NORMAN MAGASINER Pr.Eng, C.Eng, B.Sc, F.I.Mech.E, F.I.E, M.ASME

Norman is acknowledged as a world expert on fibrous fuelled boilers and the thermodynamics of co-generation in agro-industry. He has published many papers . After 31 years with John Thompson, a boiler company currently in the Rolls Royce group, he now runs his own company providing consultancy and engineering services to the energy industry. He provides a well balanced commercial approach to engineering.

After matriculating from High School, Norman Magasiner served a tool and die making apprenticeship and then read Mechanical Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating in 1955. He joined John Thompson in the UK two years later, having worked on a greenfield graphite refinery project in the African bush and on structural engineering research in the UK.

John Thompson were then constructing one of world's first CO₂, graphite moderated nuclear reactors and Norman joined as a trainee in the boiler design and construction departments.

He was subsequently asked to establish a boiler design and contracting department for the company's office in Johannesburg. Thompsons at that time had less than 2% of the industrial boiler market in Southern Africa. By carefully analysing market requirements and designing plant to meet its specific needs, he led a team which enlarged the company's share to greater than 80% over a 15 year period.

In various roles within JT Africa, firstly as Project Engineer, then as Technical Director, Assistant Managing Director and finally as Managing Director he was intimately involved in the development of many new technologies. These included:

• The introduction of a new range of high efficiency coal fired shell boilers during the 1970's. This range won a design award from the Shell Company. Models from this range were exported to Chile, Columbia, Italy, Israel, all of the Southern and Central African countries, Mauritius and Japan.
• The introduction of new watertube boiler designs into industries burning biomass materials.
• The development of watertube boilers to burn high-vanadium residue oil.

Mr Magasiner founded Thermal Energy Systems in 1988 in order to service the biomass energy market using proceedures and data which developed while with JTA. The organisation retains the right to use this engineering package although it has been much further developed since then.

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Publications

Characterising Fuels For Biomass - Coal Fired Cogeneration	Magasiner, van Alphen, Inkson and Misplon	Presented at the 75th Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 2001
The Design of Bagasse Fired Boilers with Special Reference to Co-generation	Magasiner	Presented at the GEPLACEA-GTZ Symposium on INTERNATIONAL ENERGY 1994
Agricultural Wastes as an Energy Resource	Magasiner	Published in JOURNAL OF ENERGY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, February 1993
Notes on the Design and Operation of Cane Sugar Factory Boilers	Magasiner	Presented to the MSRI BOILER SYMPOSIUM, September 1991
Pneumatic Spreading of Fibrous Fuels and Coal In Boiler Combustion Chambers	Magasiner and Naude	Presented at the 62nd Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 1988
Design Criteria for Fibrous Fuel Fired Boilers	Magasiner and de Kock	Published in ENERGY WORLD, August/September 1987
The Effect of Fuel Moisture Content on the Performance of a Typical Bagasse Fired Watertube Boiler	Magasiner, Naude and McIntyre	Presented at the 61st Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 1987
Operating Experience on Single and Three Pass Boilers in the Cane Sugar Industry with Particular Reference to Erosion and Drum Water Level Stability	Magasiner, Naude and McIntyre	Presented at the 58th Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 1984
Combustion Gasification and Heat Transfer in a Pilot Steam Generator	Naude, Dutriewicz and Magasiner	Presented to the CONFERENCE on FLUIDISED COMBUSTION SYSTEMS and APPLICATIONS INSTITUTE of ENERGY, London, NOVEMBER 1980
Boiler Plant as an Integral Part of a Cane Sugar Factory	Magasiner	Presented at the 15th Congress of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY of SUGAR CANE TECHNOLOGISTS, 1974
Development of a Coal Fired Packaged Boiler designed specifically for operation in Southern Africa	Magasiner	Presented at the CONFERENCE on the EFFICIENT UTILISATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN SOLID FUEL RESOURCES, September 1973
Automatic Control of Boiler Plant in the Cane Sugar Industry	Magasiner	Presented at the 42nd Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 1968
Boiler Design and Selection in the Cane Sugar Industry	Magasiner	Presented at the 40th Annual Congress of the S.A. SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS ASS., 1966
Steam Generating Plant	Magasiner	Presented to the Students and Graduates Section of S.A. INST. MECH. ENG., 1960
Experimental Stress Analysis by Photo Elastic Methods	Magasiner and Ziegenbein	Published in THE FULCRUM; May 1958

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