Energy Efficiency at the University of Cape Town
- Analyse the operation and performance of individual components, sub-systems or complete integrated plants to improve the design and operation to meet changing consumer demands.
- Detect changes that might indicate impending equipment or process degradation, thereby enabling pro-active and preventative planned maintenance outages
- Power plant condition monitoring
- Boiler modelling
- Radiation model using the zonal method
- Solar power plants
- Combined cycle power plants
- Machine learning for plant monitoring
- Emissions modelling in transient operation
- Stage by stage model of steam turbines
Specialisation Centre Academics
Associate Professor Wim Fuls
University of Cape Town
Dynamic simulation, power plants, systems engineering, turbine modelling
Professor Pieter Rousseau
University of Cape Town
Process modelling, thermofluid energy systems and process condition monitoring
Priyesh Gosai
University of Cape Town
Power plant process condition monitoring
Partners at other Universities/UOTs
Professor Alfayo Alugongo
Vaal University of Technology
Condition monitoring
Professor Igor Gorlach
Nelson Mandela University
Associate Professor Johan van der Spuy
Stellenbosch University
Air cooled condensers and gas turbines
Additional SC Academics
Professor Arnaud Malan
Vaal University of Cape Town
CFD
Professor Edward Boje
University of Cape Town
Control
Associate Professor Amit Mishra
University of Cape Town
Machine Learning
Additional Partner University Academic
Dr Mike Owen
Stellenbosch University
Wet Cooling Systems
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]
Physical Address: Maintenance Place Building, Madiba Circle West, Upper Campus,