Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Nicol, W
BIng(Chem)(Pret) PhD(Witwatersrand) - Associate Professor
NRF Rating: B3
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3796
Fax number: 012 362 5173
E-mail address: willie.nicol@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Process modelling and control
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Van Houwelingen A J, Nicol W: 2011. Parallel Hydrogenation for the Quantification of Wetting Efficiency and Liquid-Solid Mass Transfer in a Trickle-Bed Reactor. AICHE Journal, 57 (5) / May, pp 1310-1319, Full Text
Saayman J, Nicol W: 2011. Demonstrating the Effect of Interphase Mass Transfer in a Transparent fluidization Bed Reactor. Chemical Engineering Education, 45 (3) / Summer 2011, pp 178-183.
Brink HG, Saayman J, Nicol W: 2011. Two dimensional fluidised bed reactor: Performance of a novel multi-vortex distributor. Chemical Engineering Journal, 175 (1), pp 484-493, Full Text
Reynders F, Nicol W: 2011. Gas-Limited Hydrogenation of 1-Octene in a Fixed-Bed: Upflow versus Downflow. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 50, pp 10476-10479, Full Text
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Van Biljon C, du Toit EL, Nicol W: 2011. Effect of Fines Content on Bubble Properties in a Two-Dimensional Fluidized Bed by Digital Image Analysis. In IFSA 2011 Industrial Fluidization South Africa: Supporting Sustainable Strategies, (2), South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM< Johannesburg), pp 267-275.
Saayman J, Brink HG, Nicol W: 2011. Effect of Distributor type on Interphase Mass Transfer and Gas Axial Dispersion in Bubbling and Turbulent Fluidezed-bed Reactors. In IFSA 2011 Industrial Fluidization South Africa: Supporting Sustainable Strategies, (3), South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM< Johannesburg), pp 361-375.
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