PetroSA synthetic fuel innovation centre
Researcher
October 2012 — Present
Working on various desulphurisation method to purify feed and paraffin dehydrogenation to be used in conversion of olefins to distillate (COD technology)
Nothando Mungwe
Researcher
PetroSA synthetic fuel innovation centre
PhD student at the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Intern
Working on various projects i.e. climate change mitigation, energy policy, carbon footprint.
UCT carbon footprint was the main large project i worked on, objective was to quantify the amount of CO2 that University of Cape Town emit to the environment. Therefore data collection was performed for all the major source of CO2. This work has been published follow the link bellow for the full details of the project: http://www.erc.uct.ac.za/Research/publications/10Thapeleetal-UCT_footprint.pdf
Career
UWC, orgarnometallic research group
M.Sc researcher
Project tittle: The Synthesis of the Cyclometallated Palladium Complexes and Their Applications in Olefin Oligomerization and in Phenylacetylene Oligemerization/polymerization
Career
University of Cape Town
PhD, Project tittle: CO Hydrogenation Based on Rhodium Crystallites and Clusters of Different Sizes, Chemical
2012
University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland
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