Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Electro-Magnetic Duality, Magnetic monopoles and Topological Insulators
(2013-05-13)The Maxwell equations of electrodynamics acquire an additional symmetry if one assumes the existence of hypothetical particles-magnetic monopoles, carrying a magnetic charge. The additional internal symmetry is the ...
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Electrochemical Performance of Coconut Coir Fibers as a Potential Source of Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors
(2020-04-12)This work aims to investigate the use of coconut coir fibre as a potential source of carbon for supercapacitor electrode materials. The chemical activation process was adopted using KOH as an activating agent. The carbonization ...
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Employing Probabilistic Matching Algorithms for Identity Management in the Telecommunication Industry
(2019-06-23)The telecommunication industry has a lot of data related to households, individuals and devices. Advertisers pay a premium to ensure they advertise to their target audience. To ensure that content is personalized, it is ...
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Enhanced Oil Recovery in High Viscous Reservoir using the Thermal Process
(2014-12-12)New sources of energy should be found to relieve the high demand of energy. Even though heavy oil and bitumen are difficult to produce due to their high viscosity which can be reduced by heating, with increased oil price, ...
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Enhancing Prediction Accuracy of a Multi-Criteria Recommender System using Adaptive Genetic Algorithm
(2017-12-12)Recommender systems are powerful intelligent systems considered to be the solution to the problems of information overload. They provide users with personalized lists of recommended items, using some machine learning ...
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Ensemble Learning for URL Phishing Detection
(AUST, 2020-07-13)Phishing is a social engineering attack that has been perpetuated for long and is still a prominent attack with an attending high number of victims. The adverse effect of this allows phishers easy access to sensitive ...
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Ensemble Learning for Url Phishing Detection
(2021-07)Phishing is a social engineering attack that has been perpetuated for long and is still a prominent attack with an attending high number of victims. The adverse effect of this allows phishers easy access to sensitive ...
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Environmental Effect of Iron Ore Mining Operations in Itakpe, Kogi State
(2016-03-15)Topsoil stripping, drilling and blasting extraction, waste rock dumping, loading, and unloading, crushing and screening, and materials transport are among other activities involved in iron ore mining. These activities ...
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Environmental Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production on the Socio-Economic Life of Niger Delta
(2019-06-23)Niger Delta generates higher revenues for Nigeria through its abundant oil and gas resources. The region over the years has been faced with environmental challenges resulting from oil and gas operations. This study is aimed ...
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Estimation of Drilling Wastes – an Environmental Concern While Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
(2011-10-20)Despite its numerous benefits the search and production of crude oil poses a lot of dangers to the environment. Among these include land, water and air pollution. Prominent among the major sources of E&P waste is drilling ...
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Estimation of Shortwave Broadband Irradiance at the Bottom of the Atmosphere Over Ilorin in Central Nigeria Using Radiative Transfer Model
(AUST, 2021-09-01)Shortwave Broadband Irradiance (SBI) makes up about 96% of the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) received on earth, and it is known to be the major driver of climate change. The SBI also contains ultraviolet radiation, which ...
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Evaluating Uncertainty in the Volumes of Fluids in Place in an Offshore Niger Delta Field
(2011-12-12)The purpose of this work is to evaluate the uncertainty in the volumes of fluids in place in Fault Block A (Segment 3) of the G-1 Sands in the OND field located offshore Niger Delta. The evaluation was performed in three ...
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Evaluation of in-fill Well Placement and Optimization Using Experimental Design and Genetic Algorithm
(2014-12-12)Determination of optimal well locations for infill drilling is a challenging task because engineering and geologic variables affecting reservoir performance are often nonlinearly correlated and have some degree of uncertainty ...
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Evaluation of Machine Learning Tools for Predicting Sand Production
(2021-03-12)Data analytics has only recently picked the interest of the oil and gas industry as it has made data visualization much simpler, faster, and cost-effective. This is driven by the promising innovative techniques in developing ...
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Evaluation of Machine Learning Tools for Predicting Sand Production
(AUST, 2021-03-10)Data analytics has only recently picked the interest of the oil and gas industry as it has made data visualization much simpler, faster, and cost-effective. This is driven by the promising innovative techniques in developing ...
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Evaluation of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer as a Stabilizing Agent for Expansive Soil
(2021-04-12)The prevailing method currently used in treating and stabilizing expansive soil is chemical stabilization. The two materials that are widely used in this regard are lime and cement. They have proven over the years to be ...
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Evaluation of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer as a Stabilizing Agent for Expansive Soil
(2021-04-15)The prevailing method currently used in treating and stabilizing expansive soil is chemical stabilization. The two materials that are widely used in this regard are lime and cement. They have proven over the years to be ...
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Evaluation of Oil Recovery Efficiency of Water-Flooding, Gas-Flooding and Wag Injection in a Turbidite Reservoir
(2014-12-12)Worldwide awareness of thin-bedded reservoirs (including turbidites) has become increasingly important with about 30-40% of the world’s oil in-place resources confined within thin-bed laminated reservoirs (Tyagi et al. ...
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Evaluation of Optimal Designs for Infill Well Drilling for Water Flood Systems
(2017-12-16)One of the ways of maximizing recovery from a reservoir is by drilling infill wells. Infill well placement is challenging because many well scenarios must be evaluated when undertaking the optimization program and very ...
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Evaluation of Optimal Position of ESP for Optimum Rate in Horizontal Well
(AUST, 2019-07-13)In this project, the optimum position of ESP is evaluated for horizontal wells. The inflow and outflow performance of the horizontal well has been estimated using Joshi’s steady-state approximation for horizontal flow and ...