Browsing Department of Chemical and Process Engineering by Issue Date

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  • Design and construction of mushroom growth media steam sterilizer machine. 
    Muzeeyi, Anthony (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Mushroom is the one of the most-world important fungi plants. The importance of mushroom is centered on the large quantity of Carbohydrates, protein, fibre and vitamins and fats making it comparable favorably as an energy ...
  • Design and construction of an improved manually powered coffee pulper. 
    Muwonge, Ronald (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Coffee is an important cash crop contributing 20% of Uganda's foreign exchange and, about 500,000 households depend on coffee production as a major source of income and mainly is grown by smallholders with an, estimated ...
  • Extraction and characterization of essential oils from African basil (ocimum gratissimum) leaves of Uganda. 
    Muwanika, Rogers (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    African basil (ocimum gratissimum) is a perennial small herb plant of the lamiaceae family having a strong aromatic smell and a height of 1 to 3 meters. This plant is a native to tropical countries of Africa and Asia where ...
  • Design and construction of a lens based solar water heater. 
    Mwesigye, Edwin (2018-05)
    The most common sources of energy for heating water include wood, charcoal, liquefied petroleum gas, fossils fuels and grid electricity. Due to increased need of energy, there too much dependence on energy from fossil fuels ...
  • Design and construction of a smart tealeaf plucker 
    Mwesigwa, Wilberforce (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    In Uganda, tea is done manually. This plucking activity creates damages on plucked tea shoots and excessive increase in diseases which in return affects the health of the people and deterioration tea quality and prices on ...
  • Design and construction of a multi-fruit waste shredding machine : 
    Nassozi, Sarah (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Uganda Industrial Research Institute fruit and vegetable pilot plant generate huge amounts of organic wastes during the processing of the fruits into juice, jam and concentrates. However, there are usually delays in the ...
  • Design and construction of a poultry meat deboning and mincing machine. 
    Namugere, Faith (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Poultry meat is one of the essential food required in a human deity. it has got proteins. minerals, vitamins and low content of fats. The fat content is a. great deal to a person's life as it can be used by the pregnant ...
  • Design & construction of a biomass powered onion curer. 
    Kungu, Lazaro (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Onion (Allium cepa) is one of the most popular vegetable that make up daily diet. It is valued for its distinct pungent flavor and is an essential ingredient for cooking in many regions The onion curing machine was designed ...
  • Design and construction of an improved groundnut pasting machine. 
    Netondo, Veronica (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Groundnut (Arachis hypogea) also known as peanut is one of the most important food crops grown and consumed in Uganda and other sub-Saharan countries (Okello et al 201.0a). They are locally known as ‘binyebwa' and is the ...
  • Extraction and characterisation of lemon grass oil. 
    Naiga, Harriet (Busitema University., 2018-05)
    Essential oils are present in several plants, including lemon myrtle; lemon grass leaves and stems, eucalyptus leaves, Cedar wood, bay leaf, cinnamon, eucalyptus leaves rose wood. Pure essential oils are mixtures of more ...
  • Design and construction of a coffee roaster machine 
    Gumisiriza, Jane (Busitema University, 2018-05)
    Coffee roasting is one of the. most important stages in processing drinking coffee to enhance flavours, and ease grinding. It is a process of pyrolysis (time temperature dependent) which, by increasing the temperature of ...
  • Profiling of common crop residues for briquette manufacture : 
    Odikor, Robert (Busitema University., 2019)
    Despite the fact of several research studies to recycle crop wastes into briquettes, the quality and suitability of the crop residue briquettes remains a core issue for their successful adoption. This success is highly ...
  • Design and construction of a pedal powered dough mixer. 
    Okalany, Gilber (Busitema University., 2019)
    An efficient dough mixing helps to; increase bread quality, production performance of bread minimizes time wastage, prevent labor drudgery. The objectives of this research were to design and assemble different components, ...
  • Design and construction of a motorized maize degermer. 
    Owokwesiga, Emmanuel (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    Cereal crops grown in Uganda include; maize, finger millet, sorghum, rice, pearl millet and wheat in that order of importance. Other than wheat, these crops provide staple food for well of the population (UBOS, 2010). ...
  • Extraction and characterization of biodiesel from mango seed kernel oil. 
    Were, Joseph (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    Biodiesel is a renewable Source of energy that can be used as.an alternative to the fossil fuels which are non-renewable, expensive and are more environmental degrading due to excessive emissions produced during combustion ...
  • Design and construction of a temperature controlled electric soybean roaster. 
    Twinomusinguzi, Princess (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    Soybean roasting is one of the processing methods of soybeans which increases its palatability by enhancing the release of aromas and flavors. The process inactivates trypsin inhibitors and eliminates allergenic proteins ...
  • Development of grain moisture and temperature probe. 
    Wambazu, Paul (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    Grains are the main source of food to millions of people living across the world today. They are grown by large population on both small and large scale this implies that output production capacity is much -so this would. ...
  • Design and construction of a rotary cage fish smoker. 
    Tusubira, Paul (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    The main aim of the study was to design and construction of a rotary cage fish smoker. The rotary fish smoker was successfully fabricated and tested with drying efficiency of 60.5% depending on natural flow of air. It's ...
  • Design and construction of an evaporative cooler for the preservation of fresh cabbages. 
    Gonansa, Girisomu (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    A Solar Powered and Temperature Controlled Evaporative Cooler of 50 kg capacity was designed and constructed to increase the shelf life of fresh cabbages. The cooler was tested using green fresh cabbage and evaluated. The ...
  • Design & construction of a motorized maize flour mingier. 
    Arikosi, Luke Onoria (Busitema University., 2019-05)
    The study goes through the step by step procedures which led to the achievement of the intended main and specific objectives. The designed maize flour mingier machine of capacity 2kg comprised of inner and outer jackets ...

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