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Saturday, April 23, 2005

It’s not Mission accomplished Its Project Accomplished. It can be said the other way too.
Many friends of mine have asked me about the project, which I am involved in for last 1 year. The main aim of writing this post is to clear your queries regarding my B.Tech Project.

Here are the FAQs related to my project.( These are the question asked by the people before, during and on the last day of the project presentation to me.)

Q. What’s the name of my project?
A. Energy Recovery from a hotel. In this project, we applied and hone our skills in such diverse fields as energy, thermal and design engineering, economic analysis and computer programming, as well as realize the importance of applying them to the problems that face our country

Q. Who is my project guide?
A. Dr Ravi Prakash. He is reader in Mechanical Engineering Department in MNNIT, Allahabad. He is M.E. (Energy Engineering) University of Surrey, U.K and Ph.D, University of Allahabad. His Area of Interest: Renewable Energy, Energy conservation, Refrigeration &Air-conditioning, Energy and Environmental management

Q. Is this project worth doing or you just passed the time?
A. Yes, of course this project was a real life project. Not at all farzi

Q. Is it Design or Fabrication, Core or Software related one?
A. In a way I can say that it’s a Mechanical Core plus Software related design project

Q. Did you have any firing during the presentation ever?
A. No Never. I guess our group sailed through the question very easily. In other words one can say that we have the coolest presentation.

Q. What are the names of the faculty members in your panel?
A. The major faculty includes Dr Satish Chand, Dr. Trilokinath, Dr. Ravi Prakash, Dr Sanjeev Sinha, Dr. L C Mahlotra.

Q. Do you ever regret taking project under your project guide?
A. What regret? No, I should say I was the luckiest person to get such a polite, calm and logical but cool minded project guide at the rank of 13th. Mine group was M 13.

Q. What’s the scope of your project?
A. Project has a high scope. Not only Kanha Sayam but also other hotel can also implement the design, suggestion given by us in the report.

Q. What was the time span for the completion of the project?
A. As per the department curriculum my project was a year round project. I started this project with my group mates in late August,2004 and is completed on 23rd Arpil,2005.

Q. Who are your group mates in the project? And to whom you will thank the most for the working during the project?
A. My group mates include Anil Raina Debashish Burman and Ezhil Vendan with myself being Project leader. Well I cannot compare the work % wise done by my project mate, as all have been there for project on request. Raina excels in Presentation and calculation; Burman was good in software and analysis part and Ezhil made great sketches and Charts.

Q. Justify the need of your project.
A. Electricity is a precious and limited resource that should be conserved, and reserved for applications where other energy sources cannot be more efficiently harnessed. We targeted the real-world case of Hotel Kanha Shyam as a spring-board for ideas and energy recovery techniques
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What was the Project Methodology?
From the data collected from the hotel we calculated the cooling load and electrical loads. We compared the calculated loads and Tonnage of the A.C. plant and see if the system is under designed, perfectly all right or over designed.

We explored the possibility of recovering energy from the hotel. Energy can be recovered from the exhaust of the diesel generator by a heat exchanger. Also there is a possibility of recovering heat from cooling water and lubricating oil. We can also employ a Recuperator between the incoming hot fresh air and the out going cold stale air. The cold stale air will reduce the temperature of incoming hot air. Through this we intend to decrease the ventilation load.

We explored the possibility of meeting hot water requirements by employing a solar panel.

We designed software for load calculation for any building and test our software for the case under consideration.

After that we will perform economic analysis and see the payback period of our installed system.

Q. How much marks you got in the 7th semester and how many marks do you expect in the 8th semester in your project?
A. I got 48 marks out of 50 marks in 7th semester and expect to get 190+ marks in the 8th semester work.

Q. How thick is your project report?
A. Well thickness really do not matter, anyways it was about 70 pages thick.

Himanshu Bajaj posted this message @ 1:10 PM

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