The semester is wounding off; oh, or is it the new session beginning for those in
the high schools. Yes, baccalaurate is also fast approaching; and infact, the
professional exams are also coming up in less than two months from now, and the
invigilators are always very strict. Why not; afterall, its for your own good; not
that you fail, but that you know you knew and understand what the lecture taught.
The year almanac and semester examination timetable is also already out, lecturers
and teachers have already set the exam questions, based on the scheme ofn work and
teaching syllabus. The marking scheme has also been set! As a student and
candidate for the offing exams, have you started your examination preparations?
Have you started denying yourself of good sleep,and perusing through cold and dark
candle nights for this exams? Infact, some lecturers have already helped you
streamline your reading stress, by giving you areas of concentrations (AOC). Were
you at the class to put them down, or have you copied them from colleagues, the
AOC's? And soon enough, the examination would be over, and you'll be preparing to
see your scores; what would you be expecting?
As students of life expecting soon to enter the baccalaurate hall, how ready are
you? Our inevitable examination that would determine our culmulative grade point
(average) or induction as an undergraduate or a member of that professional body
is none other than that set by GOD. In his grace and mercy, HE has streamlined our
perusal stress, and giving us lectures from his syllabus and scheme of work--
CHRIST's biography, THe Bible-- by helping us to AOC's, which is simply ours, and
ours alone to thoroughly peruse through this portion and prepare for that decisive
examination.
As good students who do not want to fail or be at the bottom of the class, we are
to wholly concentrate on tyhe AOC,whcih is CHRIST. Judgement day, our inevitable
result day is coming; and being the examinaer who'll mark our lifes within the
boeders of his already set marking scheme, HE expects our answers to be in line.
His time-table has been set and released, which indicates that judgement day, when
results would be released, is closer than we once thought, from the time we began
the semester, term and recieving lectures
Living makes you a student, and so, what kind of student are you going to be? You
have the AOC, what are you preparing for, for judgement day? The questions have
been set, and its so simple: Are you Born-again? Have you being regenerated? Your
answer simply shows how much you have prepared and studiedthe AOC; if you can
pointedly assert that there was that day and moment you decided for CHRIST and
accepted him into your life as your saviour.
You alone would answer your question; and in this examination, you cannot write
for any body, or revealto someone the answer. The invigilator is strict!
Everyone's name has been clearly and boldly written on the answer script and the
question printed and shared to all candidates, including yourself. What would your
answer be; wrong or right? GOD marks, and once you are wrong, you are wrong. Your
answer would determine your score, and there is no plea after submission.
Are you a failure or a success? It's solely dependant on what you put down as your
answer.Remember, the AOC is CHRIST, and your answer would show how well you
perused through the AOC, and indeed, the added knowledge would expose how deep you
studied the syllabus. Your life, lifestyle,actions, thoughts and words are/ is
your added knowledge, while your YES or NO to ~are you born-again,~ is your
answer. Would you then be promoted and deemed fit to have passed GOD's
examination? It is an examinationin which gracefully, you can know if you are
wrong or right, with the content you have so far put down. THis long, have you
answered the question on your regeneration and CHRISTs supremacy negatively? Right
now, you can right that wrong before you submit and the results on judgement day
is out.
Beside you there is that eraser that would toitally expunge the wrong answer you
wrote down, albeit, ignorantly; which is the blood of JESUS. Knowing that you have
put down the wrong answer, are you ready to fail? Would you like not to be
promoted and inducted into the professional body of Christains and saints in/of
glory? And I mean, professionals!
Right now, we are in the hall, and while some have submitted and left the hall--
with some answering the question correctly-- you still have the opportunity to
change that wrong answer of yours before the time is up,or before you decide to
submit and breath is collected from you--in death. You cannot afford to know the
right answer, yet submit a wrong answered script; neither should your time be up
without you using the Blood of CHRIST to cleanse the wrong answer you've already
written down with your life.
At this moment, you can answer the question: have you decided for CHRIST
correctly. You can this hour give the correct answer to: Are you bor-again?
Seconds later, the examionation can be stopped, or rather, you'd be asked to
submit for whatever reason; but before you are asked to so do; are you prepared to
rightly answer the que4stion: Have you one day humbly told GOD that you are/were a
wretched sinner who needs his regeneration power vested in CHRIST, in your life?
Beside you is that blood, an eraser that wouldn't give room for the quondam wrong
answer to be visible; use it, i adjure you. It was placed just there for this
moment and for you to use it,and nothing else.
Before your script is collected, tell JESUS this minute: LORD JESUS, I have been a
bad student who knew that the only way to pass GOD's exam is through you, but
never prepared or decided to look your direction.Today, my ill preparation has
been exposed, and I can see that if I submit this way,I am faiilure bound. I
haven't answered GOD's question correctly, and I cannot afford to fail and go to
hell, when the verdict of the scores is released on judgement day.LORD JESUS; with
your ever effective blood-- the perfect eraser-- wash away all my wrong actions,
transgression, evil thoughhts and words/life of sin. I this day want to be an
excellent student. I this second want to be inducted into the professoinal body of
Christains, and in the offing, saints. Help me, give me the grace to keep perusing
through the unaldulterated syllabus-- the Bible; and never be found wanting till I
submit in death my life,or you come, iin JESUS name . Amen!
