Braam Van Dyk
Senior Manager Process Engineering And Modelling at Sasol
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolBraam Van Dyk is a chemical engineer with a PhD from Stellenbosch and over two decades of hands-on experience in process engineering, modelling and technology development at Sasol. He has driven thermodynamic and catalyst modelling, led multi-disciplinary teams, and taken projects from flowsheet and pilot stages through to construction and operation across gas-to-liquids and synfuels plants worldwide. Known for combining deep technical mastery with practical plant troubleshooting, he has supported operations in South Africa, Qatar and Nigeria and led licensor engagements on complex FT and co-product processes. He briefly served as acting VP for Process Development but intentionally returned to technical leadership, currently owning advanced process modelling and digitalisation efforts. An occasional Julia tinkerer, he leverages scripting to make modelling and plant support more efficient—bringing a researcher’s rigor to real-world engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English, German
Github Skills (138)
programming-language10
science10
julia10
numerical10
machine-learning10
hpc10
pde9
ssreflect9
javascript9
linux9
julialang9
root-finding9
interval-arithmetic9
stochastic-differential-equations9
steam9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
braamvandyk/SteamTables.jl
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Julia implementation of steam tables according to IAPWS Industrial Formulation (1997)
Contributions:9 releases, 49 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 1 month
fmiindustrialjuliasteamformulation
braamvandyk/FlowsheetTools.jl
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Basic flowsheeting library in Julia
Contributions:48 commits, 7 PRs, 129 pushes in 6 months
balancereconcilejulia-languagekpiflowsheet
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