Mashoko Livison (mashcket@yahoo.co.uk), Dr C. Mbohwa and Muhle Simbarashe (University of Zimbabwe)
Title: Life Cycle Assessment for the environmental impacts of the pulp and paper industry in Zimbabwe

K Harding (kevinh@chemeng.uct.ac.za), Prof. STL Harrison, Dr H von Blottnitz (University of Cape Town) and Dr JS Dennis (Cambridge University)
Title: Assessing the advantage of bioprocesses from a sustainability perspective for the provision of chemical products

George Afrane (Ghana)

Completed Projects

- Biofuel characterisation and life cycle assessment of sugarcane bioenergy systems (Beeharry Panray, Revin) Ph.D, 1998, University of Mauritius, Faculty of Engineering.

- Life cycle assessment of the composting process (Geeta Devi Somaroo), BSc(Hons) Degree in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2003 (UOM/FOE), Reduit University of Mauritius.

- Life cycle comparison of coral sand and rocksand (Moolah Navin), BSc(Hons) Degree in Chemical and Sugar Engineering, 2000 (UOM/FOE), Reduit University of Mauritius.

-Comparative analysis of sludge treatment methods using LCI (Deejaysing Jogee), MSc Environmental Engineering, 2002/2003, University of Mauritius, Faculty of Engineering.

- Identification, Assessment and Improvement of the Environmental Impacts of Ice Cream Production using the Life Cycle Assessment Tool (Devina Ramkalawon), BSc(Hons) Degree in Chemical and Sugar Engineering, 2004 (UOM/FOE), Reduit University of Mauritius.

- LCA of the operational phase of a conventional wastewater treatment plant (P.Tajoo), M.Sc Environmental Engineering , 2004/2005 Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius.

- LCA of Ethanol Production from Molasses in Mauritius (Ms B.Khedun), M.Sc Environmental Engineering, 2004/2005, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius.

- LCA of Three Roof building products (Mr D.Oodit), M.Sc Environmental Engineering, 2003/2004, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius.

Papers

- Life cycle assessment technique for sound management of organic municipal solid wastes. R.Mohee. Progress in Industrial Ecology. Vol 2 No 2, 2005.

- Life Cycle Assessment of windrow and aerated static pile (ASP) composting in the African context with Mauritius as case study. R.Mohee and G.Unmar. Alcanet. LCA Data workshop. Kenya. August 2005.

- Life Cycle Assessments of cane Sugar on the island of Mauritius. International Journal of LCA. Vol 9 No.4 p 254-260

- Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation from Bagasse. Journal of Cleaner production. In Press.

Ongoing research (MPhil/PhD)

- Optimizing the composting of green wastes in the local context using a life cycle approach

- Assessing the potential for energy recovery from sewage sludge produced in Mauritius from a Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective

- Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems

- Life Cycle Assessment of PET bottles in Mauritius

University of Cape Town
Department of Chemical Engineering
http://www.chemeng.uct.ac.za/

- Investigation into the Use of Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Guide for Reducing the Environmental Footprint of a South African Gold Producer - Neil Robinson (neil@chemeng.uct.ac.za); MSc project

- Assessing the Advantage of Bioprocesses from a Sustainability Perspective for the Provision of Chemical Products; LCA and modelling on Biodiesel production using different catalysts, Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), generic aerobic bioprocesses and sugar - Kevin Harding kevinh@chemeng.uct.ac.za); PhD project

- An interest to use LCA results and life cycle thinking to develop design rules for product and process redesign in the sugar industry - Sikhumbuzo Mkhize (smkhize@smri.org), in conjunction with the Sugar Milling Research Institute; PhD project

University of Pretoria
Life Cycle Engineering
Department of Engineering and Technology management
http://www.up.ac.za/lce

Publications

2006

Heuberger R, Brent AC, Santos L, Sutter C, Imboden D. CDM projects under the Kyoto Protocol: A methodology for sustainability assessment – experiences from South Africa and Uruguay. Environment, Development and Sustainability, in press.

Rogers DEC, Brent AC. Small-scale medical waste incinerators: Experiences and trials in South Africa. Waste Management, in press.

Urio AF, Brent AC. Solid waste management strategy in Botswana: The reduction of construction waste. Journal of the South African Institute of Civil Engineers, in press.

