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The Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University is one of South Africa's major producers of top quality engineers. Established in 1944, it currently has five Engineering Departments.
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Overview of predictive CSP spread prospects and its opportunities
(Energy Research Centre, 2016-05)An investigation was carried out to illustrate the prospects and challenges associated with implementation of concentrating solar power (CSP) with storage technology in South Africa. Various factors were examined that have ...
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Interventions to promote the use of seat belts
(Cochrane, 2014-07-24)This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of interventions promoting the use of seat belts.
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Guidelines for energy management in the South African wine industry
(Energy Research Centre, 2016-11)Pressure is mounting on the wine industry to consider energy management interventions to, inter alia, reduce energy consumption – to be more competitive, become more self-reliant, and to reduce the carbon footprint of the ...
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Scoping exercise to determine load profile archetype reference shapes for solar co-generation models in isolated off-grid rural African villages
(Energy Research Centre, 2016-08)For many off-grid rural communities, renewable energy resources may be the only viable option for household and village energy supply and electrification. This is especially true for many rural regions in Southern Africa, ...
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Biosensors for the detection of Escherichia coli
(South African Water Research Commission, 2017-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The supply of safe potable water, free from pathogens and chemicals, requires routine analyses and the application of several diagnostic techniques. Apart from being expensive, many of the detection methods ...
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Supplementary household water sources to augment potable municipal supply in South Africa
(South African Water Research Commission, 2017-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper addresses on-site supplementary household water sources with a focus on groundwater abstraction, rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse as available non-potable water sources to residential ...
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Improved region of interest selection and colocalization analysis in three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy samples using virtual reality
(Public Library of Science, 2018)Although modern fluorescence microscopy produces detailed three-dimensional (3D) datasets, colocalization analysis and region of interest (ROI) selection is most commonly performed two-dimensionally (2D) using maximum ...
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Corrosion deterioration of steel in cracked SHCC
(SpringerOpen, 2017)The presence of cracks is unavoidable in reinforced concrete structures and also a gateway for chloride into concrete, leading to corrosion of steel reinforcing bars. So, crack control, crack width limitation and chloride ...
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Superconducting COSL building blocks for ultra-high speed logic circuits
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Complementary Output Switching Logic, or COSL, is used to define building blocks for ultrahigh speed (- 20 GHz) logic circuits. The family consists of the standard logic functions ORINOR, ANDINAND and ...
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A conceptual theoretical framework to integrally assess the possible impacts of climate change on domestic irrigation water use
(South African Water Research Commission, 2015-10)Southern Africa is likely to experience higher evapotranspiration and altered rainfall characteristics due to global warming and climate change. Climate-driven water use may potentially stress water supply facilities due ...
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Potable water use of residential consumers in the Cape Town metropolitan area with access to groundwater as a supplementary household water source
(South African Water Research Commission, 2016-01)The potable water use recorded by 3 579 residential consumer water meters in Cape Town, South Africa, was analysed as part of this research. The focus was on elected residential properties in serviced areas, with additional ...
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A virtual store framework model : optimising travel route for a passenger rail operation of maintenance components using GIS
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Previous studies of supply chain management systems have attempted to focus on transportation, logistics, storage space planning, and time-to-delivery. The biggest challenge for large organisations like ...
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Improvements towards the identification and quantification of relationships between key performance indicators
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The quantitative relationships at the performance measurement system (QRPMS) is a methodology for identifying and quantifying relationships between key performance indicators. These relationships present ...
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Optimisation of stock keeping unit placement in a retail distribution centre
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The retail problem of slotting refers to the assignment of stock keeping units (SKUs) to the available storage locations in a distribution centre (DC). Generally, the expected total distance travelled by ...
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Integration costs of renewable energy technologies in future energy generation scenarios
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objective of the paper is to understand the integration costs of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in future energy generation scenarios for South Africa. The study used PLEXOS1 to conduct a bottom-up ...
