Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
A Three Level Hierarchical Approach for Optimal Reactive power Planning IEEProc
(1992)The key of reactive power planning (RPP), or Var planning, is the optimal allocation of reactive power sources considering location and size. Traditionally, the locations for placing new Var sources were either simply ... -
Optimal Real and Reactive Power Control Using Linear Programming
(1992)This paper develops an improved real and reactive power control technique using linear programming (LP) for an integrated power system. The problem is decomposed into two subproblems comprising real (P) and reactive power ... -
Optimal Power Flow in Kenya
(1994)Economy and reliability of service are important considerations in power system operation and planning. These two aspects of a power system can be adequately satisfied by formulating a suitable optimal power flow problem ... -
The Optimal Sources of energy in Kenya
(1994)The electricity industry has an important role in developing a sustainable energy system, both regarding the use of electricity to improve environmental performance in society thus contributing to a better livingstandard ... -
The Kenya Power System
(1996)The widespread introduction and adoption of renewable energy technologies remains high on virtually every national development policy agenda; renewable energy systems can assist national energy autonomy, decentralize ... -
Optimal Long-term Reactive Power Planning Using Decomposition Techniques
(1991)This paper is to solve an optimal long-term reactive power planning problem. The long-term planning problem is decomposed into three levels using three decomposition techniques. First, the multiyear planning problem is ... -
Control Of Energy In Offices In Nairobi:
(1998)This paper traces briefly the evolution of highrise buildings in Kenya and notes that glass has become the exterior finish of choice. As a background, traditional methods of climatic design viz.: Mahoney Tables, Givoni ... -
A Manual For Organized Self-Help Densification Of Eastlands
(2005)In her century of existence, Nairobi has served as a laboratory of various housing strategies targeting the indigenous Africans and the poor. Discriminated based on racial segregation during colonisation, the poor have ...