Engineering

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED LINK BUDGET FORLOW EARTH ORBITING (LEO)-BASED LAND MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

ABSTRACTThis research work presents the development of a Modified Link Budget for Low Earth Orbiting (LEO)-Based Land Mobile Satellite Communications System operating at Ku, K and Ka frequency bands by taking into cognizance the effect of additional loss due to Doppler frequency shift. Doppler fr...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 80 pages | 🧠 8430 words | 📚 5 chapters

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AIR INJECTION STUDIES FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

ABSTRACTConventionally, air injection has been used for recovery of heavy crude oil in the production field, but studies have shown that depletion of light crude oil in the reservoir leads to abandonment of such wells. Hence, this work studied the kinetics and combustion of light crude oil in-sit...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 90 pages | 🧠 11415 words | 📚 5 chapters

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PRODUCTION OF ANTIMICROBIAL SOAP USING A BLEND OF MORINGA OLEIFERA OIL AND RICINUS COMMUNIS (CASTOR OIL)

ABSTRACTThe studies on oils in general have a significant role to play in the well being of mankind. In this research work, Moringa oleifera oil and castor oil were both extracted from their seeds using mechanical press method. Moringa oleifera oil and castor oil were blended in various proportio...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 97 pages | 🧠 6551 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE EFFECT OF ELAPSED TIME AFTER MIXING ON BAGASSE ASH MODIFIED BLACK COTTON SOIL

ABSTRACTEngineers are often faced with the problem of constructing on black cotton soils, because of their unsuitable behaviour for construction.The preliminary investigation conducted on the natural black cotton soil collected fromDeba, Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State shows that it fal...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 80 pages | 🧠 9461 words | 📚 5 chapters

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INVESTIGATING THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF MORINGA OLEIFERA SEED CAKE EXTRACT AND OPUNTIA STRICTA (CACTUS) MUCILAGE IN SURFACE WATER TREATMENT

ABSTRACTThis research investigated the synergistic effects of Moringa oleifera seed cake extract and Opuntia stricta(cactus) mucilage in surface water purification. The synergistic effects of the two coagulants on turbidity, conductivity, total dissolved solid(TDS), pH, chemical oxygen demand (CO...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 93 pages | 🧠 8789 words | 📚 5 chapters

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ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METALS IN SOME SELECTED VEGETABLE FIELDS IRRIGATED WITH WASTE WATER ALONG KUBANNI WATER COURSE

A CASE STUDY OF ZARIA METROPOLIS

ABSTRACTThe need to assess the heavy metals uptake by vegetables cultivated and irrigated with wastewater along the watercourse of a stream, have led to a controlled field experiments in Zaria Metropolis. Five heavy metals; Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Lead (Pb), Manganese (Mn) and Zinc (Zn) were...

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📄 89 pages | 🧠 10329 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMIZED FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER FOR IMPROVED EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD STUDIES

ABSTRACTThis research work was centered on optimizing the Fluxgate Magnetometer Sensor (FMS)at reduced noise level and enhanced sensitivity. The FMS was developed using Manganese Zinc (MnZn) ferrite alloy different from the usual permalloy and amorphous alloy materials. The developed FMS using Mn...

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📄 84 pages | 🧠 6885 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF AN IMPROVED PV-ARRAY MODEL WITH SHADING EFFECTS

ABSTRACTThe performance of photovoltaic (PV) module is dependent on shading conditions of the cells. This research work is aimed at developing an improved PV-model considering the various degree of shading on PV-cells connected in a PV-module. This is based on modelling the different degrees of s...

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📄 100 pages | 🧠 8710 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF A DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED SYSTEM FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION IN VISIBLE LIGHT AND INFRARED IMAGES

ABSTRACTThis research investigated image recognition frameworks on datasets of visible-light and infrared (IR) imagery using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). This is due to their recent success on a variety of problems including computer vision which often surpassed the state of the art ...

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📄 85 pages | 🧠 7217 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED BACTERIAL FORAGING OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM BASED BLACK HOLE ATTACK MITIGATION MODEL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

ABSTRACTThis study is aimed at the development of a mechanism for black hole attack mitigation in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) using a modified Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA). A total of 200 randomly generated bacterial sensor nodes with a communication range of 20m were deploy...

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📄 85 pages | 🧠 10353 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCED DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES MODEL OF CAMPUS INTERNET NETWORK: A CASE STUDY OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA

ABSTRACTModern campus networks are designed for high-speed service with the capacity to handle many organization's bandwidth requirements, support data applications such as electronic-mail, web and files sharing services. These networks sometime lack the capacity to guarantee quality of service f...

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📄 87 pages | 🧠 11536 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DYNAMICS OF WATER COMPOSITION IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN (SOKOTO) SECTOR OF IULLEMMEDEN BASIN, NIGERIA, USING ISOTOPEAND HYDRO-CHEMICAL TECHNIQUES

ABSTRACTThe Sokoto Basin,(the South-Eastern sectorof Iullemmeden basin), located in Nigeria, consists of an aquifer system which is bi-layered with cretaceous Continental Intercalaire (CI) sedimentary deposit at the bottom,(Sokoto Group, Rima Group, Gundumi-Illo Formation), by Continental Termina...

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📄 93 pages | 🧠 7314 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EFFECTS OF COPPER ADDITION AND SECTION THICKNESS ON SOME MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF GRAPHITE FLAKES IN GREY CAST IRON

ABSTRACTThis study determined the effects of copper addition and section thickness on some mechanical properties and the morphology of graphite flakes in grey cast iron. It also characterised the microstructure of grey cast iron evolved in the investigation. This was of the view of ensuring that ...

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📄 91 pages | 🧠 9050 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EXPERIMENTAL AND PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE INCORPORATING EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE (EPS) WASTE AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES

ABSTRACTThis study is to investigate the effects of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) as a partial replacement for coarse aggregates at 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, and 50% at elevated temperatures of Room Temperature (280C), 200?, 400?, 600?, and 800? for the duration of 2 hrs each. ...

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📄 80 pages | 🧠 12554 words | 📚 5 chapters

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SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF POTASSIUM FLUORIDE/EGGSHELL-IRON (II, III) OXIDE CATALYST FOR SINGLE STAGE TRANSESTERIFICATION OF NEEM OIL

ABSTRACTSingle stage alkali-catalyzed transesterification of vegetable oils having free fatty acid (FFA) content above 0.5% promotes saponification which lowers the biodiesel yield by deactivating the catalyst. A strong solid base KF/Eggshell catalyst, which is capable of circumventing saponifica...

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📄 90 pages | 🧠 12220 words | 📚 5 chapters

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