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| BELLO, SEGUN RAPHAEL. |
| The performance evaluation of a dual-function device for slicing and drying Okra developed at the Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu Nigeria was carried out and reported. The device was designed to slice and dry okra in one single-sequence operation. The physical characteristics of crop sample were investigated, characterised and processed in the device to determine their performance under steady state process conditions. The effects of the modified machine on crop processing were also investigated. The results shows that the mean equivalent diameters for each okra sample categorized as A, B and C are; 24. 54mm, 19.20mm and 15.79mm respectively. The slenderness ratios and sphericity determined for each of the three samples were; 3.04, 3.11, 2.79 and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural engineering Okra; Slicing; Drying; Efficiency; Sphericity; Device. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/5670 |
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| BELLO, SEGUN RAPHAEL. |
| ABSTRACTAn investigation into the maintenance culture of industrial generators in the agro-based industries in South-West Nigeria has been carried out. The instruments used for this survey includes: interview, market survey direct observation and questionnaires. Investigation revealed that over 75% of the agro-based industries in the South-West town of Ibadan are predominantly medium scale in status with a carrying capacity of less than 550KVA electricity generating equipment. There is high level compliance (92.5%) tokeeping of daily maintenance record,negligence onlong time fuel keeping (up to 5 weeks at times), a greater degree of negligence inmean time to repairs (MTTR) on malfunctioned components and poor response time to servicing the generator at... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Maintenance; Malfunctioning; Generator; Capacity; Reliability. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3042 |
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| BELLO, SEGUN RAPHAEL. |
| Performance evaluations of three coconut cracking devices was carried out and its results compared with the conventional (hand cracking technique) of hitting on hard surface. The three devices include a punch-split device, an impact-split device and hydraulic press split device which were developed at the Department of Agricultural & Bioenvironmental Engineering Technology, Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu. Each technique was evaluated for output capacity, cracking efficiency, ergonomics, and time required to crack a unit of different grades of coconut. The average cracking efficiency for punch split was 87.09 per cent with a range of 86.76 to 95.00 per cent, impact split efficiency varied from 83.33 to 95.00 per cent with the average of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Coconut; Cracking; Impact; Hydraulic; Sphericity; Efficiency; Capacity; Roundness. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/5673 |
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