ABSTRACT This research work is aimed at using the energy and exergy analysis with thermodynamic data to suggest improvements in the performance of steam and gas turbine power plants. In this regard, specific data from Egbin steam power plant and Geregu I gas turbine power plant were used for the analysis. In the analysis, scientific tools such as Engineering Equation Solver (EES) programme with built-in functions for most thermodynamic and transport properties was used to calculate the enthal...
ABSTRACT Internet is a huge technology that has brought life to computer and its applications. Most forms of information management and data sharing are done using the internet. The World Wide Web has made this possible. With a browser running on your PC, you can get connected to the entire world. The Internet has been used in different aspects of life most especially in the area of education. Web portal is that area in which the huge resources available on the Internet are being tapped. A we...
ABSTRACT An experimental evaluation of the performance of a charcoal stove designed to reduce human labour and health hazards associated with frying in open fire was carried out. The channel- type metallic stove was lagged with 2.54 mm thick glass wool. The charcoal grate is 160 mm from the floor and has 44 holes of 12 mm diameter each to serve as air holes and provide passage for ashes, drilled in it. The charcoal bed is 230 mm from the bottom of the pot and the channel gap is 8mm. A 300 mm ...
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ABSTRACT The study examined the state of health and safety risk management practices in the building sector of the construction industry and has the objectives to: evaluate the construction risks inherent in the building sector of the construction industry; examine the health and safety risk management processes adopted by the construction industry in Nigeria; validate the existence of identified factor(s) militating against the implementation of health and safety practices in the constructio...
ABSTRACT Data warehousing and business intelligence are key enablers in the drive to harness management information and improve decision-making. They underpin the recent wave of interest in data mining and customer relationship management and create opportunities for performance improvements based on quantitative analysis at every level in an organization. Data warehousing is a relatively new field in information technology, and current research centers primarily on data warehousing in busi...
ABSTRACT This work modified an existing lead-acid battery charging system by developing and simulating the conventional lead-acid battery and the fuzzy logic control of the lead-acid battery charging systems. The fuzzy logic system is developed using Mamdani inference system in Matlab toolbox and Simulink, and consequently employed in controlling the 12 conventional charging system adopted. The output voltage of the battery is controlled using matrix laboratory (MATLAB) in creating Fuzzy Infe...
ABSTRACT Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor is widely used for many industrial applications and has relatively high torque ripple generated by reluctance torque. Since the configuration of the stator has great influence on reluctance torque, different stator configuration is necessary to improve the torque performance of IPM motor. Natural variable modeling and performance comparison of Interior Permanent Magnet Motor with Concentrated winding (CW), Short pitched and Full pitched distribut...
Abstract A batch type direct passive solar dryer was designed and fabricated to dry salted tilapia fish fillets. The dryer has a capacity a capacity of 1500g/batch. The tilapia fish species were obtained from Domita Farms Nig. Ltd,.Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and transported immediately to Nsukka in a cold storage container. The salted fish fillet was prepared to conform to thin layer drying specification of 3.0mm-5.0mm thickness before drying. The solar drying experiments were conducted at the Depa...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a study of short-term electric power forecasting in the Nigerian power system using artificial neural network model. The model is created in the form of a simulation program written with MATLAB tool. The model, a multilayer timedelayed feed-forward artificial neural network trained with error back propagation algorithm, was made to study the pre-historical load pattern of a typical Nigerian power system in a supervised training manner. After presenting the model with a...
ABSTRACT As the prices of building materials in the country continue to increase sharply, there is growing need to source local materials as alternative for farm building constructions. This project investigates the performance of a cylindrical shell built of laterized concrete for storage of foodgrains or water. L In order to optimize the mix ratio of the constituent materials that will produce maximum strength, a mathematical model which relates the strength of laterized concrete and its co...
ABSTRACT A single line contingency analysis and generator(s) outages were carried out on 330kV, 27-Bus power network using MATPOWER 4.1 embedded in MATLAB to carry out fast decoupled load flow studies in order to identify the voltage violation at various buses, determine power losses at the transmission lines and to compute the performance indices. The performance indices were further ranked in accordance with their severity index. Voltages less than 0.95pu were assumed to be low voltages and...
ABSTRACT This project presents a quality model of induction motor showing steady state and dynamic analysis using Volt/Hertz open loop, Volt/Hertz closed loop, Slip differences and constant flux methods. The main objective is to maintain the speed at constant rotor flux and to investigate the control schemes for controlling induction machine, particularly the scalar control method and to evaluate their performance under variable input-output conditions. Analysis of the steady state equivalent...
Abstract: Nuclear radiation protection is crucial for future development in the field of Nuclear energy generation. This work categorizes the various types of radiation protection. It is a comprehensive review of nuclear radiation protection.
ABSTRACT: Presentation slides for the course project on the topic Graphene-based surface plasmon polariton for plasmonic waveguides and devices. Throughout the project the used of FDTD simulations were conducted for the report.