Now,its time to meticulously and thouroghly show your worth as a good student of
GOD's scheme of work,this by sharing with otherrs the AOC in your hand and
custody; and working them through it to know and accept the right answer before
result is released. Don't say you're inexperienced. Just now, your colleague is
waiting on you to know and copy the right answer; don't only give him this piece
with you,teach him to also share it with others. I tell you, you'll be proud that,
you not only passed excellently, but others were hugely successful because of you,
and consequently inducted into the body of professional Christains and saints in
glory. And with your help, all men would be saved.
This tract is written for ALL MEN MUST BE SAVED EVANGELICAL MINISTRY
For Spiritual counselling: mnail SEUNOGENE@37.COM
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Charging by conduction effect implies that you charge a second body with the same
charge the first body carries, while the first or charging body completely loses
its charge to the second or charged body. Thus, the fourth wire from a power pole
that is buried in the ground or earthed loses its electrons and electricity due to
conduction effect, during earthing, in power transmission and distribution.
It is easier for a body to roll from top to base, but not as easy to move from
base to top, as it would require enormous force to overcome the frictional force
in this direction. So also is it easier for electrons to flow from up to down in
conducting, and not from down to up. As such, using this means, knowing that the
earth is an infinite reservoir of electrons, thus containing an unestimateable
volume of electrons; the electrons can be collected in the inverse order in which
they are charged due to conduction, using the fourth earthed wire. So, the earth
can be de-earthed to collect and use its infinite electrons to keep generating
uninterrupted power worth Pico’s of Pico’s. But like one wire is earthed from
poles to the ground with an angle of declination, so also, one of the four wires
used in collecting these electrons, is earthed from base to top; since it is run
underground, due to how it collects the electrons, but with an angle of
inclination that is equal to ninety minus its original angle of declination, if it
was being earthed from a pole above the ground.
PATENT RIGHT FOR THE INVENTION, COOLANT PANEL
Capitalizing on these is how the coolant panel was conceived. It works with a
process of reducing the temperature of an almost ideal conductor—silver—to
increase its conductivity and allowance of current of positive electrons, protons,
to flow through it, and then charges a Direct Current battery to move an
alternator and produce mechanical energy to power an engine and move a vehicle or
an aircraft.
This process is also one in which sees the manufacturing of a capacitor, to store
excess charges when the vehicle is not consuming electricity or moving. A coolant
panel is made up of two equal sized cones with installed capacitors, filled with a
refrigerant gas —carbon dioxide—under high pressure. These cones are insulated
form each other and have insulators wrapping them; which are further placed in a
vacuum, to avoid change in temperature.
With the gas in constant motion, as they cool the body of the cones and almost
freeze them—which is impeded by the insulators—the coils which are wounded round
the body of the cones have the coolness transferred to them; and since they are
wounded in particular directions, the particles or protons acquire drift velocity
in the clockwise direction for cone II, and the anticlockwise for cone I. they –
protons- then move to the tip of the other cone where excess charges are stored
and collected into the installed capacitor. The wounded coils around the cones at
each tip are connected to the other cones wire, to charge themselves like a
capacitor that requires external D.C sources to charge it.
Also, the opposite direction of proton flow ad moving coils, is to create opposite
but equal charges required by a capacitor, which must have two metals with equal
and opposite charges and magnitudes of charge, and separated by and insulator.
Thus, once the battery connected to the capacitor is fully charged and not
delivering current to any external source, its excess charge is stored in the two
installed capacitors of the two cones.
Implying that, depending on the size of the cones and their installed capacitance,
a jet with three engines—one main one and two smaller ones-- can use this coolant
panel with its two small engines power by the installed capacitors, and the main
one powered by the coolant panel cum battery charger and bigger capacitor.
In general, aside these enumerated uses, coolant panel can be introduced directly
without battery into any appliance that requires external but direct source of
alternating current power; like water purifier, electric cookers, even
televisions, et al.
“When they had visited in New York five years ago seeking assistance to go on with
their airplane, they were laughed at. Those that had scoffed at them then now
cheered the loudest.”
PENDULUM POWER: HOW IT WORKS
But in defiance to the modus operandi of the PENDULUM POWER, an external force is
required to displace the boris, in other for the pendulum to oscillate.
ordinarily, the oscillating pendulum is a simple experimental method of showing
what oscillatory motion is all about; verifying the term cycle; and period; and
proving that acceleration due to gravity is about 9.788 – 10.00 meters per second
square, by plotting a graph of the length of the pendulums connector wire against
the square of the period (S), on the abscissa and co-ordinate axes respectively.
In the case of the pendulum power¸all we are doing is just like attaching another
material to the metal bulb of a simple pendulum. This done, once the displacement
is given, both the metal boris and the attached material would swing ; and when
the pendulum was to stop with its given displacement – if it were to be
independent of the second body—would be exceeded, because its frequency is now
being decided by the second body.
