Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari; Dr. Subhan Quraishi; Dr. Babita Ghodke

Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2014

Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari, Dr. Subhan Quraishi, Dr. Babita Ghodke

Abstract :

This paper investigates on potentiality of a noxious weed Ipomoea carnea as an alternative biomass to substitute fuelwood in domestic cooking applications. The weed has created a lot of problem due to its invasive nature; as a biomass it is considered as low grade fuel to be used in traditional combustion based devices. The objective of the work is to derive energy from woody stems of Ipomoea through gasification process. A gasifier based stove is developed and experiments are performed to study its performance using Ipomoea and compared with fuelwood. Results of experiments are analysed and presented. Thermal efficiencies of the stove have been found to be 28% and 26% respectively for fuel wood and Ipomoea. The flame temperature obtained for both the fuels is above 700 �C. The stove delivered power in the range of 2.8 kW to 3.3 kW which is sufficient for domestic cooking for a standard family. It has been revealed that the weed could be used to substitute fuelwood in cooking through gasification process in an appropriate device.