Sweet, Sour and Brent Crude Oil

Sweet crude oil contains less than 0.5% Sulphur, while sour crude contains more than 0.5%.  Sweet crude oil has a sweet aroma because of less sulphur.    The low quantity of sulphur makes it more suitable / easier to produce gasoline ..

Upstream, Downstream and Midstream in Petroleum Industry

The petroleum industry can be divided into three parts viz. upstream, midstream and downstream. Upstream refers to searching for and the recovery and production of crude oil and natural gas. The upstream industry is also known as Exploration & Production ..

British Thermal Unit

British Thermal Unit is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water by 1 degree Fahrenheit. It is equal to 1055.05585 joules.

Largest Reserves, Producers, Importers and Exporters of Oil

Petroleum and Natural Gas are mixtures of liquid, gaseous, and solid hydrocarbons along with some other compounds. Different types of molecules give them liquid/ gaseous states and different colour , viscosity and odour.  Similar to coal, oil and gas are ..

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

In January 2010, the UPA Government had launched National Solar Mission ( which was later renamed as Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission) with an aim to install the solar power generation capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the ..

Concentrating solar power

Concentrating solar power uses the sun’s heat to generate electricity. What is basically done is to use the mirrors and lenses to concentrate the sun’s rays on the absorber and use this heat to make a fluid get heated up ..

Various constraints in use of Photo-voltaic Solar Cells in India

Photo-voltaic (PV or SPV i.e. Solar PV) cell converts solar optical energy directly into electrical energy. In recent times, PV market has emerged as one of the fastest growing markets around the world. Each PV is essentially a semiconductor device. ..

Active and Passive Solar Power

The importance of solar power can be gauged from the fact that the energy that reaches from sun on earth for one hour is more than enough to satisfy the global energy demand for an entire year, if all the ..

National Offshore Wind Power Policy 2015

The offshore wind farming is of two types viz. shallow water and deep sea farming. Most progress around the world has been done in case of shallow water wind farms only.  The offshore wind faming is attractive because of several ..

Wind Power in India

Despite being a newcomer in this field, India currently has fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world. By March 2015, India had 23,444 MW installed capacity of wind power which is 8.63% of all installed capacity and third ..