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Benjamin Oyegbile1 \*, Brian Oyegbile2 and Guven Akdogan1

1 Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2 College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

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