Afrikaans Study Chemical Engineering or Mineral Processing at Stellenbosch University.
Applications for 2014 open March 2013
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& Events
What’s the latest news in the Department of Process Engineering
The Department of Process Engineering hosted the Western Cape provincial round of the annual Minquiz science competition on Wednesday, 08 May 2013, on behalf of Mintek. A total of 43 schools entered their top 3 grade 12 learners to compete in this competition; of these, 22 schools participated in the gold category and 21 schools participated in the platinum category. The competition entailed a written quiz, which was completed individually, where after the top 5 teams in each category competed in an oral quiz.
Research
Snippets
Find out more about our exciting research in Chemical Engineering
The ability to record fast reactions in real-time has the advantage of solving the mysteries of their governing rate equations more easily and accurately. The accuracy of these equations is vital in the separations technology field, since it directly influences the accuracy of our ability to determine the efficiency of distillation columns. Small improvements on distillation column efficiency relates to large savings in operating costs as well as decreasing the environmental impact of the process.
Student
Stories
Student life at the Department of Process Engineering
In high school, I wanted to be so many things: a doctor, an engineer, a microbiologist, at one point even an environmental lawyer. I had little knowledge about all these fields but I knew that I loved maths, physics and chemistry. After a little research, I decided I wanted to be an engineer. Which kind, that I still had to figure out. I chose chemical engineering since it was the only engineering field that focused on chemistry. I soon found out there is so much more to chemical engineering than chemistry.