NUV Conference Proceedings: Recent submissions

  • Skylight 
    Iyer, Vaidyanathan; Soparkar, Hem; Shah, Aadesh (2015)
    In today’s age we are constantly searching for various methods of saving energy and designing energy efficient products thereby striving for sustainability. Energy efficient products get manufactured in almost all the day ...
  • Reducing air pollution by renewable energy source 
    Tahiliani, Ishwar. N. (2015)
    Over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions that we produced in our home are caused by heating, air conditioning and water heating, in other words keeping our homes warm in winter, cool in summer and nice hot water on tap is ...
  • Smart dust 
    Chauhan, Jucy B (2015)
    Microchip is committed to continuous improvement of our environmental performance through a proactive approach that integrates environmental protection with business goals. Smart dust is a system of many tiny microelectr ...
  • E-Waste: effects, causes and prevention 
    Thappa, Aakash; Raval, Deep; Parikh, Hardi; Bhati, Hariomsinh (2015)
    Electronic equipment and gadgets are the fastest growing waste stream in many countries now. For many, electronics are a part of life for example cell phones, laptops, TVs, & a growing no. of gadgets. Every year we buy new ...
  • Carbon sequestration: a new weapon to fight climate change 
    Gorana, Kavi (2015)
    Climate change is a big problem. Land clearing, intensive farming, burning fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal, these human activities all produces green house gases(GHGs). We need to slow down and reverse global ...
  • Shaping the future via sustainability 
    Singh, Anushruti (2015)
    Sustainable development is a contested concept, which in turn influence how issues are formulated and actions proposed. It is usually presented as the intersection between environment, society and economy, which are conceived ...
  • City, poverty and education: challenge of sustainable development 
    Talegaonkar, Vandana (2015)
    Though the world is rapidly urbanizing, India is still in an early stage of urbanization. This offers an opportune moment to steer the cities- centers of urbanization -towards sustainable development.From among the various ...
  • Review on road accident data and the existing technologies to avoid them for sustainable road transportation 
    Shah, Jay; Shah, Jeet; Shah, Krutarth; Pandey, Varun (2015)
    Road accidents have been killing or injuring people on a daily basis. The paper is basically a “Crash data Analysis”. This paper reviews and analyses the accidents, their causes, the external and internal factors contributing ...
  • Vishwamitri: a life of many 
    Soni, Aditye; Patel, Dhwani; Shah, Jarvish; Astik, Jay; Shah, Jay; Shah, Jeet; Pithadia, Jugal; Sheth, Priyal (2015)
    The following article describes the effect of pollution on the river Vishwamitri and intends to create awareness among the citizens about the same. River pollution has been a serious issue since the inception of ...
  • Improvement of slums by adopting a low cost housing system under relaxed building bye laws 
    Sharma, Shubham; Singh, Kritika (2015)
    Slums, typically occurring near the fringes of urban cities exist in an abject dereliction of the most basic standards of civil habitation, sanitation and health. Slum dwellers are compelled to eke out a subsistence from ...
  • Green human resource management influence on organizational behaviour 
    Rajput, Kiransinh; Kumari, Nisha (2015)
    The objective of the paper is to study the Green Human Resource Management Influence on Organizational Behaviour. The term ‘Green HRM’ is most often used to refer to the contribution of people management policies and ...
  • Bitu blocks new way to build home 
    Mulchandani, Dhruv Mahesh; Shedge, Grishma Rajesh (2015)
    This paper describes term Bitublock. It is created by engineer John Forth of the University of Leeds in England. This is a building block incorporating aggregate sourced exclusively from by-product / recycled / waste ...
  • An interdisciplinary curricular activity for environmental awareness inspiring sustainable campus vicinity 
    Kumar, K. S.; K., Poonam Kumar (2015)
    Universities can optimise their role as agents of change with regard to sustainability by adopting a ‘Whole – of – University’ approach. This approach explicitly links research, educational, operational and outreach ...
  • Assessment of the dietary habits, lifestyle, and stress aspects of university students 
    Popat, Shilpa S.; Baxi, Darshee; Robin, Elizabeth (2015)
    Age group of the 18 to 20 years is the crucial age for all children. At this stage day by day their behaviour, attitude and health is changing. Specially, hostelites are living away from home so they face many different ...
  • Incorporation of biocolours in textiles: an eco friendly approach 
    Mehta, Mansi; Gaurav, Shah (2015)
    Repeated and prolonged use of synthetic colours has thrown up many issues related to environment and human health. Hence, there is an increasing demand for “biocolour” from natural sources which can replace artificial ...
  • The world of soap bubbles: from fantasy to science 
    Ghalsasi, Pallavi (2015)
    Soap bubbles have been one of the most fascinating play activities for almost every child. The various ways of making different size bubbles, their reproducible geometrical forms, their beautiful colours, and their tenacity, ...
  • Manufacturing techniques of fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites: a review 
    Bhatt, Alpa Tapan; Parikh, Hiral (2015)
    The technological boom in various sectors has created demand for new materials, which can perform in stringent conditions where the conventional materials fail to perform. This has triggered the concept of composites where ...
  • Energy-Efficient application-specific processors 
    Singh, Mahendra Pratap (2015)
    With the mobile computing revolution, high performance computing is redefined by energy efficiency of processors. Energy efficiency is an essential consideration while selecting a processor to be used for an application. ...
  • Drying shrinkage behaviour of foam - cement panel: a numerical study 
    Desai, Payal (2015)
    Shrinkage is an important contributor to slab movements. It is therefore necessary to include it for a realistic physical modelling of shrinkage. Shrinkage of concrete is modelled by an application of a strain profile ...
  • Segregation, characterization and treatment for recycling of wastewater generated from dyes manufacturing industries, dye intermediates manufacturing industries and textile deing and printing industries of Sachin industrial area, Gujarat, India 
    Naik, D. J.; Desai, H. H. (2015)
    In the present study the characteristics of segregated untreated wastewater generated from dyes and dye intermediates manufacturing industries and textile dyeing and printing industries were studied. Wastewater from 10 ...

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