The brains behind Eskom's operations

05 Sep 2016
Professor Alison Lewis and CPU Team in the ice lab 2016

From Left; Professor Alison Lewis, Jemitias Chivavava, Genevieve Harding, Senzo Mgabhi, Benita Aspeling and Cledwyn Mangunda.

05 Sep 2016

 

Professor Alison Lewis and her Crystallization and Precipitation Unit (CPU) team are making news headlines as part of researchers behind Eskom's Eutectic Freeze Crystallization Pilot Plant. This cutting edge technology, which is reported to recover about 98% water from liquid effluent discharge streams is located at Eskom's research, testing and development (RT&D). This has got curious minds thinking whether it is 'the solution' for infamous acid mine drainage (AMD) . See the full article in here.