Author:Bischof-Niemz, TDate:Sep 2015This presentation looks at the status of the South African energy industry today. Solar PV & wind are the cheapest new-build options per kWh in South Africa, and cost competitiveness of renewables has two consequences: 1) distributed power ...Read more
Author:Johakimu, Jonas K; Bush, T; Lucia, LDate:Feb 2011The effect of green liquor pre-treatment (GLP) on Kraft pulping of Pinus Patula has been investigated. Wood chips were pre-treated with green liquor, and subsequently subjected to Kraft pulping to achieve a target Kappa number of 65-70. The ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Apr 2010Green roofs are roofs that have been covered with a growing medium, creating a habitat on what would otherwise be a bland, lifeless surface. It is for this reason that green roofs are sometimes call 'vegetated' or 'living' roofs (Cantor 2008). ...Read more
Author:Schoeman, C; Sanchez, VRDate:Jul 2009This paper investigates status quo concerning the environment and the human (economic) impact on its sustainability. It narrows in on the South Africa context and then focuses on the transport and supply chain's contributions. Green supply ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HDate:Jan 2011This article is not a comprehensive overview of green logistics. What it endeavours to do is to sensitise, in a very summarised way, those involved in logistics and supply chain management about the importance of green logistics and to highlight ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Mar 2014Green infrastructure can be defined as the design and development of infrastructure that works with natural systems in the performance of its functions. Green infrastructure recognises the importance of the natural environment in land use ...Read more
Author:Scholes, RJ; Van der Merwe, Martina RDate:May 1996South African greenhouse gas emissions contributed about 1.2% to the global increase in the greenhouse effect in 1988. South Africa generated trace gases with a radiation absorption potential over a 20-year period equivalent to 534 million ...Read more
Author:Jagarnath, M; Thambiran, TirushaDate:Aug 2017Because current emissions accounting approaches focus on an entire city, cities are often considered to be large emitters of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with no attention to the variation within them. This makes it more difficult to ...Read more
Author:Nickless, A; Ziehn, T; Rayner, PJ; Scholes, RJ; Engelbrecht, FDate:May 2014This is the second part of a two-part paper considering network design based on a Lagrangian stochastic particle dispersion model (LPDM), aimed at reducing the uncertainty of the flux estimates achievable for the region of interest by the ...Read more
Author:Ziehn, T; Nickless, A; Rayner, PJ; Law, RM; Roff, G; Fraser, PDate:Sep 2014This paper describes the generation of optimal atmospheric measurement networks for determining carbon dioxide fluxes over Australia using inverse methods. A Lagrangian particle dispersion model is used in reverse mode together with a Bayesian ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Oct 2014The development and maintenance of infrastructure is crucial to improving economic growth and quality of life (WEF 2013). Urban infrastructure typically includes bulk services such as water, sanitation and energy (typically electricity and ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, Linda KDate:Nov 2014The Waste Sector, as with many sectors of the economy, is responding to the call to transition to a Green Economy. Globally, waste management is changing from one of ‘collect-transport-dispose’, to one of ‘secondary resource management’, ...Read more
Author:Jamison, Kevin ADate:Sep 2018The analysis of the separation of a Precision Guided Munition (PGM) from many configurations of an advanced jet trainer was performed using aerodynamic data from wind-tunnel tests characterised using the grid method. As strong aerodynamic ...Read more
Author:Senatla, Mamahloko; Tazvinga, Henerica; Moholisa, Tsolo E; Mushwana, CrescentDate:Aug 2017Photovoltaic (PV) systems are increasingly being installed globally for various reasons including reducing the carbon footprint, improving energy access, for supply and demand side management purposes. The price of PV has been going down in ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Pretorius, R; Du Plooy, N; Cooper, Antony KDate:Aug 2023Post-conflict reconstruction includes the removal of land mines and remnants of war. The CSIR conducted field experiments to determine the impact of TNT in the soil on plants as a possible means to detect landmines. All the leaf clip readings ...Read more
Author:Osunmakind, IO; Ndhlovu, TDate:Nov 2009In this paper, collective intelligence of the Emergent Situation Awareness (ESA) technology is proposed as a supportive strategy for autonomous robotic navigation. The ability to reveal uncertainties over time on flexed far-field is a ground ...Read more
Author:Hobbs, PJDate:Nov 2008The significance and importance of groundwater level data in a karst environment, whilst acknowledged by geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists, is often not afforded the recognition it deserves. Within the ambit of a geotechnical ...Read more