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 ...

Starch is a polymer of glucose found in most plant. It belongs to the class of organic compound called carbohydrates, which comprising of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It is produced from raw materials like maize, wheat, ...

Some water balance models have been developed to predict runoff using parameters such as precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. In this study, three lumped monthly water balance models of different levels of ...

There has been a considerable loss in agricultural production due to weed occurrence and its competition with the crop for water, nutrient, and light. A single row weeder was developed and evaluated at Federal University ...

Maize is a staple food, having an average post-harvest loss of 43-45 % per annum, due to high moisture content in the material. To minimize this effect, Modification and performance evaluation of a maize drying machine was ...

Exposing vegetables to several stages of thermal pre-treatment (heat addition) during processing has the tendency of reducing their qualities. One of the promising non-thermal pre-treatment methods is the use of Magnetic ...

The objective of this project is to design and fabricate a low cost aloe vera distiller capable of producing distillate that is pure and hygienic for domestic and commercial usage. The available ones are costly, fragile, ...

This project designs a control system for a needle free jet injection. It first investigates the currently existing models for injection and then made some alterations based on basic theories in physics. These alterations ...

The research focused on the management of stormwater and sewage generated in a developed urban area - Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. This involved the design of sanitary sewers, stormwater ...

Tillage operations have a major influence on the strength and physicochemical characteristics of soils, roots growth, biomass and grain yield of tropical crops. Field experiment was conducted on sandy clay loam soil of ...