Chillers consume more than 40% of the total energy used in the commercial and industrial buildings for space conditioning. In this paper, energy consumption by chillers and chilled water pumps, condenser pumps and fan motors has been estimated using data collected by a walkthrough energy audit...

The demand for electricity in the Maldives continues to increase by more than 11% in recent years. This is mainly due to the growing number of high-rise air-conditioned buildings and the increasing use of electrical appliances in the residential and commercial sector. This paper investigates...

Rice straw supply costs were estimated and the supply potential was analyzed to determine the optimum amount of recourses and rice straw power plants. The logistic cost consists of rice straw collection, transportation to collection centre, collection centre cost and transportation to power...