Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
de Vaal, PL
MIng PhD(Pret) - Professor
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 2197
Fax number: 012 362 5173
E-mail address: pdvaal@postino.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Process modelling and control
Tribology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
de Vaal PL, Vavruch Petr: 2003. Selecting a new formulation of industrial gear oil - focus on EP performance. Lubrication Engineering, 59 (7), pp 22-27.
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
de Vaal PL, Sandrock C: 2003. Performance assessment of an improved model based controller on a batch pulp digester. In 2003 SA Chemical Engineering Congress, SAIChE, p. CD.
de Vaal PL, Meister BE: 2003. Evaluating synovial fluids in the human body from an engineering perspective. In 2003 SA Chemical Engineering Congress, SAIChE, p. CD.
de Vaal PL, du Plessis L: 2003. Increasing the flexibility of automated start-up procedures with the inclusion of a fault accommodation strategy. In 2003 SA Chemical Engineering Congress, SAIChE, p. CD.
de Vaal PL, Sandrock C: 2003. Implementation of a Model Based Controller on a Batch Pulp Digester for Improved Control. In 36th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering: Escape-13, Elsevier Science, pp 1013-1018.
de Vaal PL, Meister BE: 2003. The effect of cutting fluid chemistry during aluminium cutting using limited volume lubrication. In 58th STLE Annual Meeting, Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, pp 587-599.
de Vaal PL, Sandrock C: 2003. Systematic control problem analysis applied to batch pulp digester control. In Proceedings of the First African Control Conference (AFCON 2003), South African Council for Automation and Computation (SACAC), pp 280-284.
de Vaal PL, Sandrock C: 2003. Equipping a process control laboratory to reflect contemporary control technology. In Proceedings of the First African Control Conference (AFCON 2003), South African Council for Automation and Computation (SACAC), pp 302-308.
de Vaal PL, Delport R: 2003. The unit operations toolbox: a dynamic simulation package in Simulink. In Proceedings of the First African Control Conference (AFCON 2003), South African Council for Automation and Computation (SACAC), pp 291-295.
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