Administrative Assistant Mechanical Engineer
Resume:
Name BETT Alvin Kiprono
Current address JKUAT, P.O BOX 456-20400,
BOMET.
Or Jurokucho Danchi, Nishiku, Fukuoka Ken.
Contact information Phone: +254*********
Email:******@*****.*** or *****@*****.**.**
Year of birth 1986.
Academic degree PhD, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering 2022. EDUCATION
Year/Month
2018/ October
2022/March
PhD, Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Title of Thesis: Optimisation of Geothermal Resources in Kenya by Energy and Exergy Concept Linking Surface and Sub-Surface Through Reservoir-Wellbore Coupling.
2010/September –
2018/June
Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Juja, Kenya. Title of Thesis: Investigation on the Beneficiation Methods of Local Iron Ores for Making Steel.
2005/August –
2010/May
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Juja, Kenya. 1990/January –
2003/November
Basic Education
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education. Tenwek High School– 2003. Kenya Certificate of Primary Education. Utafiti Primary School– 1999. WORK EXPERIENCE AND TRAININGS
2014/October- To
date
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Juja, Kenya
Lecturer MMPE Department
Lecturing undergraduate students and researching the following subjects.
Workshop Processes and Practice
Engineering Drawing and Design; Autodesk Inventor
Engineering Mechanics II (Dynamics)
Strength of Materials II
Engineering Thermodynamics and Power plant Engineering
Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering
Fluid mechanics II
External attachment coordinator -: liaise with the industries for placement of students on external attachment.
Industrial trips coordinator 2015-2018: organized industrial trips for students to visit industries dealing with engineering and mining related activities and mining sites.
Year/Month
2022/March-
September
SUNTECH, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Intern
Learning from the expertise fabrication and inspection of steel products and management.
Attended lectures on welding, manufacturing and fabrication, quality control, management and business manner and culture about stainless steel tanks and heat exchangers.
Attended Japanese classes, learned about technical Japanese words used in the factory and fabrication.
Design and fabrication of mild-steel racks. Designed two racks and delivered to the respective departments.
Did presentations to visiting students and interns. Year/Month
2023/October-
2024/September
University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Part Time Lecturer
Lecturing
Workshop Processes and Practice
Year /Month
2019/October-
2022/March
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Research Assistant.
Department of Earth Resources Engineering. Assisted masters and bachelor students in thesis and papers.
Worked with the guidance of Professor to design and optimize geothermal powerplants using Engineers Equation Solver
(EES) code.
Formulated the excel formulae for Localized Cost of Electricity
(LCOE) for geothermal power plants.
The contract ended in March 2022 when I graduated from Kyushu University. 2019/ September
2017/June –
December
2016/October
Trainings
Geothermal Technology workshop, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
Intensive Geothermal Training Course, Kyushu University, Japan under JICA support.
Project study title: Energy and exergy analysis of binary power plant.
Effective teaching workshop at JKUAT.
2011/June –
2014/September
2012/August–
2013 /February
2013/May
2011/December
Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing & Urban Development, Kenya
Estates Management Officer
Inspection and maintenance of government houses.
Training on appropriate building technologies (ABT).
Maintenance of Hydraform machines used in ABT.
Supervision of projects.
Projects Supervised
Construction of housing units in Turkana County, Kenya using stabilized interlocking soil blocks.
Trained the community at University of Eastern Africa, Baraton on the Appropriate Building Technology using stabilized interlocking soil blocks.
Trained the community on the Appropriate Building Technology using stabilized interlocking soil blocks at Lodwar town, Turkana County, Kenya. 2011/August–
September
Trainings
Appropriate building technology at Hydraform and Vibraform Training Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2011/May – August Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Part time Teaching Assistant
Assisted the students in laboratory practical and lectures in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
2009/July-August Kenya Tea Packers Limited (KETEPA), Kericho, Kenya. Industrial attachment
Maintenance of tea packing machines.
General repairs of mechanical components.
2008/July –
September
James Finlays (K) Ltd Chomogonday Tea Factory, Kericho, Kenya. Industrial attachment
Carried out fabrication and installation of new machinery.
Mechanical servicing of boiler and its steam distribution parts.
General maintenance of tea processing machinery. May - June/2007 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Engineering Workshops)
Internal attachment
Machining, metal forming processes plumbing, carpentry, foundry, and motor vehicle practical.
March 2023-To Date
2020-2022
2015 – 2018
2004– 2005
COMMUNITY SERVICE/Volunteer
Sustainable Research and Innovation (SRI) conference Secretary.
Geothermal Rising Student Committee Member.