Lets now talk science, and I doubt if you’ll need the presence or tutelage of your
mechanical engineers to assimilate this. Mull a metal ball placed on an inclined
plane; you’ll observe that as you are expunging the hand used in placing it on the
inclined plane, the ball is rolling down. Implying this into a simple pendulum; a
semi-circular rail with an inclination of 20 degrees (20’) each to the left and
right, forms an arc. Naturally, once the locks are up and the metal boris in the
enclosed rail is released from the height/ position of lock I, like a ball on an
inclined plane, it immediately rolls down with enough acceleration to make it work
like a displaced. Well, in this case, the boris is very smooth and circular, and
moving on an inclined oil ed rail, with little or no frictional force. After
competing several cycles, due to the existence of true centre or centre of gravity
along the pendulum path, the boris is wont to eventually come to rest, on this
point where its potential and kinetic energy (K.E & P.E, respectively), are
maximum.
Well, since boris I is connected to boris II, which literarily now determines the
period along the pendulum path of boris I, a design was incorporated along boris
II circular path in order to eliminate every tendency of boris I to stop at its
rue centre, for us to use its effect to generate constant mechanical energy for
the generation of electricity. From the design, 2.5cm before this point on rail
II, where boris I when get to its true centre or point of maximum P.E and K.E
along the pendulum path, a declination of 40’ on rail II surface is incorporated.
Therefore, once boris II gets to this point of decline, it acquires more velocity,
thus increasing its acceleration, in order not to recognize the true centre of the
pendulum path on rail I, anymore.
You also have minimal noise compared to its soundproof conventional counterpart,
since waste gas is under pressure, emitted. Infact, air pollution and harmful gas
(es) emission –which causes global warming and climate change—is adequately tamed
with this design and mechanism; and I’d like to think that this is what the world
has been waiting for, as a remedial to reducing drastically, the rate of emission
of pollutant gases.
But if you think this is all from the CONFERENCE OF INVENTORS AND YOUNG
INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS INSTITUTE, NIGERIA –CIYIRI, then wait for our coolant
panel which uses coolant or refrigerant gases to generate electricity for vehicles
and aircrafts, leaving no waste gas. Infact, it can run for a year without even
thinking of fuel or topping your gas level.
The reagents include turkey guts and offal’s, chicken, Pisces; grasses, {muddy}
water, sea algae, protists; and soil, san or silicate sample of the composition of
those found in regions of crude-oil deposition {to determine its eventual grade
and quality}; all in measured volume.
The turkey guts and offal’s, Pisces and chicken parts are placed in a percentage
volume of about 33% or 33 cubic meters of a total minimum containing capacity of
100 cubic meters; grasses are in 25%; water of about 22cubic meters, sea algae of
2% and sand of about 18 cubic meters. Based on the production process of BILCOF,
the reagents are arranged in the BILCOF pressure mixer in the order of their
physical properties –like density and melting point—to allow for easy even melting
cum decomposition and even saturation, after de-polymerization.
Hence, the soil sample would be at the base of the mixer, with the grasses next
after them; then the turkey, chicken guts and offal’s, and Pisces on top of the
grasses after which you’ll have the sea algae on top. 50% of the 22 cubic meters
of muddy water would be put at the lowest portion before the soil sample, while
the remaining 1cubic meters is placed on the top of the whole content in the
mixer. This is the BILCOF process using a special pressure mixer to generate the
atmospheric pressure and high Celsius temperature, and a revolution of 70 cycles
per minute.
The initial process in this direction experimented quondamly produced a wet and
low concentrated product that equaled a lower volume of crude oil’s concentration;
but they did not involve the us of sand, which is essential in the natural
formation process.
“When they had visited in New York five years ago seeking assistance to go on with
their airplane, they were laughed at. Those that had scoffed at them then now
cheered the loudest.”
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Conference paper for the Nigerian Institute of Physicists, 2008 Owerri
Conference, October 16th – 18th.
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WATER RE-CYCLEMENT
ALMANAC OF CONTENT
1.0. INTRODUCTION
2.0. HIGHLIGHTS AND FUNCTIONS OF HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER DAMS, AND THE EFFECT OF
ALKALINE AGGREGATE REACTION
3.0. NIGERIA’S ENERGY PROBLEM: LOW DAM RESERVOIR LEVEL AND HIGH COST OF POWERING
GAS TURBINES
4.0. ENERGY PROBLEM: ANL IMPEDIMENT TO THE REALIZATION OF THE 2020 VISION
5.0. GREEN HOUSE GAS EMMISION FROM DAMS: POSSIBLE UTILIZATION FOR GAS TURBINES
9.0. A WORD FROM THE CONFERENCE OF INVENTORS AND YYOUNG INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS
INTITUTE, NIGERIA
10.0. HOPE, POSSIBILITY AND CHALLENGE FOR THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICSTS
11.0. CONCLUSION
1.0. INTRODUCTION
In view of the expected impinge and outcome of this conference which would be
largely dependent on resource papers and lectures given by physicists, I would
essentially like to dwell on the term on the energy sector, as an anticipative
orator at the FUTO conference; with my paper title as: INCREASING POWER OUTPUT:
THE EFFECT OF WATER RECYCLEMENT.
