Faculty Members


Dr.(Mrs.)M.Premalatha

Publications and Conferences
  • International Journals
    • Improving Piping Design”, Hydrocarbon Processing, P. 59-61,May 1996.
    • “Development of Novel Anaerobic Digester- Apoorva Lakshmi”, Biogas Forum Impressum,1996/II No.65, Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Germany,1996.
    • “Modelling of Once Through Solar Water Heating system”, Solar Energy Journal, Manuscript No: SEJ # 04-05-05-144 Re-submitted,2006.

  • National Journals
    • “Energy Conservation in Lightly loaded induction motors in cement plants – A case study”, Cement, Energy and Environment, Vol 5, No.3, P. 7-9, July-September 2001,
    • “Energy Conservation in Lighting in cement plants – A case study”, Cement, Energy and Environment, Vol 5, No.3, P 10-11, July-September 2001.
    • “Investigation of Energy Recovery from Poultry Litter and Municipal Solid Waste by Thermochemical Conversion Method in India”, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, Vol.47, No.4, P.266-275, October 2005.

  • International Conferences
    • “Bagasse Power in India: Meeting challenges of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development – Case study in Arignar Anna Sugar Mill TamilNadu” (ID No:008), Proceedings of International Conference on Biofuels Vision 2015,Engineering College,Bikaner,Rajasthan P.57,October 13-15th 2006.
    • “Tapioca –a renewable energy of biofuel for India” (ID No:006), Proceedings of International Conference on Biofuels Vision 2015,Engineering College, Bikaner,Rajasthan P.55,October 13-15th 2006.
    • “Solar Energy for drinking water/effluent treatment”, Poster presentation in RENET workshop at IIT Madras on 27th -28th September 2006.
    • “Compuatational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Biomass Gasifier for Renewable Energy Applications” (HMT-2006-C210), Proceedings of the ISHMT – ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, P.323, January 4 – 6,2006.
    • “Studies on effect of component of biomass and size of wooden pellet on gasification” Proceedings of International conference on Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Congress (APCCHE), P.637, August 27-30, 2006, Malaysia.
    • “Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Flow Distribution in a Solar Flat Plate Collector” (HMT-2006-C134), in the Proceedings of the ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, P.290,January 4-6,2006
    • “Sustainable Technology for Drinking water system through Combined Heating and Cooling”, Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Protection,Coimbatore Institute of Technology,Coimbatore,P.97, January 7-9,2006.
    • “Possibilities of increasing PV panels Utilization in India”, Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Protection, Coimbatore Institute of Technology,Coimbatore,P.92, January 7-9,2006.
    • “Environmental Impacts of Poultry Litter Disposal and Sustainable Technology for Energy Production”, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Protection, Coimbatore Institute of Technology,Coimbatore,P.41, January 7-9,2006
    • “Analysis of low cost fuel for Energy Conservation in Industrial Furnaces”, CHEMCON 2005 at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, December 14 – 17,2005.
    • “Implementing the Gasification Technology and Waste Heat Recovery System for an Indian Restaurant – a Case study on Combined Heat and Power for Eco-friendly Environment” CHEMCON 2005 at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, December14-17,2005.
    • “CFD Simulation of flow through Pipe Bends for Energy Conservation used in Process Industries”, in the CHEMCON 2005 at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, during December 14 – 17,2005.
    • “Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation for Evaluation of flow performance of wind rotor”, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, IIT, Madras,1-6, December 2005.
    • “Segregated Flow Modeling for Solar Flat Plate Collector”(ST-25), Accepted for oral presentation in 3rd International Conference on Solar Radiation and Day Lighting SOLARIS –2007 Conference at IIT, Delhi, February 7 – 9th, 2007.
    • “Establishing Auto-gasification of bagasse using Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis” (ID No: RP064_2), Accepted for oral presentation in International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Management, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India,4 – 6th January 2007.
    • “Coupled Solar Bio Process for Industrial Effluent Treatment” (ID No: RP064_1), Accepted for oral presentation in International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Management, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry,India.,4 – 6th January 2007.
    • “Problems in solar water heating systems” Accepted for oral presentation in International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Management, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry,India.,4 – 6th January 2007.
    • “Solar heat pipe water heater” International Conference on IWEE-2001, Periyar Maniammai college of Technology for women, India, September 2001.

  • National Conferences/Seminars
    • “Experimental Investigation of Inclination Angle on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Wickless Solar Heat Pipe” (MS#AER06/MP/034), Accepted for oral presentation in Advances in Energy Research, 2006 at IIT, Bombay, 4th -5th December 2006.
    • “Energy from bagasse-Some aspects of Agricultural Waste Management”, Proceedings of one-day state level seminar on “Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation for Rural Development”, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Dindigul, TamilNadu, P.32,1st November 2006.
    • "Modelling of Temperature, Flow rate and Flow Patterns in Thermosyphoning Solar Water Heaters”, Proceedings of one-day state level seminar on “Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation for Rural Development”, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Dindigul, TamilNadu, P.53, 1st November 2006.