You don't need birth certificate to apply for study visa. It is for children within a certain age bracket... If you have downloaded that form from VFS site, you will see that the birth certificate requirement is for children not adults.

Koval12:
thanks so much for your response, I actually lost my birth certificate, so I had to go get Affidavits from court, does it mean that I can't submit the age declaration in place of my misplaced birth certificate?? What do you mean by Birth certificate is for minors??

The birth certificate stuff is for minors, read the instructions well...

You will need to certify your last degree. That is, BSc if you are going for MSc. Just do Certify to True copy.

For flight reservation, go to South African Airways, book flight. Choose return not one way, make the return 3 months to proposed date of travelling... Click on pay later. You will receive a mail titled "Travel document". Print it. Do this a day to when you are going to VFS.

Hope this helps.

Koval12:
Good morning guys. Please I want to submit my Visa application for study permit by next week, but I want to find out few things from here.

I will be submitting Affidavit of age declaration instead of birth certificate, am I expected to certify the certificate of age declaration, or should I just submit a photocopy?

Secondly, am I supposed to certify any of my documents before submitting them?

Thirdly, can someone help me out on how to reserve flight? I am finding it very difficult to do that, and I won't like to pay anyone for that.

080bjaked:
It's interesting how some people are getting their passport back on time while it is taking some 3months to get response from the embassy.

As in, I kept wondering may this thread is for only those that their visa was delayed. Because people getting it are not posting here so it is looking as if that's what the SA embassy is doing now.

Dongatzby:
Please from which airline did you make reservation before applying for your study permit? And please can you share the minimum amount one can have to be on the safest side?

Use southafrican airways... You can actually do it yourself. Set it on two ways... Make the return like 3 months from the date you want to go. Reserve seat and click pay later... They will first send you one mail that is not it... They will send you another one titled 'Travel Document'. That is what you will print. It is not PDF... Those guys outside VFS wasted my money... I had to redo it inside...

Wow! Thank you so much for this sir. I will take time to digest this well and I will mail you now for the journals sir. I really appreciate you Sir!

wip7:


Adsorptive Treatment of Heavy metal-contaminated water using Sawdust (biomass)

This sounds interesting. You can follow these steps and may modify them to suit your need. You will need to divide the entire work into 6 stages:

Stage 1
1. Sampling: a collection of the water samples at different sources/spots within the research zone/site.
2. Analyzing the heavy metal content of the water samples before treatment (record the concentrations and focus on the most prevalent heavy metal)
3. Storage of the water samples for further use.

Stage 2
1. Collection of adsorbent (sawdust) samples
2. Pretreatment of the sawdusts (washing with distilled water, drying and pulverized to uniform particle size) and label each (example S1, S2, S3)
3. EDTA functionalization of the S1, S2, S3 to produce heavy-metal selective adsorbent which can be named S1-EDTA, S2-EDTA and S3-EDTA.
Note: You will have 6 samples (Functionalized sawdust and raw pre-treated sawdust)
4. Pulverized all the samples (adsorbents) to a uniform size (note down the size)

Stage 3
Characterization: each adsorbent sample must be characterized. These are common characterization you can do:
a. Proximate/ultimate analysis
b. Boehm analysis
c. pH Point zero charge determination/zeta potential determination
d. Surface area (BET), pore volume and pore distribution
e. FTIR, SEM, TGA

Stage 4
Batch Adsorption process: here consider varying the following parameters for each adsorbent
a. adsorbate pH
b. adsorbent dosage
c. Treatment temperature

Stage 5
1.Kinetics (varying the treatment time): Consider fitting your data into pseudo-first order, second order, Elovich, intra-particle diffusion etc.
2. Isotherm (Varying adsorbate concentration): Consider fitting your data into Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich-Peterson, Temkin etc
3. Thermodynamic study (obtained from the temperature change)

Stage 6
Desorption, regeneration and recycling of the spent adsorbents
Economic and cost-benefit analysis regarding the treatment tech.
Comparative performance of your adsorbents and reported adsorbents for heavy metal removal

NOTE:
Functionalizing with EDTA will be useful to compare the performance of the adsorbent. by comparing the concentration of the heavy metals before treatment to after the treatment. Why EDTA? See below:

EDTA is a chemical that binds and chelates metals such as chromium, iron, lead, mercury, copper, aluminium, nickel, zinc, calcium, cobalt, manganese, and magnesium from water......and when they are bound, they can't have any effects and they are removed from the water.

If that's my master student above steps are what I will give.....please visit Science directly to find suitable articles to support you. Also, you can email me, I will send you some of my recent top-quality journals of adsorption treatment of heavy metals.

Best wishes

wip7:


That’s fantastic. I have worked on many agro wastes and I have enhanced their adsorptive capacity for various pollutants.

You can let me know which you are interested, which adsorption system (batch or column) you want to use, which pollutant you are considering, single or multiple pollutants, laboratory/simulated or real wastewater, how you intend to carry out the regeneration and reuse of the adsorbent, which kinetics, isotherm and thermo studies you are considering, will you be doing data optimization to enhance the parameters for industrial use? You are aware the adsorption is not a destructive tech so what happens to the spent adsorbents ?

You can reply here let people gain as well..

Greetings Prof @Wip7 and everyone in this thread. Sir I must confessed that your contributions to this thread has been highly motivational and charging. I am a prospective MSc student (Forestry and Wood Science) as I have been admitted but resuming next year. Currently I am volunteering as an intern with my undergraduate supervisor because I am really interested in research. I will like to ask questions based on this but I will like to say it is not a PhD research work but BSc for one of my supervisor's student. He is working on a topic which looks similar to this. He is working on removal of heavy metal in contaminated water using 3 different species of sawdust. He is working on batch adsorption system and he is collecting real water waste. He is using AAS to detect the heavy metals and removing the predominant one. I am interested in the work and I will like to get your advise on the experimental procedures as I wish to contribute to the work and learn from it.

Thank you in advance sir

I have booked but I was not allowed to download, I guess I will be able to download the one they said they will send to my mail within 12hours.

Incandescent:


You can book/reserve without paying.

Do it a day before submitting your application.

Just go to South African Airways & place a reserve. Print & add to your application. Shikena

Thank you for this information... I plan to apply tomorrow. Hope this night is not late?

Incandescent:


You can book/reserve without paying.

Do it a day before submitting your application.

Just go to South African Airways & place a reserve. Print & add to your application. Shikena

Please for study visa, they require a flight reservation... Do I have to reserve flight when the visa is not yet ready? Someone please help with this!!!