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International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy Volume 7 Issue 5

Subject Areas: Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers - Inderscience Publishers
ISSN: 1472-8923
SJR: 16

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Performance evaluation of locality-based compact solar refrigeration system

Achuthan, M.; Rathnasamy, Rangasamygounder

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045233

Cooling system with low capacity utilising solar power can be widely used for remote and rural cooling applications. This paper describes the trend of solar insolation for a period of one year at Tiruvannamalai town, a district capital in Tamil Nadu state, South India which is geographically...
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Automation of energy management system in Rourkela steel plant: a case study

Panigrahy, Rajat Kumar; Panda, Ashok Kumar; Patnaik, Srikanta

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045234

The growth of economy and population worldwide has caused heavy increase in demand for energy and steel. The source of energy is reducing day by day. The steel sector is one of the largest consumers of energy. Lot of measures to make the steel sector energy efficient is to be taken such as...
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Performance and energy analyses of a diesel engine fuelled with Koroch seed oil methyl ester and its diesel fuel blends

Gogoi, Tapan Kumar; Baruah, Debendra Chandra

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045235

Performance of a single cylinder four-stroke diesel engine is analysed in the light of first law of thermodynamics in this study considering 10% (B10) to 40% (B40) (by volume) blending of Koroch seed oil methyl ester (KSOME) with diesel as fuels. An energy balance study is carried out to quantify...
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Effects of injection timing on the performance and emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with diethyl ether blended thevetia peruviana biodiesel

Kannan, T.K.; Marappan, R.

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045238

Fast depletion of petroleum reserves and existing emission norms drive us to search for the apt fuel for the IC engines. Biodiesel derived from vegetable oils is being tried now-a-days in most of the researches. A number of researches are in progress to reduce the emissions by using various...
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Exergy analysis of gas turbine – solid oxide fuel cell-based combined cycle power plant

Sreeramulu, M.; Gupta, A.V.S.S.K.S.; Srinivas, T.

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045239

Fuel cell technology is one of the promising systems for cleaner and competitive alternate power generation systems. When the high temperature fuel cells like solid oxide fuel cell and molten carbon fuel cell are integrated with the gas turbines, the total thermal efficiency of the combined cycle...
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Selection and economical evaluation of solar desalination technologies via DesalSolar software

Ladjevardi, Seyed Mojtaba

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045232

Worldwide projection indicated that in 2020 the situation of water resources in Iran reach to scarcity. Besides, global warming and energy crisis have forced countries to use renewable energy resources. Solar desalination technologies particularly in remote area of Iran could be a method to...
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The performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine using preheated Kusum oil and Kusum diesel blend

Acharya, Saroj Kumar; Swain, Ranjan Kumar; Mohanty, Mahendra Kumar; Mishra, Asit Kumar; Mahapatra, Susila

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045236

Rapidly depleting conventional petroleum resources have prompted research for alternative fuels. Among various possible options for internal combustion engines, fuels derived from triglycerides (vegetable oils/animal fats) are a promising substitute for diesel fuel. Vegetable oils pose some...
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Technological innovations and energy intensity of machine tool SMEs in Bangalore: do process innovations contribute to energy efficiency?

Bala Subrahmanya, M.H.; Kumar, R. Sudhir

2011 International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

doi:10.1504/IJETP.2011.045237

This paper explores the relationship between technological process innovations and energy intensity growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the machine tools industry of Bangalore, India. It empirically substantiates that SMEs, which carry out process innovations with the objective of...

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