Delhi Technological University

About: Delhi Technological University is a education organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Control theory. The organization has 4427 authors who have published 6761 publications receiving 71035 citations. The organization is also known as: Delhi College of Engineering & DTU.

Role of cloud computing in education

Abstract: Educational Institutions are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less and they need to find ways to offer rich, affordable services and tools. Cloud computing has the potential to provide computation and storage resources as services. Both the public as well as the private institutions can use the cloud computing to deliver better services with limited resources. Around 45 million people will be in the age group of 18 to 20 years by 2020 in India. To make available quality education for them will be challenging task. This paper is an analytical study on role of cloud computing in education.

Prioritisation and evaluation of barriers intensity for implementation of cleaner technologies: Framework for sustainable production

Abstract: In the era of circular economy, the economic growth of a country is highly dependent on the sustainable performance of its manufacturing sector. Therefore, it is mandatory to develop technology with maximum efficiency and minimum pollution to make manufacturing sector sustainable and competitive. Hence cleaner technology is an ingenious option to maintain potential for increasing effectiveness of manufacturing processes. Cleaner technologies application is the modern integrated approach in manipulating pollutants and wastes in industries. “Cleaner Technology” is all about less and more systematic energy and materials use. For manufacturing organisations to be globally competitive and sustainable, it is necessary to implement cleaner technologies in different functions. Organisations face number of barriers while implementing cleaner technologies. It becomes indispensable to measure the influence of these barriers for formulating strategic approach to implement cleaner technologies. On the basis of literature review and experts’ opinion, four categories of barriers, namely technical information barriers, operational and strategic barriers, financial and economic barriers and human barriers are identified. In this study, hybrid approach comprising of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and graph theoretic approach (GTA) has been used. First prioritisation of different categories of barriers by AHP has been done and second, GTA has been applied for finding the barriers intensity index. Based on this study, finance and economic barriers have emerged as major hurdle in implementing cleaner technologies. Proposed framework will help organisations in quantifying barriers in implementing cleaner technologies in different processes thereby developing effective strategies for sustainable production.

The impact of microplastics on marine environment: A review

Abstract: With increase in population, waste management is becoming a major issue, further recent studies also highlighted another serious issue of marine litter. It was observed that the human generated waste is accumulating in marine environment, with presence of high amounts of microplastics in water bodies such as rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. Research has highlighted that U.V light and low temperature helps in the breakdown of normal plastic into smaller pieces, which we generally referred as microplastics and through runoff, it enters into marine environment. Generally microplastics composed of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and nylon etc. With lack of efficient management, the concentration of these microplastics is increasing at an alarming rate, which not only affect the marine environment, but it is directly affecting the marine life. Some recent investigations have shown that marine environment closer to urban areas have higher levels of microplastics and aquatic animals of these areas have shown high accumulation of microplastics in their tissues. Further, it has also been reported that the other water pollutants, such as dyes, heavy metals and other chemicals can easily attach with microplastics and these microplastics also act as a carrier of other pollutants in the body of aquatic animals, which further enters into food chain. The present review provides an overview of the microplastics, its fate and its toxic effects to environment and marine health.