Metal Working Fluids (MWFs) play a significant role in metal machining operations and vastly used in aerospace, automotive and marine industries to produce high tech components. The main purpose of using MWF during cutting ...
An optimization of soot blowing operation was carried out for Unit No.3 for Lakvijaya Power Plant in Sri Lanka. Average coal flow rate and flue gas temperature are the key indicators of boiler performance with soot blowing ...
Economic feasibility of having a grid connected hybrid energy system, consist of wind, solar, biomass (rice husk) & municipal solid waste (MSW) technologies for Kalpitiya peninsula was studied. Four (04) different microgrid ...
Energy crisis first experienced in the world during 1975, since then it is ever rising phenomenon felt by every human being on earth. This is due to accelerated industrialization of the world and rapid growth of standard ...
In modern material world, important consideration is given to the group of fascinating materials called shape memory materials (SMMs) which respond quickly to a definite change of heat, light and chemical. The shape memory ...
The present technical context is promptly growing in implementing onsite microfluidic utensils utilized in microfluidics owing to their great demand. The microfluidics mainly involves in implementing minuscule devices to ...
Demand for electricity during a day, varies with the time due to various factors. Electricity demand of Sri Lanka for a typical day could easily be divided into three main categories. One segment characterizes a very high ...
Increasing passenger density makes indoor state of train compartments not thermally
comfortable. Air conditioned train compartments have been introduced to provide
comfortable pleasant interior environment to the passengers. ...
Energy consumed in the building sector consists of residential and commercial end
users and it accounts for 20.1% of the total delivered energy consumed worldwide
[22].Global primary energy demand is projected to increase ...
Waterproofing is the process of rendering an object or surface resistant to water. Importance of waterproofing in construction cannot be overstated. It is essential for durability, hygiene and also for a pleasant appearance. ...
One billion of the world population are estimated to have some form of disability, and governments spend huge amounts of money to provide welfare facilities to protect their rights and make them inclusive. The literature ...
Steam boilers constitute an important part of a production facility. Though traditionally, fossil fuel has been used predominantly in steam boilers, the environmental impacts of using fossil fuel and the higher economics ...
Oily sludge is a process waste of thermal power plants that use heavy fuel oil for power generation. At present, the oily sludge is sold or incinerated from the power stations belonging to Ceylon Electricity Board. Since ...
This thesis is concerned with the development of a novel learning algorithm based method for detection of defects on patterned, textured surfaces of warp knitted fabric surfaces using neural networks. The acquired images ...
A thermoacoustic generator is an energy conversion device. It converts thermal energy into acoustic energy by using the stack. That is porous medium that contains a large number of channels. The acoustic energy can be ...
The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is considered as one of the most promising methods to convert low grade heat into the power. The ORC energy conversion process is much similar to the typical Rankine cycle except for the ...
In this study, the technical and financial performances of the first tri-generation plant installed in Sri Lanka were evaluated. This plant was installed at Tee Jay Lanka PLC; a leading knit fabric manufacturer in the local ...
The human hand is an is an exceptionally significant part of the human body with a very
complex biological system having bones, joints, and muscles, to provide many degrees of
freedom. Among all the grasp patterns of ...
Effect of Air and Chilled Emulsion Minimum Quantity Lubrication in
Machining Hard to Cut Metals
A novel approach of cutting fluid application was developed and its performance in
machining hard to cut metalswas investigated. ...
Coir peat which is a by-product of extracting fibre from coconut husk is considered an
excellent growing media in horticulture industry. The basic features of coco peat is
having good water holding capacity, ability to ...