Household kerosene and Liquefied Petroleum Gas form the bulk of domestic fuels, especially in Nigerian urban areas. Data on both fuels, from 1980 to 2019, were collected, mainly from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation sources. Energy, exergy and environmental compatibility a...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i330194
Based on the knowledge exhibited in the literature on the Carnot cycle, a preliminary study is carried out on Carnot machines capable of implementing the Carnot cycle at high thermal efficiency. Therefore, two engine structures are proposed: (i) reciprocating single and double-ac...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i330193
The reliability of a microgrid power system is an important aspect to analyze so as to ascertain that the system can provide electricity reliably over a specified period of time. This paper analyzes a home-scale model of a microgrid system by using the threshold system model (ina...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i330192
The future of internal combustion engine-powered automobiles hangs in the balance unless clean fuels are available in commercial quantities. Electricity-powered vehicles will displace the internal combustion engine-powered automobiles. However, electricity-powered vehicles are ye...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i330191
This work determined the characteristics of various mix ratios of the cow to pig to sheep manures and ranked them with help of principal component analysis (PCA). Ten mix ratios (by mass) namely 1:1:1, 3:1:1, 1:3:1,1:1:2, 2:1:1, 1:2:1, 1:1:2, 1:3:3, 3:3:1, 3:1:3 of cow, pig and s...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i330190
Pumps are critical infrastructure in the Oil and Gas industry, and have been widely used in pipeline transportations of petroleum products. The electrical energy needed by a pump to meet the minimum pipeline operational requirement plays an important role in the overall cost and...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i230189
Attempts at improving energy performance of any nation borders on increasing energy supply to meet up energy demand; and also reducing energy consumption through efficiency practices to attain sustainable energy utilization. Nigeria as a nation is bedeviled with the problems of i...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i230188
The aim of this work is to make a contribution to the drying of tomatoes. The purpose of this contribution is the experimental determination of the desorption isotherms of a variety of tomato (one of the most widespread on the Burkinabe market place) using the static gravimetric...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i230187
The energy from renewable sources had always been perceived as free or at least lower-cost energy, with its sourcing from natural sources such as solar radiation and wind energy. In actual the cost breakdown of renewable energy would exceed that of traditional energy sources in a...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i230186
Fabie T. Dummapi, Jacqueline I. Liniasan, Marvin T. Valentin, Milagros B. Onalan, Leonardo D. Dumalhin, Marlon N. Galad, Daniel Ciolkosz, Algirdas Jasinskas & Eva J. Kelly·Journal of Energy Research and Reviews·2021
Wild sunflower with moisture contents of 16%, 12% and 8% was densified without the addition of binding agent. The physical properties of the formed briquettes such as mass, dimensions, volume, density and shattering resistance were evaluated. Thermal properties like ignition time...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v7i230185