In small-scale hydropower scheme, the most important component is electro-mechanical equipment. Since cost contribution of this component is high because hydrokinetic projects require negligible civil works. Turbine and alternator contribute a major fraction of the hydrokinetic projects. Thus, there is a requirement to estimates the electromechanical equipment cost for a hydrokinetic hydropower...

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The study explores to identify the psychological factors of technostress in organizations. The data was collected from 100 employees holding middle managerial positions in various IT organizations, based in India. The Cronbach‟s alpha of the questionnaire was found to be 0.786 & Pearson correlation was 0.912 (p<0.001). The factor analysis of the component „psychological factors of technostress‟...

This paper, through a case study on the BBC Backstage project, argues that the continuing convergence of media and ICT sectors has encouraged a powerful elite audience group to emerge – what I term “techno elite” in this paper. The techno elite usually have access to the latest knowledge and cutting-edge hardware, and is equipped with good skills of manipulating, configuring and re-configuring ...

In this study, the life cycle costs of railway projects involving hybrid diesel-electric vehicles are analysed. Specifically, analysis focuses on comparison 3 lithium-ion battery technologies (NMC, LTO and LFP) 8 energy management strategies (including rule-based optimization-based strategies). order to develop analysis, a methodology that returns cost each proposed case is presented. The inclu...

The research aimed to apply the Taguchi method for techno-economical evaluation of Cr+6 removal using the electro-coagulation process with the aid of two different coagulants (FeCl3 and PAC). Taguchi orthogonal array L27 (313) was applied for analyzing the effect of four variables including initial pH, reaction time, current density and coagulant types in an attempt to improve the chromium remo...

High-temperature steam/CO 2 electrolysis process has been the scope of study for last decades. This confers a feasible and environmental approach to convert low-carbon electrical energy into chemical energy, stored in form synthetic gas (H CO) be further processed line with final use target. It focuses on Power-to-Methane technology using high-temperature molten carbonates electrolyzer (MCEC). ...

Due to high nutritive quality, good techno-functional properties and low cost, legume protein products are becoming the most appropriate alternative to protein products of animal origin. In food industries, these products are usually used as techno-functional additives which provide specific characteristics of final food products. Legume proteins are commonly used as flour, concentrates, and is...

We present a techno-economic analysis of services deployed over integrated satellite-terrestrial networks which employ an Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architecture. Our methodology provides a systematic procedure to assess the gains of various service integration scenarios, initially identifying the technical capabilities for which ICN can provide advantages and considering the requirem...