
In the month of May 2012,the country’s peak power demand was estimated at 84.162 MU,but actual availability was only 77,888 MU,reflecting a shortfall of 6,274 MU or 7.5 percent. Earlier,in the month of April 2012 the country’s peak power demand was estimated at 78,947 MU,but actual availability was only 74,793 MU,reflecting a shortfall of 72,447…

India’s coal production during the first three months(April-June) of 2011-12 stood at 118.91 mt,lower than the target of 124.91 mt ,but almost flat as compared to 118.73 mt produced in the corresponding period of 2010-11,according to information available from the Coal Ministry. During the first quarter of 2011-12,Coal India Ltd(CIL) subsidiaries had produced 96.31 mt,singareni…

If you are wearing your jeans from a long time and not washed it, then I have a few tips that you can wash your jeans easily in a right and proper way. Empty all the pockets of your jeans. If you are going to wash it manually then leave it in the solution of…

Long wall mining is the most productive technology in the world,where one shearer is deployed in one mine for producing coal up to 1 million-3million tons per annum from a single face.The advantage of the system is that it has very low manpower requirement.It can work in very high gradient working and has the lowest…

The share of generation fueled by coal in the US has declined dramatically in recent months.Coal’s share of total power generation first fell below 40 percent in November last year and averaged 36 percent during the first quarter of 2012,compared with an average of almost 45 percent during the same period last year. Much of…

In orthographic projection uses two main planes,called reference planes or principal planes of projection.One is horizontal plane(H.P.)and other is vertical plane(V.P.).These two planes intersects each other at right angles in a line XY called as reference line.The projection on the vertical plane (V.P.)is called the front view or the elevation of the object and the projection on the horizontal…

(i)In CAD,the man and the electronic machine are blended together to form a problem-solving team with each doing those tasks each can do best.The human being and electronic machine complement one another.In comparing the capabilities of man and computer,it will be found that man can think and can make decisions using his analytical mind.The computer has tremendous speed,it works…

PMMC Construction PMMC-The permanent magnet moving coil instrument is the most accurate type for d.c measurement.The working principal of this instrument is same as that of the d’Arsonval type of galvanometers,the difference being that a direct reading instrument is provide with a pointer and a scale. Construction of PMMC Instrument- The general constructional features of this instrument are shown (i)…

Tata Power Company Limited has signed a deal with BP alternative energy holdings to acquire the latter’s 51percent stake and preference shares in Tata BP Solar India Private Limited.Following the acquisition, Tata Power would own 100percent stake in Tata BP Solar.The former would have access to certain BP technologies till 2013 and an agreement  for…

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language,maintained by the math works.MATLAB allow easy matrix manipulation,plotting of functions and data,implementation of creation of user interfaces,and interfacing with programs in other languages.MATLAB was first adopted by control design engineers algorithms,it is now also used in education.Simulink is an environment multidomain simulation and model based design…