This case portrays the experimental foray of Eveready Industries Limited in a new line of business when faced with dire consequences of survival of its core battery business. The battery business was severely hit because of cheap Chinese imports and from a position of domestic market leader,...

India is currently one of the fastest growing major economies in the world. Sustaining a high growth rate is believed to be critical for India to alleviate poverty in the country, since it feeds more than a billion people. Energy, being a key enabler of a country’s economic growth and...

India is the world’s third largest consumer of energy. It is widely acknowledged that the role of energy efficiency (EE) in reducing India’s carbon dioxide emissions and improving energy security is critical. Achieving the overarching goal of increasing EE in South Asia would be enabled by a...

The Ministry of Power, Government of India, defines Demand Side Management (DSM) as ‘actions of a Distribution Licensee (Utility), beyond the customer's meter, with the objective of altering the end-use of electricity - whether it is to increase demand, decrease it, shift it between high and...

The hydrology of high altitude glacierized basin in Himalaya is complex to understand due to high variability in climate and lack of hydro-meteorological data. In this study, analysis of hydrological, glacier ablation and meteorological records have been made for Dunagiri Glacier (~4,200 m)...

Soil loss due to water erosion was estimated in Kangra region of western Himalaya using revised universal soil loss equation modelling (RUSLE) in conjunction with Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The various parameters such as rainfall erosivity (R), soil erodibility...

In this paper, we discuss two new computational techniques for solving a generalized fully fuzzy linear system (FFLS) with arbitrary triangular fuzzy numbers (m,α,β). The methods eliminate the non-negative restriction on the fuzzy coefficient matrix that has been considered by almost every...

Western Canada is endowed with considerable reserves of deep un-mineable coal, which can be converted to syngas by means of a gasification process called underground coal gasification (UCG). The syngas can be transformed into hydrogen (H2) through commercially available technologies employed in...

A model-FUNNEL-GHG-OS (FUNdamental ENgineering PrinciplEs- based ModeL for Estimation of GreenHouse Gases in the Oil Sands) based on fundamental engineering principles was developed to estimate the specific energy consumption and GHGs (greenhouse gas emissions) for upgrading bitumen to produce...