Energy, economy and development (EED) triangle: Concerns for India

In this paper we discuss issues involving energy security with economic growth and development that brings out (i) the dimension of physical security alternative, (ii) framework for a pan South East Asian platform to support energy security and (iii) requirement of promoting regional energy cooperation and specific energy peace initiatives. Sustaining projected economic growth rate coupled with energy security in future is a concern for all developing countries like India. The energy security of these nations is threatened by the disruption of energy supplies by ongoing energy terrorism and geopolitical conflicts in the region. India's geo-strategic position and increasing energy dependence raises concerns for its energy security. We discuss energy security, examine factors and approaches to attempt the energy security in the light of economic growth and development.Energy security Energy terrorism Regional cooperation

A review of the thermal performance parameters of box type solar cookers and identification of their correlations

One of the many thermal performance parameters such as efficiency, cooking power, figures of merit etc. are used to evaluate a solar cooker (including box type) based on test procedures which are non-identical. In the absence of an interrelation between the different performance parameters, it is very difficult to compare the cookers' performance reported by different researchers and establish the criteria required for selection of a cooker which can accomplish cooking successfully and satisfactorily. In this review paper, some of the performance parameters and the related test procedures have been reviewed for box type solar cooker. Further an attempt has been made to identify common links between the different performance parameters in terms of a few objective parameters. This provides an enabling tool to the researchers to compare and correlate the different performance parameters. Three such objective parameters have been identified for box type solar cookers.Thermal performance parameters Objective parameters Box type cooker Figures of merit Cooking power

Non-hydrolytic synthesis of hierarchical TiO2 nanostructures using natural cellulosic materials as both oxygen donors and templates

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