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Is your boiler truly efficient?

Is your boiler truly efficient?

Given that your boiler accounts for the majority of your heating fuel bill, I am sure you are constantly looking at ways to improve its efficiency.  In a typical industrial environment, even at its best, your boiler can only be 85% efficient. Do you monitor the performance of your boiler at plant load condition?  Are you aware of how these losses contribute to your boiler’s inefficiency?…

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“Climate change: Has journalism failed?”

Courtesy: The Hindu Politicians would not be able to make hard choices on an issue such as climate change, if the media fails to build public opinion on this extraordinarily important challenge facing the world, said Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News and Media on Tuesday. Climate change is an issue on which politicians find it difficult to make decisions and journalism has…

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Few questions; few answers (1) - About Aspiration Energy

We are Sun Bees We started a year back, during July 2014, our blog started and now when we look back, the year had moments of jubilations, we became a WWF climate solver, won couple of projects that differed from the usual industries we worked on.  Great learning curve.  We are now 40 posts richer, sharing our thoughts, our views, current trends, setbacks. This is our 40th blog post, with a…

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Solar Thermal Power plant vs Solar Thermal Energy Plant

I am asked in many forums about the delays and cost over-runs of solar thermal power plants, and how we have chosen to play in this field.

Lets understand the differences:

1. Solar Thermal Power plants deliver electrical power – produce steam using sun, and produce electricity by running a power turbine using the steam. Solar heaters that we deliver directly deliver heated water into process…

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Better late than never - October 2014 events

It has been a month since I wrote a blog post.  I noticed that there were few interesting programs I attended during the month of October and November but missed out writing about them.

Thought of sharing it now,  it is better to be late than never :)

I attended 2 events within a span of 3 days – both focused on our field:

The first was a stakeholder Workshop – II on “Vision and Action Plan for…

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Workshop on Renewable Energy - Solar Thermal Systems, Hosur

It was a focused group gathering of Industry Engineers and few finance persons from the industrial belt of Hosur with an openness to know details on “Renewable Energy – Solar Thermal Systems” on 18th December 2014.

The workshop was conducted by Aspiration Energy in association with CSIR – CEERI.

Dr. Harish Barshillia, Chief Scientist from National Aerospace Lab, Bangalore talked about various…

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IGMTP - Germany trip sponsored by German taxpayers

I approached the entire program with skepticism – A Government sponsored program?  1 month?  Will it be useful?  Germany?

To think a country is taking such a long term vision of their international trade relations – by taking a bunch of business people from that country and provide free training to them – Awesome!

21 companies were chosen from India for this 2014 IGMTP program.  The interview…

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Indo German Manager Training Program, (IGMTP) Germany

Indo German Manager Training Program, (IGMTP) Germany

  I have made it a point to be in a class room for 30 days every year.  During my Kellogg MBA days, I was spending 60+ days a year in classroom, with hectic travel, full time work and family.  I believe that classroom rekindles the humility, make me rethink question and reconfirm many of my personal and professional values and change some of them.

Classroom learning compels you to listen. And…

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