Wesley Neutt

On Friday 31 August, Wesley Neutt visited UCT as part of the Department of Chemical Engineering's Visiting Engineers Programme.

Wesley graduated with a BSc Engineering in Chemical Engineering from UCT in 2014. He began working at the start-up, Premium Green Fuel (PG Fuel), whilst completing his degree in 2014. His experience at PG Fuel involved identifying process shortfalls, process trouble-shooting, and ultimately building and commissioning a novel tyre pyrolysis operation for the production of fuel, char and wire. In 2017, Wesley started working at GrahamTek Holding Water division (GTH), leading the design and commissioning of a 3 million litre per day sea water desalination plant. As a process engineer at GTH, he was also involved in industrial water treatment process design, process tendering, technical scheduling of tenders and internal project management for project execution; and has insight into the response from industry during the Cape Town water crisis. Wesley is currently a partner in RY-Engineering Solutions, an engineering consulting firm with contracting clients like Enviro-Serve, Aspen, Distell and various other smaller processing clients offering engineering solutions and services.

He spoke to the first-year class about his career journey, and at lunch time gave a seminar on his experiences at Premium Green Fuel (PG Fuel), as well as his experiences at GrahamTek, and about the waste market in South Africa and the opportunities available.