Browsing by Author "Alabi, O. O."

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Characterisation of indigenous helmeted guinea fowls in Nigeria for meat and egg production
(2021) Shoyombo, A.J.; Yakubu, A.; Adebambo, A. O.N.; Popoola, M. A.; Olafadehan, O. A.; Wheto, M.; Alabi, O. O.; Osaiyuwu, H. O; Ukim, C. I.; Olayanju, A.; Adebambo, O. A.
There is increasing interest in sustainable poultry production in developing economies. This review provides an insight into guinea fowl production in Nigeria as a means of additional high-quality poultry meat and egg production. Under the smallholder scavenging system, flock size of the four investigated plumages (Pearl, Lavender, Black and White) of indigenous helmeted guinea fowl in Nigeria typically ranges from 6 to 9 birds per household, 14-week mean live weight from 917 to 975 g, dressed weight at this age from 700 to 737 g and dressing percentage from 74 to 76%. Under the back yard system of production, mean egg number is typically about 80 eggs per hen/annum while under intensive management it can be up to 147 eggs per hen/annum and egg weight from 29 to 38 g. Under smallholder conditions, hatchability of fertile eggs can range from 70 to 86% while under improved housing and rearing conditions it can be as high as 89%. The present information could be exploited in formulating appropriate management strategies and breeding decisions for sustainable production of hybrid improved guinea fowls,thereby contributing to food security in Nigeria.
The effects of porosity and angels of inclination on the deflection of fluid flow in porous media
(Medwell Journals, 2009) Popoola, O. I.; Adegoke, J. A.; Alabi, O. O.
"The movement of contaminated fluid from a solid waste landfill into a portable water aquifer located beneath is an example of unwanted underground flow. With the problem of limited portion of land available for building construction in the cities, coupled with the rise in price of good and accessible land, there is a need for quick and urgent solutions to environmental pollution that may be resulted from this problem. In this research, a laboratory setup consisting of a big transparent cylindrical pipe 108.5cm long with radius 2.23cm was used as inlet pipe and five small equal transparent cylindrical pipes with radii 0.03cm were used as outlets, which were joined to the circular plastic plate on the top of the inlet pipe at different angles ranged from 00 to 900 from a normal point. The inlet pipe and outlets pipes were filled with samples of soil of different porosities and titled at different angles of inclination. The volume of water discharged was measured directly with measuring cylinder from the set-up in each case. The volumetric flow rate and volume flux were computed from the values of volume discharged. These were done in order to determine how the arrangement of porous material of different porosities with a particular angle of inclination can influence the deflection of fluid flow from its linear direction. This is sequel to its practical applications in designing a construction with a cross-section of soils in deflecting contaminated fluid from septic tank to different directions from the source of water within the same small portion of land. It was observed that angle of inclination does not have a significant effect on the deflection of fluid but volume flux increases with increasing angle of inclination. Also, the greater the difference in the porosity of the cross-section of the media in which the fluid is flowing the greater the volume flux. However, the most suitable arrangement of cross-section of soils for deflection of fluid at higher angle from normal is when it flows through a medium of low porosity to that of higher porosity. "
The effects of porosity and angle of inclination on the deflection of fluid flow in porous media
(Bachudo Science Ltd, 2009) Popoola, O. I.; Adegoke, J. A.; Alabi, O. O.
"The movement of contaminated fluid from a solid waste landfill into a portable water aquifer located beneath is an example of unwanted underground flow with the problem of limited portion of land available for building construction in the cities, coupled with the rise in price of good and accessible land, there is a need for quick and urgent solutions to environmental pollution that may be resulted from this problem. In this research, a laboratory setup consisting of a big transparent cylindrical pipe 108 5cm long with radius 2 23cm was used as inlet pipe and five small equal transparent cylindrical pipes with radii 0.03cm were used as outlets, which were joined to the circular plastic plate on the top of the inlet pipe at different angles ranged from 0° to 90° from a normal point. The inlet pipe and outlets pipes were filled with samples of soil of different porosities and titled at different angles of inclination. The volume of water discharged was measured directly with measuring cylinder from the set-up in each case. The volumetric flow rate and volume flux were computed from the values of volume discharged. These were done in order to determine how the arrangement of porous material of different porosities with a particular angle of inclination can influence the deflection of fluid flow from its linear direction. This is sequel to its practical applications in designing a construction with a cross-section of soils in deflecting contaminated fluid from septic tank to different directions from the source of water within the same small portion of land. It was observed that angle of inclination does not have a significant effect on the deflection of fluid but volume flux increases with increasing angle of inclination. Also, the greater the difference in the porosity of the cross-section of the media in which the fluid is flowing the greater the volume flux However, the most suitable arrangement of cross-section of soils for deflection of fluid at higher angle from normal is when it flows through a medium of low porosity to that of higher porosity. "
Estimation of outflow discharge from an ungauged river: case study of Awara in Ondo State Southwestern, Nigeria
(2017-10) Alabi, O. O.; Sedara, S. O.; Adetoyinbo, A. A.; Akinwande, D. D.
Flooding has become the annual experience of Nigerian cities especially in the southwestern states of country, precisely Ondo state. This study uses Muskingum Cunge method river routing techniques to compute outflow discharge and to determine hydrographs of inflow and outflow pattern of Awara river Ikare Akoko, North east LGA in Ondo State, Southwestern of Nigeria. The Muskingum Cunge method of flood routine reflects the interrelationship existing between the inflow and outflow of river. The average monthly inflow discharge for twenty years was worked on using Muskingum Cunge method of flood routine. Observation from the hydrograph shows th'at inflow peak occurs in the month of April, while the outflow in the same month is very low. This implies that the month of April is a critical month that needs a special attention and there is a need for channelization of this river before the month of April every year, in order to prevent occurrence of flooding whenever there is heavy rainfall.
