Energy Crisis

In the recent years energy has acquired great importance due to world-wide energy crisis. It affects both the industrialised and the developing countries, but the latter would be hit harder. We, in India, will have to go through the process of economic development and modernisation with much higher energy costs. With growing population and people needs, our demand for energy would rise exponentially. The oil crisis resulting in a steep price hike of petroleum products and our importing two-thirds of our requirements of this product, with no near chance of reducing the gap, would lead us to think and plans seriously about conservation of energy, developing appropriate new sources and making more energy available, if possible. This book deals with energy audit, waste-heat recovery and other connected topics which result in immediate financial benefits on application. Other topics which yield benefits in long terms, such as conservation and efficient use of energy, development of alternate sources, particularly non-pollutant, non-conventional energy sources like solar, wind and tidal, are also dealt with in detail.