Combustion inside a cooking stove is complicated to understand and describe. The process is highly dependant on the inlet conditions, fuel used and the geometry of the stove. It is very difficult to predict the distributions ...

Mixing impellers are used to dissolve solutes in solvents, disperse solids in liquids and emulsify immiscible liquids. A system that needs mixing can be classified as a low viscosity system, a medium viscosity system or a ...

The presence of infusible and insoluble strong three-dimensional chemical networks in waste and used vulcanized rubbers creates a major issue. The development of a suitable technology to reverse the vulcanization process ...

Rapid population growth in third world cities has resulted in rapid urban growth at an unmanageable scale, because cities have been unable to deal with it within their existing physical political and socioeconomic framework. ...

Ratmalana-Moratuwa industrial area has been subject to heavy pollution from various industries for more than a decade. This area is believed to have been polluted with heavy metals that have some drastic adverse impacts ...

One of the primary objectives of the building designer should be to ensure that the built environment is thermally comfortable to its occupants, possibly throughout the day and round the year. Therefore, this should receive ...

A country must produce what its people want, or more, for it to develop or even to survive. Academic knowledge alone cannot produce any tangible product on its own. This when converted to practically useable knowledge, ...

In non-steel manufacturing countries like Sri Lanka, where the cost of heavy rolled steel sections are very high, composite floor trusses tend to provide an economical solution in achieving moderate spans in the range of ...

With the emergence of personal robotics applications, mobile robotics technology has reached beyond the factory floor into unstructured environments that have not been specifically engineered for robots. In contrast to ...

Improper construction techniques, poor quality of materials and incorrect quantities of binder and aggregate used are the possible reasons for the inferior quality of surface dressings. Premature failure due to the first ...