile of an optical field.Read more
Author:Spencer, KC; Walters, DM; Page, TPT; Du Plessis, AGDate:Feb 2000The project reviews and discusses the various topics that could constitute an emergency situation in a colliery. The actions that should be undertaken to prevent such emergencies occurring and if the emergency does occur, how to deal with it, ...Read more
Author:Spencer, KC; Walters, DM; Page, TPT; Du Plessis, AGDate:Feb 2000With the exception of those incidents that are solely attributable to nature, virtually all other incidents, the hand of man can usually be detected to a greater or lesser degree. It would be fair to say that if the myriad of laws, regulations, ...Read more
Author:Spencer, KC; Walters, DM; Page, TPT; Du Plessis, AGDate:Feb 2000The relevant guidelines issued by the Department of Minerals and Energy were reviewed in light of the findings given in parts one and two of this report. The earlier guidelines were issued unilaterally by the Department of Minerals and Energy, ...Read more
Author:Spencer, KC; Walters, DM; Page, TPT; Du Plessis, AGDate:Feb 2000From Parts 1 and 2 of this report all the salient points and additional detail arising from these points have been collated and put into a checklist format to enable the user on any colliery to carry out a first order audit. Once this has ...Read more
Author:Butterworth, DS; Punt, AE; Borchers, DL; Pugh, JB; Hughes, GSDate:1989This manual contains an expanded version of material presented at a Linefish Population Dynamics Workshop held in Cape Town in February 1987. First the statistical procedures for fitting curves to data are discussed. The standard single-species ...Read more
Author:Butterworth, DS; Punt, AE; Borchers, DL; Pugh, JB; Hughes, GSDate:1989This manual contains an expanded version of material presented at a linefish population dynamics workshop held in Cape Town in February 1987. First the statistical procedures for fitting curves to data are discussed. The standard single-recapture ...Read more