Conveners
Energy
- Peter Booth (NMMU)
Mr
Louis Beneke
(Tshwane University of Technology)
30/09/2014, 14:45
Oral and Poster Presentation
South Africa has limited electricity resources and many parts of the country have limited access to electricity. Electricity capacity is at maximum and almost each Giga Watt is accounted for. Predictions suggest South Africa would have a serious electricity allocation problem in the very near future and current rolling blackout in many of our cities can attain to the looming problem. The...
Ms
Danel Van Tonder
(University of the North-West)
30/09/2014, 15:00
Oral and Poster Presentation
Development of a Solar Desalination Plant
By
D. van Tonder, Department of Geology University of the North West (danel.vantonder@nwu.ac.za)
C.J.S. Fourie. Environmental Water and Earth Sciences, TUT (fouriecjs@tut.ac.za)
ABSTRACT
South Africa is considered a water scarce country and water quality is an additional stress affecting available water supply. In the semi-arid to arid...
Mr
Wasiu Sonibare
(Stellenbosch University)
30/09/2014, 15:15
Oral Presentation
To assess the total petroleum system and prospectivity of the Western Bredasdorp Basin (WBB), this study investigates the contribution of Upper Jurassic-Cretaceous source rocks to the reservoired hydrocarbons and natural gas leakages using a 3D basin modelling technique. The established 3D model is based on an integration of subsurface datasets (2D seismics, well data and cores) and links the...
