Distribution losses contribute to energy shortages and therefore power outages in Nigeria’s industries. This work evaluated the technical losses in the distribution networks of selected industrial cities in Nigeria. Power flow simulation of network data collected over the period...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29910
Breakdown is an ever present risk in engineering facilities and infrastructure. Effective maintenance reduces such risks and improves reliability of facilities, plants and infrastructure. This study introduces a new method of accessing breakdown risk using fuzzy set theory. It in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29811
The shoot apices of multiple shoots of Boucerosia umbellata under in vitro conditions were selected for encapsulation studies. Gel matrix Sodium Alginate at different concentrations was exposed to complexing agent Calcium Chloride for different durations. The seeds thus produced...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27898
Aims: The present paper derives an expression for the frequency or wavelength of Hawking radiation emitted by spinning black holes in terms of the event horizon (λ=16πRs & v =c/16πRs), when the quantum theory of radiation ( E=hv ), energy of Hawking radiation and event horizo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28417
This study uses life cycle assessment (LCA) to investigate the environmental impacts, including the cumulative energy demand (CED) and energy payback time (EPBT) of a 20 kWel HT-PEM power plant in Brazil. The power plant investigated is a pilot that uses High Temperature Proton E...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29253
The use of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) precisely the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method in planning a suitable location for car parking, planners put into consideration a lot of factors. These different considerations make the planning process complex and as such t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28596
High density polyethylene films / Doka wood dust particles composites were prepared by dissolving high density polyethylene (waste and virgin) films in toluene at 135oC with Doka wood particles. Some physical properties of the composites such as water absorption, flammability, ha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28784
In this paper, we introduce a new method of construction called H-super subdivision of graphs and prove that the H-super subdivision of Y -tree Yn+1 (n ≥ 2) is graceful and there by answering the open question posed in 2009 by Arumugam and others [1]. Also we prove that the H-sup...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29082
The three- phase inverter is driven by a number of semiconductor switches for obtaining three-phase output of nearly sinusoidal fundamental voltage. The purpose of the Space Vector Modulation (SVM) technique is to produce three-phase load voltages of fewer harmonics. It can be re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28866
The cost of cement used in the concrete works is on the increase and unaffordable particularly in the rural areas, yet the need for housing and other construction especially sanitation facilities requiring this material keeps growing as population figure keeps increasing. Thus th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25926
Wellington Torgby-Tetteh, Abraham Adu-Gyamfi, Adjoa Kesewaa Sarfo, Dora Duah-Bisiw, Stanley Akwesi Acquah, Jonathan Nii Okai Armah & John Apatey·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2016
Aims: This study investigated the effect of gamma irradiation on the bacteriological and sensory qualities as well as some physicochemical properties of peanut butter irradiated at different doses. Methodology: Peanut butter samples were pre-packaged and sealed in plastic jars wi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28411
High torque and wide field weakening region are two parameters needed for electric vehicle. In order to achieve those requirements, variation of pole numbers of an interior permanent motor utilizing the same stator geometry is performed in this study. Slot harmonics are also comp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29023
Reusing plastic material help mitigate the world wide problem of plastic pollution. In this study a bladderless pressure tank for use with domestic water pumps was designed and built from reused 2 L plastic bottles. Accelerated life testing was conducted to determine the variatio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28654
Epoxy Micro-beams are used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for sensoring applications in two operating mode of deflection and resonant frequency shift. One of the main questions in micro-beam based MEMS sensors behavior is effect of Poisson’s ratio on the deflection and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27340
Aims: This paper aims to propose ontology method of news document classification. The common method of document classification is based on morphology of term, without considering the meaning. It is impact to the number of term-document and computational time. Furthermore, the per...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27571