Dual (cushion and spring) compartment ginger slicing machine was developed to address the dificulties associaed with manual slicing of ginger. However, there is no establisbed operational perfomance on record for this particular machine; thus, the need for this study. To achieve...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2020/v12i330085
The study aimed at evaluating the functional performance of a developed portable ginger rhizomes slicing machine. The study was conducted at various levels of impeller speed, impeller gang and slicing compartment in the Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, Ahm...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v5i316925
Characterization and Antibiogram of Bacteria Isolated from Surgical Wounds of Patients Attending Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Specialist Hospital Minna, Niger State, Nigeria Surgical wounds are one of the major sources through which bacteria pathogens gain access into internal tiss...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMB/2018/37463
This research work was carried out to improve the storage space and effective handling of dried vegetables specifically tomatoes, onion and okra, for consumers and marketers. The machine basically consists of an upper compression plate, machine mould, piston, lower compression pl...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2020/v26i130213
The production of sugarcane is increasing in Nigeria nowadays. Juice extracted from sugarcane can be used extensively in manufacturing brown sugar, industrial sugar and bioethanol fuel through the process of fermentation; hence, the need to develop a machine that can extract juic...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2019/v11i430064
The physicochemical parameters and levels of selected heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Mn, Zn and Pb) in soil around Dana Steel Rolling Limted Katsina were investigated in this research. The sample area was divided into four units; East, West, North and South and label as A, B, C and D resp...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2017/34029
Weeds are unwanted and undesirable plant that interfere with the utilization of land and water resources and adversely affect crop production. After preliminary study, it was found out that power tiller could be adopted for weeding. Therefore, the study aimed at improving its per...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817359