Milling operation is one of the mostly used size reduction technique in several household and food processing industries. In this study, the performance of a hammer mill that was fabricated in the Department of Agricultural ...

Coated peanuts exit in the supermarkets in many parts of the world. However, machines for coating peanuts with additives does not exist in Nigeria. Therefore, a machine for coating peanut with wheat flour and egg suspension ...

The extruded fish feed are usually moist which cannot be stored or transported without drying. Hence, the need for effective drying of the feed extrudate is essential. A continuous belt dryer was explored for the mass and ...

Tuber processing has been mechanized in all areas of operation except for the area of peeling due to irregularity of tuber shapes, especially for cassava and yam tubers. This research is focused on the development and ...

Rice is a universal food grown and eaten in all part of the world. In this study, a rice de-stoner was developed and optimized based on independent parameters: moisture content, feed regulator, and machine speed aided by ...

software for the correlation of mine roadway parameters for Okaba coal deposit. For uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), fifteen specimens of 50 mm × 50 mm × 50 mm blocks of coal were examined by loading the (cube) specimen ...

The effect of varied contents of cassava peel powder on the refractory properties of clay bonded silica sand was investigated. Elemental compositions of clay and cassava peel powder were carried out using X- ray Fluorescence. ...

This study assessed the properties of fired clay bricks containing wood saw dust (WSD) and waste glass (WG) additives towards providing alternative to concrete bricks in the construction of low cost housing. Materials used ...

The high rate of construction project abandonment in Nigeria had led to researches into designing various systems of organizing the construction process for efficient project delivery. This research looked into how Industrial ...

Traffic parameters and parking characteristics for the Central Business Districts (CBD) of Ado Ekiti were evaluated. Data on traffic composition, speed, volume and volume-capacity ratio were collected for morning, afternoon ...