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Design and Testing of Mycelium Biocomposite
(2019-06-23)
The growing global understanding of ecological footprints and environmental pollution invented by humans is gainfully affecting our material design practice, pushing the search for more sustainable alternatives, and ...
Synthesis and Characterisation of Extruded Alkali Activated Earth-Based Composites for Sustainable Building Construction
(2019-09-22)
Alkali activation is a rapidly developing area in the global materials research and development community. It is based on alkali aluminosilicate chemistry with primary focus on the activation of solid aluminosilicate ...
Assessment of Barite Deposit in Nassarawa State for Oil Drilling Application
(2019-06-23)
Drilling fluids play sophisticated roles in the drilling process which include, keeping formation fluids at bay, stabilizing the wellbore without damaging the formation, lubricating the bit and drill-string and clearing ...
Ph- Responsive Dextran Gated Functionized Mesoporous Silica for Drug Delivery
(2019-07-12)
Mesoporous materials have generated a lot of interest over the past few decades owing to their wide range of applications in catalysis, separation, drug delivery, sensors, adsorption, photonics, nanodevices etc. To realise ...
Improving Lifting Capacity and Modelling Hydraulics of Local Based Muds Flowing Through Vertical Pipes
(2019-06-12)
Drilling mud plays an integral part in drilling operations to perform several functions some of which are to cool drill bits, provide hydrostatic pressure and give information about subsurface formation. The cutting ...
Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Lithium and Cobalt from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
(2019-07-12)
The demand for lithium-ion batteries is high because of their high energy and power density, which most time is influenced by the lithium-ion cathode chemistry. However, the need for expensive and scarce metals, such as ...
Improving Lifting Capacity and Modelling Hydraulics of Local Based Muds Flowing through Vertical Pipes
(2019-06-12)
Drilling mud plays an integral part in drilling operations to perform several functions some of which are to cool drill bits, provide hydrostatic pressure and give information about subsurface formation. The cutting ...
Development of a Thermodynamic Model for Wax Precipitation in Produced Crude Oil -- Case Study of Hydrocarbon Fluid from Niger-Delta, Nigeria
(2019-06-23)
Wax is often precipitated out of solution in waxy crude oil found in most oil reservoirs around the world, especially as the production of oil and gas has moved from on shore to more challenging terrains offshore. Waxes ...
Upstream Petroleum Industry Performance Evaluation using Data Envelopment Analytic Approach
(2019-06-23)
Nigeria ranks among the top ten petroleum producers in the world with over eighty petroleum Investors in its upstream sector. This creates an enormous challenge for the upstream institutions’ managers especially in the ...
Analysis of Real Option Approaches for Oilfield Valuations
(AUST, 2019-06-10)
More than three decades have passed since Stewart Myers coined the term “real options” and introduced this new paradigm into the investment science. In the following years a number of publications in both the finance and ...