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BIOCHAR-MEDIATED REMEDIATION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN WASHING EFFLUENT FROM AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION SOIL

Gunarathna, H.M.D.S.; Pallewatta, S.; Devaisy, S.; Rajapaksha, A.U.; Vithanage, M.S. (National Science and Technology Commission, 2024-01-26)

Petroleum hydrocarbon contamination resulting from human activities including spills, industrial manufacturing, and fossil fuel disposal is a global environmental issue. Considering the contamination of soils by petroleum ...
Chemical characteristics of bulk deposition in Sinharaja and Mattakkuliya, Sri Lanka

Wijerathna, A.I.S.S.; Naveendrakumar, G.; Amarathunga, A.A.D.; Pemarathne, S.K.S. (Young Scientists’ Association (NIFS-YSA), National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hanthana Road, Kandy, Sri Lanka., 2023-09-23)

The chemical characteristics of bulk deposition vary with climatic seasons. This study aimed to investigate the chemical characteristics of bulk deposition in Sinharaja, a rainforest site, and Mattakkuliya, an urbanized ...
Comparison of single-line rate for dedicated protection on WDM optical network topologies

Suthaharan, S; Samarakkody, D; Perera, W. A. S. C (IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), 2016)

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) divides the huge bandwidth available on a fiber into several non-overlapping wavelength channels and enables data transmission over these channels simultaneously. Failure of the optical ...
Crop residues with fodder trees to produce good quality silage

Fernando, K.S.D.; Nanthakumaran, A. (SEUSL, 2018-12-17)

Silage is the compressed and fermented green forage crops under anaerobic condition, usually in a silo. Crop residues can be used as feed for cattle during the dry season by ensiling them as silage. The aim of this study ...
Electricity Usage Monitoring and Alerting System

Amrithaa, P.; Shorubiga, P.; Thanoojan, T.; Kartheeswaran, T. (IEEE, 03-12-20)

Electricity is one of the inevitable sources of energy in our day to day life. Almost every single device we use from the moment we wake up until going to bed is electrically powered. Meanwhile, there is always a problem ...
Farmer participation on water management in the tank irrigated systems in Tamil Nadu

Nanthakumaran, A.; Palanisami, K. (International Conference on Sustainable Built Environments (ICSBE-2010) Kandy, 2010-12-13)

Farmer participation is found to be a solution to arrest the deterioration of the tank irrigation system which is observed in Tamil Nadu state. The study was undertaken with the specific objective of identifying the ...
Identification of cascade systems and assessment of the performance of village tanks at madukanda agrarian service centre

Athukorala, W.E.P.; Nanthakumaran, A.; Kadupitiya, H.K. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2018-12-17)

The objective of the study was to identify the cascades in the village tanks and to assess the performance of the tanks in the cascades. ArcGIS 10.2.2 and QGIS 2.8.2 software platforms were used to identify the cascades ...
Identification of cascade systems and assessment of the performance of village tanks in Kovilkulam Agrarian Centre Area” ICSBE 2016

Sudusinghe, S.A.; Nanthakumaran, A.; Kadupitiya, H.K. (7th International Conference on Sustainable with Environment, Srilanka., 2016-12-16)

Vavuniya district of Sri Lanka consists of nearly 674 minor irrigation tanks which are in a cascade system supplying water for 10900 ha (10900 × 104 m2) of paddy land. But there is no documentation available for the cascade ...
Identifying an appropriate and sustainable irrigation method using some remotely sensed parameters for the crop cultivation in Vavuniya district

Arjunan, K.; Nanthakumaran, A. (Procedia food science,ELSEVIER, 2016-01-01)

Over consumption of water resources due to unplanned and inappropriate irrigation methods would be a threat to the ecosystem health and to the sustainable agriculture in Vavuniya District. The objective of this study was ...
The knowledge gathering and study pattern of undergraduate students of the Vavuniya campus of the university of Jaffna

Kayanan, M.; Kuhanesan, S. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 20-12-16)

The study examined the knowledge gathering and study pattern as contemplate example of undergraduates of Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna. Precisely, the analysis made to determine the impact of gender and level ...
Phase Space Error Control with Variable Time-Stepping Algorithms applied to the Forward Euler method for Dynamical Systems

Thilaganathan, S.; Vigneswaran, R. (University of Jaffna, 2016-08-12)

We consider a phase space stability error control for numerical simulation of dynamical systems. Tony Humphries and Vigneswaran, R., in “Phase space stability error control with variable time-stepping Runge-Kutta methods ...
PHYTOREMEDIATION POTENTIAL OF THREE GRASS SPP. IN A CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SYSTEM

Nanthakumaran, A.; Kayanan, S. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 08-12-15)

Many of the natural systems have been polluted by direct discharge of waste water to the water bodies that causes environmental and health hazards. The surface water resource mainly the tank water gets polluted due to waste ...
POLLUTION REDUCTION POTENTIAL OF SUBSURFACE FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SYSTEM

Nanthakumaran, A.; Kayanan, S.; Kishoran, S. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 16-12-21)

Wetlands have been used as a potentially cost-effective secondary waste water treatment system to treat the waste water before discharge into the water bodies. The aim of this study was to compare the pollution reduction ...
Single Image Defogging using Depth Estimation and Scene-Specific Dark Channel Prior

Kokul, T.; Anparasy, S. (IEEE, 19-01-21)

Quality of outdoor images are often degraded under bad weather conditions by the extensive presence of suspended particles in the atmosphere such as fog and haze. Although, many single image defogging approaches have been ...
Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication using parallel algorithm with block striped partitioning

Kayanan, M.; Kanaganathan, S. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 06-07-13)

Parallel algorithm may be executed as a piece at a time on many processing devices, and then return results at the end. A sparse matrix is huge and consists many zero elements. Its execution process is extremely time-consuming. ...
Treating rice mill effluent using waste rice hull

Uduwarage, U.D.T.M.; Devaisy, S. (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2021-11-30)

In Sri Lanka, about 95% of the population consume rice as their staple food. The increase of the population leads to an increment of the number of rice mills to meet the demand. This resulted in the generation of huge ...
Underwater Image Enhancement using Scene-Specific Red Channel Prior and Fusion

Anparasy, S.; Kokul, T. (IEEE, 10-12-21)

Quality of underwater images are reduced with the depth since light is absorbed and scattered by the suspended particles in water. Although several optical model-based and model-free underwater image enhancement methods ...
Water market in the tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu

Nanthakumaran, A.; Palanisami, K. (International Conference on Sustainable Built Environments (ICSBE-2010) Kandy,, 2010-12-13)

Continued progress in water resources development in the future will depend upon the utilization of the existing irrigation potential. An irrigation tank is a small reservoir to catch and store water during rainy season ...

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