No doubt, the energy sector has a lot of impediments to its optimization, while
also being a determining factor to the existence of industries, economies ad
infrastructural development of the/a country; and above all, the market value of
produced goods and commodities. Well, the extant situation of this sector; even
though Nigeria, which we all gathered here represent, is a foremost exporter of a
globally required energy commodity –crude-oil—which can be used for gas turbines;
indicates that there needs to be a rehauling and immediate intervention by
stakeholders alike, especially physicists, as it should be a situation that would
enable us proudly flaunt our status and prowess as physicists and researchers cum
problem solvers. You’ll pardon my indulgence but, I would like as the situation
permits, to ask if the extant source of electricity around you is from the
national grid or from secondary sources like generators, or even in absentia? I.e.
no light. And if from the national grid, how many hours today have you used this
power source?
The effect of this means that: total energy output generated and connected to the
national grid doesn’t meet the extant demand, and so it is rationalized, while
leaving some areas in outright darkness. The use of gas turbines, solar panels,
wind mills/ vanes, biomass, nuclear fission and even hydro electric power sources,
are thus evidences that physicists are always an exigency; as these sources all
convert one form of energy or the other to electrical energy, a jurisdiction of
physicists.
But the extant situation of Nigeria which is more concentrated on gas turbines and
hydro-electric power dams for large electricity generation, seems to require more
of an imperative solution – for the economy and national development to meet the
2020 target of the Federal government—as much as an offing and perennial remedial
out of this electricity oubliette. Outrightly, it shows that whatever millennium
development goals (MDG’s) and national Federal economic empowerment development
(FEED) target to enable our nation become a global renown one and economy, is
threatened by the already outwitted energy sectors ineptitude.
Thus, in rendering a solution which encompasses this time frame, let us mull the
prospects of the HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER(H.E.P) source, which utilizes the kinetic
energy of falling water through a penstock in the edam which is converted to
mechanical energy and finally, electrical energy; and explore its every
possibility to optimize its effect. Infact, very recently, a statement credited to
the Energy minister captured the true situation of our H.E.P dams, when Mrs.
Ibrahim Fatima said that “a combined shortage of water at the hydro stations and
gas supply has forced a reduction in power generation to about 2700 Mega watts,
from a combined power output of above 3,000MW.” She further said that “at the
shiroro dam, you can see the floor of the dam because, the water is not there,
with water management, you have to shut off the machines down to enable you get
enough water.” Indicating a problem of water management and insufficiency as the
major obstacle to optimal power output; hence the theme of this my paper.
While this specifically highlighted the situation of the shiroro dam which
generates about a third of Nigeria’s H.E.P source and generation output, nothing
less can be said about other hydro stations; in which barely a year plus, water
erosion due to the release of water from the spill-gates was unleashed on the host
communities as a result of draught and excess reservoir water. This shows that if
there is an effective system of water management and fomular at the dams, it would
be easy to maintain optimum water and power level cum output during drought and
draught to effectively maintain the dams use. Hence my suggestion; a typical
solution with immediate and perennial impinge, for a typical country’s exigency.
The construction of Nigeria’s H.E.P dams can be seen to have dated back to 1966,
when the first dam, kanji dam was started, and the completion of the shiroro dam
by the Ibrahim Babangida administration before 1993. No doubt, age, poor
maintenance cum low water volume and alkaline aggregate reaction has led to the
reduced efficiency of the dams and its power output generation; but nonetheless,
they have served us well. Generally, Nigeria has three famous hydro dams, with the
oldest, kanji; shiroro and jebba dams all from the Niger State, a Northern state
of the federation. The H.E.P dams which consists of a reservoir water at the head
of the dam, a window for water intake trough a penstock, the turbine generator,
shaft, wicket plates, rotor, stator, power house, power lines, spill gates and
outflow river, is no little generator of electricity, as it generates mega watts
of power.
Yes, most of our power sources were ten generated by these dams which at that
period produced optimum power for their installed capacities, with midget but
devastating cases of flood. The H.E.P is generated by harnessing the force of
moving and falling water through a height, to convert this kinetic energy cum
mechanical energy into electricity after turning the rotor connected to the
generator’s alternator. These generating stations are very big and depend o the
volume of water capacity that can get in through the window intake past the
penstock, to create the required force to turn the hydraulic turbines; and hence,
the force determines the quantity of power output, which is determined by the
water.
Most often, dams are built on large rivers –with regards to the direction of its
flow—that has a great steep or high decline in geographic elevation. At the head
of the dam, the river flowing from behind is trapped in the reservoir, so that it
possesses enough pressure and potential energy to forcefully but steadily at high
Reynolds number, flow through the window intake close to the base of the dam wall.
The effect of gravity makes the water to fall through the penstock inside the dam.
At the end of the penstock, there is the turbine propeller which is turned by the
kinetic energy of the water. Then, the shaft of the turbine goes up into the
generator to generate the electric field that produces the electricity which is
transmitted via power lines to step-up transformers and then to step-downs. As the
water generates the mechanical cum kinetic energy to move the shaft, it ends its
work and goes through the tail-race into the outflow river, past the dam. Well,
since the velocity and momentum of the water determines the voltage of the output
current and power that is eventually transmitted via the power-lines as
electricity, the mass, hence weight cum force of the water and reservoir volume,
has much to do in determining the output power.
