1 resultado para Western countries -- Relations -- India
em CaltechTHESIS
Filtro por publicador
- KUPS-Datenbank - Universität zu Köln - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer (1)
- Aberystwyth University Repository - Reino Unido (2)
- Academic Research Repository at Institute of Developing Economies (4)
- Adam Mickiewicz University Repository (4)
- AMS Tesi di Dottorato - Alm@DL - Università di Bologna (7)
- AMS Tesi di Laurea - Alm@DL - Università di Bologna (1)
- Andina Digital - Repositorio UASB-Digital - Universidade Andina Simón Bolívar (3)
- Aquatic Commons (16)
- ArchiMeD - Elektronische Publikationen der Universität Mainz - Alemanha (2)
- Archive of European Integration (84)
- Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación - Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad del País Vasco (4)
- Aston University Research Archive (28)
- Avian Conservation and Ecology - Eletronic Cientific Hournal - Écologie et conservation des oiseaux: (1)
- B-Digital - Universidade Fernando Pessoa - Portugal (2)
- Biblioteca Digital | Sistema Integrado de Documentación | UNCuyo - UNCUYO. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO. (1)
- Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual da Universidade de São Paulo (1)
- Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual da Universidade de São Paulo (BDPI/USP) (1)
- Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações Eletrônicas da UERJ (8)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library, United States (1)
- BORIS: Bern Open Repository and Information System - Berna - Suiça (23)
- Boston University Digital Common (1)
- Brock University, Canada (6)
- Bucknell University Digital Commons - Pensilvania - USA (1)
- CaltechTHESIS (1)
- Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database (2)
- CentAUR: Central Archive University of Reading - UK (40)
- Central European University - Research Support Scheme (2)
- Centro Hospitalar do Porto (1)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Institutional Repositories Grid Portal (5)
- Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT), India (38)
- Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) (7)
- CORA - Cork Open Research Archive - University College Cork - Ireland (2)
- Corvinus Research Archive - The institutional repository for the Corvinus University of Budapest (3)
- Dalarna University College Electronic Archive (3)
- Deakin Research Online - Australia (98)
- DI-fusion - The institutional repository of Université Libre de Bruxelles (1)
- Digital Commons @ DU | University of Denver Research (2)
- Digital Commons at Florida International University (4)
- Digital Peer Publishing (1)
- DigitalCommons@The Texas Medical Center (4)
- Doria (National Library of Finland DSpace Services) - National Library of Finland, Finland (2)
- Duke University (2)
- eResearch Archive - Queensland Department of Agriculture; Fisheries and Forestry (5)
- Glasgow Theses Service (2)
- Greenwich Academic Literature Archive - UK (3)
- Harvard University (1)
- Helda - Digital Repository of University of Helsinki (38)
- Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore - Índia (107)
- Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal (2)
- Nottingham eTheses (1)
- Portal de Revistas Científicas Complutenses - Espanha (6)
- QUB Research Portal - Research Directory and Institutional Repository for Queen's University Belfast (29)
- Queensland University of Technology - ePrints Archive (111)
- RCAAP - Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (1)
- Repositório Científico da Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra (1)
- Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa - Portugal (2)
- Repositório digital da Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV (1)
- Repositório do Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, EPE - Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, EPE, Portugal (1)
- Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal (1)
- Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (1)
- Repositório Institucional UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" (8)
- RUN (Repositório da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - FCT (Faculdade de Cienecias e Technologia), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Portugal (2)
- Scientific Open-access Literature Archive and Repository (2)
- Universidad del Rosario, Colombia (37)
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (9)
- Universidade de Lisboa - Repositório Aberto (5)
- Universidade dos Açores - Portugal (1)
- Universidade Federal do Pará (1)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) (4)
- Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (1)
- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1)
- Universitat de Girona, Spain (3)
- Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Universität Kassel, Germany (2)
- Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (6)
- Université de Montréal (2)
- Université de Montréal, Canada (37)
- Université Laval Mémoires et thèses électroniques (1)
- University of Michigan (38)
- University of Queensland eSpace - Australia (8)
- WestminsterResearch - UK (3)
- Worcester Research and Publications - Worcester Research and Publications - UK (1)
Resumo:
One of the critical problems currently being faced by agriculture industry in developing nations is the alarming rate of groundwater depletion. Irrigation accounts for over 70% of the total groundwater withdrawn everyday. Compounding this issue is the use of polluting diesel generators to pump groundwater for irrigation. This has made irrigation not only the biggest consumer of groundwater but also one of the major contributors to green house gases. The aim of this thesis is to present a solution to the energy-water nexus. To make agriculture less dependent on fossil fuels, the use of a solar-powered Stirling engine as the power generator for on-farm energy needs is discussed. The Stirling cycle is revisited and practical and ideal Stirling cycles are compared. Based on agricultural needs and financial constraints faced by farmers in developing countries, the use of a Fresnel lens as a solar-concentrator and a Beta-type Stirling engine unit is suggested for sustainable power generation on the farms. To reduce the groundwater consumption and to make irrigation more sustainable, the conceptual idea of using a Stirling engine in drip irrigation is presented. To tackle the shortage of over 37 million tonnes of cold-storage in India, the idea of cost-effective solar-powered on-farm cold storage unit is discussed.