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Prof Rupert Gouws is presently a full professor in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After completion of his studies, he joined a company Energy Cybernetics where he was involved with energy audits, measurement and verification activities and energy related research activities. He received an Institutional Teaching Excellence Award from the NWU and was involved in various undergraduate modules for all year groups. Apart from lecturing, he also mentors students that are busy with their Master’s studies, PhD studies and Postdoctoral fellowships. He specialises in the fields of electrical energy management, electrical energy efficiency, electrical machines - energy optimization, and power electronics - energy optimization. He currently has a National Research Foundation (NRF) rating status of Established Researcher. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. He received awards for the most productive junior and senior researcher within the NWU Faculty of Engineering. He is active on research evaluation panels for various international journals and serve as external examiner for various institutions. He has an established network of partners within the university, local industries, and international collaborators. He acted as a member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Engineering at the NWU as well as a member of the Research Entities Evaluation Committee of the NWU. The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) registered him as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) certified him as a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP). Furthermore, he holds membership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).

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Martin van Eldik

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:16:51 +0000

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Prof Martin van Eldik obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the North-West University in Potchefstroom. He is an associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering where his research group focus on research relevant to the thermal-fluid industry with the emphasis on energy systems. The field of application is mainly the commercial, industrial and mining sectors. This include research into the next generation of heat pumps including the use of CO2 as refrigerant for high temperature applications. Another research focus is the use of combined solar water heating and heat pumps for larger commercial and industrial applications. In terms of the mining sector, his research focus on the development and use of mobile refrigeration for underground applications, as well as other energy saving opportunities. Martin is also a Business Unit Manager with M-Tech Industrial (Pty) Ltd mainly focusing on turnkey energy efficient heat pump hot water solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors. He is also involved with the technical and R&D aspects of M-Tech's water heating heat pumps and underground mobile refrigeration cooling units.

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(018) 299-1324

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Dawie Branken

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Dr Branken obtained his PhD in the field of membrane-based gas separation from the North-west University (South Africa) in 2013, after obtaining his MSc in the field of crystallization in 2009. During his post-graduate studies, Dr. Branken has gained knowledge in the field of general fluorine chemistry, as well as expertise in both “wet” and “dry” processing methods relating to the fluorine industry. Throughout his post graduate studies, and subsequent professional career, Dr. Branken’s research interests have been focused around applied chemistry and chemical engineering disciplines such as separation and purification technologies, molecular modelling (DFT and semi-empirical), molecular dynamics simulations, thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, and more recently computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, reaction kinetics, electrostatics and emissions control. After completion of his PhD, Dr. Branken was appointed as lecturer in chemical Thermodynamics I and II at the School of Chemical and Minerals Engineering in May 2013, and has subsequently been promoted to senior lecturer, starting in 2015. He is currently involved in emissions control research within the Eskom-EPPEI Chair at NWU. This entails post-combustion flue gas treatment, i.e. flue gas desulfurization (wet, dry and semi-dry methods), particulate matter abatement using electrostatic precipitation and fabric filtration technologies, and CO₂ capture using dry solid sorbents. Currently, Dr. Branken (co)supervises 2 PhD students, and 7 master’s students.

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Mphegolle Ephraim Moshidi

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Teaches Supply Chain Management for Industrial Engineering students.

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Liezl van Dyk

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Prof Van Dyk's research is focused on Technology-enabled Optimization of Service Systems, specifically within the context of Health Systems Engineering.

Early research outputs (2001 - 2008) relates on the Technology-enabled Optimization of Learning Management Systems.
Research outputs related to this theme include 5 peer reviewed journal articles (2 international, 5 local ISI-listed and 1 local non-
ISI-listed), as well as 5 peer reviewed publications in proceedings of international conferences.
In 2009 she became involved with the South African Medical Research Council (MRC)'s telemedicine research projects.
Telemedicine is the delivery of health care services (-medicine) over a distance (tele-), enabled by technology. I eventually
developed a Telemedicine Service Maturity Model for purposes of my PhD. GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association) Health
Directorate adopted this model for their "mHealth Service Maturity Tracking System".

She was member of the organizing committee, responsible for the academic programme of the 1st (2010), 2nd (2011) and 3rd (2012)
South African Telemedicine Conferences and the 16th Conference of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth
(2012) as well as peer reviewer for three different international conferences related to Telemedicine, namely (1) the
International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine; (2) the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health
ICT Conference and (3) 3rd International Conference on Global Telehealth.

She also – in collaboration with the Medical Research Council - developed and presented post-academic courses on telemedicine
and ehealth to healthcare professionals from seven of the nine Provincial Departments of Health of South Africa.

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Werner Heinrich Kaiser

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Werner Kaiser is currently a full-time senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical engineering at the North-West University. He has been invlolved in Engineering educatgion since 1998 and has lectured various courses in thermal fluid science, Mechanics of machines, Computer aided drawing at the North-West Unviersity and the Tshwane University of Technology. He has worked for 5 years in industry, where was involved in Energy management projects as well as being a test engineer for the PBMR high-pressure test bench. During this time he gained valuable experience in test procedures as well as energy management projects. HE is currently focusing on the application of high-temperature heat pumps for industrial applications.