Being that a hydraulic generator further converts the kinetic energy of the
flowing falling water into mechanical energy; the hydro electric generator thus
also converts it into electricity by turning the rotor, which allows the
electromagnet of the alternator move past a conductor inside the electrical
generator, at a fixed speed.
Aside being use to generate mega watts of voltage, dams are also used for
irrigation purposes for farmers, and so much as serve as tourist centers
Following Nigeria’s increasing power and energy consumption, 250MW as added to the
kanji dan in 1978, another 240MW in the 1980’s was also added. Also, 1200MW was
installed at sapele, an over 200MW added at the jebba downstream --from the kanji
reservoir-- and shiroro dam along the kaduna river , for increased energy output
through the then Nigerian electric power Authority, for Nigerian’s.
Incidentally, no sooner did draught hit most of the dams, causing reduced
electricity output. Also, ineptitude and poor maintenance led to the formation
aggregate alkaline reaction (AAR) and weaking of the dam walls and parts and low
power output. Chemical attacks, corrosion of re-inforcements, surface erosion,
freeze and thaw effects started surfacing, and the dams began to lose efficiency.
Infact, tailrace walls and piers also began to deteriorate, so that fluctuative
power supply became inevitable and spill-gates opening started with resultant
flooding; consequently requiring immediate and effective remedial from all and
sundry, with the biggest burden on the physicists who also sum-up part o energy
users, as well as having the sole privilege of being part of a body whose member
invented electricity and the whole concept of hydro dam.
3.0. NIGERIA’S ENENRGY PROBLEM: LOW DAM RESERVOIR VOLUME AND HIGH CPST OF TURBINE
MAINTENANCE
Our country, being the most populous nation in the black race, has no doubt a lot
of expectations from her, either from the international community or the African
unity, as we are also a huge reservoir nation of oil and gas. Essentially, we have
lived below expectation, inspite of our human and material resources, and
continental stature.
Probes upon probes have either been initiated or concluded o the colossal pelf
expended on power and gas, which aside being prejudice to comment on, is not my
issue to mull. But be that as it may, constructing of gas turbines seem quite
expensive, as its maintenance, even as Nigeria refines and imports most of her
quotidianly required oil products from our-crude oil importing nations. This bane
has in no small measure contributed to the extant energy crisis in our country,
leading to the extant national concurrent black-out. And as the energy minister
once commented, “gas supply to the thermal station in Egbin has declined so much
tat the best maintenance practice for the turbine plants, is to shut down”
Currently, draught has hi the nations dam reservoir, as gas supply has declined to
thermal plants so much so that they can only supply a little of their quota to the
national grid. So bad it is tat one can literarily see the ground of the over 30
cubic feet high water reservoir. Now we ask and say why is there poor electricity
distribution and supply? Thinking that the (dis)honorable Power Holding Company of
Nigeria (PHCN) officials just decided to punish their fellow citizens and country
people; forgetting that our major sources of power to the national grid which
supplies our homes and offices are near collapse and needs ideas to turn them
around for efficiency. And since the nuclear industry/ option is yet un-tapped,
secondary sources such as generators, solar panels cum modules, inverters and
wind-mills are the only alternatives, all of which don’t have huge mega-watt
capacity to supply the national grid and directly increase power output.
Whoever formulated and started humming the tune of 2020 – best 20 economy in the
world—might have thought and meant well for Nigeria (ns), even if not in policy,
but by helping us as a nation see a target, set a goal and get more focused,
realistic and aware of our parlous state of development; but truly the onus falls
on us and what we are capable of getting done within this period. As could be
lauded as a good thought, we cannot isolate the issue of energy from this goals’
realization. infact, we can never get near first seventy, if we are having only a
total of 24 hours black out in one week.
Being a nation in the league of the best 20 by the year 2020 means closing ranks
with countries like Turkey, Belgium, France, Japan, China, England, Canada, U.S.A,
Italy, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Germany, Holland, Brazil, Romania, Austria,
Sweden, Spain, Portugal and a host of other very developed and stable nations and
economy’s. Even though as an economy it would be a great feat, with less than 12
years on our target and after spending 47 years without commensurate development
and improvement; what are we to do about it, and if we are to continue at our
extant pace, are we not a fallacious nation? How is our politics being played; hw
are contracts being awarded, supervised and executed; what infrastructural
development are we witnessing, and the most important of it, how are our
industries faring? What have we stared exporting with truly local content; can our
exports compete within international standards; how are our roads; what innovation
and invention are we as a nation working on; as researchers, what has been the
effect of our works nationally and internationally. These questions are endless,
and bother on policies, education, research and even electricity.
As much as we cannot hide from these issues if we are to be within top ten in
Africa, we cannot also reason against the possibilities which the energy sector
would effect as one of the biggest impinger, due to its multiplying effects.
Implying that our source of national electricity generation should increase, and
the extant ones should be expanded and deepened, governments reckless and feigned
spending habits on this sector should be discouraged, and more pragmatic and
effectively realistic spending formulas implemented; while research should be
encouraged for this sector, and sponsored.
Thus, in other to move beyond being a mediocre nation, who aims to be the best but
doesn’t behave as such, we require definite realistic and goal oriented actions;
of which should include how to retrieve the large quantity of methane gas,
released by dams.
