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1. DEVELOPMENT OF PILOT-SCALE REACTOR FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE FRO...

» ABSTRACT This work wasaimed at the design and fabrication of a pilot scale reactor for the production of aluminium hydroxide from aluminium sulphate obtained from Kankara kaolin for use in Zeolite Y synthesis. XRD, XRF and BET analyses were carried out on the aluminium hydroxide first prepared at bench scale and pilot scale. The aluminum hydroxide precipitated on a laboratory bench scale at ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,842 engagements |

2. EFFECT OF GASIFICATION OPERATING PARAMETERS ON QUALITY OF SYNGAS PRODUCED USING ...

» Abstract This research work investigates the effect of gasification operating parameters, namely: equivalence ratio (ER), gasification agent, reaction zone temperature, and residence time on quality of syngas produced using sawdust.The research experiments were conducted using a pilot scale downdraft gasifier with constricted throat and a rotating grate. Temperatures at reaction zone of the gas...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,182 engagements |

3. OPTIMIZATION OF ACTIVATED CARBON PREPARATION FROM CORNCOB WASTEWATER TREATMENT

» ABSTRACT Corncob Activated Carbon (AC) was produced via chemical activation with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) for the hydrolysis step and potassium hydroxide (KOH) for the impregnation step. In this work, optimization and development of the model equations for the preparation conditions of AC, Design Expert 6.0.6 Stat Ease, Inc USA software was used. For the optimization of the AC preparation condit...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,118 engagements |

4. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DOWNDRAFT GASIFIER FOR SYNGAS PRODUCTION USING RICE HU...

» Abstract Biomass gasification is a thermochemical process that converts biomass to a combination of gases known as syngas comprising mainly of CO, H2and CH4 as a result of partial combustion with a gasifying agent. It is considered to be a promising clean energy option for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and a way of utilizing agricultural wastes like rice husk. The syngas can be used no...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,414 engagements |

5. PRODUCTION OF BIOETHANOL FROM ELEPHANT GRASS (Pennisetum purpureum) STEM

» ABSTRACT The production of bio ethanol from Elephant grass (Pennisetun purpureum) stem was carried out using elephant grass stem as a feedstock and a combination of Aspergillus niger at 0.2%(w/v) 0.4%(w/v), 0.6%(w/v), 0.8%(w/v) and 1%(w/v) concentrations and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer’s yeast) at 0.5% (w/v), 1%(w/v), 1.5%(w/v), 2%(w/v) and 2.5%(w/v) concentrations as cells by s...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,698 engagements |

6. SYNTHESIS OF BIOLUBRICANT FROM VEGETABLE OILS

» ABSTRACT This thesis aimed at the production of biolubricant from vegetable oils. The first stage produced methyl ester of the oil and in the second stage; the methyl ester was transesterified with Trimethylolpropane (TMP) in a ratio of 3.5:1 at 1500C to produce the biolubricant. The pour points biolubricant and its blend were significantly improved when compared to that of raw oils. The pou...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,048 engagements |

7. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHEMICAL AND MICROWAVE SYNTHESIZED ACTIVATED CARBORN FROM...

» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Activated carbon, also widely known as activated charcoal or activated coal is a form of carbon which has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions (Mattson et al., 1971). The word active is sometimes used in place of activated. It is chara...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,034 engagements |

8. ANALYSIS OF BUSH PEAR AND ITS OIL

» ABSTRACT The research project studies the analysis of pear and its oil. The mesocarp from edible African pear “DacryodesEdulis” were evaluated for their oil yield. The pulp from this pear were oven dried at 100oC 105oC to a moisture content level of 29%.The mesocarp was subjected to proximate analysis to determine the percentage of the moisture, ash, fat, crude fibre, crude protein and carb...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements |

9. ASSESSMENT OF CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) LEVEL

» ABSTRACT Air pollutions pollutant showed that the extent of spreading depends on the motor vehicle traffic population of the area. This pollution strongly generated through combustion of fossil fuels presents difficult environmental challenge to societies as it could degrade the environment and affect human health and quality of life. Vehicular emissions are major contributors to air pollution ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,450 engagements |

10. DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MAIZE CORN-ON-COB TRAY DRYER

» ABSTRACT This study was carried out to generate a design data, design and fabricate a maize corn on cob tray dryer used by maize farmers. Ripped maize corns with husks were bought from the market and preserved to retained its moisture content, dehusked and thereafter, dried to a given percentage moisture content of 15%. This was done by laboratory dryer. The drying rate data was generated an...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 0 engagements |

11. EFFECT OF PARTICLE SIZE ON OIL YIELD USING SCENT BEAN SEED (‘OZAKI’)

» ABSTRACT This project was done to extract and characterize bean oil according to their particle sizes. The experiment was carried out using scent bean (i.e. ‘Ozaki’, ‘Ijilizi’or ‘Azamu’) as sample. The oils were extracted by solvent extraction /leaching extraction using n hexane. Proximate analysis was carried out to obtain percentage moisture content, ash conte...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 50 pages | 5,502 engagements |

12. HEAD LOSES IN HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL ORIFICEMETER A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION AND ...

