June 2005
The Endress+Hauser Group is a global leader in the provision of measurement instrumentation and automation solutions for industrial process engineering. The Swiss-based company consists of a network of 72 companies in 37 countries, and 19 stragetically located production centres.
With a wide range of sensors, instruments, systems and services, Endress+Hauser covers the areas of level, flow, pressure, temperature, analysis and recording. The range also includes the connection of field instruments to process control systetms using fieldbuses, as well as automation and logistic solutions. Endress+Hauser products set the standard in reliability, availability, quality and technology.
The company operates in a variety of sectors - optimizing process engineering procedures, while taking into consideration environmental, safety and economic issues.
Endress + Hauser South Africa was established in 1984 and has grown steadily ever since. The success of the local operation can be attributed to an ongoing commitment to providing the best solutions, and to offering qualified service and back-up support.
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Bio-Processing
Chemical engineering and brewing
Mike Heydenrych (Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria) ,
Chemical Engineering in the Mines
Optimization of the solids suspension conditions in a continuous stirred tank reactor for the biooxidation of refratory gold concentrates
Ramon Gonzalez, Juan C Gentina and Fernando Acevedo (Escuela de Ingenieria Bioquimica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile) ,
Focus on chemical engineering in the mines
Filtration
MRI - a new tool for filter development, testing and optimization
Professor Laurie Hall (Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) ,
Solids Handling
Waste Treatment
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide - the future for fossil fuel
P J D Lloyd (Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town) ,
