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Agricultural machinery performance and tractors servicability in Delta State, Nigeria

Agricultural machinery performance and tractor serviceability optimizes agricultural productivities in farm operations. A study was conducted in Delta State, Nigeria assessing level of machinery utilization in farm operations and serviceable conditions. Eight (8) government owned tractors locations with 60 tractors, and eight private owned farms with 29 tractors were studied. A structured questionnaire, primary and...

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ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF POOR DRAINAGE SYSTEM ON ROAD PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY IN DIRE DAWA TOWN

Proper design, construction, and maintenance of road drainage structures are very essential especially for the urban drainage system because of it’s the adverse effect both on the road and the community in case flooding happen. The drainage system of the towns in Ethiopian commonly uses rational method for the estimation of design discharge which directly depends on rainfall intensity, runoff coefficients and catchment...

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Effects of In-situ Moisture Conservation Techniques on Maize (Zea mays) yield and yield components in Moisture Deficit area of Dugda Woreda, Ethiopia.

The study was conducted during 2018 cropping season at Dugda Woreda to investigate the effect of in situ moisture conservation techniques on grain yield and yield components of maize. Treatments comprised of tied ridge, furrow closed at both end and farmer’s practices( as the control). The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design(RCBD) with three replication. The grain yield and thousand seed...

Author(s):Oromia Agricultural Research Institute,Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Center,P.O.Box , Batu,Ethiopia

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Hybrid Technique For The Waste Water Treatment Using Bio Waste of Tea Plant

The effect of physical, mechanical and multi – step chemical treatments on the adsorptivity of waste of tea (WOT) adsorbent for the removal of 3 multi – heavy metal component from simulated wastewater was evaluated in this study. There are new techniques of (WOT) adsorbents prepared for the adsorption studies, namely physical treatment of (WOT), mechanical treatment of Blended (WOT) and chemical treatment of (WOT) using...

Author(s):Ahmmed Saadi Ibrahim, Khaloued Al-baloushi and Rafiya Musabah Al-alawi

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A STUDY ON PRODUCTION OF ANHYDROUS ETHANOL FROM ETHANOL-WATER AZEOTROPIC CONCENTRATION USING PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION (PSA) PROCESS ON ZEOLITE CATALYST

The demand for pure ethanol has become paramount for its various applications in biofuels and preparation of industrial chemicals, food and pharmaceutical products. Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) has proven to be an effective process and a more economical method for separating the azeotropic concentration of ethanol-water (95% ethanol, 5% water) than distillation. The modeling of PSA of ethanol-water azeotropic...

Author(s):Evwierhoma Erakpoweri Thomas and Jaiyeola Adeleke

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Online electronic laboratory notebook: A secured cloud storage system scripted in Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) programming language

Notebooks in research are an important part in tracking information of both wet and dry analytical data. Paper books or excel sheets remain the most popular and conventional ways of record keeping. To meet these demands, an open source electronic laboratory notebook is developed that can track users research need. Based on the user specifications, this suite is written in Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) and based on a MySQL...

Author(s):Shrikant Pawar and Harshul Batra