India will require increasingly higher energy inputs for future industrial and economic development. Overall growth of energy consumption will result in substantially higher emissions of CO2. We present emission rates of CO2 based on India's actual fuel consumption. It is estimated that use of...

In a renewable energy-based system, energy storage must match the energy demand with supply. Usually a lead-acid battery is utilised as a short-term energy buffer. A system, which has a combination of an electrolyser and a high-pressure hydrogen tank for long-term energy storage, is considered...

In a renewable energy-based system, energy storage must match the energy demand with supply. Usually a lead-acid battery is utilised as a short-term energy buffer. A system, which has a combination of an electrolyser and a high-pressure hydrogen tank for long-term energy storage, is considered...

This paper deals with MARKAL allocations for various energy sources, in India, for Business As Usual (BAU) scenario and for the case of exploitation of energy saving potential in various sectors of economy. In the BAU scenario, the electrical energy requirement will raise up to 5000 bKwh...

Present trends of electrical energy supply and demand are not sustainable because of the huge gap between demand and supply in foreseeable future in India. The path towards sustainability is exploitation of energy conservation and aggressive use of renewable energy systems. Potential of...

An earlier expression for the heat transfer coefficient between the heated surface and the flowing fluid used in the investigation of the performance of a few collector/storage systems leads to results which are physically impractical. In this communication we derive the correct expression for...

A periodic analysis of the novel [`]transwall' for passive heating is described and the thermal flux entering an air-conditioned space through the [`]transwall' is evaluated. Numerical calculations have been performed corresponding to the meteorological data of the 11th of January at Boulder,...

Based on the periodic solution of the heat conduction equation, an analysis has been developed to study the thermal performance of a simple domestic solar water-heating system consisting of a thermal-trap solar-energy collector, connected to a water tank. To study the effects of typical...

Sensitivity analysis is a technique that evaluates the model response to changes in input assumptions. Due to uncertain prices of primary fuels in the world market, Government regulations for sustainability and various other technical parameters there is a need to analyze the techno-economic...