In the economy of a modern refinery, fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) plays a significant role, as it adds value to the refinery products. In this unit more attention is usually given to the behavior of gasoline formation, but it is also important to study the manner of the middle distillates (kerosene and diesel) formation during the cracking ... Continue Reading
The project An Assessment of the Performance and Maintenance Culture of Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, Zaria, Water Treatment Plant aimed at assessing the performance and the maintenance culture of the Ahmadu Bello University Water Treatment Plant (ABU WTP).The technique of survey method, monitoring of treatment process and questionnaires were us... Continue Reading
The concept of public participation and how it can be incorporated in transport planning was studied. Current planning methods and steps were reviewed, and a tool which incorporates public participation in planning (questionnaire) was developed. This study was carried out using questionnaires that incorporate socioeconomic factors that affect trans... Continue Reading
Thermal comfort in buildings located in hot dry weather conditions is improved architecturally with the use of appropriate and adequate bioclimatic design principles. Relationship between bioclimatic design principles and indoor thermal conditions are studied on three selected faculty buildings in north east Nigeria: School of Environmental Technol... Continue Reading
Five different parts of Acacia nilotcaplant (leaves,pods,seed,bark and root) were subjected to the following analyses; extraction, phytochemical screening, corrosion inhibition test of low carbon steel in crude oil using gravimetric analyses, mechanical properties and surface morphology evaluation of the samples.The corrosion rate of low carbon ste... Continue Reading
Timber isa construction material with unparalleledenvironmental credential. Howbeit, limitations of span and crossectional dimension, strength reducing defects and anisotropy limits its engineering application. Mechanical methods of jointing to address the earlier challenge has introduced serious wood fiber failure and increased the embodied energy... Continue Reading
World over, there has been an increasing research into the field of Geographic Information System (GIS) with particular emphasis on addressing myriads of day to day issues with the application. One of such area that has received wide attention is Transportation Planning. This therefore underscores the urgency and appropriateness of this research. T... Continue Reading
Extracts from the leaves of three plants namely; guava (Psidiumguajava: Fem- Myrtaceae), banana (Musa species: Fem-Musaceae) and almond leaves (Prunusamygdamus: fem- Rosaceae) were subjected to physico-chemical, phytochemical screening and corrosion test using gravimetric measurement with a low carbon steel flat bar coupon. The corrosion inhibition... Continue Reading
Linear proportional weirs refer to as sharp crested weir in which the discharge is linearly proportional to the head over the weir crest and tend to have high accuracy when compared with the non linear ones. The main objective of the study was to investigate the flow characteristics of a Sutro weir in an open channel.In this research work the flow ... Continue Reading
This study produced locust bean pods ash, synthesized from it nanoparticles which were subsequently used for the production of polyester matrix composite. It characterized the synthesized particulates and the composite produced. It also evaluated the effects of degradation of the composite subjected to different agents on mechanical properties such... Continue Reading
Optimal location and sizing of Distribution Generation (DG) units in radial distribution networks is critical to achieving an improvement in stability, reliability and reduction of power losses in the network. This dissertation presents a hybridized solution which is a combination of the analytical method and the firefly algorithm for optimal place... Continue Reading
This research work presents a dynamic algorithm for improving energy saving in Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile access networks through off mode, sleep mode and multi-cell cooperation utilization at the eNodeBs. The LTE mobile access network environment and the eNodeBs energy saving models were developed with a view to implementing a dynamic energy... Continue Reading
The evaluation of Hot-Gas and Heated-Tool weldments of Polypropylene/Bone composite was conducted. The composites were formulated by incorporating up to 30% by weight of calcined cow bone powder at an interval of 5% and -75?msieved size was used as reinforcing phase during compounding process. The polypropylene materials (in unreinforced state) and... Continue Reading
A field experiment was conducted during 2013/2014 dry season at Minjibir irrigation scheme, along Jakara River, Kano State located at Longitude 8o30”E to 8o 32”E and Latitude 12o5”N to 12o20”N at 414 m above mean sea level. The study examined soil and water management strategies on sodic soil condition for the production of tomato.The exper... Continue Reading
The increasing and stochastic nature of consumers’ demand on electricity brought about the need for alternative means of complimenting the existing energy demand. In this research work, a grid connected hybrid system was modeled to support and improve the power quantity of the Kaduna north existing network. Load profiling was done using Artificia... Continue Reading