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DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOCOMPOSITES FROM POLYLACTIC ACID AND GROUNDNUT SHELL ASH NANOPARTICLES

ABSTRACTPolylactide (PLA) is an emerging material mainly because it can be synthesized from renewable resources and is thus environmentally and ecologically safe. It found application in packaging and biomedical. In terms of cost, however, PLA cannot rival the traditional packaging materials. Cre...

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📄 82 pages | 🧠 7799 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF A SMELL AGENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS

ABSTRACTThis thesis presents the development of smell agent optimization (SAO) algorithm. The developed algorithm consists of three modes (sniffing, trailing and random modes). The evaporation of smell molecules from the smell source is modelled into sniffing mode using the concept of the hydrost...

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📄 85 pages | 🧠 9533 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING OF AN IMPROVED CASTING POURING LADLE

ABSTRACTA ladle is a foundry tool or equipment specially designed to pour molten metal into a prepared mould. The pouring rate or consistency is one of the factors that may lead to a defect in a cast. To avoid casting defects (cold shut and misrun) associated with pouring, there is need for the d...

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📄 86 pages | 🧠 12281 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EVALUATION OF PULVERIZED COCONUT SHELL CHARCOAL AND PERIWINKLE SHELL FOR CARBURIZING MILD STEEL

ABSTRACTThe service conditions of many moving steel components require it to possess both hard and wear resistant surfaces witha tough and shock resistant cores. To achieve this, the suitability of pulverized coconut shell charcoal and periwinkle shell for carburizing 0.08%C mild steel was invest...

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📄 84 pages | 🧠 12692 words | 📚 5 chapters

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GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING OF CLIMATE CHANGE VARIABLES ON HADEJIA RIVER SUB-BASIN, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTSoil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Geographical Information System (GIS) based hydrological modelling was applied to Hadejia River Sub-basin- an integral of the Chad Basin in the Northern Nigeria- to determine the impacts of land use/cover dynamics on the hydrological regime of the...

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📄 96 pages | 🧠 12077 words | 📚 5 chapters

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SUITABILITY OF SNAIL SHELL PARTICLES AS AN ENERGIZER FOR CARBURIZING MILD STEEL

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📄 89 pages | 🧠 11568 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EFFECT OF CRUSHED COCONUT SHELL AND POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF COARSE AGGREGATE IN CONCRETE

ABSTRACTThis study investigates the suitability of crushed coconut shell (CCS) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as partial replacement of coarse aggregate in concrete. The PET was crushed mechanically to sizes between 0-10mm while the CCS was crushed manually to sizes between 12.7-19.5mm. Var...

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📄 94 pages | 🧠 6159 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED FORCED ISLAND AND LOAD SHEDDING SCHEME TO PREVENT SYSTEM COLLAPSE

ABSTRACTThis research work presents a scheme that identifies line outage and generator outage using contigency analysis and effectively splits the network into a set of predefined islands, with a load shedding strategy to minimise the adverse effect of each outage and to ensure system security. I...

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📄 97 pages | 🧠 7559 words | 📚 5 chapters

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MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF THE WATER QUALITY INTHE MIDDLE STRETCH OF RIVER KADUNA (MALALI – RIGASA)

ABSTRACTThe water in River Kaduna is used for; domestic purposes, fishing, recreational activities as well as irrigation of crops.However, literatures have revealed that there are lots of anthropogenic activities occurring within the middle stretch of the river that could likely deteriorate its w...

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📄 96 pages | 🧠 6561 words | 📚 5 chapters

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QUALITY OF SANDCRETE HOLLOW BLOCKS IN PLATEAU STATE

ABSTRACTSandcrete hollow blocks are widely used in Plateau State. The quality of these blocks produced, however, differs from each manufacturer due to different methods employed in the production and the properties of the constituent materials. This research work focuses on the impact of quality ...

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📄 94 pages | 🧠 11759 words | 📚 5 chapters

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SIMULATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A SOLAR/GAS HYBRID POWERED ABSORPTION AIR – CONDITIONING SYSTEM

ABSTRACTIn this study, a gas assisted solar powered absorption air - conditioning system was designed, constructed and tested under Zaria weather conditions in Nigeria. A technical and economic viability study of the system was first carried out by developing and simulating a TRNSYS model of the ...

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📄 80 pages | 🧠 12760 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED MULTI-HOP ROUTING PROTOCOL IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS BASED ON CLUSTER HEAD LOAD BALANCING TECHNIQUE

ABSTRACTEnergy conservation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a key area of research aimed at addressing the challenge of efficient energy utilization. This is due to the fact that the Sensor Nodes (SNs) have limited energy. The limited energy has to be utilized efficiently in order to provid...

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📄 84 pages | 🧠 11380 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT OF OFU RIVER CATCHMENT IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to carry out a flood risk assessment for Ofu River Catchment in Nigeria. Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM) and River Map of Africa were used to delineate the catchment boundaries in ArcGIS 10.2.2 coupled with ArcHydro and HEC-Ge...

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📄 90 pages | 🧠 6149 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A HYBRID GENETIC-ARTIFICIAL FISH SWARM ALGORITHM FOR ECONOMIC LOAD DISPATCH WITH VALVE-POINT AND MULTIPLE FUEL EFFECTS

ABSTRACTThe restructuring of the electrical power industry has given rise to a high degree of vibrancy and competitive market, which changed many features of the power industry. Energy resources become scarce, the cost of power generation increases, environmental concerns are raised, and an ever-...

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📄 89 pages | 🧠 10657 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMIZED ROUTING SCHEME FOR A CAPACITATED VEHICLE MODEL

ABSTRACTThis dissertation presents the development of an optimized routing scheme for a capacitated vehicle model using Firefly Algorithm (FFA). The conventional model is a formal description involving mathematical equations formulated to simplify a more complex structure of logistic problems. Th...

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📄 92 pages | 🧠 7361 words | 📚 5 chapters

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