Experimental investigation of the potential of liquified petroleum gas in vapour compression refrigeration system
(Faculty of Engineering and Technology, LAUTECH, 2023) Adeaga, O. A.; Alabi, O. O.; Akintola, S. A.
The essence of refrigeration systems cannot be overemphasized especially in this part of the globe. Perishable items are to be preserved for some periods before usage while human comfort should also be also be paramount since we are in the northern hemisphere of the globe. The device hat doe this uses refrigerants as working fluids which are traditional harmful to human beings through depletion of the ozone layer. Majorly Ozone layer protects the earth from warming which could lead to flooding. Common economical refrigerants like CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) have been discovered to be harmful to the earth. This article therefore, experimented the quantity replacement of CFCs with Liquefied Petroleum Gas in various mixes. The LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) used consists a mixture of propane and butane in the ratio 6:4 by mass. The blend of the two refrigerants were shaped essentially by blending at least two single-part refrigerants, the GWP (Global Warming Potentials) of a refrigerant mix is the mass-weighted normal of GWPs of individual parts in the mix. That is, to compute the GWP of a mix, one essentially adds the GWP of the singular parts with respect to their (GWP (LPG) x M (LPG)) + (GWP(R-134a) x M(R-134a)) = GWP (blend). From the evaluated GWP of the 6 different % mass composition, the % mass of (100%/0%) was the only refrigerant to adhere to the preferred GWP. The mass composition of blend (100%/0%) LPG/R-134a was first performed. In order to achieve this, 8kg of each of the refrigerant was used. The blend was formed in an empty cylinder which was measured as 2482g with the aid of a digital beam balance, by gradually injecting LPG into the empty cylinder till the mass percentage of the 2000g entered, making the mass read as 4,482g (i.e., 2482g of the empty cylinder + 2000g of LPG). Based on the above observations, it could be inferred that the COP (Coefficient of Performance) of mixed refrigerants blends was higher than that of R-134a indicating that each of the blend exhibit higher performance. The experiment discovered that LPG could be used in the place of R134a without affecting the operation efficiency of a vapor compression refrigeration system. The study concludes that LPG offers the best alternative when the COP and flammability are combined as performance metrics.
Modelling the flow of water in stratified layers of sand
(2011) Popoola, O. I; Adegoke, J. A.; Alabi, O. O.
"The phenomenon of deflection of flow of water in porous media of different porosities with porosity ratio, ᵠ, is similar to fact that there is deviation in fluid flow in a pair of media of different densities. Theoretically, the relationship between preferred direction of flow of water, 0, and the sand layers of porosity ratio,ᵠ was found to be cos 0=nᵠ while experimentally it was obtained to be cos 0=1.98 In ᵠ+1.13 (0.5951≤ᵠ≤0.9634). Thereafter, when the theoretical equation was compared with the experimental result, the value of n ranging from 0 to 1 were found to be appropriate for the theoretical equation to be valid "
Modification of fluid flow equation in saturated porous media
(Bachudo Science Ltd, 2009) Alabi, O. O.; Popoola, O. I.; Adegoke, J. A.
Experimental investigations have shown that variation of porosity and hydraulic gradient are responsible for the deviations from Darcy's law, which is perfectly obeyed only when the fluid flow is laminar in porous media. Previous attempts to modify this equation considered only the effects of porosity of surface-active materials such as clay in causing deviations from Darcy's law. In this study, both the effect of porosity of any porous medium and hydraulic gradient from recent experimental data were considered. A general equation for both laminar and non-laminar or turbulent fluid flow in porous media at any hydraulic gradient is proposed, including the boundary conditions.
Numerical modeling and investigation of flow of incompressible non-Newtonian fluids through uniform slightly deformable channel
(IEEE Xplore, 2023) Alabi, O. O.; Adeaga, O. A.; Akintola, S. A.
Numerical investigations of peristaltic flow of three non-Newtonian viscous fluids arising within modelled gut were performed to show their thermal and hydrodynamic behaviour in the gut. A 3-D numerical model of the human intestine was derived using Autodesk Inventor 2017 and simulated using ANSYS FLUENT 16.0. Thyme and produced Ogi, Soymilk and Sobo are considered working fluids. The density and viscosity of the produced fluid were determined experimentally, while the density and viscosity of the digester were obtained from previous work. The results of the experiments carried out showed that the densities of the produced fluid supplements were; 1024 kg/𝑚3 , 920 kg/𝑚3and 800 kg/𝑚3 for Ogi, soybean milk and sobo respectively; their equivalent viscosities were; 1.095 Pa.s, 0.95 Pa.s, and 0.316 Pa.s. From the results, it can be seen that the velocity behaviour of the four fluids is similar, as is the thermal behaviour. The results also showed that at inlet velocity of 0.005 m/s, Ogi had the largest pressure change of 25 Pa and a heat transfer of Nu=9, while sobo had the smallest heat transfer of Nu=9 among the three fluid supplements produced. Nu=5.
Study of permeability of saturated homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media
(Duncan Science Company, 2008) Popoola, O. I.; Adegoke, J. A.; Alabi, O. O.
Many practical seepage and drainage problems can be studied by constructing flow nets for section with a single permeability, however, many natural soil deposits are more or less stratified, often with horizontal bedding that make horizontal permeabilities much greater than the vertical. Three different types of heterogeneous media from five soil sample of different porosities were considered: with constant-head permeameter to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity for each. The result shows that least permeable medium dominates in the permeability of heterogeneous medium than layered heterogenous medium. However, fluid flow in homogeneous porous media is generally faster than that of heterogeneous medium of similar geometry and grains packing. Therefore, the effect of least permeable unit in heterogeneous medium must be considered in selecting a proper filter for seepage control.