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» ABSTRACT Controlling and improving Quality has become an important business strategy for many organizations, because a business that can delight customers by improving and controlling quality can dominate its competitors. Hence, this project work focused on the application of statistical quality control technique to Habila Food and Beverage Nigeria Limited, in order to control and improve the qual...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information In the beginning metal detectors, couldn’t pick up everything deeper than one inch down. This time passes and inventors learn more, the capabilities of the detector have greatly improved, on July 2, 1881, America president, James Garfield was shot in the chest and the bullet was left behind. Alexander Graham Bell tried using one of the firs...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION The Mitchell tilting pad apparatus is a hydrodynamic measuring instrument developed in the early 1880’s in the laboratory of Beauchamp Tower in England. Tower was employed to study the friction in railway journal bearings and come up with the best method of lubricating them. The Mitchell tilting pad apparatus is used broadly in two different experiments namely;1) Dete...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION In the major world, one major source of protein and vegetable oil is from oil seeds /fruits (Williams M. A. 1996). Oil constitutes a well defined class of naturally occurring substance. It is greasy, being soluble in organic solvents but insoluble in polar solvents such as water. Oil is a liquid at room temperature. Commercially, oil as well as fats is sourced from cert...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Hydrodynamic journal bearings are typical critical power transmission components that carry high loads in different machines. In machine design, therefore, it is essential to know the true or expected operating conditions of the bearings. These operating conditions can be studied both by experimental and mathematical means, for example in test rig experiments, in field...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract In many developing countries, motorcycles and tricycle are increasingly becoming the common means of transport especially among low income urban dwellers (urban poor) and many rural people. The high ownership and use of motorcycle in the urban areas in eastern Nigeria has come with its accompanying challenges like motorcycle accidents involving fatalities environmental and public health c...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The need for an authentic and reliable report relating to the repairs and rehabilitation of a faulty air conditioner is inevitable. Many homes and offices uses the air conditioner to cool he temperature in their respective homes. So the maintenance of the air conditioner should be a top priority of every individual in order to avoid huge expenditure in the repairs of the system. It’...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT We constructed an open steam distillation column with the following specifications: FOR THE COLUMN Height of column = 500mm Length of pot = 50mm Diameter of pot = 5mm FOR THE STILL Port of thickness = 500mm Length of pot = 300mm Diameter of pot = 100mm FOR THE CONDESER Condenser thickness = 2mm Diameter of the connecting = 20mm Pipe = Length of pot = 200mm Diameter of pot = 2mm Generally,...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The rehabilitation and repair of a faulty air conditioner was the project undertaken by the group of student listed above in the mechanical Engineering department. Before embarking on the project, the following fault were detect and rectified, such as (a) Blockage of the condenser by impurities (b) Undersized compressor (c) Poor capacitance of the capacitor (d) Bad plug and (e) Drier stra...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Mechanical Engineering Department of the named institute has many has non operational machines sequel to the fact, maintenance was poorly executed which resulted to the breakdown of this refrigerator. Quality and effectiveness of machine maintenance were well observed. Also, a minimized cost of maintenance and a highly successful repair was adopted. In otherwords, during the repair and re...Continue Reading »
85 pages | 495 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT This project is basically on the repair of a damaged air conditioner. It is intended to provide a break through in the restoration of any damaged air conditioner and thereby curtail the huge expenses incurred in the replacement of the entire unit. This report covers an introduction into what an air conditioner is all about, it’s historical background and working principle. A view on...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE Introduction Background of the Study Central air conditioning is one of the most convenient and efficient ways of getting relief and comfort from the harsh climatic conditions prevalent in our environment. The ‘central’ in central air conditioning comes from the fact that the system conditions the entire building from one central location in a building. This system cools an...Continue Reading »
85 pages | 538 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT Parameters on which clear prints depends were comprehensively investigated. The study revealed that clear print depends on the impressed pressure the working temperature and the gold foil print paper life expectancy. Also studies were he manner of dependence of these parameters on prints impressed on sheets of varied thickness. The results of these investigation were utizlied in the desig...Continue Reading »
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» AbstractRapid prototyping is widely used to reduce time to market in product design and development. Today\'s systems are used by engineers to better understand and communicate their product designs as well as to make rapid tooling to manufacture those products. Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) milling machines are part of this technology. This project will present the design of a small CNC m...Continue Reading »
65 pages | 514 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT The need for an authentic and reliable report relating to the repairs and rehabilitation of a faulty air conditioner is inevitable. The fact that many people use the air conditioner to cool the temperature in their respective home and offices make its maintenance a top priority to every individual in order to avoid huge expenditure in the repairs of the system.This report gives insight in...Continue Reading »
65 pages | 509 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT The concept of this project is to actualize a practical way of paint production using a locally design mixing machine which is design to meet a low cost and high standard paint. The project cut across all forms of engineering, such as mechanical machine design of a simple industrial mixer, which is driven by an electrically made device, a 3 HP electric motor, chemically reacting reagents ...Continue Reading »
65 pages | 513 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT Parameters on which clear prints depends were comprehensively investigated. The study revealed that clear print depends on the impressed pressure the working temperature and the gold foil print paper life expectancy.Also studies were he manner of dependence of these parameters on prints impressed on sheets of varied thickness. The results of these investigation were utizlied in the design...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This project is designed to make the students utilize as many theoretical and practical concept as have been instructed in Alston to mechanical engineering workshop technology. Students are expected to learn and apply concepts, principles about energy specially the conversions of electrical energy to thermal energy, conduction and conventional heat transfer etc.Also the determination of t...Continue Reading »
65 pages | 492 engagements |
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» ABSTRACT Refrigeration processes have developed from the primitive ice cooling system to complex industrial applications. The principle however remain the same, effecting provision of cold space for the preservation, cooling or hardening of substances such as foods, beverages, drugs, vaccines and chemicals. The presence of heat and moisture cause micro organism to infest the mentioned items theref...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study has evaluated the effectiveness of metallic materials as chill in sand casting of aluminium alloy. Four plates of dimension 165mm x 80mm x10mm were cast using sand mould. Steel, copper and brass chills in form of cylindrical bar of geometry 7mm in diameter and 50mm long were inserted, side by side at regular intervals of 30mm in each sand mould and the last sample was left unch...Continue Reading »
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