CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 61. PRODUCTION AND FERMENTATION OF ALCOHOL FROM PALM WINE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The manufacture of alcohol by fermentation has been known since amtignity, the main purpose being the preparation of alcoholic beverages like beer, wine etc, the raw material is palm wine and any feed stuffy rich in carbohydrates, e.g wheat, barley, cassava, grapes, yams, apple, corn, rich, potates, banana and plantains. Palm wine is made from t...Continue Reading »

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• 62. EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OIL FROM DATE SEED

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Oil could be defined as any greasily substance that is liquid at room temperature and is insoluble in water. Oil is derived mainly from two two main sources namely plant and animal. In animal they occur mainly inform of eclipse tissure and all composed of cell, while in plant they are mostly found in storage organs like seed (Abraham et al. 1970...Continue Reading »

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• 63. EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OIL FROM CASHEW NUT

  » CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The cashew tree (Anarcardium Occidentale) is a native of Brazil and the lower Amazons. The cashew has been introduce and is valuable cash crop in the America, the West Indias, Madagascar, India and Malaysia (Frankel 1991). As far back as 1967. Tyman and Morrris, describe the composition of cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL). The economic importance of...Continue Reading »

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• 64. THE USE OF LOCAL PIGMENTS AND EXTENDERS FOR FORMULATION & PRODUCTION OF EMULSION...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Paint is a fluid, or semi fluid material which may be applied to surfaces in relatively thin layers, and which changes to a solid coating with time. The coating with time. The change to a solid material may or may not be reversible, and may occur by evaporation of solvent by chemical reaction, or by a combination of the two. Paints usually consi...Continue Reading »

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• 65. PROCESS AND QUALITY FACTORS IN LAUNDRY AND TOILET SOAP PRODUCTION

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Soap is a class of products that serves for cleaning of human, property and surrounding. Hence, soap in its various forms, is in high demand in all society. For generations its use has increased until its manufacture has become an industry essential to the comfort and health of civilized man. In fact, modern civilization may be gauged by the per...Continue Reading »

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• 66. THE STUDY OF PROPERTIES OF BRIQUETTE PRODUCED FROM GROUNDNUT SHELL COAL BLEND

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Biomass, particularly agricultural residues seem to be one of the most promising energy resources for developing countries (Patomsok, 2008). Rural households and minority of urban dwellers depend solely on fuel woods (charcoal, firewood and sawdust) as their primary sources of energy for the past decades (Onuegbu, 2010). Of all the available...Continue Reading »

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• 67. EXTRACTION AND FORMULATION OF PERFUME FROM LEMONGRASS LEAVES

  » ABSTRACT Perfume extraction refers to the extraction of aromatic compounds from raw materials, using methods such as distillation,solvent extraction,expressionor enfleurage. The extracts are either essential oils,absolutes,concretes, or butters, depending on the amount of waxesin the extracted product. Heat, chemical solvents, or exposure to oxygen in the extraction process denature the aromatic c...Continue Reading »

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• 68. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COAL, FUEL OIL AND NATURAL GAS FOR CEMENT PRODUCTION

  » ABSTRACT This study is a comparative analysis of the use of coal, fuel oil and natural gas for cement production noting their physical and chemical properties, cost and availability, impact on the environment and human health. Out of the seven cement manufacturing industries in Nigeria, three industries use these fuels were selected for the study. The industries are NigerCem –Ebonyi state, D...Continue Reading »

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• 69. 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 characterized by high deg...Continue Reading »

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• 70. MODIFICATION OF SURFACE, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ACTIVATED CARBONS ...

  » ABSTRACT The purpose of this work was to study the effect of chemical surface properties of activated carbons for their use in water purification. To achieve this objective, activated carbon in both granular and powdered forms namely: as received and devolatilized carbons were prepared. Proximate analysis of the carbon materials was performed. Mass titration experiments were carried out to determi...Continue Reading »

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

  » ABSTRACT The effect of concentration of hydrochloric acid on hydrolysis of cellulose (sawdust) 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 experiments ...Continue Reading »

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• 72. CONSTRUCTION OF A SIMPLE METALLIC MOULD

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The equipment mostly used in the industries and manufacturing establishments requires the production of definite shape, pattern, different design, embossments and others, are usually moulds. The ability of moulds to withstand pressure, distortion and corrosion determines the application. A mould has been defined as a pattern constructed for the production of the same type ...Continue Reading »

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• 73. CONSTRUCTION OF A PILOT MOTORISED MIXER

  » ABSTRACT A motorized mixer of 200 liters capacity was constructed to have the capability of mixing 200 liters of fluid during operation. The construction of the mixer involves the preliminary measures and calculations on the surface area of the metal sheet. Some basic workshop practices was carried out during the construction such as the marking out of the metal sheet, cutting of different sizes o...Continue Reading »

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• 74. CONSTRUCTION OF A JUICE EXTRACTOR MACHINE

  » ABSTRACT A Juice extractor machine is a device that is used to extract liquid (Juice) from fruits and vegetables in a process called juicing. The machine is constructed manually with the use of local materials and tools. The material used for the construction of the machine is mild steel sheet. During the construction of the machine, the various parts of it were constructed separately using the mi...Continue Reading »

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• 75. CONSTRUCTION OF A DISTILLATION COLUMN WITH REFLEX DIVIDER AND CONDENSER

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Distillers is a process of vapourizing a liquid mixer by the application of heat in which two distinct or different phases and created namely the vapour phase and the liquid phase and the liquid phase and it is expected that the more volatile component will be found more the gaseous phase while the less volatile will be found in the liquid phase. This separation is achieve...Continue Reading »

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• 76. CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME BRANDED MOTOR OIL

  » ABSTRACT This project work, characterization of some branded motor oil was aimed at studying and analyzing the characteristics/properties of lubricating oils of various brands it also explained the origin, properties, refining and exploration techniques of crude oil to produce variety of products such as liquid petrol, lubricating oil, waxes etc. Furthermore, physical tests or characterization tes...Continue Reading »

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• 77. AN EVALUATION OF INDUSTRIAL EMISSION DAMAGE FUNCTION REGULATION AND IMPLIMENTATI...

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• 78. ALTERNATIVE RAW MATERIAL SOURCES FOR CEMENT PRODUCTION

  » ABSTRACT It is generally known that cement id produced from limestone, mar/clay and gypsum by the following three basic process wet semi wet aid dry process. The cost of exploiting the limestone: the major raw material constitute about 50% of the production cost which results in the high cost of cement. It therefore becomes imperative to bring down the cost of cement by investigating into alternat...Continue Reading »

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• 79. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHEMICAL AND MICROWAVE SYNTHESIZED ACTIVATED CARBORNOM C...

  » 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 characterized by high deg...Continue Reading »

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• 80. INVESTIGATION OF THE PRESENCE OF SOME HEAVY METALS IN MELON (Colocynthis Citrill...

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.0 INTRODUCTION Although heavy metals are naturally present in the soil, geologic and anthropogenic activities increase the concentration of these elements to amount that are harmful to both plants and animals. Some of these activities include; Mining and smelting of metals, burning of fossil fuels, use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture, production o...Continue Reading »

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