April 17, 2008 |
CHENNAI: J Murugan's house in Palavakkam stands apart from the rest. Quite literally, as the whirring wind turbine on his terrace is the first thing catches your eye. Murugan is perhaps the only person in the city who is using a small windmill to generate power for his domestic needs. "I am just giving it a try," says Murugan, who runs a garage and used car dealership. "Many of my neighbours use alternative sources of energy, and it always interested me. They usually use solar power, installing solar heaters in their homes.
May 14, 2013 |
CHANDIGARH : In a joint project of the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment ( SASE ), a DRDO laboratory in Chandigarh , and the US army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory ( CRREL ), a prototype has been developed to harness wind energy , which can overcome ice and snow accumulation on wind turbine structures. SASE has already installed a10kW capacity wind turbine as a pilot project in Banihal Top, J&K, in which the problems of snow riming and icing (accumulation of snow and ice on structures)
April 11, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: India is quietly going ahead with an ambitious programme to develop its own stealth UCAVs (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) or 'smart' drones capable of firing missiles and bombs at enemy targets with precision. Talking about the secretive AURA (autonomous unmanned research aircraft) programme for the first time, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) told TOI that the aim is to develop the UCAVs for IAF in seven to eight years.
August 26, 2007
How is geothermal energy obtained? Geothermal energy is contained in the intense heat that continually flows outward from deep within the Earth. From Earth's surface down through the crust, the normal temperature gradient (the increase of temperature with increase of depth) is 100 to 300 Celsius per kilometre. In certain areas, water seeping down through cracks and fissures in the crust comes in contact with this hot rock and is heated to high temperatures. Some of this heated water circulates back to the surface and appears as hot springs and geysers.
May 8, 2006 |
MUMBAI: The erstwhile Dabhol power plant, now renamed Ratnagiri Gas and Power, on Monday moved a step closer to full capacity utilisation with the synchronization of steam turbine of the 740 MW Block-II. The project, which has resumed operations after a five-year gap, started generation on May 1 from its first gas turbine of Block-II. At present, the plant is generating about 180 MW and full capacity of Block-II is expected to be available for Maharashtra by the middle of this month, an RGPPL release said.
December 12, 2003 |
NEW DELHI: State-owned power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) has bagged a deal to supply a 15 MW steam turbine generator to Ambuja Cement Eastern's captive power plant in Chhattisgarh. The generator would be installed in the Ambuja Cement Eastern Ltd's plant in Bhatapara near Raipur to meet the facility's total power requirements, a release has said. Bhel has earlier supplied and commissioned a 15 MW STG set for the private company's group concern Gujarat Ambuja Cement's captive power plant at Maratha Cement Factory near Chandrapur in Maharashtra, the release said.
September 12, 2011 |
NAGPUR: Aero Turbines India Ltd, which had earlier planned to set up a maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) depot at the Mihan-special economic zone (SEZ) but had put the venture on hold, now appears ready to go-ahead with the project. The company had earlier tied up with Duke Equity and funds were supposed to be sourced from the US. The partnership, however, did not work out as funds could not be arranged on account of 2008 recession. This left Aero Turbines looking for new allies in the venture.
October 27, 2012 |
BANGALORE: Just when Bangalore is staring at a sea of garbage piling on its streets, one Bangalorean has shown how waste can be effectively converted into fuel. And he has done it in Malaysia , which has successfully adapted his technology. KS Sivaprasad holds the patent for developing the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Power System — a technology that converts mixed garbage to fuel to finally produce power. Today, he is director (technical advisor) of Core Competencies, a Malaysian firm which provides electricity to 2 lakh people there.
April 21, 2013 |
PUNE: A small windmill in your backyard, its blades turning with the incoming gust of wind, generating electricity that can be harnessed to charge your generator and power enough bulbs to light up your house. Sounds too incredulous? For retired navy captain VijayrajPathak , it was more a case of necessity that made him create a prototype of a windmill which can do all this and more at his farmhouse in Pirangut . Made at a cost of less than Rs 1500, Pathak calls his windmill the 'Aam Aadmi model'.
November 22, 2012 |
BANGALORE: General Electric (GE) will make an additional investment of $60 million in its technology centre in Bangalore over the next three years and take the headcount in the centre to 5,000 by the end of this financial year. The centre currently has over 4,500 people doing cutting edge research and development in areas like energy, healthcare and aviation and is GE's largest integrated multidisciplinary R&D centre outside the US. The $147-billion company's MD for the India technology centre, Gopichand Katragadda, said here on Thursday that new hiring would focus on senior level positions to further deepen the technological strength of the centre.