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Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This issue of Advanced Materials Research having the title, Advances in Materials and Systems Technologies III, is a collection of peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 2010 International Conference on Engineering Research and Development: Advances in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICERD2010) held at the University of Benin, Nigeria on September 7–9th, 2010. The papers are divided into the chapters: Construction and Structures; Electrical and Electronic Technology; Information and Communication Technology; Manufacturing Systems; Materials Processing; Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy; Solid Minerals Technology; Systems Design and Analysis; Tools, Machines and Equipment; Water, Waste and Environment. The result is an up-to-date overview of the field.

Table of Contents:
Preface, Organising Committee and Sponsors Chapter 1: Construction and Structures Lateritic Soil Stabilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement as Flexible Highway Pavement Materials Strength-Based Appropriateness of Sawdust Concrete for Rigid Pavement Effect of Oil Contamination on Particle Size Distribution and Plasticity Characteristics of Lateritic Soil The Effect of Compactive Efforts on the Hydraulic Conductivity Behaviour of Oil Contaminated Lateritic Soils Cost Effectiveness of Scheffe’s Optimized Five-Component-Concrete with Mound Soil as a Mix Component Performance of Cement Kiln Dust in Stabilizing Lateritic Soil Contaminated with Organic Chemicals An Investigation on the Behaviour of Concrete with Waste Tyre Rubber Fibres as a Partial Replacement of Coarse Aggregate Feasibility Study of Low Cost Concrete Products as an Appropriate Alternative Construction Material in the Rwandan Construction Industry Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Tropical Clay Treated with Rice Husk Ash Chapter 2: Electrical and Electronic Technology Optimal Two-Way Conductor Design Using Computable Convex Functions Approach Two Layered Embedded Encryption for Multiple Frequency RFID Tags Simulink Implementation of Direct Torque Control Drive for Induction Machines Power Distribution in Lagos Metropolis: Assessment of 132kv Network Capacity Rural Electrification in Oyo State of Nigeria: Assessement of Existing 33kv Feeder Network Capacity Modeling Distribution Component Deterioration: An Application to Transformer Insulation Linear Conditioning of an NTC Thermistor Using Nonlinear Operational Amplifier Circuits Artificial Neural Network Approach for Solving Power Flow Problem: A Case Study of Ayede 132 KV Power System, Nigeria Reliability Assessment of 4.2 MW Single Shaft Typhoon Gas Fired Turbine Power Generation Station (2003 – 2008) Outage Analysis and System Integrity of an 11kV Distribution System Investigating the Quality of Power Supply to a Large Commercial Installation Computer Simulation of Lightning Strikes to a Horizontally Buried Earth-Electrode: A Parametric Analysis Chapter 3: Information and Communication Technology Performance Evaluation of GSM Service Providers around Igbinedion University Campuses On the Generation of Random Numbers for Symmetric Cryptography Utilizing Astronomical Data Predicting Telephone Traffic Congestion Using Multi Layer Feedforward Neural Networks Analysis of a Weaver, Hartley and Saw-Filter Based, Image Reject Architectures for Radio Receiver Design Comparative Analysis of Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying and Binary Differential Phase Shift Keying Signalling Schemes with Maximal Ratio Combiner over Rayleigh Environment Rural Mobile Telephony: A VSAT (Satellite) Based Approach Investigation of Causes of Call Drops in GSM Network: A Case Study of Zain Nig. Ltd. in Benin City, Nigeria Adaptive MMSE Multiuser Detection in MIMO OFDM Wireless Communication System An Adaptive Approach to Improve the Accuracy of Packet Pre-Filtering Performance Optimisation of Mobile Ad hoc Reactive Routing Protocols Chapter 4: Manufacturing Systems Challenges Faced by SMEs in Developing Countries in Implementing Cleaner Production (CP) Formation of Segmented Chips in Semi-Finish Turning of α-Titanium Alloy BT5 Modeling Flank Wear Hardness of Selected HSS and HCS Single Point Cutting Tools with or without Cutting Fluid Computer Aided Costing (CAC) for Sand Casting Products Numerical Investigation of Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Ball Grid Array Solder Joint at High Temperature Excursion Reengineering a Workplace to Improve Layout: A Study of a South African Design Studio Thermal Management Materials for Electronic Control Unit: Trends, Processing Technology and R and D Challenges Chapter 5: Materials Processing A Study of the Extraction of Pectin from Dried Lemon Peels Corrosion Inhibition of Multi-Component Aluminium Alloy in Hydrochloric Acid Solution by Aqueuos Extracts of Bitter Leaf (Verninia amygdalina) Powder SEM Studies of Adhesion Property of Red Oxide Primer on Selected Metal Substrates Evaluation of Wood Properties of C. albidum Tree Grown in Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, Nigeria in Relation to its Utilization Rheological and Some Fuel Properties of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters of the Oils of Palm, Palm Kernel and Groundnut Use of "Shikoko” Clay for Synthetic Sand Moulding Adsorption Isotherms