Performance evaluation of knapsack type portable engine operated cotton picker

Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker

Ergonomics evaluation of a lever-operated knapsack sprayer.

The lever-operated knapsack sprayer, a manually operated piece of equipment, is widely used by Indian farmers for the application of agricultural chemicals. The study reported here is an ergonomics evaluation of one model of this type of sprayer. Data on 18 body dimensions and the shape of the back were collected for 10 subjects and their relevance in sprayer design are discussed. During the op...

Effects of Engine Cooling Water Temperature on Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Compression Ignition Engine Operated with Biofuel Blend

The temperature of the coolant is known to have significant influence on engine performance and emissions. Whereas existing literature describes the effects of coolant temperature in engines using fossil derived fuels, very few studies have investigated these effects when biofuel is used. In this study, Jatropha oil was blended separately with ethanol and butanol. It was found that the 80% jatr...

Improvement of Performance of Dual Fuel Engine Operated at Part Load

Rising petroleum prices, an increasing threat to the environment from exhaust emissions, global warming and the threat of supply instabilities has led to the choice of inedible Mahua oil (MO) as one of the main alternative fuels to diesel oil in India. In the present work, MO was converted into biodiesel by transesterification using methanol and sodium hydroxide. The cost of Mahua oil biodiesel...

Evaluation of Directive-based Performance Portable Programming Models

We present an extended exploration of the performance portability of directives provided by OpenMP 4 and OpenACC to program various types of node architectures with attached accelerators, both self-hosted multicore and offload multicore/GPU. Our goal is to examine how successful OpenACC and the newer offload features of OpenMP 4.5 are for moving codes between architectures, and we document how ...