The temperature monitoring system and warning (TMAS), developed as part of a cooperative research program-Kerala by two small players based on energy savings in space, is proving to be a blessing for the traditional sector.

Poor finances did not admit that the traditional sector of luxury by technological initiatives based on averages and major sectors, improvement of products and / or. The cost of production, quality and competence.

This has prompted the Energy Management Center (EMC), an autonomous body under the Government of Kerala and Thiruvananthapuram-based R & D department of CMS Computers joint development of a computer-based TMAS for bricks and Trim tiles industry fuel costs on a large scale.

TMAS have plenty of room for rice mills, rubber and food processing, where the temperature is one of the critical parameters for determining the energy consumption and product quality.

Speaking to-Business Line, NT, M. Nair, vice-president, CMS computer, and Mr. Hari Kumar R. EMC, said bricks and tiles industry in the country was a serious financial crisis.

Invoice fuel, which represents about 40 per cent of costs, attention has focused on reducing spending initiatives by saving energy. Two pillars of the strategy of improving product quality and reduce waste due to watch over the burning, the survival of the industry.

The industry has a strong presence in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat. Thrissur in Kerala is one of the main areas of activity. There are more than 300 manufacturing industries clay tiles of the State. The production capacity is 2000 to 40000 tiles per day. The annual production in 1997 was approximately 200 million tiles worth of Rs 32.5 crore The total installed capacity is around 400 million units per year.

It was found that temperature variations in the ovens had resulted in increased consumption of firewood and quality differences in the heat tiles. EMC sponsored a draft Thrissur Raja based on tiling on this problem by equipping the oven with TMAS.

The system was based on the installation of more than two years. Raja tiles reported that the refusal rate was up 10 per cent and consumption of firewood by 10 to 15 percent, a depreciation of less than six months.

The aircraft was also in action on the part of tiling, the first and second category of 60 per cent to 80 per cent, thus increasing the quality and margins.

4 units Thrissur TMAS

The experience gained in the draft Raja tiling, enriched by new proposals by the Centre for the Promotion of the glass industry (CDGI, F & E-Institut Government of India in Firozabad), to encourage efforts made to improve TMAS. D’hope, their cost-effectiveness, EMC supports a modernization program and evidence that the system in four brick industry Kerala cost of 75 cents per share from continuing client units.

A workshop was organized in March 2003, Thrissur, as updated TMAS, solicit proposals from industry bricks and get the necessary funding (75 per cent of the total project cost of approximately R 80000) in four sectors.

As a result of workshops, visits were in the field of 12 units interested in and around Thrissur at the end of proposals for the installation of TMAS.

The first four units, their financial participation and an advance of 30 per cent of costs, have been awarded for the purpose. Design, development and commissioning of TMAS was in March this year in the four units - Mandakan ceramics, Smarana tiles, ceramics and Thomson Standard Tile Factory.

“A number of studies have since CMS (which has already TMAS as one of its products in five models with a new cost reduction through improvements constructive) from other industries, whose headquarters is in tile Thrissur .

A symbiotic relationship between EMC and CMS aims to ensure that the efforts of the former when the availability of the logical development of the computer system for saving energy and other council / Logistics is recognized by CMS investment for future orders TMAS, “Mr. Hari Kumar said.

TMAS has been designed as cost-effective, computer-based management system fuel savings and quality. The system consists of a temperature display critical zones and an alarm system, which determines the optimum range of hand. The alarm notification would allow operators to adjust the temperature.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization EMC, an organization of the project for the development and demonstration of energy efficiency in the glass industry cluster in Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), which is part of the Taj trapezium zone. TMAS has been successfully installed in six glass industry.

Pune, February 16: RANKING India as a developed country with regard to nuclear fuel, the Atomic Energy Commission president Dr Anil Kakodkar today urged the nuclear industry to improve existing technologies such that nuclear power was the best source of energy for the country.

It provides the Swatantryaveer Sawarkar Memorial lecture at the University of Pune’s Defence and Strategic Studies Division. Vice-Chancellor Dr Ashok Kolaskar, head of the division Srikant M. Paranjape, and others were present.

Given that nuclear energy a clean source of energy, efforts should be made to ensure that economic competitiveness. The nuclear industry should also adopt management practices of innovative projects aimed at reducing the cost of capital and reduce Ausreifungszeit, Kakodkar said.

The fact that to a large extent the development of nuclear power was inevitable, he said the ACS has set a goal of having installed capacity of more than 20000 2020, weighs the situation in the context of ‘acceleration of revenue generation strict From the environment.

The observation that the energy consumption of Independence was one of the most important parameters for achieving economic independence, Kakodkar has been said that this recognized in countries such as France, Japan and South Korea, for the greater part of their energy import needs, but had, over the years an energy policy based on a prudent mix of various forms of electricity generation, whereas First, a substantial portion of their electricity needs through nuclear energy.

This kind of planning was needed in all countries, depending on the availability of fossil fuels, he said, adding that even if fossil fuel was available within a country, its movement to the power station could be affected in times of conflict.