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Preparation and Evaluation of Activated Carbons from Rice Husks in Uganda for Removal of Humic Acid from Water.
(2019-12)The Government of Uganda and its development partners have made great strides in promoting rice production to improve household food security and income. However, the amount of rice husks (RH) generated from the milling ... -
Exploitation of Cocoa Pod husks for rural electricity production - towards a sustainable cocoa value chain in Uganda.
(2019-11-13)Although access to electricity power supply is critical to national development, utility companies in Uganda either lack the financial capacity to expand their grids to isolated rural areas or choose not to do so due to ... -
Effect of Wastewater from Kampala Industrial and Business Park on Bukasa Swamp Water.
(2019-12-18)Global environmental water changes are caused by proximate human activities. In Uganda, and the whole world at large, water pollution is a frequent outcry demonstrated further by the loss of flora and fauna in water bodies. ... -
Design and development of a mobile application system for accessing suspect information using fingerprint recognition.
(2019-12)The purpose the traffic police serves is to ensure law and order is maintained on the roads in the country. It is therefore vital for the force to have a means to identify traffic offenders and take them off the roads. ... -
Evaluation of thermal comfort of naturally ventilated residential buildings in the informal settlements in Kampala city, Uganda.
(2019-12-05)The hot conditions in the tropics where Uganda lies affects the indoor thermal comfort conditions due to the prevalence of the use of natural ventilation in many residential buildings to obtain thermal comfort. This ... -
Modeling and assessment of large-scale solar PV generation on Uganda's electricity grid
(2019)Globally, renewable energy sources like Solar PV are being employed more and more to ensure sustainable and cleaner future energy production. Uganda is endowed with abundant solar energy from the sun in Uganda, meaning ... -
Project Management and Implementation of Low Volume Roads.
(2019-09-06)Uganda’s road network comprising about 145,000km of National, Urban, District and Community access roads, provides the dominant mode of freight and passenger transport. Unsealed low volume roads constitute over 90% of the ... -
An Advanced protection scheme to avert blackouts due to transmission network overload.
(2018-08-24)The transmission and distribution networks suffer various overloads which have reduced power availability and utility income generation. Some networks employ frequency monitoring with Under Frequency Load Shedding to ensure ... -
Faecal sludge dewatering and carbonisation for the production of fuel briquettes
(Makerere University, 2019-06)Globally, there is an increasing demand for energy to support development needs. The challenge of inadequate energy resources is more pronounced in developing countries/ regions like the Sub Saharan Africa. The quench ... -
Evaluation of sedimentation in run-off-river for hydroelectric power development in the western region of Uganda
(2018-11)Soil erosion is the major cause of land degradation and reservoir sedimentation. Therefore, modeling of run-off-river and sediment yield at a watershed level is very important. A conceptual, distributed and continuous time, ... -
Influence of viscosity modifiers on processing temperatures of recycled asphalt mixtures
(Makerere University, 2019-05)The production process of asphalt mixtures is high energy intensive and the cost of road construction material continues to increase annually. The cost of asphalt mixture production per m³ in Uganda is increasing at a rate ... -
Challenges of subsurface drainage of urban roads in low lying areas : A materials perspective
(2019-06-13)The current pavement design criteria states uniform base course material for both low and high lying areas, which in practice experience different moisture during normal service. However, quite often, low lying areas are ... -
Long-life performance of biogas systems for productive applications: The role of R&D and policy
(Elsevier, 2019)In order to achieve the transformations required to realize sustainable development, the use of modern renewable energy has to increasingly take primacy. Biogas technology is one of listed modern RETs but despite its ... -
Enhancement of skills for ground water development in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-07)It is Uganda Government policy (MWE, 2007) and (PEAP, 2004) to increase the number of citizens able to access clean water as a means of improving Public Health, and reducing cost of medical health care among many aims. ... -
Quality attributes and impact of poor quality in the public transport industry
(2019-03-26)Public transportation is a requisite organ that hugely affects the growth and development of the world today. It is considered the backbone of connectivity that ultimately strengthens productivity and global economic growth. ... -
A report on NUSAF 3 implementation status in Kole District Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-10-02)The third Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF 3) project is a successor five – year project to NUSAF 2 that closed on February 29th 2016. The project was approved by Cabinet on 5th August 2015; approved by Parliament ... -
The effect of using upgraded biogas on generator performance
(Makerere University, 2018-08)Uganda is experiencing an energy crisis especially in the agro processing subsector of the economy. This is partly due to the small distribution network of the generated hydroelectric power which makes it inaccessible by ... -
Assessment and modeling of grid related factors that influence quality of supply to industrial customers
(2018-11)Industrial development is directly linked to the growth of a country’s economy. As Uganda claims to approach middle income status by 2020, it was imperative to look at grid related factors that influence quality of supply ... -
Improvement of engineering properties of black cotton soil for road construction using PROBASE soil stabilizer
(Makerere University, 2018-04-23)Black cotton soils, also referred to as expansive soils expand when wet and shrinks when dry causing cracks which on re-wetting, bulks out and causes damage to structures built on them. Research conducted on black cotton ... -
Water movement control across organic primers for pavements
(Makerere University, 2018-09)In order to curtail vertical moisture movement through pavement layers, a layer of primer is applied on the top surface of the base. During precipitation, water flows into a porous layer and then moves laterally on top of ...
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