Author:Engelbrecht, AD; North, Brian C; Hadley, TDDate:Nov 2008Electricity demand in South Africa is increasing at a rate of 1000 MW per year. Whilst there is increasing pressure to adopt non-fossil fuel electricity generating technologies, the abundant reserves and low cost of coal make it the preferred ...Read more
Author:Wahab, OO; Olasunkanmi, LO; Govender, Krishna; Govender, PPDate:Jan 2018Aqueous solubility and reactivity of four azo dyes were investigated by DMol3/COSMO-RS calculation to examine the effects of global orbital cut-off and COSMO segment variation on the accuracies of theoretical solubility and reactivity. The ...Read more
Author:Ocwelwang, A; Sithole, Bishop B; Ramjugernath, D; Chunilall, VirenDate:Sep 2015Understanding the structure of cellulose is of utmost importance in order to enhance its accessibility and reactivity to chemical processing. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ultrasound pretreatment on the structure ...Read more