The acceptability of palm oil as edible cooking oil, as well, as for industrial uses is limited to the associated impurities and the need to improve on its quality to meet the required standards for both human and industrial uses through bleaching, form the basis for this work. Optimal conditions for colour removal f…
As the range of applications for fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials in material engineering constantly increases, there is more and more concern with regard to their performance in critical environments. The behavior of composite materials in high temperature environments is especially important since…
The inhibitive action of the ethanol extract of oil from Picralima nitida seeds, towards acid corrosion of zinc, is tested using weight loss, and thermometry methods. It was found that the extract acts as a good corrosion inhibitor for zinc corrosion in 0.1M HCl solution. The inhibitory action of the extract was dis…
The optimization of esterification process of self-emulsifying method of rubber seed oil (RSO) modified water borne alkyd resin was investigated. Response surface methodology (RSM) analysis using design matrix of FFA linked with CCRD in coded notation for RSO modified water borne alkyd resin synthesis was used to op…
The production of biodiesel from waste ube oil was carried out through a two step process of esterification and transesterification reaction. The kinetics of the esterification of free fatty acid (FFA) in the waste ube oil with methanol, in the presence of Sulphuric acid at concentration of 10wt% relative to free fat…
This work is on the optimization of the inhibition efficiency of bitter kola leaf extract as corrosion inhibitor of mild steel in H2SO4. Gravimetric method was employed in the corrosion inhibition study. It was supplemented by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometric and scanning electron microscopic anal…
A two step process consisting of esterification and transesterification was developed to produce biodiesel from crude waste ube fruit oil. The oil was extracted from the waste ube pulp using solvent extraction process. The free fatty acids (FFA) in the oil were converted to methyl esters in the pre-esterification ste…
The tensile properties of randomly oriented short fiber lengths from agricultural based plant stems ramie fiber/epoxy composites are described for the first time in this work. Composites were fabricated using raw ramie fibers with varying fiber weight percent’s viz. 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45wt. %. The tensile parameter s…