Olatinwo, Segun Olatunbosun; Joubert, Trudi-Heleen; Olatinwo, Damilola D.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024)
Reliable water quality monitoring requires on-site processing and assessment of water quality data in near real-time. This helps to promptly detect changes in water quality, prevent biodiversity loss, safeguard the health ...
Use of effective treatments and management programs is leading to longer survival of people with diabetes. This, in combination with obesity, is thus contributing to a rise in people living with more than one condition, ...
The adoption of sustainable hybrid power systems (SHPSs) is witnessing a significant surge among electricity consumers worldwide, which is largely driven by the unexpected geopolitical shock experienced by several European ...
In this paper a Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) based multiobjective approach is proposed for optimum sizing and allocation of distributed generations (DGs) and shunt capacitors (SCs) for distribution systems integrated ...
Singh, Avinash; Ikuesan, Richard Adeyemi; Venter, H.S. (Hein)(MDPI, 2023-10-08)
The growing sophistication of malware has resulted in diverse challenges, especially
among security researchers who are expected to develop mechanisms to thwart these malicious
attacks. While security researchers have ...
Wright, Ryan T.; Saunders, Carol S.; Sarker, Saonee; Kankanhalli, Atreyi; Whitley, Edgar A.(Association for Information Systems, 2023-07)
This article provides an overview of the findings from the Information Systems (IS) Well-Being Project that was started in the fall of 2020. There were two goals of this project: 1) to understand the physical, mental, ...
Residential sector is one of the energy-consuming districts of countries that causes CO2 emission in large extent. In this regard, this sector must be considered in energy policy making related to the reduction of emission ...
This paper presents the numerical and experimental results of the mechanical and microstructural properties of liquefied petroleum gas cylinders from local sources. The tensile strength, burst and fracture toughness of the ...
Data are vital for and creating knowledge-based solutions to development challenges
facing Africa. As a result of gaps in government-funded data collection, and in the interest
of promoting community engagement, there ...
In this paper, we lean on experiences from South Africa as a point of departure for discussing
the unrealized potentials and complications of applying collaborative, transformative
citizen science (CS). We first show the ...
Sepulchre, Rodolphe; Craig, Ian K.; Le Roux, Derik(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024-04)
In this issue, we talk with Ian Craig and Derik le Roux about the activities of the Control Systems Group in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DEECE) at the University of Pretoria (UP), ...
Tshavhungwe, Vhuhwavho; Grobbelaar, Schalk(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2024)
Globalisation and changes to the world economy have brought new challenges and opportunities for many industries, including the sawmill industry. This has led to a need to evaluate the competitiveness of South Africa’s ...
The internationally accepted nuclear regulation policy is for each country to
undertake first principle analysis and approvals for the technical design and
operating rules, benchmarking against nationally determined ...
Tabana, Lehlogonolo Shane; Tichapondwa, Shepherd Masimba(Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, 2023)
Water pollution is one of the persistent environmental challenges that continues to impact numerous
communities worldwide. As such, several sustainable remediation technologies have been developed over the
years to ...
Tendenedzai, Job Tatenda; Chirwa, Evans M.N.; Brink, Hendrik G.(Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, 2023)
Selenite (SeO3
2-) is a toxic selenium oxyanion which readily bio-accumulates in the food chain. Enterococcus
species were found to reduce SeO3
2- to elemental selenium (Se0) more rapidly (in 1 h) as compared to ...
Mugumo, Rachel; Ichipi, Emmanuel O.; Tichapondwa, Shepherd Masimba; Chirwa, Evans M.N.(Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, 2023)
The combination of a wide bandgap Zinc oxide (ZnO ~3.4 eV) semiconductor photocatalyst with typical metallic
sulphides, namely, silver sulphide (Ag2S), ferric sulphide (FeS) and nickel sulphide (NiS), all of a similar ...
Mashangoane, Boitumelo Francina; Chirwa, Evans M.N.; Mahlathi, Chris(Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, 2023)
Palladium is a rare platinum group metal concentrated in the Earth's core and mantle; because of its scarcity, its waste recovery and reuse options are economically appealing. Traditional strategies for extracting PGMs ...
Mhike, Washington; Dewa, Lovejoy; Tichapondwa, Shepherd Masimba(Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, 2023)
In this study, microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) was utilised as an adsorbent for the removal of Cr(VI) from
synthetic wastewater. FTIR spectroscopy confirmed the main characteristic infrared absorption bands of
cellulose ...
The aim of this work was to investigate a new, simple, one-pot combustion synthesis technique for creating sulphur-based CuS/ZnS p-n heterojunction nanocomposite photocatalysts. This study examined the photocatalytic ...