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Technical Project Report for the Rehabilitation and Water Treatment Production Capacity Optimization of Ggaba Water Treatment Complex and Transmission Mains Improvement
(2019-07-27)
This project report offers a brief review of the selection process of the contractor and consequently the work scope that was performed under a Euro 5,885,780.80 sub-contract with Sogea Satom to rehabilitate the Ggaba Water ...
Development of an Interactive Remote iLab for a Wind Energy System
(2019-07)
Green technologies have been advocated for world over to address the adverse climate changes due to global warming, resulting from burning hydrocarbon-based fossil fuels for decades. Renewable energy sources such as solar ...
Design and Evaluation of an Electricity Theft Monitoring System on a Three Phase Meter.
(2019-08-21)
Umeme Limited, the biggest power utility company in Uganda, estimates that electricity theft costs the company millions of dollars in annual revenues. The aim of this research was to design and evaluate a power theft ...
Reliability of Power Transformers at Kiira and Nalubaale Power Stations
(2019-10)
This research was a case-study aimed at investigating and developing a statistical transformer model able to predict future failures at Nalubaale and Kiira power stations. The Weibull distribution was identified as an ...
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 ...
Potential use of black soldier fly larvae to reduce faecal sludge quantity from lined and unlined pit latrines in urban slums : a case study of Bwaise in Kampala, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-12-06)
Faecal sludge management (FSM) in urban slums is faced with a number of challenges due to the nature of settlement and high population density and this prompts the residents and pit emptiers to illegally dump FS into the ...
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. ...
Premature failures of district road construction equipment: a case of Northern Uganda
(2019-03)
This study is about road construction equipment imported from china by the government of Uganda in 2011 that prematurely failed during their designed lifetime. The factors that led to their premature failure at various ...
Optimal generation scheduling approach for improved power transmission grid performance of Uganda
(Kampala, Makerere University, 2019-06-22)
Uganda with an installed generation capacity of 1182.2 MW as of May 2019; identifies electricity as a primary input to industrializing the country. This will foster socioeconomic transformation of its citizens to middle ...
Modeling hydrodynamic effects on the dynamic response of an embankment dam due to seismic loading case: Isimba Hydro Power Plant
(Makerere University, 2019-08)
One out of every three embankments dams has failed due to an increase in hydrodynamic forces at the dam fluid-interface. The main goal of this research was therefore to model the hydrodynamic effects on the dynamic response ...