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Postgraduate students' research projects completed in 2001 (titles of dissertations and theses)

Dissertations

Billing C: Electrochemical analysis of trace elements in complex matrices (Prof JF Van Staden)

Fernandes M: Concentration and derivatisation in silicone rubber traps for gas chromatographic trace analysis of aldehydes (Prof ER Rohwer)

Grant PA: Optimization and scale-up for commercialization of a novel synthesis of Triclosan (Dr EMM Venter)

Hassett AJ: Analysis of volatile organic compounds in water by sorptive extraction and gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (Prof ER Rohwer)

Mampa RM: X-ray and NMR Spectroscopic studies of selected heterocyclic compounds of phosphorus and nitrogen (Prof TA Modro)

Moeng MM: Terthienyl carbene complexes (Prof S Lotz)

Olivier AJ: Novel carbene complexes with pyrrole ligands (Prof S Lotz)

Pillay P: Overcoming interference from hydrolysable cations during the determination of sulphuric acid by titration (Prof JF Van Staden)

Swanepoel JC: Utilisation of fly ash and brine in a geopolymeric material (Prof CA Strydom)

Theses

Havenga WJ: Characterization of environmental pollution by GC-MS analysis of polycyclic aromatic compounds in water and soil (Prof ER Rohwer)

Makhafola MA: Estimation of selected nitrogen compounds, nickel and phosphates in foodstuffs by continuous flow systems (Prof JF Van Staden)

Schmidt LO: Aspects of the determination of the platinum group elements and arsenic by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (Prof CA Strydom)

Schmidt H: X-Ray diffraction study at high temperature reaction products in the barium oxide-silica-alumina-ferric oxide system (Prof CA Strydom)

Van der Merwe EM: The removal of phosphorus impurities and subsequent use of phosphogypsum in Portland Cement (Prof CA Strydom)