Recent Developments in Vegetable Production Technologies in Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. P. Weerakkody ◽  
S. M. M. R. Mawalagedera
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Production Technologies

Recent Developments on Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 993 ◽  
pp. 1534-1544
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Xian Zheng Gong ◽  
Li Wei Hao ◽  
Feng Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Glass Ceramics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Lca Case Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Green Manufacture

In recent years, the building materials industry in China has made great progress in the R&D of energy conservation, emission reduction and cleaner production technologies, in order to implement sustainable development policy. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the mainstream method to analyze the environmental impact of product during its life cycle, which plays an important role on ecological design of building materials and development of green manufacture technology in recent year. This paper reviewed the LCA studies of building materials. Firstly, the development of China's building materials industry and technical framework of LCA standardized by ISO14040/14044 were introduced. Moreover, the typical LCA case studies of cement, glass, ceramics, wall materials, insulation materials and other building materials were reviewed. At last, some prospects for future research and development in this field were put forward.

scholarly journals Documenting Spatial and Temporal Information for Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiranthi Wijesundara ◽  
Shigeo Sugimoto ◽  
Bhuva Narayan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Recent Developments

Cultural Heritage Properties (CHPs) around the world have been altered or destroyed due to various unforeseen factors, both natural and human-made. Consequently, as a preparedness approach around such disasters, documenting the CHPs are crucial to any efforts to repair, rebuild or relocate them. With advancements in digital technologies, integrating them into our documentation to improve heritage preservation has become a common approach. Here the main concern is on Spatial and Temporal (ST) information and the paper proposes that with recent developments in the field of Geospatial technologies, heritage preservation can be enhanced and improved by documenting ST information parallel to the other information resources. The study area of this research is the CHPs in Sri Lanka. The paper investigates the present condition of the ST information in the heritage arena and the challenges associated with the same. Finally, the paper suggests a metadata standard to acquire primary level ST information as the initial ST documentation strategy. This can be extended further as a complete standard of good practice for CHP documentation in Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals Learning from the Chinese Model of Development and Moulding China - Sri Lanka Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
M. I. M. Irfan ◽  
M. A. M. Fowsar
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Road Project

The Chinese model of development is a grand global strategy for achieving the Chinese dream through existing foreign policy. China - Sri Lanka bilateral relations have proved to be of increasingly prominent regional and global significance. The paper tries to examine the state of the China - Sri Lanka economic relationship in the context of the Chinese model of development. It is a descriptive study based on secondary data gathered from various sources of information. The Chinese model of development holds much appeal to many developing countries. However, this model is facing serious challenges and has become the subject of much debate in the recent past. The China - Sri Lanka relations have existed more than two thousand years because of the Island of Sri Lanka's strategic location on the old shipping lane. Sri Lanka is still considered a vital part of the String of Pearls concept. Hence, China has turned its attention towards Sri Lanka. From the beginning of the 21st century, Sri Lanka and China ratified several agreements on bilateral issues relating to the Belt and Road Initiative and Silk Road project. The recent developments in the China - Sri Lanka relationship have led to the creation of a so-called Chinese Colony in the South Asian region, and it has triggered China - India geopolitical interests in the Indian Ocean region. This paper concludes with the argument that the Sri Lankan Government will have to be receptive and sensitive on these issues, and pay attention to controlling contamination and maintaining diplomatic relations with all for the political stability and economic prosperity of the nation.

Engaging Post-LTTE Sri Lanka

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
M. Mayilvaganan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Post War

India’s role in Sri Lanka assumes more significance now than before, with the end of war and devolution of power sharing in limbo. While the LTTE is wiped out militarily and isolated internationally, the existing militarisation in Jaffna with war crime charges at UN and awaiting political solution in limbo, Sri Lanka demands India’s attention. The call for India’s greater engagement with Sri Lanka had resurfaced domestically with a demand from Tamil Nadu parties urging India to play a more proactive role pertaining to rebuilding and sustaining peace in post-war Sri Lanka, and in ending assault on Indian fisherman at Palk Strait. On other hand, the fostering of ties between Sri Lanka and Pakistan and China push for more primed hands-on role from the point of view of India’s long-term strategic interest. There is, therefore, a need to have a re-look of India’s policy options towards Sri Lanka in light of recent developments.

Smallholder farmers’ adoption of vegetable production technologies in Babati District, Tanzania

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-202
Author(s):  
J. Ochieng ◽  
V. Afari-Sefa ◽  
P. Lukumay ◽  
F. Muthoni ◽  
A. Gramzow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Production Technologies

scholarly journals Challenges and Outlines of Steelmaking toward the Year 2030 and Beyond—Indian Perspective

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1654
Author(s):  
Sethu Prasanth Shanmugam ◽  
Viswanathan N. Nurni ◽  
Sambandam Manjini ◽  
Sanjay Chandra ◽  
Lauri E. K. Holappa
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Steel Production ◽  
Capita Consumption ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Top Gas Recycling ◽  
Per Capita Consumption

In FY-20, India’s steel production was 109 MT, and it is the second-largest steel producer on the planet, after China. India’s per capita consumption of steel was around 75 kg, which has risen from 59 kg in FY-14. Despite the increase in consumption, it is much lower than the average global consumption of 230 kg. The per capita consumption of steel is one of the strongest indicators of economic development across the nation. Thus, India has an ambitious plan of increasing steel production to around 250 MT and per capita consumption to around 160 kg by the year 2030. Steel manufacturers in India can be classified based on production routes as (a) oxygen route (BF/BOF route) and (b) electric route (electric arc furnace and induction furnace). One of the major issues for manufacturers of both routes is the availability of raw materials such as iron ore, direct reduced iron (DRI), and scrap. To achieve the level of 250 MT, steel manufacturers have to focus on improving the current process and product scenario as well as on research and development activities. The challenge to stop global warming has forced the global steel industry to strongly cut its CO2 emissions. In the case of India, this target will be extremely difficult by ruling in the production duplication planned by the year 2030. This work focuses on the recent developments of various processes and challenges associated with them. Possibilities and opportunities for improving the current processes such as top gas recycling, increasing pulverized coal injection, and hydrogenation as well as the implementation of new processes such as HIsarna and other CO2-lean iron production technologies are discussed. In addition, the eventual transition to hydrogen ironmaking and “green” electricity in smelting are considered. By fast-acting improvements in current facilities and brave investments in new carbon-lean technologies, the CO2 emissions of the Indian steel industry can peak and turn downward toward carbon-neutral production.

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