Owing to the advantages Photovoltaic (PV) systems possess over other renewable energy sources, more resources have been diverted into their advancement in recent years. These advantages combined with the increasing energy ...

This paper is a follow up to an earlier paper, which reviewed the opportunities and threats of the usage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in homes and industries in Ghana. In this paper, the design of an electronic gas leakage ...

A typical oil well may generate between 1 000 and 1 500 tonnes of drilled cuttings with average oil retention of 15% which are generally discharged into the sea. This activity affects vast areas around the drilling sites ...

The deployment of Micro Gas Turbine (MGT) engines in unmanned aerial vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and small power plant applications is increasingly becoming popular due to their high power to weight ratios. In ...

The primary objective of every industry is to optimise production at preferably lower costs. These industries make use of electric motors for their operations and the mining industry is no exception. Often is the notion ...

Compressive strength is a critical parameter for the success of chemical sand consolidation operations in oil wells. Predicting the right compressive strength is affected by factors such as curing time, bottomhole ...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have taken center stage in industrial automated systems. In most processing plants, the power distribution network is not subjected to SCADA whilst a SCADA system ...