Many developing countries have encouraged private sector participation in infrastructure activities during the 1990s, including the development of private electricity generation plants, known as independent power projects. The development of power projects involves multiple sets of negotiations...

At one hand, various factors like food production, rising food prices, poverty, unemployment, climate changes, efficient public distribution of food, affecting the food security are the major concerns at domestic front, passing of ambitious Food Security Bill in Sep, 2013 by UPA government in...

Conventionally, the economic growth of a country is appraised in form of gross domestic product (GDP). In Bihar, the per capita net state domestic product (NSDP) is the lowest among the major states in Inida, and it is only one-third of the national level of per capita GDP. The services,...

Following the global trend, India declared its biofuel policy in which biodiesel, primarily from jatropha, would meet 20% of the diesel demand beginning with 2011-2012. To promote biofuel, Indian government has announced biodiesel purchase price as well as compulsory blending ratio. But, these...

This paper deals with the application of finite-time heat-transfer theory to optimize ecologically the power output of an endoreversible and regenerative gas-turbine power-cycle for infinite thermal-capacitance rates to and from the reservoirs. The expressions for power, thermal efficiency, and...