Geostatistical techniques play an important role to study the mineralization behavior within the ore deposits. When preparing the phosphate deposits for marketing, we try to minimize the iron content due to the harmful effect of this element on the physical and mechanical propert...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i217010
Fahmida Ishaque, Md. Altaf Hossain, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Md. Yunus Mia, Atik Shahriar Dhrubo, Gazi Tamiz Uddin & Md. Hafizur Rahman·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2019
An attempt was made to develop low cost porous evaporative cooling storage structures for extending the shelf life of citrus fruits and vegetables at the Sylhet Agricultural University campus, Bangladesh. Clay soil, bamboo and straw were used as a wall material. Sand, clay, zeoli...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i117009
The present research is aimed to identify the barriers in implementation of building information modelling (BIM) practices and challenges in construction industry in Qatar. Construction industry has been one of the lowest performing industries around the world. Recent growth in i...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i117008
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of Value Engineering (VE) practices being used in Qatar mainly on infrastructure projects. This study will further explore the deficiencies in adopted overall VE processes and subsequently recommend the solutions to overc...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i117006
Water is life. Unfortunately, there has become a great scarcity of this precious liquid due to anthropogenic/human activities which have generated wastes, especially sewage that has not been adequately treated in the country, more especially in the poverty-stricken Niger Delta ar...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i117007
Gas Turbine is one of the machines that use the thermodynamic principle converting fuel energy to mechanical energy. It is an internal combustion engine. Also, designed to accelerate a stream of gas, which is used to produce a reactive thrust to propel an object or to produce mec...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i117005
The need to convert waste-to-wealth motivated this research. Huge amount of by-products generated in the processing stage of cashew nut is treated as waste and dumped in the environment. The waste contains a dark liquid rich in natural and renewable phenolic material known as cas...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i417004
Production of hydrogen from renewable energy sources is gaining recognition as one of the best energy solutions without ecological drawbacks. The present study reports hydrogen production through a solar powered electrolysis system as a means to curtail greenhouse gas emissions i...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i417002
Extreme climatic factors (temperature, precipitation etc) which at times lead to drought and flooding affect crop yield negatively. In this study, a PVC drip irrigation was developed and the irrigation parameters were evaluated in a farmland with three tillage methods (convention...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i417001
This paper proposes a fault (line-to-line) location on Ikeja West – Benin 330kV electric power transmission lines using wavelet multi-resolution analysis and neural networks pattern recognition abilities. Three-phase line-to-line current and voltage waveforms measured during the...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i416998
The Bearing capacity of the soil within Uyo metropolis in South-Eastern State of Akwa Ibom was investigated in this study. The soil belongs to Coastal Plain Sand often called the Benin Formation in the geology of Niger Delta. Both Field and Laboratory methods were employed in the...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i416996
The mechanical analysis of integral building structure needs the proper ABAQUS finite element analysis, but due to the ABAQUS software function limits the building structure modelling is a great workload and how to model integral structure more quickly and efficiently become a di...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i316994
Irrigation practice evaluation of center pivot sprinkler irrigation system at Hiwot Agricultural Mechanization farm, North/west Ethiopia was conducted. The aim of the study was evaluating the existing center pivot irrigation practice in terms of irrigation scheduling. Measuring f...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i316995
The study was carried out at the effect of drip and surface irrigation (Furrow irrigation) methods on onion and sesame crops from December 2011 to May 2012 in the Tigray region of Northwest Ethiopia. The objective was to evaluate the family drip irrigation system in comparison wi...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i316993
The study employed the UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrology Programme) HELP (Hydrology Environment Life and Policy) tool for watershed sustainability index (WSI) to evaluate the sustainability of the study area, University of Uyo main Campus watershed, comprising of three communit...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v8i316992