5.0. METHANE GAS EMMISION FROM DAMS: COLLECTION AND UTILIZATION FOR GAS TURBINES
Dams, being a process that involves continuous running of water over geography or
place where Pisces, marine organisms and fauna’s were/ are generally found,
contribute largely to global warming by emitting green house gas methane, into the
atmosphere. And as a matter of fact, it can be collected and used in gas turbines.
Infact, it can be observed that about 52,000 dams are currently inexistence,
globally, with each generating an average of 2,000MT of methane to global warming
annually, via reservoir surfaces, turbines and spill gates, as was recently
discovered. In other to reduce global warming, which dams contribute a quarter of
the total collection the world generates, recovering methane from this source is a
good omen; which is easier to be done, compared to recovering natural gas from the
depth of the ocean bed. Methane with molecular mass of 16 is over twenty times
more destructive to the ozone than carbon dioxide, with molecular mass of 44; with
a relatively short but devastating atmospheric lifespan of 12 years. Thus, aside
proposing to use pendulum power for industrial and domestic electricity
generation, de-earthing the earth crust, water dam re-cycling would be an
effective way to curtail the emission of green-house gases including carbon-
monoxide. If we can thus collect this over 8,000 MT of methane from our dams in
Nigeria annually to power our gas turbines, the building of dams would be
encouraged to be stopped, due to their environmental impacts.
Dams emit methane into the ozone when trees, plants, Pisces and other marine
organisms die and settle at the bottom of the geography around the dams when the
reservoir was initially flooded, and concurrently. This then causes these
materials to decompose in the absence of oxygen—the atmospheric air—and then are
dissolved to generate a methane reservoir and build up around these dams. Once
water passes through the dam turbines, the methane is released into the
atmosphere. It means tat the shiroro, mokwa, borgu, kagara, auna, waya and jada
dams are amongst the highest methane global warming gas contributors in Nigeria,
followed by the gas flaring in the Niger delta
As such, collecting the methane gas would include building a transparent shield or
cover spanning about 50- 120 meters on either side of the turbine (which gases
cannot penetrate but very transparent, to maintain its tourist feature of view),
with ducts and pips at the most central parts, used in collecting this gases and
further sending them directly for filtering and refining, to collect clean methane
gas to be transported to gas turbine sites. We are presently working on its actual
design for effective collection; so, once Nigeria is ready, we are ready for them.
Believing that gas turbine sites have been built, it would be most congruous to
immediately commence this methane collection, and use them at the Egbin, Omotosho
and Afam gas turbines, in order to boost our power generation.
Also, the option of recirculation of hydro dam water can be mulled, which is also
a solution to the restricted wind direction capture of the open field wind vane,
whereby wind dam legs are constructed and extended to bifurcated locations,
positioned centrally to function as hydro generators with water supply from dam
reservoir and areas, for electricity generation. This is an energy storing wind
dam, having the ability to re-circulate water at existing hydro stations to boost
electricity supply at peak times of wind, and store the potential during off peak
times. In comparison with the wind vane or free field turbine, the size of a small
energy storing wind dam turbine is almost the same as that of the free field, but
the area of turbine which the wind capitalizes on is different. This wind dam is a
fixed stationary object with restricted angle of wind that can be captured. It has
a useful wind angle of about 40 degrees off the centre and a bi- directional
turbine that consequently allows 160 degrees of useful wind. A single wind dam
turbine is approximately 4meters in diameters, but would require many stacked
together modules of wind turbines to gain the desired water pumping capacity,
within the same area. Each turbine module is placed inside a duct or tube to
provide a separation between turbines, to minimize interference. The duct opening
is hexagonally shaped for optimal stacking and reduces to a centrally circular
shape, to accommodate the turbine. Infact, it uses stored wind to pump water for
electricity generation, through a hydro generator. A water pump is first connected
to a wind turbine using a common shaft, so that once wind blows, the wind turbine
drives the water pump to pump enough water with the stacked modules, and then the
water is channeled into a hydro generator to create electric field cum
electricity.
6.0. PROSPECTS OF WATER RECYCLYEMENT AS AN IMPERATIVE REMEDIAL
Looking at our dam situations and problems, it is poignant that the immediate
challenges facing them are to maintain optimum electricity output during drought
and meticulously shirking flood during draught periods to prevent its harsh
defects on the host communities. During drought, the reservoir level is hugely
reduced resulting in the shut down of the plants; while draught makes its level
rise unprecedentedly so that spill-gates are used, which eventually could cause
farm erosion and flooding, aside the epidemic it could create. Tackling the main
problem, energy, Conference of Inventors and Young Independent Researchers
Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI}/ I was made to understand that the host’s must be well
treated from the beginning of the implementation of our recommendation’ and their
source of livelihood, adequately maintained and sustained. Infact, the Community
Action for Popular Participation—CAPP, did most of the policy formulation for the
host communities during their neglect by the government, when the dams were
initially created; resulting in the extant peace and resettlement obtained in the
area.
Then, the people almost became restive, when they had no light, even though the
nation got their energy supply from their area; they had deplorable roads; no
schools; they lost acres of farmlands due to flooding once spill gates were
opened; fishing, one of their major occupation, went with the dam and they could
barely get decent water for domestic consumption. Why? The government was too
interested in energy generation without involving and thereby forgetting the host
communities, and other environmental hazards.
