One of the most common appliances in today’s households is the refrigerator, for cooling and preserving food. Continuous maintenance of correct compartment temperature is the key factor which contributes to food quality ...

Energy productivity is a critical factor for the Sri Lankan manufacturing industries which is a critical issue that affects the cost of production. Efficiency in consumption of energy and its conservation would be one of ...

Analysis of free surface vortices formation in a horizontal type water intake structure of Samanala Power Station has in this study been carried out with the help of “Flow-3D” Computational Fluid Dynamic software. A numerical ...

Conduction, convection and radiation are the principle modes of transferring heat from a source to sink. In a furnace, when the operating temperature is above 10000C, radiation heat transfer will be the predominant mode ...

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. ...

Economic potential of energy conservation in a five star hotel was established. The selected site was the Hotel Lanka Oberoi, Colombo. The electrical energy demand and the thermal energy demand of the hotel were assessed ...

In this research project, characteristics of mini hydro power schemes which affect to the performance of the scheme were analyzed. The main objective of the project was to develop an analytical criterion to estimate the ...

Compared to the other countries in the region, Sri Lanka has a deep penetration of approximately 75% of grid electricity. However, providing electricity every rural household is a difficult goal, without employing off-grid ...

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 ...