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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering

Focke, WW

MIng(Pret) PhD(MIT) - Professor and Director: ITM

NRF Rating: C3

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2588
Fax number: 012 420 2516
E-mail address: xyris@mweb.co.za

Research Interests:

Polymers

Characterisation and modification of materials

Nano technology

Molecular Design

Process Science

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Focke WW: 2004. Excess Gibbs Energy of Binary Liquid Mixtures and the Wong-Sandler Postulates. AICHE Journal, 50 (12), pp 3284-3289.

Moolman FS, Rolfes H, van der Merwe SW, Focke WW: 2004. Optimization of perfluorocarbon emulsion properties for enhancing oxygen mass transfer in a bio-artificial liver support system. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 19, pp 237-250.

Ricco IMM, Focke WW, Conradie C: 2004. Alternative oxidants for silicon fuel in time-delay compositions. Combustion Science and Technology, 176, pp 1565-1575.

Focke WW, du Plessis BJGW: 2004. Correlating Multicomponent Mixture Properties with Homogeneous Rational Functions. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 43 (26), pp 8369-8377.

Vuorinen E, Kalman E, Focke WW: 2004. Introduction to vapour phase corrosion inhibitors in metal packaging. Surface Engineering, 20 (4), pp 281-284.

Patents:

Focke WW, Ricco IMM, Sefanyetso S: 2004. An alternative oxidant for a delay composition. (2003/7155).

de Bruyn H A, Focke WW: 2004. Binder composition and method for treating particulate material. (2001/9930).

 

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