The increasing customers’ demands, in terms of speed of service and reduced cost at higher quality, have generated a new platform on which manufacturing companies compete. This challenge has driven all manufacturing companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

The design and planning of an open pit mine is about the economics of the mine and is governed by geological and engineering characteristics. This study carried out the design of an open pit mine for the Ajabanoko iron ore ...

The effect of bevel angles and welding heat input on mechanical and microstructural properties of mild steel weldments was carried out in this work. Two pairs each of 150 x 50 x 10 mm mild steel specimens with bevel angles ...

Homogeneous catalysts when used for biodiesel production cannot be recycled, because they are corrosive and costly. To overcome these problems, calcium oxide and magnessium oxide were impregnated into alumina to form ...

In this study, a management information system was developed with the aim of determination of legislative compliance in Nigerian solid mineral industries taking Edo state as a case study. Data were collected from the field ...

The effect of microbial corrosion on pipeline using different soil media was investigated. The soil samples utilized in this experiment included clay, sandy and loamy. These samples were obtained from Oba Ile and Oke Aro ...