There are posters from SUN, UCT, and CPUT postgraduates for you to peruse

1. Calvin Warwick - The comparison of pretreatment methods for cellulosic nanofibril production from sugarcane bagasse and its applicability for thermal insulating aerogel fabrication

2. Kirsten Van Niekerk - Lipopeptide separation and purification in an aqueous two-phase system

3. Karen Ssekimpi - Improved c-phycocyanin production in Spirulina: investigating light during cultivation

4. Kareema Smith - The removal of selected pharmaceuticals from a municipal membrane bioreactor secondary effluent with an electrochemical oxidation process

5. Robert Slabbert - Evaluation of modifications to SAFT-γ Mie Equation of State to account for functional group interactions using VLE measurements of branched alcohols + alkanes

6. Jordan Ross - A techno-economic evaluation of decentralized direct potable reuse

7. Joe Payne - Extraction of phycocyanin from Spirulina– pretreatment options

8. Matthew Noach - Development of a bench scale bioreactor for alginate lyase production

9. Zilungile Mqoqi - The removal of selected personal care products from a municipal membrane bioreactor secondary effluent with reverse osmosis membranes

10. Wagiewe Mngidi - Evaluation of a packed bed tri-medium system for the removal of Iron and Manganese from groundwater

11. Tanya Meyer - Optimality assessment with nonoptimality rectification for multi-regime process operations

12. Mbali Mthembu - Biogas production through the anaerobic digestion of food waste

13. Ivory Masoga - Investigation of characteristics of polyacrylamide-based additives for copper electrowinning

14. Marisana Masha -Quality improvement of liquid fuels produced from waste tire pyrolysis

15. Richard Mampana - Process development for the valorization of industrial kelp waste (E. maxima)

16. Mahlohlonono Mafela - Pulp Dry Matter Prediction During Vacuum Dewatering By Experimental Investigation

17. Christina Louw - Feasibility assessment of biogas-fuelled refrigeration to curb food losses in Sub-Saharan food value chains

18. Corne Lourens - Investigation of the metathesis of plant oil for the production of surfactants

19. Henri Le Roux - Using pulping liquors as binders for chromite pellets

20. Marcus Knight - Optimizing a method for leaching PGMs from spent auto-catalyst material using ozone & pressurized oxygen

21. Monique Klaver - Techno-economic analysis of scFOS, ethanol, tryptophan, erythritol and collagen biorefinery scenarios utilising sugarcane and/or A-molasses

22. Wessel Horak - Constrained Bayesian methods for sensor validation

23. Viola Hofmann - The interdependencies of food and water within the water-energy-food nexus for the City of Cape Town

24. Nihal Gongal - Synthesis and evaluation of Cu, Ag, Mg, Zn and Fe nanoparticles with chitosan/zein capping as antifungal agents against Botrytis cinerea

25. Amanda Erasmus - Quaternary liquid-liquid equilibria measurements of the (Ethanol + 1-Propanol + Water + Cyclohexane) system at 298.2K to 328.2K

26. Yakim Conje - Techno-economic analysis for the comparison of biorefinery scenarios annexed to an existing South African sugarcane mill for the production of adipic acid

27. Nadine Buitendach - Measurement, modelling and uncertainty propagation of low pressure phase equilibrium data for primary alcohols and n-alkanes

28. Jordan Anastasiou - Optimizing the Underground Mine Cooling Water Operation

29. Darné Nunes - Economic production of microbial oils

30. Carla Mathyse and Candace Eslick - The Green-quest: creating sustainable and clean cooking fuel for social upliftment in sub-Saharan Africa

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