Welfare group - founding Chairperson, Kenya.
Untrained teacher (Nyongores Secondary School and Tagaruto Primary School in Kenya)
MEMBERSHIP The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - 000*********
Graduate Engineer – Engineers Board of Kenya - B6710.
Member - The Geothermal Research Society of Japan - 272-***-****.
Student Member - Geothermal Rising.
LANGUAGE
SKILLS
English (Native speaker) Swahili (Fluent)
Japanese (Elementary) Korean (Elementary)
COMPUTER
SKILLS
Word Processing & Spreadsheet: Microsoft Word, Excel.
Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint.
Operation Systems: Windows.
Simulation and computer programs: AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor.
EES code, Python basics, MATLAB & Scilab, System Advisor Model
(SAM), and OpenLCA.
Petrasim and Leapfrog Geothermal.
PUBLICATIONS 1. Application of reservoir exergy profile analysis by wellbore simulation on Olkaria Domes geothermal field. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, Geothermics 105, 102478, 2022. 2. Optimization of ORC Power Plants for Geothermal Application in Kenya by Combining Exergy and Pinch Point Analysis AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, Energies 14 (20), 2021. 3. Exergoeconomic Analysis for Optimized Combined Wet and Dry Cooling BinaryPower Plant at Olkaria I, Kenya. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, Geothermics, 95, 102160, 2021. 4. Optimization of ORC Power Plants for Geothermal Application in Kenya by Combining Exergy and Pinch Point Analysis. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, Journal of the Geothermal Research Society of Japan 43 (3), 111-121, 2021.
5. LCOE and Exergoeconomic analysis of Air-cooled Binary Power Plant. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, MZG Malana, 2021 Geothermal Rising Conference: GRC,2021. 6. Life Cycle Assessment of Geothermal Sources in Kenya. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady 2021 Geothermal Rising Conference, GRC 2021.
7. Energy and Exergetic Analysis of a Proposed Olkaria I Binary Geothermal Power Plant, Naivasha, Kenya. AK Bett, EK Rop, S Jalilinasrabady, R Itoi, World Geothermal congress
(WGC) 2020+1, 2021
8. Optimization of Olkaria II Geothermal Brine for a Proposed Binary Unit by Energy and Exergy Analysis K Bett, EK Rop, LKLangat, S Jalilinasrabady, World Geothermal Congress
(WGC) 2020+1, 2021.
9. Energy and Exergy Analysis of BN-06 Wellhead Geothermal Power Plant in Province of Biliran, Philippines. MZG Malana, A Fronda, S Jalilinasrabady, AK Bett, GRC Transactions, 2020.
10. Energy and exergy analysis of Olkaria domes field: Well head and single flash power plants comparison. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady, LK Langat GRC Trans 44, 980-989, 2020 11. Exergonomic analysis of topping unit at Olkaria IV geothermal power plant. AK Bett, S Jalilinasrabady and LK Langat. International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology, CINEST 2020, Fukuoka, Kyushu University, 2020.
12. Optimization of geothermal binary unit by energy, exergy and sustainability index: Comparative study of Olkaria geothermal field in Kenya and Chiweta geothermal field in Malawi. AK Bett, D Moses and S Jalilinasrabady. International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology 2019 (CINEST), pp. 19-24, December 2019. 13. Application of direct utilization of hot springs in Kenya; Majimoto, Mwananyamala and Homa-bay hot springs. AK Bett, J Ngethe, B Jin and S Jalilinasrabady. Annual Meeting of Geothermal Research Society of Japan, Kumamoto, Japan. Nov. 20 – 22, 2019. 14. Quality of Iron Ores in Kenya; Tharaka Nithi and Samia. AK Bett, JA Onyango, SM Maranga, B Rop, Proceedings of Sustainable Research and Innovation Conference, 75-79, 2016.
15. Considerations for Beneficiation of Low-Grade Iron Ore for Steel Making in Kenya. AK Bett, SM Maranga, Proceedings of the Sustainable Research and Innovation conference, 263-267, 2012.
16. Kenyan Iron Ore: Mining and prospects of Processing. AK Bett, SM Maranga, K Ndeto, GK Bett Proceeding of the International Conference on Science and Technology, 2013. 17. Beneficiation of Low-Grade Iron Ore in Kenya. AK Bett, SM Maranga Research and Innovation Proceedings, 2012.
Google Scholar profile
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FKVsXgwAAAAJ&hl=en Research Funds/Awards
Awarded JICA research funds for the year 2023/2024.
IHARA Makoto scholarship, Kyushu University.
Pest presentation award, CINEST conference 2021. END
Contact this candidate