NEXUS - Green Economy Sector - Energy-Water-Food-Waste Research Group
Energy enables the water, food and waste sectors. The energy must be clean, green, cheap, reliable, secure and available. This means an energy mix, founded on a nuclear base which then enables renewables. The energy supply modules are packaged to be grid and usage appropriate. The grid is smart. Energy can also be process heat, for desalination or synthetic fuel production. Clean water is produced by nature, or by using energy where necessary, and then delivered by a water-grid, analogous to the energy grid. Energy and water projects are modern and exhibit 4IR innovations. Food production and waste processing are enhanced by engineering principles, from project management to 4IR principles. The entire package is wrapped with research, innovation, new undergraduate and short learning programme courses, postgraduate training, building the local research infrastructure and commercialisation.
Solutions
Innovation, Engineering, Business and Commercialisation
Ubuntu Reactors
High Performance Computing and Simulation
Kilo-power
Deploying NASA's 1-10 kW reactors
The Water Grid
A water grid to end of the water crisis, powered by green energy
The Energy grid
Modular generation - matching supply to load and infrastructure
Micro-farming
4IR enabled small scale farming
Safety, efficiency
Fibre optic based reactor in-core sensing
The hydrogen economy
Hydrogen as energy carrier
Image credit
AHTR
Advanced High Temperature Small Modular Reactor Design
Abundant protein
4IR in fish farming
Water
Desalination, purification, waste treatment
Capacity Development
Human Capacity Development : SLPs, CPD activities, Post grad development, Conferences, Symposiums, Workshops, Tutorials