Data driven condition based monitoring of bearings has gained a lot popularity in recent times especially due to the fact that physics based models of equipment are difficult to formulate fully and accurately because of the ...

One of the most applied additive manufacturing processes for fabricating functional parts from composite polymers is fused filament fabrication. Carbon fiber-reinforced composites have been widely used for many applications, ...

Decentralization of the domestic biogas plants construction and maintenance has been ongoing in Rwanda since 2014. However, the performance of the decentralization endeavor has not been thoroughly evaluated. Such evaluation ...

Automatic fruit quality inspection is important to improve quality and reduce production costs. Fruit grading and sorting is primarily visual. Real-time fruit inspection and grading requires high-quality photos with easily ...

Foreign construction firms have increasingly dominated the Kenyan construction industry over the last couple of years. The main reason for the continued foreign dominance in the local construction industry has been attributed ...

This dissertation seeks mainly to provide an assessment of cropland characteristics in the Taita Hills. The objectives of this research are: Identification of crops using hyperspectral imagery, delineation of agro-ecological ...

Petroleum sludge is a residue extracted mostly from petroleum storage. Contaminants in petroleum sludge (heavy metals and hydrocarbons) may exist in the soil for long periods and may be transmitted to plants and tissues ...

Kenya depends mainly on electricity from hydroelectric power, which is unreliable due to climatic change, and thermal generators whose power is expensive due to high diesel prices. Innovative ways of providing affordable ...

The global energy demand has been increasing over the years and is still expected to increase by 25% in 2040. The rise in demand is being accelerated by economic growth and industrialization of developing countries in ...

Jaw crushers are important mechanisms in quarries and construction sites used to reduce rocks and stones into aggregate materials for construction works. These crushers are also used in the mining industry to prepare the ...