Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications  BEng(Pret), PhD(Pret) Telephone +27 12 420 3569 Fax +27 12 420 5048 E-mail [email protected] Office Office 1-16, Building 2, South Campus

Research activities

Bioremediation

Fermentation

Recent publications

Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., Succinic acid production with Actinobacillus succinogenes: Rate and yield analysis of chemostat and biofilm cultures, (2014) Microbial Cell Factories, 13 (1), art. no. 111 .

Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., The influence of shear on the metabolite yield of Lactobacillus rhamnosus biofilms, (2014) New Biotechnology, 31 (5), pp. 460-467.

Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., Two dimensional fluidised bed reactor: Performance of a novel multi-vortex distributor, (2011) Chemical Engineering Journal, 175 (1), pp. 484-493.

Contributions to conferences:

Nicol, W., Brink, H.G., Bradfield, M.F.A., Succinic acid production with Actinobacillus succinogenes biofilms, BEC 2014, Brač, Croatia; 09/2014

Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., Metabolic analysis of Lactobacillus rhamnosus under suspended and immobilised conditions, 35th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Portland, OR; 04/2013

Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., Effect of biofilm reactor geometry on the production of L-lactic acid by lactobacillus rhamnosus, SAIChE Conference 2012, Drakensberg; 09/2012

Saayman, J., Brink, H.G., Nicol, W., Effect of distributor type on interphase mass transfer and gas axial dispersion in bubbling and turbulent fluidized-bed reactors, INDUSTRIAL FLUIDIZATION SOUTH AFRICA 2011, Johannesburg; 11/2011