The main objective of the present study is to design, develop and investigate the thermal performance of a suitable indoor solar hybrid cooking system using thermal energy storage materials. For this reason, a parabolic ...
The thesis presents development of alternative dielectric fluid for power and distribution transformer. It addresses the nanofluid (NF) development and modification in the transformer oil (TO). It also addresses the ...
Due to the rise in greenhouse gas in earth atmosphere and global climate change, attention has been focused on harvesting energy from renewable resources such as solar, wind, hydro, biomass, geothermal tidal, wave, and ...
The major objective of the present study is to develop small-scale alcohol fuel-based enzymatic biofuel cells (EFCs) for power generation and alcohol biosensing applications using alcohol oxidase (AOx) as anodic catalyst. ...
The current study focuses on physico-chemical characterization and pretreatment of three commonly available lignocellulosic biomasses of North-East India such as Castor (Ricinus communis), Jatropha (Jatropha curcas), and ...
Butenes serve as the essential feedstock for production of many valuable chemicals. Demand and market value of butenes have experienced a surge in recent years. This work investigated the production of butene by dehydrogenation ...
Intensifying environmental issues, the rising demand for energy, political apprehensions and the medium-way depletion of fossil fuels has generated the prerequisite for development of sustainable technologies based on ...
Biogas produced from anaerobic digestion of organic waste is one of the potential alternative biofuels and is economically feasible, which might benefit the future energy supply demands as well as contribute to a reduction ...
The present thesis contains seven (07) chapters. Chapter 1 introduces metal halide perovskite (MHP) material and MHP based solar cells. Chapter 2 describes the deposition process of MAPbI3 thin films and the fabrication ...
Energy storage systems are essential for the practical implementation of renewable energy systems because the majority of renewable energy sources are intermittent in nature. Supercapacitors (SCs) are one of the most ...
The utilization of plant biofuel based Jatropha curcas feedstock is emerging as promising solution to problems of depletion of fossil fuel, fuel crisis and concern over global climate change. Large scale profitable cultivation ...
Multilayer/superlattice structures of a-Si:H/nc-Si:H, show many interesting features such as enhanced carrier mobility and enhance photosensitivity etc. Superlattice structures based on amorphous layer have also been ...
Pyrolysis is one of the emerging techniques for waste management through the production of bio-oil and bio-char. Bio-oil is a source of numerous platform chemicals that can be extracted. However, the low fraction of these ...
Pressurized circulating fluidized bed (PCFB) is gaining popularity among the scientific community in utilizing low grade fuel for the combustion and gasification applications due to its in-built capability of capturing of ...
In developing countries, kerosene is considered as one of the principal cooking fuels and it is normally burnt in two kinds of stoves: wick type and pressure type. The pressure type stoves perform reasonably well; however ...
A potential and promising green liquid fuel is biodiesel, which can be blended with petroleum diesel. The new and economic alternate feedstocks for biodiesel include microalgal lipids. Simultaneously, microalgae are promising ...
In view of globalization and energy consumption, an economic and sustainable biorefinery model is essential to address energy security and climate change. Recently, biofuel production from microalgae under the biorefinery ...
Physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) is emerging as a sustainable alternative source of bio-fuel for mitigation of global energy crisis. However, profitable exploitation of J. curcas through large scale production schemes is ...