This paper aimed at carrying out a failure analysis on a typical gas pipeline in Niger Delta, Nigeria. The research analyzes the causes of failure of an existing pipeline which conveys 35MSCF/D of natural gas from the processing plant of marginal oil and gas field to a power generating station, 14km away. Non Destructive Testing (NDT) procedure, specifically, Ultrasonic Testing method was used to carry out the failure analysis on the pipe specimen. The pipeline thickness gauging alongside the flaw detention procedures carried out showed that the pipeline failed integrity test, therefore unfit for its intended purpose. The overall result shows that the major causes of the pipe failure are metallurgical/weld defect as well as corrosion along the welded line. The parameters obtained were used to compute the failure model for the pipeline.

This work evaluated the palm oil biomass waste as a source of renewable energy for electric power generation. Nigeria was once the largest producer of Oil Palm products, but since has been relegated to the back ground by Malaysia and some other countries and needs to revitalize its palm oil industries. Electricity regeneration in Nigeria has also been highly politicized and still at shortfall to its teeming population demand. This situation invariably requires revamping through exploitations of alternative energy sources. This work was carried out at Presco Nigeria Ltd which owns palm plantations from where we obtained our oil palm empty fruit bunches for this research. The result obtained from this work shows that 896 kg of empty fruit bunches produced 1.7 MW of power though lower than that of the same mass of methane, it is proving to be by far more cost effective, easier to maintain and run. The research also reported that oil palm empty fruit bunch has more calorific value than other oil palm biomass resources. Placing this research finding with others in literature indicates that the quantity of the biomass is directly proportional to the amount of energy produced.

One area that interests many researchers is the development of nanoparticle synthesis methods. Nanoparticles can occur naturally or through a synthesis process by humans. Nanoparticle synthesis means making particles less than 100 nm in size and simultaneously changing their properties or functions. Durian skin powder nanoparticles were synthesized using the coprecipitation method. Where the coprecipitation method is one method of synthesis of inorganic compounds based on the deposition of more than one substance together when it passes the saturation point. Coprecipitation is a method that processes using low temperatures and is easy to control particle size so that the time needed is relatively shorter. EDTA is used to control the crystal size (diamin tetra acetate ethanol) is a titrating ligand that is widely used in complexometric titration. EDTA added was varied by 10 drops, 15 drops, 20 drops and 25 drops to see the change in crystal size that occurred. This crystal size control aims to obtain maximum electrical performance in durian leather powder. The maximum electrical voltage obtained by adding EDTA little by little is 5.5 Volt with maximum droplets as well and the crystal size is 4.9 nm. The performance of the partners obtained is not that different from the others. So that it can be said that the voltage will continue to increase when the size of the crystal gets smaller and the addition of EDTA increases the droplets increasing the value of the electrical voltage and reducing the size of the crystals of the durian leather powder.

The flexure of a clamped uniformly-loaded thin isotropic rectangular plate is herein analysed. The deflected surface was approximated using a grid work of beams. Coordinate polynomial deflection function satisfying the geometric boundary conditions was derived. Furthermore, different approximations of the derived polynomial function were developed for the clamped rectangular plate corresponding to the first, second and third approximations. The unknown deflection coefficients of the different deflection functions were obtained using Galerkin method, for different aspect ratios ranging from 1.0 to 2.0 for the different approximations. The numerical values of the computed coefficients were compared with the results from previous works and the degree and pattern of convergence observed. The convergence to the results of the classical solution increased as the number of approximations increased from first to third approximation such that the average percentage difference came to 1.98 %, for maximum deflection and 1.96 % for the maximum span moment of the principal axis in the third approximation. This clearly shows that the present study closely compares with the results of classical solution.