The work focuses on designing a comfort-cooling evaporative system for a pilot building in Owerri, using data derived from the building’s thermal conditions. The initial step involved estimating the building cooling load by identifying key design parameters, namely ambient climat...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i41851
This study investigated the quality of biomass fuel briquettes; a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) made from bio-wastes generated from a local farm produce market in Nekede, Owerri, Nigeria, known as Umuokomoche daily market. The wastes were mainly waste groceries; vegetable stems, leav...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2023/v14i4290
The quest for new, alternative energy sources and technologies have risen due to myriads of crises associated with fossil fuel dominated energy mix in Nigeria, in terms of supply and its adverse effect on the environment. Experimental study of hybrid flat-plate solar collector/no...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2022/v12i130292
The ability of a solar collector to transform (absorb) as much of the solar energy it receives into useful heat, minimizing loses of the converted energy to the environment, determines the effectiveness of the collector. These capabilities are functions of the absorber plate para...