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CG du Toit

PERTUNIA THULO — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:43:33 +0000

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CG Jat

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Jat du Toit is professor of Mechanical Engineering at the North-West University. He obtained a B.Eng. (Hons.)(Civil) and a M.Eng.(Civil) from the University of Stellenbosch and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has published more than 100 papers in international and national journals and conference proceedings and was the co-editor of the proceedings of two conferences.

He is a registered professional engineer with practical experience in the fields of civil, mechanical, chemical and metallurgical engineering and focuses on computational fluid dynamics modelling. He is a partner of a commercial engineering software development and consulting firm.

He has also been a senior technical consultant for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project and serves on the editorial board of the national “R&D Journal” and the international journal “Computational Thermal Sciences”. He is a past-president of the executive committee of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His is a member of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, a member of the South African Academy for Arts and Science, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a member of the International Association of Computational Mechanics, a member of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, as well as a member of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences and the Scientific Committee of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer.

His current interests are the development of advanced thermal-fluid simulation models for high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors, the development of a multilevel solution strategy for thermal-flow problems within a systems CFD framework and the teaching and application of a new global approach to the Galerkin finite element method.

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George van Schoor

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:19:36 +0000

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George

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George van Schoor was born in Cape Town, South Africa on November 13, 1963. He received the B Eng, M.Eng and D.Eng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), South Africa in 1985, 1987 and 2001 respectively.

He worked in industry in the field of power electronics for 9 years before joining the Programme Group Engineering at Technikon SA (the now UNISA), South Africa where he managed the Programme: Electrical Engineering from 1996 to June 2001. In July 2001 he accepted a position as Professor at the Potchefstroom University (the now North-West University), South Africa in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. From 2006 he was appointed in the position of director: Unit for Energy Systems. In 2012 he is appointed in the position of Research Professor. His research interests are in the fields of modeling and control, magnetic bearings and power electronics. In 2005 he founded the Magnetic Bearing – Modelling and Control research group in the Faculty of Engineering. The group has since been renamed McTronX after the field of mechatronics.

In the period 2003 to 2012 George delivers 38 Masters’ students and 6 PhD students as main supervisor and 4 Masters’ and 1 PhD as co-supervisor. He has authored and co-authored 24 peer-reviewed conference papers, 24 accredited journal papers and one book chapter.

Dr. van Schoor is a Member of the IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa. In 2002, 2011 and 2012 he receives best paper awards from the the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers’ Transactions and the Africa Research Journal respectively.

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Frans Boudewijn Waanders

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:12:37 +0000

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I have been involved with Mössbauer spectroscopy technology since 1991 at the then PU for CHE, currently the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus, which entails the application of mineral and mineral studies. Several publications in international journals and conference presentations flowed from this work.

Since my research is mainly focused on coal, it was decided to use the Mössbauer technique at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus as well. By launching an investigation into the iron-bearing minerals in coal, various deductions can be made regarding the changes that the coal undergoes during weathering, gassing or burning.

Another mineralogical project that is done for mining institutions entails the identification of minerals and their change or transformation in lye processes or reduction processes. By means of Mössbauer analyses can be established which changes sulphite ore undergoes for the recovery of the base metals from the ore. The Mössbauer technique is unique in the sense that the different states of the iron show ion in the mineral, which in turn can be used to identify optimal mineral processing processes.

There is cooperation with several universities in the country as well as industry partners, which ensure that the Mössbauer technique is not just applied at the North-West University, but that other institutions can also make use of this facility. At the recently held ISIAME conference (International Symposium on the Industrial Application of the Mössbauer Effect) it was decided to host this quadrennial conference in South Africa, and I will act as organiser of this conference.

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018 299 1994

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L.J. Grobler

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:31:11 +0000

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Prof. L.J. Grobler is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, and was appointed as dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2012. Apart from lecturing, he also mentors students that are busy with their Master and PhD Studies. He has authorized or co-authored more than 60 articles on energy related issues in local and international journals and presented or co-presented more than 80 papers at local and international conferences. He also serves on the Technical Committee of the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP). In 2009 he has been elected to the Council of Measurement and Verification Professionals South Africa (CMVPSA).

Prof. Grobler is Director of Energy Cybernetics, a company specializing in delivering energy solution services. He has personally performed more than 50 industrial and commercial energy audits. He serves on the steering committee responsible for developing the Measurement and Verification (M&V) methodologies and procedures to Measure and Verify the impact of Eskom's Demand Side Management (DSM) program.
He has been active in the energy field for the past 18 years and has been a member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) since 1997. LJ held the title as President of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in the United States of America for the 2008/2009 office term.
L.J. is also the head of ExtruAfrica, an initiative of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. ExtruAfrica comprises of the organising of general extrusion workshops, specialised training seminars and annual international extrusion conference and training seminar.

The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing realised that a need exists for industry role players to obtain information on the latest technology, share knowledge and network with experts and peers. Extrusion is one of the most energy efficient and environmentally-friendly processes to produce pre-cooked ready-to-eat products. Extrusion has wide applications in the food, feed, powder paint and plastics industries. There are numerous opportunities in the market for the development and marketing of extruded products. The potential of using extrusion to add value to products is largely untapped in Africa.

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