Kenya Engineer

Primary Business ObjectivesBiobox is an African owned OEM & Turnkey Contractor, providing a range of total water cycle Management solutions. Although specialised in packaged sewage systems, Biobox is well equipped to provide design and construct services for larger projects. Our unique company focus, together with the dedication and commitment of our staff, distinguishes us from other firms offering services...

Compact sewage treatment plants: The Biorock® package sewage treatment system was developed to purify domestic sewage (or waste water) which operates in the absence of a centralised sewage system. The Biorock® purification process is unique in comparison to traditional techniques: It is electricity-free – giving the owner a lifetime of savings. The Biorock® system mirrors nature and the way...

Repairs on the faulty section of the SEACOM submarine fiber-optic cable will be completed by July 22, though initial reports indicated that the overall repair process could take only six to eight days, cable officials said. SEACOM services between Mumbai and Mombasa went down on July 5. "SEACOM has continued to work closely with its partners to deploy the...

If not you have another 15 days before it will be deactivated. Mobile subscribers in the country have up to July 30 to register all their SIM cards with their respective service providers, the Government directed today. This Directive also applies to those taking up mobile phone services for the first time as well as those buying additional SIM...

“We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the...

Ford Motor Company’s biomaterial researchers have engineered a patent-pending formula to use renewable soy oil to improve rubber car parts and make them more environmentally friendly. By using renewable soy oil as a 25 per cent replacement for petroleum oil, Ford researchers more than doubled rubber’s stretchability and reduced its environmental impact. Soy-based rubber parts such as radiator deflector...

The Solar Impulse aircraft, with André Borschberg, chief executive officer and co-founder of the Solar Impulse project at its controls, successfully landed on friday morning at Payerne airfield in Switzerland after spending more than 26 hours in the air.   The plane was in the air on thursday for the whole day, then through the entire night, flying...

Long-wave infrared cameras have the disadvantage that the sensor used in them requires constant cooling, which adds to the cost and complexity of the device. Now a new type of detector has been developed that functions at room temperature. Traditional infrared cameras for wavelengths above five micrometers like it cold – the sensor used inside them has to...

The first manned day and night flight of a solar-powered aircraft has been postponed due to technical problems. The HB-SIA aircraft was due to attempt a 24-hour trip from Payerne airfield in Switzerland yesterday, but the trial was halted after the aircraft’s data transmitter failed.   A spokesperson for the Solar Impulse project told The Engineer that the...

New research could one day help scientists store vast amounts of information in the same way genetic codes are saved in DNA. Chemists at Reading University have developed a way of ’reading’ the molecular sequences of a synthetic polymer, which could be used to represent digital data.   DNA stores genetic instructions in the form of different sequences...