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The applicability of nanofiltration for the treatment and reuse of textile reactive dye effluent
(Water Research Commission, 2015)The main aim of the study was to test the feasibility of using nanofiltration (NF) processes for the treatment of reactive dyebath effluents from the textile industry, in order to recover the water and chemicals (salts) ...
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Solvent extraction of polyphenolics from the indigenous African fruit ximenia caffra and characterization by LC-HRMS
(MDPI, 2018)Indigenous and non-commercial fruits can be an important source of antioxidant polyphenols; however, the identity and content of polyphenols from non-commercial fruits are often poorly described. The study aimed to ...
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Bedryfs- en tegnologiese vereistes vir die winsgewende lewering van spoorgoederevervoer
(AOSIS, 2017-11-17)In hierdie oorsigartikel word verslag gedoen oor die vernaamste bedryfs- en tegnologiese vereistes waaraan kommersieel lewensvatbare spoorvervoerstelsels in ’n ekonomies ongereguleerde goederevervoermark moet voldoen. ...
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Factors that influence the geometric detection pattern of vehicle-based licence plate recognition camera systems
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2018)Licence plate recognition (LPR) systems are used to automatically extract the characters from licence plates positioned in front of a camera. The geometric detection pattern is the region within which the system can ...
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Saving on household electric water heating : what works best and by how much?
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017)Electric heating of water for domestic use is a substantial component of total household energy costs. Thermal energy in a water heater is either used (as warm water) or lost to the environment. Various approaches to reduce ...
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Recurrence quantification analysis of resting state EEG signals in autism spectrum disorder – a systematic methodological exploration of technical and demographic confounders in the search for biomarkers
(BioMed Central, 2018-07-02)Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a worldwide prevalence of 1–2%. In low-resource environments, in particular, early identification and diagnosis is a significant challenge. ...
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Saving on household electric water heating : what works best and by how much
(IEEE, 2017-12)Electric heating of water for domestic use is a substantial component of total household energy costs. Thermal energy in a water heater is either used (as warm water) or lost to the environment. Various approaches to ...
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Evaluation of the energy model of a horizontally-mounted electric water heater through internal temperature measurement
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017)The resource-constraint energy sector faces an insatiable demand for energy, which necessitates improvements in efficiency. One key sector that has potential for savings is residential water heating, which makes up 32% of ...
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Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa’s low-carbon energy transitions. This raises the question of how a ‘sustainability transition’ framework ...
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Optical aid for placing composite material (prepregs) in a mould
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-05-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Increased industrial use of composite materials for manufacturing strong lightweight components stimulates endeavours for more efficient assembly methods. This study attempted to find an optimal method ...
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Towards a flexible innovation process model assuring quality and customer needs
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Successful innovation projects require an adequate innovation management capability in organisations. This means a sufficiently rigorous, continuous, and goal-oriented management of innovation processes. ...
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Ethanol production potential from AFEX™ and steam-exploded sugarcane residues for sugarcane biorefineries
(BioMed Central, 2018-05-04)Background: Expanding biofuel markets are challenged by the need to meet future biofuel demands and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, while using domestically available feedstock sustainably. In the context of the ...
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Comparing the sustainable development potential of industries : a role for sustainability disclosures?
(MDPI, 2018-03)Governments often seek to facilitate sustainable growth through the targeted support of specific industries that are deemed to have considerable sustainable development potential. However, the selection of appropriate ...
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Feasibility and geotechnical design of subsurface dams in dry ephemeral rivers for the augmentation of shallow groundwater supply
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recent droughts and projected climate changes in South Africa make it an essential priority to augment water availability, particularly in the most vulnerable rural communities. The Molototsi River, a ...
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Wind Turbine and slip permanent magnet coupler design analysis for small scale fixed speed wind generator systems
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Very recently has the concept of a slip coupler been introduced in wind energy applications. It forms part of the SS-PMG and there is extensive work being done in evaluating the technology. It's application ...
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