» ABSTRACT A comparative investigation was undertaken to determine the head loss coefficients for horizontally mounted and vertically mounted orifices using a Fluid mechanics and Heat transfer trainer developed in Nigeria. Experiments were carried out observing the procedure and the discharge of the flow of water was collected to obtain the volumetric flow rate and also read off the righ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,783 engagements |

13. THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON HYDROLYSIS OF CELLULOSE (SAW-DUST)

» ABSTRACT The effect of concentration of hydrochloric acid on hydrolysis of cellulose (saw dust) to glucose was studied on this research project and the steps obtained to achieve this project involved treatment of saw dust (cellulose) with different concentrations of the acid at constant temperature of 80° (350k) for 30mins. This was followed by glucose analysis, some analysis or experi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,838 engagements |

14. THE PRODUCTION OF YAM FLOUR FROM YAM CHIPS

» ABSTRACT The project dealt on the production of yam flour from yam chips. The yams were peeled and washed, 100grams samples coded sample A to G were subjected to two different drying conditions. Some were dried using the sun drying method while the others were dried through oven drying method kept at constant temperature of 500C, sodium bi carbonate was added to some of the samples, all t...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,762 engagements |

15. ENHANCEMENT OF CELLULOSIC ETHANOL PRODUCTION THROUGH ASPERGILLUS NIGER MODIFICAT...

» ABSTRACT Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF) were carried out to produce ethanol from maize stalk in 500ml conical flask. Aspergillus niger strains were isolated from four difference sources, maize stalk, soil, bambaranut, rotten wood. Cellulose degrading ability was screened by zone of clearance carried out by simple agar method.. Apergillus strain from rotten wood (ANRW) produce...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,144 engagements |

16. AIR INJECTION STUDIES FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

» Abstract Conventionally, air injection has been used for recovery of heavy crude oil in the production field, but studies have shown that depletion of light crude oil in the reservoir leads to abandonment of such wells. Hence, this work studied the kinetics and combustion of light crude oil in situ the reservoir to understand their potentials for high pressure air injection (HPAI) enhanced oil rec...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,431 engagements |

17. CONSTRUCTION OF A VERTICAL FIRE TUBE BOILER

» ABSTRACT The construction of this vertical fire tube boiler was carried out both at the industrial center and Mechanical Engineering workshop of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu. The boiler contains 2 steam tubes at triangular pitch which are enclosed in a shell. Water is introduced through the shell. When the burner is put on, the products of combustion – excess oxy...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,459 engagements |

18. CONSTRUCTION OF ALUMINUM WALL RACK

» ABSTRACT This project was constructed with the desired materials of construction. The materials include aluminum, glass and wood. Aluminum was used in forming the skeleton of the structure, glass was used for the doors while wood was used in the sides, top, base and partitions. After building the skeleton of the structure with aluminum, other materials were used and made up the complete structur...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,253 engagements |

19. DESIGN OF MOLTEN SALT COOLER IN PROCESS PLAN FOR PRODUCTION OF 2-7 X 104 TONNES/...

» ABSTRACT The general approach to any design of a process plant involve an advanced network of Chemical Engineering processes. This equipment design project was carried out to design a molten salt cooler (heat exchanger) for production of 2.7 x 104 tonnes/year capacity of phthalic anhydride by direct synthesis of gaseous naphthalene. The information concerning the design of this equipment was go...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,378 engagements |

20. DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MAIZE CORN ON COB TRAY DRYER

» ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to generate a design data, design and fabricate a maize corn on cob tray dryer used by maize farmers. Ripped maize corns with husks were bought from the market and preserved to retained its moisture content, dehusked and thereafter, dried to a given percentage moisture content of 15%. This was done by laboratory dryer. The drying rate data was generated and the h...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,188 engagements |

21. CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL BARROW

» ABSTRACT The constructional project involved the construction of an industrial barrow of standard size was constructed. The process used went across various Engineering practice. These involved the procurement of galvanized steel of 0.00mm to 300mm thickness. Some galvanized steel rods and pipes were also used for the construction. The...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,834 engagements |

22. CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER

» ABSTRACT The aim of this project was to construct shell and tube heat exchanger with fixed boundless. A heat exchanger that would cool 5 x 5 x 10 – 3 kg/s of steam at a calculated heat load of 152 – 395/S was fabricated. The steam is to reach the heat exchanger from a distillation column at a temperature of 300k. The specification of the layout as well as the detail...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,511 engagements |

23. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SIEVE EQUIPMENT

» ABSTRACT The sets of seizes with shocker which was fabricated and assembled in the chemical engineering pilot plant was aimed at providing the students with a machine that will aid them in practical involving the separation of solid particles. Besides this, it was also fabricated sizes or diameter of the solid particles of a substance by allowing it pass through the pores or...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,087 engagements |

24. UTILIZATION STUDIES

» ABSTRACT This study has its theme as a utilization studies of Enugu coals with the view of studying its properties, classification, preparation storage etc comparing coals obtained from different locations. The Enugu coal is a sub bitummous and non coking coal. It is very rich in waxes and resins, thus it may be suitable for the production of liquid fuels...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,005 engagements |

25. CONSTRUCTION OF A WOODEN BOOK SHELF

» ABSTRACT A bookshelf is a component fabricated for the purpose of storing or packaging books, files and other important documents. The main aim of constructing this project is to produce a wooden bookshelf which will provide a lasting solution to the problem facing libraries, offices, churches and homes in packaging and storing book items and other items....Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,776 engagements |

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