March 2010
Bio-methanisation of Jatropha curcas defatted waste
The study deals with the use of Jatropha curcas defatted waste as an alternative feed in biogas plant for its bio-methanisation. As it remains as defatted cake after the extraction of non-edible oil from Jatropha seeds, it cannot be used directly for any purpose due to presence of toxic substance called ‘curcin’. This toxin renders it unsafe for the animal feed and other purposes. It...
March 2010
Development of a multipurpose, efficient and inexpensive bearing test rig
The basic objective of this research is to develop an inexpensive, multipurpose and efficient test rig for condition monitoring of rolling element bearings. The fundamental philosophy of measurement of lubricant film thickness for monitoring the condition of rolling element bearings has been exploited and transformed in the form of a test rig. The developed test rig is potent enough for performance evaluation...
March 2010
Assessment of attitude of university and polytechnic communities’ members in South-west Nigeria to engineering and technological innovations
This communication seeks to assess the disposition of members of polytechnic and university communities to locally produced equipment and machines, the bulk of which come from polytechnics and universities, technological institutions. Only 52.56% of total respondents patronise the products with 78.37% of those who do not patronise saying they preferred imported ones, after confirming that the product quality...
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