Cassava plays a vital role in the food security of the rural economies of sub-Saharan African countries. However, improved processing technologies are needed for cassava transformation to advance to the next stage of ...

Establishment of small/medium scale industries by Nigerian entrepreneurs has majorly been hindered by huge investment cost to execute plant projects at a swell swoop. This study employs dynamic programming approach to ...

A study was conducted to assess the influence of slope and depth on soil properties in a 28-year old oil palm (Elaeis guineesis) plantation established on a gently sloping terrain in NIFOR, Benin Nigeria. A line transect ...

The purpose of growing crops under greenhouse and soilless farming conditions is to extend cropping season and to protect from adverse environmental conditions such as extreme temperatures and precipitation and from diseases ...

This research determines the physio-mechanical properties of selected rock types with the view to select the most suitable rock type as stemming materials. The physio-mechanical properties tested include particle sizes ...

The effect of froth flotation parameter (pH) on copper recovery from Anka chalcopyrite was studied with a view to determining copper grade enhancement and recovery from the ore. Chalcopyrite ore Samples were taken from ...

Particles from the shell of palm tree fruit and the strand in fibre form were used to reinforce polyester resin in this work. The particles were produced by pulverizing and sieving to obtain 45 μm sizes with the aid of ...

The samples of the municipal solid waste (MSW) were collected twice a week over a period of twelve weeks (3 months) (22 /12/ 2012 - 29 /03/ 2013). It was manually sorted, sun-dried, pulverized and sieved. The average waste ...

Many studies have been carried out on fire resistance properties of wood species to determine the rate of heat released, ignition and burning rate of woods, ignition time and ignition temperature, smoke release rate and ...

Air-conditioning is the process of altering the properties of air such as temperature and humidity to achieve favourable conditions, typically with the aim of distributing the conditioned air to an occupied space to improve ...