• Assessment of the suitability and safety of using urine diverting dry toilets and their excreta-derived products. A case of Wakiso and Luwero Districts - Uganda 

  Luyinda, Moses (Makerere University, 2022-11-21)

  A urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) is a toilet that operates without water and has a divider so that the user, with little effort, can divert the urine away from the faeces. However, when a culture does not have a tradition ...

• Development of trip generation and attraction mdels For Hotel Facilities in Kampala 

  Mutyaba, Twaib (Makerere University, 2021-01)

  Trip generation/attraction models have been widely applied in transport planning and traffic control. The models relate facility attributes and adjacent road network traffic characteristics to predict future trip attractions ...

• Fault detection and diagnosis in induction motors using motor current signature analysis. 

  Muhwezi, Amos Nelson (Makerere university, 2019-10)

  The study assessed the effect of internal induction motor faults on motor current signature. The internal faults under study included bearing faults, stator faults and rotor faults which together constitute about 90 % ...

• Optimal shunt capacitor bank design for limiting voltage dip severity on Wabigalo feeder 

  Kisira, Daniel (Makerere University, 2022-08-18)

  Uganda’s vision 2040 strategically focuses on promoting industrialization as a tool for national socioeconomic transformation through job creation and value addition. Industrialization also increases local consumption of ...

• Effects of cellulose rich waste paper on fuel and mechanical properties of biogas digestate -derived briquettes. 

  Sebyoto, Misaeri Lutaaya (Makerere University, 2022)

  This study investigated the creation of a waste disposal channel as well as provision of a green energy source through employing waste paper and biogas digestate as feedstock in the production of fuel briquettes. This would ...

• Optimization of the pyrolysis conditions for production of rice husk-based bio-oils as an energy carrier 

  Wakatuntu, Joel (Makerere University, 2022-10-11)

  This study explored the production of bio-oil from rice husks as a strategy to solve energy poverty, rice husk disposal problems as well as improve farmers’ income in Uganda. Response surface methodology was employed to ...

• Thermal stability of fiber-reinforced polylactic acid composites for flame retardant applications 

  Yiga, Vianney Andrew (Makerere University, 2022-10-18)

  The best way to combat challenges of conventional petroleum-based polymers like environmental unsustainability, is to produce fully bio-based composites. Fiber-reinforced polylactic acid (PLA) composites can be incorporated ...

• Design and Develop an innovative mHealth alert system for use by the community healthcare workers implementing the Uganda national child survival strategy 

  Ssembajjwe, Geoffrey (Makerere University, 2022-10-17)

  The country has a maternal mortality rate of 336 and an infant mortality rate of 43 which remains high compared to the global rates (Babughirana et al., 2020). The study aimed to design and develop an mHealth system that ...

• Activated carbon from cassava peels for removal of active pharmaceutical ingredients from wastewater. 

  Kayiwa, Ronald (Makerere University, 2022-08)

  Over the past decade, cassava production has been accelerated, ranking as the 5th most produced food crop at an estimated global production of 298.8 million metric tons by 2020 as per the Food and Agriculture Organization ...

• Evaluation of quality management in construction of public buildings under the decentralized system: the case of Busia and Pallisa Districts of Uganda 

  Drici, Louis Ibiya (Makerere University, 2007-06)

  Over the past few years, Local Governments in Uganda have constructed substantial quantities of public buildings in fulfilment of the Government's initiatives to develop its social infrastructure facilities. This study was ...

• Quality assurance and effectiveness of Labour based maintenance technology for gravel roads – A case study of Gulu district. 

  Adwek, Makmot Jimmy (Makerere University, 2022-06)

  Gravel roads play a significant role in the socio-economic development of countries in the global south. Labour based technology (LBT) is the preferred construction technology in maintenance of roads for resource poor ...

• Design optimization of communal solar powered irrigation systems 

  Kyeyune, Isaac (Makerere University, 2022)

  Communal solar powered irrigations systems (SPIS) have the potential for sharing the upfront costs hence encouraging farmers to adopt irrigation. Conventional methods of sizing Photovoltaic Water Pumping (PVWP) system for ...

• Significance of life cycle cost analysis in the procurement process for government motor vehicles (a case study of MoWT). 

  Nazziwa, Madrine (Makerere University, 2022-05)

  In recent years, the state of economy, budget, limitations and other factors have created an increasing awareness of asset management costs. This trend towards cost consciousness has resulted in the increased emphasis on ...

• Development of a Water Leakage Detection and Control System Using Long Range Technology. 

  Jjumba, Lucky (Makerere University, 2022-05-09)

  National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has been experiencing financial losses of 188 billion shillings annually from Non-Revenue Water (NRW) with the highest being registered in Kampala area. During the 4th quarter ...

• Assessing Ecosystem service values due to land use and land cover changes in the forested landscapes of Hoima District. 

  Naggayi, Phiona (Makerere University, 2022-02-02)

  Land use and Land cover change (LULCC) attributed to natural factors and human activities has led to the loss of ecosystem services, making the quantitative valuation of ecosystem services the scientific focal point for ...

• A GIS based Multicriteria decision analysis methodology for property valuations. Case study of Kiira Municipality. 

  Icodio, Arthur Paul (Makerere University, 2022-02-21)

  Traditional valuation approaches used by valuers in Uganda are highly dependent on subjective judgment in the returned values. This has been cited as a major cause of value variability and disparities among valuers. In ...

• Evaluation of effectiveness of spillways using computational fluid dynamics. 

  Mori, Artur (Makerere University, 2021-09-29)

  Climate change remains one of the key contributing factors to the increased inter annual extreme rainfall, which may produce conditions outside the current design criteria for hydropower dams. Hydropower plants are ...

• Development of a Long-range technology based power theft monitoring and control system. 

  Mabirizi, Nelson (Makerere University, 2022-05-04)

  Uganda presently experiences rampant power theft and vandalism within the electricity distribution network in some regions of the country. About 16.4 % of the total power that Umeme Ltd, the main power distribution ...

• Mitigation of undervoltage in distribution networks using an automatic load shedding scheme to curtail voltage collapse. 

  Kaigumba, Paddy (Makerere University, 2022-05-03)

  Undervoltage is still a power quality problem globally with several interventions like reactive power compensation in generation stations, transmission, and distribution lines. This issue still prevails in Uganda's power ...

• Evacuation of power from distributed generation plants using optimal placement of Autoreclosers. 

  Nakimera, Janati (Makerere University, 2022-04-27)

  Several factors affect the adequate evacuation of power from distributed generation plants in Uganda. Power evacuation is a critical function that allows generated power to be immediately transmitted from the generation ...

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