Consequently, after perusing CAPP’s brief and initial report cum documentation of
the issues, I/ Conference of Inventors and Young Independent Researchers
Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI, came up with a design and action plan that would take
care of our energy problems and put us on the 2020 path, and adequately cater for
the host community and bearing in mind their extant plight, without necessarily
and directly involving them.
First is the re-cyclement of fifty percent of the dams water collected at the base
of the shaft ad turbine via the penstock, whose water is still under pressure and
flowing steadily with a laminar tide; using a pipe. Once 50 percent of the opening
at the penstock base is fitted with a pipe to retrieve the outflow river’s flowing
water, it is collected and directly taken up over the dam head into the reservoir.
But before the water gets to be deposited in the dam’s reservoir, a pipe 25-30
percent wide as this collecting pipe is added to the pipe, where the pressure is
quite high on the collecting pipe, to collect 25-30 percent of this water. This
water in the second pipe is then run through and directly taken to a purifying
reservoir tank of about 5000 cubic meters or less. The tank would then pass water
to smaller tanks in the local communities through pipes for domestic consumption
and also be used for irrigation purposes. During drought, water would be re-
channeled from the reservoir tank into the dam’s reservoir through the second
pipe, or another one connected directly to the dam’s reservoir, while the water
being recycled from the penstock would go directly into the dam’s reservoir.
During the period of draught, most or all the recycled water would now go into the
reservoir tank, while the pipe taking water back to the reservoir is about 70
percent closed, depending on the level of the dam’s reservoir volume. This would
help optimize the potential energy of the water for optimum energy output.
Also, parallel to the dam’s water intake and penstock, would be a water
penetrative sieve to impede Pisces flow through the dam into the turbines, while
not obstructing the flow of water. This sieve would be directed through another
redesigned hole above the now always shut spill-gates, and made to flow from this
hole directly into the outflow river, which collects only 50 percent of the water
from the penstock, the hole being about 3-5 meters in diameter. From here, the
Pisces can flow into the river and the community can once again commence their
fishing practice which was discontinued due to the restriction of movement around
the dams, and feed the nation with numerous species of edible Pisces. Infact,
kinetrics Inc. of 880 kipling Avenue Toronto, would be willing to assist Nigeria
in this rehabilitative renovation on all her H.E.P, and is sure to meet time
targets. Also, as earlier said, methane can be collected over the dams and used in
gas turbines.
The extant haram administration has been trying to recover pilfered funds,
siphoned in the name of energy generation by the past administration; but while
doing this through the right channels –the National Assembly—it has shown the will
power to expend what might be necessary to move Nigeria’s energy sector and
indeed, economy forward. This no doubt is a welcomed development. But then, the
area of funding is a critical issue, which should involve independent and private
researchers, universities, scientists, physicists and the NIP as a body, for
effective investment to be done in this sector. The issues raised so far for the
revamping of the energy sector requires some pelf to actualize and effect; meaning
that the extant administration should be preparing to set aside some huge pelf, to
get things working. Inspite of this, tapping into the bifurcation of the energy
sector can only be done if researchers and scientists are well empowered and
funded.
Many issues have being raised, and we cannot shoot an estimate, but where
researchers are broke, how do they equip their laboratories, or own research,
laboratory to produce realistic solutions. If it continues like this, there would
be so much pelf but so little to use it on; and development of the economy of any
country requires innovations and numerous goods and services from indigenous
industries, which require energy for operation and survival. As such, either a
state of emergency on the power sector is declared, and an intervention fund
inaugurated for the implementation of the NIP papers and recommendations with
particular reference to the energy term, due to its peculiarity at the moment; or
a separate energy budget bill is taken to the National Assembly for expedite
passage into/ as law, so that the rule of law can be precisely followed in words
and in deeds in providing pelf to tackle this problem. The biography of JESUS
CHRIST can be quoted to have recorded that “money answereth all things;” even as
it “is the root of all evil.” As such, it’s my expectation that the government
would be meticulous in taking every action as it concerns funding for this
purpose.
In order to resolve our energy problems and allow for optimum energy out put of
existing sources, it is now obvious that truly, the sector requires huge financial
investment, and Nigerian research must be empowered to move to the next level, in
order to be useful to Nigerians and the world.
James Clerk Maxwell in 1873 took things a step further by hypothesizing that
electromagnetic waves existed ad traveled at the speed of light; which was later
experimentally verified by Heinrich Hertz, with Marconi producing the first radio
in 1895. As a physics electronics undergraduate, it would naturally be my interest
to learn and know more about diodes, rectifiers, vacuum and electronics, and also
be briefed about details of their founding fathers and minds; which are no less
persons than John Ambrose Fleming and Lee De Forest.
Contempor4arily, J.J Thomson, Ernest Rutherford and Robert Millikan have one way
or the other helped improve the knowledge and application of electricity,
electrons, protons, atoms and their numerous uses, by their works; but insisting
further, they were all physicists who made useful and realistic researches, whose
impacts are very audible today, because they had the necessary equipments
opportunity and interest, to work with the available and required materials for
these works and discoveries.
