This paper presents the outcome of the Sri Lanka case study on assessing the economic impact of power interruptions on industry in the South Asia region, comprising the countries of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and India. ...

The usage of textiles in a variety of geotechnical applications is increasing very rapidly. In most applications, fabrics made of synthetic fibres are preferred but there is growing interest for the use of fabrics made of ...

Reverse running of standard centrifugal pumps as turbines (PAT), or more particularly pump-motor (PM) sets as turbine-generator (TO) sets had been advocated for some time, especially for mini/micro-hydro applications. This ...

In the information age, security is a critical issue faced by many organizations. There are three basic means of letting only authorized people in and keeping unauthorized people out. These are the use of passwords, ...

Information technology has been used in Sri Lanka for about 20 years, but to a great extent, its use has been limited to those with a knowledge of English. And as these are a minority of the population, the larger proportion ...

The effects of substrate surface loading rate on biofilm growth and structure were investigated by chemical, biochemical and microscopic methods. Three tubular reactors were operated at equal C:N ratio of 0.1, with ...

A number of proposed highways in Sri Lanka are to be constructed over sites underlain by soft peaty clays, due to scarcity of lands. In order to ensure that the in service settlements of these roads are _4 small enough and ...

Despite rapid increases in the building industry’s contribution to resource depletion, waste generation and energy consumption, the creation of built environment remains vital to a country’s economic development. This ...

Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental problem of agricultural based developing countries since it remove soils rich in nutrients, increase natural level of sedimentation in rivers and other water bodies ...

Sri Lanka has a hydropower dominated power system with approximately two thirds of its generation capacity based on large hydro plants. The remaining one third are based on oil fired thermal generation with varying ...