for Naphthalene on Clay and Silt Soil Fractions: A Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Methods Chapter 6: Oil and Gas Challenges of Deepwater Developments Theoretical Dimensionless Breakthrough Time of a Horizontal Well in a Vertically-Stacked Two-Layered Reservoir System with Varying Architecture Part I: Letter ‘B’ Architecture, Edge Water Drive Mechanism Theoretical Dimensionless Breakthrough Time of a Horizontal Well in a Vertically-Stacked Two-Layered Reservoir System with Varying Architecture Part II: Letter ‘B’ Architecture, Bottom Water Drive Mechanism Rheological Characterisation of Heavy Oil and Impact on its Production Enhancement Optimisation of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage [SAGD] for Improved Recovery from Unconsolidated Heavy Oil Reservoirs A Novel Approach to Subsea Multiphase Solid Transport Heavy Oil Recovery: A Cold Process Using CO2-EOR Technique Calculating Hydrodynamic Loads on Pipelines and Risers: Practical Alternative to Morison’s Equation Modeling Gel Break-Time in Gravel Pack Fluids as a Function of Breaker and Activator Concentrations with Temperature Environmental Compliance Monitoring of Selected Physico-Chemical Parameters of Effluent Discharge from Gulf of Guinea Near-Shore / Offshore Facilities Modeling Declining Incomes from Non-Renewable Natural Resources Determining the Subsidence of Oil Storage Tank Walls from Geodetic Leveling Determination of the Ovality of Crude Oil Storage Tanks Using Least Squares Chapter 7: Renewable Energy Frictional Effects in a Low Speed Polar-Axis Solar Tracker Design, Construction and Testing of a Solar Adsorption Refrigerator Using Synthesised Zeolite A and Water as Adsorbent/Adsorbate Pair Production of Bio-Diesel from Palm Kernel Oil and Groundnut Oil Determination of the Performance of Photovoltaic Modules Using Environmental Conditions An Indirect Passive Solar Dryer for Drying Determination of Operational Parameters of a Single Cylinder Two Stroke Engine Run on Jatropha Biodiesel Design and Testing of a Mini-Plant for Conversion of Organic Waste to Biogas Chapter 8: Solid Minerals Technology Property Analysis for Correlation of Specific Energy with Penetration Rate and Bit Wear Rate Evaluation of Tri-Cone Bit Performance on Limestone Formation Vertical Electrical Sounding as a Tool for Estimating Thickness of Clay Deposit in Delta North District, Nigeria Evaluation of Slope Stability in Open Pit Mine and its Effects Assessment of the Operations of Stone Crushers in Artisanal and Small Scale Granite Quarries Variability in Rock Strength Prediction Using Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Chapter 9: Systems Design and Analysis Blackboard as a Tool for Peer Learning and Interaction for Engineering Students Tracking Design Elements in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Activity Sampling Based Work and Performance Analyisis at a Tourist Services Company in South Africa Quality Management in Further Training and Education Institutions: A Case Study of FTE Colleges in Gauteng Province, South Africa Multi-Item Multi-Period Dynamic Capacity-Constrained Lot-Sizing Model with Parallel Machines and Fuzzy Demand A Computer-Aided System for Job-Shop Flow Time and Due–Date Prediction Development of a Heuristics Model for Simplifying a Multi-Channel Queuing System A Generalized Algorithm for Solving Multicriteria Scheduling Problems Performance Indicators for Sapele Thermal Power Station, Nigeria: 1997-2006 Modeling Analysis of the Wire-Drawing Operation Using the Weighted-Residual Finite Element Method Transportation Cost Minimization of a Manufacturing Firm Using Linear Programming Technique Chapter 10: Tools, Machines and Equipment Development of a Small Scale Sugarcane Juice Extractor Using a Screw Pressing System Development of a Small Scale Machine for Recovering Bush Mango Kernel from Bush Mango Nut Development and Performance Evaluation of a Cocoa Pod Breaking Machine Computer Aided Analysis of Thermal and Mechanical Design of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers Design and Development of an Integrated Small-Scale Oil Palm Fruit Processing Mill Development and Performance Evaluation of a Multipurpose Dryer Computer Aided Design of Power Transmission Screw Chapter 11: Water, Waste and Environment Current Trends in Water Resources Research Geophysical Survey as a Surface Tool in Groundwater Exploration in Delta North District, Nigeria Measurement of Gamma Radiation in Automobile Mechanic Workshops in an Area of Benin City, Nigeria Integrated Solid Waste Management System – A Case Study of Solid Waste Source Sorting Alternative in a Tertiary Institution in Nigeria Application of Erosion 2D Model for Erosion Studies in Makurdi Metropolis of Benue State, Nigeria Determination of the Efficiency of Aerated Lagoon in Biological Treatment of Human Waste (Faeces) Partial Root Zone Drying Application in the Propagation of Vegetable in Northern Nigeria Effect of Flare Stack Radiation on the Mixing Height over Olorunsogo Area of Ogun State, Nigeria Theoretical Rate Evaluation of Gas Phase Atmospheric Ozone Reactions


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  • ISBN-13: 9783038137504
  • Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Volume 367 Advanced Materials Research
  • ISBN-10: 3038137502
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 840


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