Solar energy has the potential to become a significant energy source in the Republic of Ireland. This paper presents arguments against and for solar energy with focus on planning, community benefits, environmental impacts and intermittency. Ireland’s 2020 greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30972
An experimental program has been conducted in order to investigate the flexural behavior of concrete beams reinforced with hybrid glass and carbon bars. A test series of fifteen simple beams containing different types of reinforcement (steel, glass and hybrid carbon & glass)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27643
In this work, we introduced new useful formulas for one-dimensional differential transform and applied the differential transform method to selected linear ordinary differential equations. This study showed that this method is powerful and efficient in finding series solutions fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29916
The deployment and integration of hybrid power system into the distribution network is increasing because of the potential to provide higher quality and more reliable power to consumer than a system based on a single source. The combination of two or more energy sources and its i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28163
This paper focuses on the nexus between leadership styles and performance of small and medium manufacturing firms (SME’s) in Kenya. The leadership styles examined include the transformational, transactional and passive/avoidant behaviour. This study is underpinned in the Dynamic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29341
River systems in Kenya have been under threat from anthropogenic based pollution for a long time. River Chania which originates from the Aberdare Ranges and flows through highly productive agricultural land towards Thika town is one of these rivers. It is the only source of water...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30209
This paper focuses on to the study of the origins of Blue spectrum reflections of the elytron of Necrobia rufipes, of large family of Cleridae. We combine experimental and numerical method, to explain the structure responsible of the elytron blue color. The experimental results h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30923
We investigate the so called Biefeld-Brown effect in terms of dimensional analysis and in the frame of classical electrodynamics. These general considerations apply when addressing electromagnetic propulsion devices.
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29799
Background of the Problem: Heat exchanger is a device in which heat transfer occurs from hot fluid to cold fluid and vice versa; It is used for many applications particularly for process industries. Plate type heat exchanger gives better solution in terms of heat transfer, when c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28438
The reaction kinetics for oxidation of phenanthrene, with peracetic acid, into 2,2’-diphenic acid, was investigated. A laboratory scale completely mixed reactor was used for the study. By using the orthogonal test and mathematic ways, such as Runge-Kutta’s integral and revised si...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28230