The present study was undertaken to find out awareness, knowledge and adoption of technologies promoted under All India Coordinated Research Project on Home Science among rural women and constraints faced by them in adoption of technologies. The study was conducted in Badgoan panchayat samiti of Udaipur district of Rajasthan state. From the panchayat samiti, f...

The present research work was undertaken with the objectives to explore the agrienterprises pursued by the rural youth, involvement in selected agrienterprises, entrepreneurial behaviour of rural youth and factors associated with it, income generation from selected agrienterprises, SWOT of selected agrienterprises and problems faced by the rural youth in running an...

In hard rock excavations, drilling and blasting is the cheapest method of rock breaking and it is widely used. Blasting efficiency depends on many parameters includes controllable and non controllable. The blasting efficiency assesses in the form of rock fragmentation, powder factor and blast induced environmental nuisances. Powder factor is an important parame...

The present study was undertaken with the objectives to study the livelihood pattern among tribal women of southern Rajasthan, study the role of tribal women in the livelihood security of the family, identify the factors affecting livelihood security of the family and to study the constraints faced by tribal women in livelihood security of the family. The study was...

A study on “Assessment of CO2 Mitigation and Techno-economic Feasibility of Improved Cook Stoves in Tribal Household Kitchens” was undertaken. The objectives of the study were (i) To assess indoor air quality in tribal household kitchens, (ii) To explore the health hazards associated with existing indoor air quality in tribal household kitchens, (iii) To assess...

Degradation of environment and natural resources is happening at a rapid pace. The consequences like climate change, global warming, and major catastrophes are appearing. Industries are one of the major sections that contribute in enormous amounts to deterioration of the environment. Environmental impacts are the untoward outgrowth of substandard economic activitie...

The objectives of the present investigation were to find out the knowledge of the rural women about selected government schemes, benefits of the selected government schemes gained by rural women and problems faced by the rural women in gaining benefits from the selected schemes. The study was conducted in four villages of randomly selected block i.e. Kalsi of Dehra...

The wide CO2 released into the atmosphere and millions of people worldwide are not able to access electricity which is most basic goods for human survival. From the last century coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy are used for power production at a large scale. This type of source requires very high maintenance for power generation and leads to a large amount of wast...

The present work has undertaken to design and development of screw press-dewatering unit foe handling of biogas slurry. Dewatering of biogas slurry is often necessary to separate the solid-liquid fractions, which helps to increase storage and handling characteristics of biogas slurry. The biogas slurry produced from biogas plant is an excellent plant fertilizer and...

The experimental study was carried out on designing of energy recovery system consisting of cooling chamber and syngas burner for continuous biochar production system (Pratap Kiln). Biochar production system is used for pyrolysis of agro residues such as Groundnut Shell (GS), Chickpea Straw (CS) and Wheat Straw (WS). Cooling chamber was design to recover the bio-oi...

The present research was carried out to design and develop a hydrothermal liquefaction system to extract essential oil from herbal biomass and to evaluate the developed system on the basis of its thermal performance and economics. The experimental research work was carried out at Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering, ...