ABSTRACT Flow assurance is the efficient and successful flow of fluids in pipes. Some of the flow assurance challenges that can be encountered include hydrate formation, which is prevalent offshore, sand deposition, wax precipitation, scale deposits, or emulsion problems. In onshore production facilities in the Niger delta, wax deposition is the major challenge to efficient fluid flow. Consequently, it has been the focus of research to proffer effective predictive control measures to a probl...
ABSTRACT This research work presents buckling and vibration analyses of line continuum using 6 x 6 stiffness matrices. The study used six term Taylor McLaurin’s polynomial series shape function and the stiffness matrices were developed using energy variational principle. Two deformable nodes were considered at the centre of the continuum which brings the number of deformable nodes to six. The six term Taylor McLaurin’s shape function was substituted into strain energy equation and the re...
ABSTRACT This work studied the buckling analysis of plates subject to biaxial forces using the Galerkin’s method. Twelve boundary conditions were considered. The plate deflection equations were obtained using the polynomial series, and from the plate deflection equations, the expression for the critical buckling loads of the different plate boundary conditions were obtained for different aspect ratios, ∝ using the Galerkin’s functional. The aspect ratios, considered throughout this wor...
ABSTRACT This research work presents the buckling analysis of isotropic rectangular plates using Ritz method. The Ritz method and polynomial series were used in the analysis. The various boundary conditions covered in this research work includes SSFS, CCFC, CSFS, CCFS, SCFC and SCFS. The polynomial series was truncated at the fifth term, which satisfied all the boundary conditions of the plate and resulted to a peculiar shape function. The resulting shape function were substituted into the t...
ABSTRACT A highly structured TiO2/In(OH)xSy/SnS solar cell has been developed based on the Extremely Thin Absorber (ETA) concept. In this set up, TiO2 formed the window layer, In(OH)xSy was used as a buffer layer while SnS was used as the thin absorber film. Its small band gap (~1.3eV) makes it more appropriate for optical absorption. Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) thin films was prepared by spray pyrolysis. Deposition time for TiO2 films varied in the range of 1-4 minutes that gave film thickness o...
ABSTRACT Investigations were carried out to determine the corrosion effect of sulphur-reducing bacteria on mild and medium carbon steels. Specimens were exposed to anaerobic, aerobic and distilled water environments. The corrosion rates were evaluated at intervals of seven days using weight loss and electro-chemical methods for a period of forty two days. The specimens were also subjected to visual examination and the result indicated uniform corrosion in all the environments. In all the env...
ABSTRACT This research presents Artificial Neural Network Model for the prediction of the Modulus of Elasticity of Concrete. Egbulonu (2011) equation derived from Scheffe’s (4, 2) simplex equation for predicting the Modulus of Elasticity (MOE) was used to generate 800 values. These data represent different values of Modulus of Elasticity (MOE) out of which, 571 values were selected randomly by the artificial neural network. From the selected values, 400 were used for training the network, ...
ABSTRACT Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the dominant transport protocol in the Internet and supports many of the most popular Internet applications, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), file transfer and e-mail. The recently developed advanced wireless networks, such as GPRS, are known to cause delay spikes in packet transfer which causes unnecessary TCP retransmission timeouts. In order to find solutions to this effect, packet losses across wireless links should be distinguished from c...
ABSTRACT A tool for the simulation of stream processing tasks on two dimensional processor arrays is developed in this work. The tool, a Many-core Energy and Latency Estimator (MELE) has provided abstractions from the many design constraints facing application developers on Many-core platforms. A set of models have been designed to improve the programmer’s ability to iteratively map data flow applications to the target machine. Included in the model set are; an application model, which pre...
ABSTRACT Coning tendencies in oil rim reservoirs pose serious hindrance to optimizing oil production in the thin oil beds as unwanted fluids tend to replace the oil in the production stream, which invariably limits the ultimate oil recovery. In this study, a semi-analytical method of estimating critical production rate (qoc) and optimum horizontal well placement (hopt) was developed for reservoirs with thin oil zones sandwiched between gas cap and bottom water. Also, proxy models was generat...
ABSTRACT Several approaches using regression functions have been proposed over the years for predicting either the desired compressive strength of concrete or the mixture proportions of its constituent materials. This study as part of the continuing effort, presents models developed using Ibearugbulam's regression principle for predicting the desired compressive strength of granosand concrete when the mix proportions are known or vice-versa. Laboratory experiments were carried out with ...
ABSTRACT This work evaluated the path losses and strength of received signals of a 3G Network operating at frequency of 2.1GHz in Owerri metropolis using Drive test. There were serious cases of call drops and low Quality of signal (QoS) experienced within some part of the Owerri metropolis. This situation has been burdensome on the side of the network users, as that has made them incur a lot of financial losses and passed through pains. The network providers, on their side, also passed throu...
ABSTRACT Robot becomes widely used in industries due to their characteristics. Robot is able to work in 24 hours continuously without feeling tired unlike human that confine to certain time. The cost to setup the robot nowadays becomes more affordable and their long term prospect is bright judging from their capacity to perform. But in reality, there is no robot able to function perfectly and without making errors. A better controller is needed, to allow the robot performs efficiently and mak...
ABSTRACT Recommendation systems play a vital role in boosting the organization’s profit, especially for ecommerce platforms such as Amazon. These systems focus on targeting specific products to users and predicting user preferences and interests. However, recommendation systems are plagued with many challenges, such as adapting them to changes in user preferences and taste, and the effectiveness of recommendations made also determines the ability to retain and engage new users, as new user...
ABSTRACT For effective evacuation of heat from nuclear fuels and increasing the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) of nuclear fuel bundles, mixing vanes are attached to spacer grids in fuel assemblies. However, the presence of spacer grids increases the pressure drop across the fuel bundle which has economic implications on the operations of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) in general. Nuclear fuel vendors are therefore continually improving upon the designs of mixing vanes in order to improve the thermal ...