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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Biomass plays an important role in Sri Lanka Energy Sector. The consumption of
biomass in the commercial and household sector is declining due the popularity of fossil
fuels. Consumption of biomass is getting less popular ...
This study aimed to investigate the indoor thermal performance of different roofing and
ceiling alternatives and their configurations used for residential buildings in Sri Lanka. In
this regard, a basic residential ...
The objective ofthis study is to analyse potential technology possibility under the CDM in power
generation sector. This study is a theoretical study focused on the survey ofthe current state ofthe art
ofCDM and related ...
Inviscid analytical-numerical model for predicting unsteady forces on two aerofoil configurations is developed and validated with the past literature. First the unsteady inviscid, incompressible and irrotational, except ...
An analysis of global, beam and diffuse solar radiation on horizontal and 7° tilt about east west axis and facing due south orientation at Hambanthota was carried out to assess the solar resource potential in dry zone of ...
Corrosion is the gradual destruction of material, usually metal, by chemical reaction with its environment. Usually the corrosion rate cannot be measured directly which needs sample preparation, fixing of samples in a ...
The Kelly bar is a bulky, long and heavy device that is used in piling. The Kelly bar surface is not smooth and contains ribs and grooves. The Drilling process makes many damages to the Kelly bar. These damages are required ...
With the growing distresses on carbon emission and sustainable energy concepts, the whole world appreciates the movements towards sustainable energy consumption. Statistics point out that over 50% of total electricity ...