The world is faced with increased energy resources depletion, fluctuating costs, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and poor health effects which characterise traditional energy sources. All of these difficulties would be considerably alleviated if renewable energy were not widely used.This study draws from existing literature to propose a conceptual model that underpinned the focus on the relationship between solar energy projects and sustainability dimensions (economic, social and environmental sustainability). Socio-economic factors and technical complexities were tested to ascertain the moderating effect on solar energy and sustainability. A mixed research approach comprising quantitative and qualitative methodologies was integrated to carry out this study. The qualitative study was based on a case study of an ITC centre powered by solar energy in an academic institution in Nigeria. While the quantitative study depended on a survey with 227 valid responses taken through snowball sampling from the professionals working in the energy industry. Hierarchical multiple regression using SPSS 26 was carried out for the moderation analysis of the socio-economic factors and technical complexities towards sustainability dimensions. Results showed that solar energy has a strong positive direct effect on sustainability in all aspects of economic, social and environmental dimensions. The socio-economic factors are seen to have a moderating effect on the positive relationship between solar energy and all the three dimensions of sustainability, whereas technical complexities determine inverse moderating effect only on the relationship between solar energy and economic sustainability. The findings predicted that the socio-factors are the major challenges in hindering the overall sustainability in Africa rather than technical complexities, hence lead to a major concern for

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The deposition of wax on pipelines causes problems that affect oil production rate and the facilities. Several preventive and control measures were employed to manage this problem. However, there is no single technique that is hundred per cent effective for different fields. Therefore, this article provides new interpretation of the associated risk of the problem – such as the impact of ethical and professionalism on wax deposition. It sheds more light on the need for the implementation of sound engineering practices during pipeline design, construction, and operations to reduce wax deposition risks and the associated remediation costs. The laboratory case study revealed that crude oil properties (such as wax appearance temperature (WAT), pour point (PP), and density), standard operating conditions and procedures must be accurate and continuously updated throughout the production life cycle. The results showed that maintaining crude oil temperature above wax appearance temperature (30°C) and at a relatively high flow rate particularly within the turbulent flow region (7, 9 and 11 l/min) provides a safe and uninterrupted production of waxy crude oil (δwax ≈ 0 mm).