National Institute of Technology, Karnataka

About: National Institute of Technology, Karnataka is a education organization based out in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Corrosion. The organization has 5017 authors who have published 7057 publications receiving 70367 citations.

Comprehensive review on solar, wind and hybrid wind-PV water pumping systems-an electrical engineering perspective

Abstract: In India, the demand for water is continuously increasing due to the growing population. Approximately 16.5% of all country's electricity used to pump this water is from fossil fuels leading to increased pump Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. With the recent advancement in power electronics and drives, renewables like solar photovoltaic and wind energy are becoming readily available for water pumping applications resulting in the reduction of GHG emissions. Recently, research towards AC motor based Water Pumping Systems (WPS) has received a great emphasis owing to its numerous merits. Further, considering the tremendous acceptance of renewable sources, especially solar and wind, this paper provides a detailed review of single-stage and multi-stage WPS consisting of renewable source powered AC motors. The critical review is performed based on the following figure of merits, including the type of motor, power electronics interface and associated control strategies. Also, to add to the reliability of solar PV WPS, hybrid Wind-PV WPS will be discussed in detail. Readers will be presented with the state-of-the- art technology and research directions in Renewable Energy-based WPS (REWPS) to improve the overall system efficiency and hence reduce the payback period.

Nanoquenchants for Industrial Heat Treatment

Abstract: The present work outlines the possibility of using nanofluids for industrial heat treatment. Development of nanoquenchants having (i) high quench severity for enhancement of heat transfer for thick sections with low quench sensitivity and (ii) low cooling severity for thin sections with high quench sensitivity would be extremely useful to the heat treating community. The temperature dependent heat transfer coefficient and the wettability of the medium are the two important parameters that can be used to characterize a nanoquenchant to assess its suitability for industrial heat treatment.

Localization in resource constrained sensor networks using a mobile beacon with in-ranging

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a mechanism for the problem of localization in resource constrained sensor networks by extending the principles of in-range technique using a mobile beacon. The main advantage of this mechanism is that, it inherits all the advantages of in-range technique, eliminates the need to deploy beacons in the sensor network and satisfy the requirements of localization algorithms for the sensor networks. Location awareness of sensor nodes plays a critical role in most of the sensor network applications. Our mechanism assumes only a basic communication capability of sensor nodes and does not require any additional infrastructure. We employ a single mobile beacon equipped with a GPS receiver for localization. Each broadcast position of the mobile beacon acts as a stationary beacon at that point (known as a virtual beacon) thereby eliminating the need to deploy GPS equipped beacons in the sensor network. The motion of the mobile beacon localizes some of the sensor nodes, which in turn aid in localization of their neighbors using the iterative in-range technique. Simulation results are presented to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism. An implementation on sensor network of MICA2 motes is used to evaluate the functionality of the proposed algorithm.