Browsing College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) by Subject "Water hyacinth"
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Biomethane Potential of Water hyacinth and its pilot scale application using a floating drum digester
(Makerere University, 2022-11)The use of biomass as a renewable energy resource has become popular in recent years because of the reduction on dependence on fossil fuels and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Water hyacinth ... -
Design and simulation of a water hyacinth harvester.
(Makerere University, 2022-01-21)Water hyacinth also known as Eichhornia crassipes is a floating water weed with a fibrous root system and dark green rounded leaves up 3 to 5 cm in diameter. The leaf stalks are swollen into spongy, bulbous structures. ... -
Evaluation of bio-gas potential from water hyacinth
(Makerere University, 2018)Lake Victoria is the second largest fresh water lake in the world making it the source of the River Nile which plays host to many dams. Since it has fresh water, it is vested with lots of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). ... -
Investigating the effectiveness of the use of water hyacinth powder as a superplasticizer in concrete.
(Makerere University, 2022-03-17)This report is a record of the final year project for civil engineering which was done to investigate the effectiveness of using water hyacinth powder as superplasticizer in concrete. The project was done at Makerere ... -
Phytoremediatin of domestic wastewater using continuous flow constructed wetland system with water hyacinth macrophyte
(Makerere University, 2022-10)Wastewater treatment constitutes a major problem in urban centres of developing countries like Uganda. The world focuses on protecting the environment and ensuring sustainability, thus, low cost and less technical natural ... -
Sorption of heavy metals from wastewater using ash from Water Hyacinth (Eichornia Crassipes)
(Makerere University, 2018)Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is an invasive aquatic weed that covers surface of freshwater lakes and rivers in the world. Due to the plant’s high rate of reproduction, it forms large colonies or mats on freshwater ...