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Key performance indicators for manufacturing safety in paint manufacturing: A case of kenyan industry.
(2015)
Manufacturing safety is a key priority in the success
of any business, as it can affect both the present and future
competitive position of an organization. Organizations must measure ...
Climate Smart Agriculture in the African Context
(2015-10)
Agriculture remains vital to the economy of most African countries and its development has significant implications for food security and poverty reduction in the region. Increase in agricultural production over the past ...
Profit based unit commitment in deregulated electricity markets using a hybrid lagrangian Relaxation - particle swarm optimization approach
(2017)
Abstract—In deregulated electricity markets, individual generation companies (GENCOs) carry out independent unit commitment based on predicted energy and revenue prices. The GENCOs unit com-moment strategies are developed ...
A Survey on Cyber Crime Perpetration and Prevention: A Review and Model for CyberCrime prevention
(2012)
Threats posed to organizations by cyber crimes have increased faster than potential victims or cyber
security professionals can deal with them, placing targeted organizations at considerable risk. The
growth of the ...
Comparative analysis of SCIG and DFIG based wind generation on transient stability of the Kenyan power system
(2014)
Generation of Electrical power from wind is achieved using the two mainly available generator technologies. These technologies are the squirrel cage induction generators (SCIG) and doubly fed induction generators (DFIGs). ...
Investigating the impact of power system stabilizers in a multi machine system with an induction motor load
(2010)
The high reactive power demand by the induction motor load during fault condition due to reduced bus voltages may cause a generator to behave like a voltage source behind the synchronous reactance and its terminal voltage ...
Farmers Willingness to Pay and the Sustainability of Irrigated Maize Production in Rural Kenya
(2017-07)
This paper evaluated farmers willingness to pay for irrigated maize production using field level data collected through a cross sectional survey. The results showed that 78% of the farmers were willing to pay more than the ...
Optimal Placement of FACTS devices using voltage Stability Indices
(2016)
Power System Voltage stability remains a major challenge for power utilities across the world. This research uses static load flow methods namely the voltage stability indices to come up with an optimal placement of FACTS ...
Power factory load flow sensitivity analysis of an induction motor load model
(2010)
Power factory Load flow sensitivity is a method used to obtain certain relationship between dependent and independent variables using differential relationship among physical measure in systems. Voltage sensitivity analysis ...