Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Regional Development Profile of Ewaso Ng
(1999)Water resources are becoming increasingly scarce in the Mt. Kenya region. Land use and climate change may pose additional challenges to water management in the future. In order to assess the impacts of environmental change, ... -
Potential for solar energy utilisation in the West Indies. 'Description of solar energy R & D programs in many nations
(1976)This paper is a review of worldwide direct applications of geothermal energy. It attempts to update the surveys presented at and after the World Geothermal Congresses of 1995, 2000 and 2005. Seventy-two countries report ... -
Transient flow development due to a strong heat source in the atmosphere; Part I:
(1980)This paper describes a finite difference experiment to simulate the transient development of the convection column above a strip of uniform high temperature source in a stratified uniform cross flow atmosphere. The κ-ε ... -
Some characteristics of a two-dimensional starting mass fire with cross flow
(1981)A numerical model which can be used to study some aspects of mass fires is presented. The k—ϵ model of turbulence and the flame sheet model of combustion are employed. To account for the “unmixed-ness” of the fuel and ... -
Experimental modelling of axial temperature profiles of buoyant diffusion flames
(1987)Mean temperatures were measured along the axis of propane gas flames using a porous ceramic burner. Data for fire heat release rates ranging form 13.3kW to 30.6kW were taken and analyzed. It was found that the lower zone ... -
An experimental study of the multipass operation of double-glazed solar air heaters
(1991)Solar air heating (solar collector) is a renewable heating technology and provides heat using solar energy. With fuel costs and other factors, solar air heaters (SAHs) are getting more attention. The energetic and exergetic ... -
Numerical Modelling of Aerodynamic Performance of Aerofoil Windmill Blades at Various Blade Configurations
(1995)Abstract The accurate prediction of the aerodynamics and performance of vertical-axis wind turbines is essential if their design is to be improved but poses a significant challenge to numerical simulation tools. The ... -
Quality Assurance and Relevance of Engineering Education in Africa
(1997)Economic development is correlated with the development of higher education: enrollment ratios in higher education average over fifty percent for countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ... -
Practical Training of Professional Mechanical Engineers
(1992)This article describes the characteristics and aims of problem-based learning (PBL), a successful strategy for higher education. PBL has been implemented as an overall strategy for several programmes at Maastricht University, ... -
Importance of Railways in the National Economy; An Example of Kenya Railways
(1994)Mombasa is overwhelmingly the dominant port, urban and industrial complex on the Kenya coast. Improvements in operational efficiency, management restructuring and the revitalization of the port in the competitive context ... -
Restructuring of Railway : Kenya Railways Experience "
(1996)Describes the Kenya Railways Corporation and its current records management practices. Summarizes the results of records management surveys and discusses problems of: records creation, including poor mail management, file ... -
The Land Use Planning in Provincial Towns of Kenya
(1993)The Kenya Government has over a number of years pursued policies geared towards the promotion of secondary towns. Included in this strategy is the achievement of an orderly and coordinated urban land development. However, ... -
Land Management for Rapid Urbanisation under Poverty: An Introduction
(2002)This is because land scarcity, increased competition for land and inequitable allocation of land in African cities and the mediation of power, politics, ethnicity and corruption, coupled with inequitable access to land, ... -
Urban Land Management in Africa
(2002)The paper assesses the impact of European land law on policy-making and legal reforms in Commonwealth Africa. It will concentrate on the impact of 'old' English land law on English speaking countries in the Commonwealth. ... -
Revenue Autonomy and Property Taxation in Anglophone East Africa:
(2012)This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ... -
Traffic Impacts on PM2.5 Air Quality in Nairobi, Kenya
(2012)Motor vehicle traffic is an important source of particulate pollution in cities of the developing world, where rapid growth, coupled with a lack of effective transport and land use planning, may result in harmful levels ... -
Distributed Slack Bus Model for a Wind-Based Distribution Generation using Combined Participation Factors
(2012)With the increased penetration of distributed generation into the power distribution system, the traditional load flow analysis that assumes a single slack bus has become impractical. The existing literature focuses on ... -
Multi-objective environmental/economic dispatch solution using hybrid ABC_PSO algorithm
(2012)The problem of power system optimization has become a deciding factor in current power system engineering practice with emphasis on cost and emission reduction. The economic and emission dispatch problem has been addressed ... -
Short Term load Forecasting For the Kenya Power
(2001)Accurate short term load forecasting plays a very important role in power system management. As electrical load data is highly non-linear in nature, in the proposed approach, we first separate out the linear and the ...
