Industrial and Mining Water Research Unit - Imwaru

06/12/2024

Significance of international life cycle data in South African extended producer responsibility - Botha and Harding

Significance of international life cycle data in South African extended producer responsibility Authors Edwin E. Botha Centre in Water Research and Development (CiWaRD), School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa https://orcid.org/00...

12/07/2024

Assessing the undesired impacts on water sustainability from climate change mitigation technologies in fossil-based power generation

This work investigates the water impact of carbon capture technologies employed in coal and natural gas power generation, viz. integrated gasification combined cycle, oxy-fuel combustion, solid oxide fuel cells and post-combustion solvent-based. The Water Impact per CO2 Avoided (WICa) metric was dev...

25/04/2024

Chemical Engineering & Technology is an international journal covering chemical plant design, modeling, biotechnology, and engineering in life sciences.

21/06/2023

Extraction of Essential Oils from Lavandula × intermedia ‘Margaret Roberts’ Using Steam Distillation, Hydrodistillation, and Cellulase-Assisted Hydrodistillation: Experimentation and Cost Analysis - Wainer, Thomas, Chimhau and Harding

Lavender oil is an important essential oil with many applications. The purpose of this study was to compare different methods of essential oil extraction to determine which method would be the most effective and profitable for commercial-scale production from Lavandula × intermedia (‘Margret Robe...

06/02/2023

A lifecycle-based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics industry in South Africa

A lifecycle-based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics industry in South Africa Authors Taahira Goga Environmental and Process Systems Engineering Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4990...

23/05/2022

Eco-efficiency assessment of pork production through life-cycle assessment and product system value in South Africa [C Qalase & K Harding]

https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202234913002 [OPEN ACCESS]

20/05/2022

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13/05/2022

Critical evaluation of the chemical composition of acid mine drainage for the development of statistical correlations linking electrical conductivity with acid mine drainage concentrations

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100241 (OPEN ACCESS)

13/05/2022

Numerical Modelling of Mixing in a Microfluidic Droplet Using a Two-Phase Moving Frame of Reference Approach

https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13050708 (OPEN ACCESS)

11/03/2022

Comparative life cycle assessment of enhanced anaerobic digestion of agro-industrial waste for biogas production

Ugwu Sam Nnaemeka
Kevin Harding
Christopher Enweremadu

The enhancement of anaerobic digestion improves biogas production, but it has some environmental implications. The need to achieve a trade-off between…

06/12/2021

A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO PALLET SELECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF A MATERIAL-OF-CONSTRUCTION EVALUATION MODEL