The use of locally fabricated flash drying system is a major challenge for the production of High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF). Thus, this study focuses on analysis of pneumatic dryers for cassava processing and its significance relates to its promise to further our understanding...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46215
Most institution of higher learning are implementing and Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) in automating various activities. The architecture of most of the ERP is based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) where each module can be called as service. In most of the contrac...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46085
Ohimini local government area is famous for its cassava processing cottage industries in benue state. The processing of cassava tubers into garri incurs large volumes of waste fluid (effluents) that contaminates the soil around such areas. Therefore the study is aimed at assessin...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/44289
The stability of biodiesel generally depends on the nature of the fatty acid composition of the parent oil. Unsaturated compounds are significantly more reactive to oxidation than saturated compounds. The palm olein vegetable oil, derived from crude palm oil, contains higher unsa...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46270
The effects of contact time at three initial concentrations and temperature in batch process and the effects of three initial concentrations and three bed heights in column process were used to evaluate the potentials of unmodified saw dust, a low cost adsorbent in removing Cr(VI...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46153
Biosynthesis of metallic nanomaterials has become an important field of research. The synthesis of metallic nanomaterials using plant extracts is a single-step, simple, rapid, and eco-friendly. The reducing agents involved include the various water-soluble secondary metabolites (...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46052
This study assessed the importance value index to determine the importance of each tree species in relation to carbon stocks. The assessment was based on woody stem ≥10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) and tree height. Biomass was estimated using volumetric equations and carbo...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46398
Banana peels are the waste products of banana industries which can be the cause of environmental pollution if not utilized properly. These peels are generally used as cattle feed; there utilization in human diet is not studied much. It is a rich source of dietary fibre which is c...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45832
The main objective of this paper is to present results on experimental fields about Green Roofs using two different plant materials such as Setcreasea purpurea and Portulaca grandiflora. It also describes how Green Roof is constructed in a tropical environment using available sus...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45910
In order to determine the seasonal incidence and to explore the possibilities of management of aphid and pod borer on lentil through various tactics, a series of field experiments were conducted at Research Farm of Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, Muzaffarpur, The incidence...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46409
This survey was conducted in rice field during kharif season of year 2017 at Pusa farm of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Samastipur, Bihar. The rice stem borer, leaf folder and plant hopper are the major insect pest of rice in Pusa region. Rice ecosystem fav...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/46433
Handloom weaving is one such art, which requires immense workmanship following spinning, dyeing, finishing, etc. activities. In India Ikat, a unique technique of fabric construction where yarns are tie and dyed before weaving to obtain designs on textiles, is one of the most impo...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45403
The paper entitled land surface temperature analysis in Kigali city; is established to analyze the change in temperature due to the cover in place and inform everyone to take care of land cover. The study was conducted in Kigali city by using remote sensing technique. The study d...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45426
This work presents a wireless sensor network (WSN) using pressure variations in monitoring oil pipeline against leaks. It incorporates pressure sensors, ardiuno board containing ATmega328P – 8 bit AVR family microcontroller, GSM module, and LCD for data acquisition, processing, c...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45506
The seasonal variation of radio refractivity of some selected stations (Abuja, Lafia, Bauchi, Kaduna, Maiduguri, and Sokoto) in Northern Nigeria was analysed using surface meteorological data sourced from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency for five years (2007-2011). From the ana...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45326