Energy is one of the most vital contribut ions to sustainable development strategy of Sri Lanka. However, the r ising cost of energy generation, the deplet ion and the unpredictability of availability of energy resources ...

The most common motorized vehicle used for garbage transportation in Sri Lanka is the tractor with an open trailer. Garbage is transported in an open system causing unpleasantness, pollution, bad smell, poor hygiene and ...

Water turbines have been used in electricity generation for well over a century. Hydroelectricity now supplies 19% of world electricity and 44% (as at 2012) of Sri Lanka's electricity also comes from hydropower. Micro Hydro ...

Roofs of residential buildings play a crucial role in the context of building heat gains and thermal comfort, since they are exposed to a significant portion of insolation during the day. Therefore, it is important to ...

This study is aimed to investigate the energy and thermal performances of the airport passenger terminal buildings in Sri Lanka that use different glazing alternatives. In this regard, one of the passenger terminal buildings ...

Management of municipal solid waste is a severe issue locally and globally too, since its generation is increasing day by day. Many social, health and environmental problems occur around the Municipal solid waste dump ...

Computational study of scavenging flow in a typical small vehicle engine is accomplished using multi-dimensional moving-mesh unsteady and quasi-steady models. A representative two-stroke 5 port engine was selected and ...

In Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Cool Thermal Storage (CTS), is a popular demand side management technology for shifting electrical demand for cooling from peak time to off peak time periods in most of ...

In this research work natural bio polymer “chitosan” was synthesized using locally available shrimp shells and adsorption of chromium by chitosan was studied. Synthesize of chitosan involved four main stages as preconditioning, ...