Email: twvb@sun.ac.za
Dosent / Lecturer:
Prof Theo von Backström
Tel: +27 21 808 4267
Office:
Fakulteit / Faculty:
Engineering
Afdeling / Division:
Design & Mechatronics / Mechanics / Thermo fluids / Renewable Energy
M525
Departement / Department:
Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Navorsingsveld / Research field:
Rock bed thermal energy storage, Thermal air receivers, Turbomachinery
Algemene beskrywing van navorsingsveld:
General description of research field:
Turbomachinery: Cooling fans, small gas turbines; ocean current turbines
Renewable energy: Thermal energy storage in rock beds
Lys van onderwerpe/ List of topics: MEng
(Structured)
1.
Design and costing of full scale rock bed thermal energy system
MEng
(Research)
X
PhD
X
Funding
(amount of bursaries
/degree eg. 2x PhD)
NRF
2.
Design and development of SCRAP solar receiver
X X NRF
3.
Investigation of the feasibility of a deconstructed gas turbine to compress air for a solar air receiver X X NRF
4.
Fitting a newly designed high pressure ratio compressor to the Rover gas turbine, to enable the insertion of a solar receiver in the flow path.
Spesifieke voorvereistes / Specific requirements :
X X NRF