Landu L, Brent AC. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Water Use in South Africa: The Rosslyn industrial area as a case study. Water SA, 32 (2), 249-256.

Strauss K, Brent AC, Hietkamp S. Characterisation and normalisation factors for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of mined abiotic resources categories in South Africa: The manufacturing of catalytic converter exhaust systems as a case study. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 11 (3), 162-171.

Fourie A, Brent AC. A project-based Mine Closure Model (MCM) for sustainable asset Life Cycle Management. Journal of Cleaner Production, 14 (12-13), 1085-1095.

Mangena SJ, Brent AC. Application of a Life Cycle Impact Assessment framework to evaluate and compare environmental performances with economic values of supplied coal products. Journal of Cleaner Production, 14 (12-13), 1071-1084.

Mulder J, Brent AC. Selection of sustainable agriculture projects in South Africa: Case studies in the LandCare programme. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 28 (2), 55-84.

Labuschagne C, Brent AC. Social indicators for sustainable project and technology life cycle management in the process industry. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 11 (1), 3-15.

Brent AC. An overview of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development concepts for management practices. In: Nel W (ed). Management for Engineering and Technology Scientists, Juta: Cape Town.

Brent AC, Labuschagne C. Towards social indicators for project life cycle management purposes. Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Stavanger, Norway.

Brent AC, Rogers DEC, Ramabitsa-Siimane TM, Rohwer MB. Application of AHP for the development of waste management systems that minimize infection risks in developing countries: Case studies Lesotho and South Africa. International Waste Management Biennial Congress & Exhibition (WasteCon), Cape Town, South Africa.

Brent AC. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Water Use: A case study in South Africa. 5th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, Melbourne, Australia.

More publications can be found at: http://www.up.ac.za/up/web/en/academic/chair_in_life_cycle_engineering/research.html/publications.html

Current PhD theses

Werner Petrick. Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) during project execution phases: Development of a stage-gate project management model.

Corro van Waveren. Sustainable life cycle management of physical assets in the South African context.

Jacques Mulder. Sustainable life cycle management of rural water resource related projects.

Current Masters dissertation

August Pandey. Development of a model to promote cleaner production activities in the South African manufacturing sector.

Nettie Fick. Development of a decision-making model to evaluate fuel technologies in the energy sector.

Raina Kutranov. Development of a waste management tool to optimize waste streams in terms of cost and risk reduction in the Antarctic region.

Clemens Engelbrecht. Development of a technology-forecasting model to establish an energy profile appropriate at country level.

Previous project details can be found at: http://www.up.ac.za/up/web/en/academic/chair_in_life_cycle_engineering/research.html/projects.html

University of Zimbabwe
Deptartment of Mechanical Engineering
http://www.uz.ac.zw/engineering/mech/mech-main

- Design of a plant for woven plastic bag manufacture - Mr. M. Kenesi (kenesi2002@yahoo.co.uk); Part III Student

- Design for sustainability of a grinding mill - Mr B. T Ganyo (btganyo@yahoo.com); Part III Student

- Design for sustainability of a concrete mixer - Mr A Marimirofa (amarimirofa@yahoo.co.nz); Part III Student

- Design of a Waste Incineration Plant - Mr S Nerupfunde (simbner@yahoo.com); Part III Student

- Using life cycle assessment methods in assessing the environmental effects of Pulp & Paper Industry in Zimbabwe - Mr. L. Mashoko (mashcket@yahoo.co.uk); Part IV- Final Year

- Using life cycle assessment methods in assessing the environmental impacts of a cement industry in Zimbabwe - Mr Z. Moyo (zeemoyo@yahoo.com); Part IV- Final Year

- Using life cycle assessment methods in assessing the environmental impact of electricity production from coal - Mr. N. Ncube (nkosnut2000@yahoo.com); Part IV- Final Year

- Feasibility study of waste incineration plant for the production of electricity - Mr. B. Zigumbu (bzvigumbu@yahoo.com); Part IV- Final Year

- An assessment of the life cycle of the plastic carrier bag in Zimbabwe - Mr G. G. Manjera (gmanjera@yahoo.co.uk); MSc project

- The impact of industrial clusters in greening manufacturing industry practices. The case of four clusters in Harare (rwakazy@yahoo.co.uk); MSc project

- Cleaner Production Assessment for Sustainable Development in the Foundry Industry in Zimbabwe fostan2000@yahoo.com; MSc project