Alternative Fuels Corporation

Our Management Team

Basil Botha

More than 25 years international mining industry experience in exploration, mine operations, beneficiation, finance and marketing.

Michael Hepworth

Over 25 years international business experience, starting building and selling service companies. Main strength sales and marketing.

Paul McNaughton

More than 25 years experience in coal trading, marketing and business development.

Peter Arendt

Over 20 years international mining industry experience in exploration, mine operations, engineering, logistics and marketing.

Wits COMPS Team

The aim of the Wits COMPS Centre is to transfer expertise and know how in process synthesis to industry by consulting, training and process development. The Centre has consulted for Sasol, AECI, AEC, de Beers, Amplats, Pratley and Delkor. COMPS have the biggest THRIP project in South Africa, the value for 2003 being R26 million. In 2003 I assumed the position of
In 2004, part of the staff of COMPS formed the Contracts Office of the newly established Wits Enterprise, the income generation wing of the University.

In 2004 COMPS entered into a contract with Golden Nest to build a 100 000 tpd Fischer Tropsch plant in China. The plant is due to be operational by 2007. This is a first plant in a sequence of Fischer Tropsch based plants planned to demonstrate both the novel technology developed by COMPS as well as the concept of co-feeding natural gas with coal in order to reduce CO2 emissions.

Professor David Glasser

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Under his guidance the Wits COMPS team has developed the Fischer Tropsch technology needed for Alternative fuels Corporation to be successful. Optimisation. .

Professor Diane Hildebrand

Co-Director for the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1998 Diane became the first woman in South Africa to be made a full professor of Chemical Engineering when she was appointed as the Unilever Professor of Reaction Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2003 she became the first woman professor of chemical technology in the Netherlands when she was appointed as a part time Professor of Process Synthesis, University of Twente, The Netherlands. She has worked at South African Chamber of Mines, Sasol and the University of Potchefstroom.

Dr. Brendon Hausberger

Founding project manager of The Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS). and now a director of the centre, responsible for the management of the financial, contractual and human resource functions of the centre and direct oversight of the contract research work being undertaken at the centre.

Dr. Hausberger has been largely responsible for overseeing the construction of the plant at Golden Nest and for ensuring that the plant runs as expected.