This goes a long way to exhibit the huge importance of equipped laboratories by
physicists; as if we must succeed and add imprints to the sand of global knowledge
of our world to end up positively, constructively and innovatively directing our
world, and speaking volubly into our future, the time to soil our hands is now.
Thus, in order for positive impinges to be felt in the world by contemporary
Nigerian Physicists, the N.I.P should be willing to request from governments,
increased capital funding of her research works and those individual members, and
even students which includes Conference of Inventors and Young Independent
Researchers Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI} members. Interestingly, most of the works
researchers are involving in today require high-tech equipments and huge pelf;
just like then when their works were expensive to produce and ended up near
novelties at the time, but are now cheap to manufacture, even with different modes
of applying their now anachronistic but fundamental works. Ours also which
presently require such commensurate pelf would some day become a commercial
entity, but then, the comfort going to be derived heretofore by the world would
explicitly be unprecedented.
Therefore, if we must put Nigeria in the global science spotlight due to our
research efforts and works in order for our country to grow and develop; we must
be able to think globally and act Nigerian with our major focus on solving the
challenges of our world and thinking into the future to solve unseen future
problems. Also, if we can put our humble best, soonest, technology transfer to
other parts of the world would come from Nigeria, and earn us good foreign
exchange.
With environmental considerations, all our works have been designed in such a way
as not to have any negative impinge o the climate or environment, because we want
our works to be globally accepted, since we know that the world is frantically
trying hard to reduce and even expunge every global warming contributor, due to
its huge defects on the world, which is already poignant.
Due to the volume of our works and their expected impinges on the Nigerian and
global economy, their development prospects and foreign exchange earning
possibilities, Conference of Inventors and Young Independent Researchers
Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI} would require more pelf; foreign grants; well-equipped
laboratories; coalition and affiliation with Nigerian research oriented
universities, private and other independent research institutions, international
and renown research organizations; in other to produce more realistic, efficient
and globally required conclusions recommendations and works. Conference of
Inventors and Young Independent Researchers Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI} also
requires recommendation and contacts which would help us actualize our goals, thus
our appeal to N.I.P members and research well-meaning personnel’s herein present
to help see to our requests, in order to encourage young undergraduate researchers
who are poised to bring out the best for all to benefit from research, inspite of
our environment.
The N.I.P which today has given us a platform for expression, no doubt needs to be
empowered beyond this level by individuals, collective, government and
international efforts. After all, this is the only representing body for all
Nigerian physicists, who are enthusiastic about physics and aid not discontinue to
retire into commercial organizations after their stint sojourn in the world of
physics.
10.0. HOPE, POSSIBILITY AND A CHALLENGE FOR THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICISTS,
N.I.P
In doing these, every administration of each executive board of the N.I.P should
outline areas where it would infuse funds in for research, which would be
quarterly reviewed and progress profile mid-annually published, of which would
include works from physics and on-physics but physics centered N.I.P funded
research works. The commitment to research in various aspects of the outlined
areas should be encouraged and coordinated in a N.I.P central laboratory.
The N.I.P should also eek recognition from the government and be more vocal on
national issues that crosses across the field of physics, by issuing candid press
statements and press conferences on national issues. The N.I.P should also have a
committee that would review the curriculum of all physics course in Nigerian
universities, monotechnics, polytechnics, post graduate and secondary schools, to
meet up with the global standards; while also sending representatives to attend
and present conference papers at international fora and physics’ bodies’
conferences. Also, if there is no International Institute of Physicists body, a
collection of all countries National Institute of Physicists, our N.I.P should
initiate the process for its birth.
The N.I.P should endeavor to publish all research conclusions in the area and
field of physics, conducted in the country, involving (with inputs from) the
participation of the researchers, in the yearly journals, while also increasing
the tenure of executive administration from one year to two years, so that
whatever research work(s) an executive administration commences, which must not be
less than seven (7) of international and national cognizance and relevance, , can
be completed or marshaled so that the next administration would incorporate it
into its research plans, without obstruction its own mission and research
potentials.
Acquiesced, there are numerous challenges facing then N.I.P,, which includes
dedication and finance; but where the heart is willing, a thousand solutions would
be produced. As such, the N.I.P should capitalize on her extant situation and the
pedigree of her current leadership which includes my humble dean and N.I.P
president, Professor Akande of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), to
overcome all her challenges, by taking pragmatic actins and sourcing funds, in
order not to sustain N.I.P’s existence but prove her existence.
11.0. CONCLUION
Issues have been raised in volumes, but they become null if not effected and
implemented. One, I feel a committee is required to sort out by term, all
conference papers submitted and presented at/ for the conference, to channel and
send them to the appropriate bodies for implementation, of which the N.I.P body
would team with; while those that require further research should be commence,
with full participation of the researcher cum author.
Using this medium, as we applaud this emerging body, Conference of Inventors and
Young Independent Researchers Institute, Nigeria {CIYIRI}; lets remember that we
are first physicists, and because we are Nigerians is why we became who we are –
physicists. So lets put our country ahead in every of our decisions and ensure we
are in action, patriotic and sympathetic to the course of our world; as it would
help us during research, to proffer useful recommendations and solutions of global
excellence.
Also, we dare to add and quote the biography of CHRIST once again that “whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely, and
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any praise, if there be any
virtue, think on these things.”