REVOLVO - provides fuel efficiency improvements by over 40 percent and reduction in green house gas (GHG) emissions by over 30%

Do you have an old car which is in good condition but only less mileage is a problem.

The way fuel prices are increasing today so running a car which gives less mileage is very difficult task.

But for such cars I feel “REVOLO” would be the best option to go with.

What is Revolo and how it will be useful for cars having less mileage.

Revolo – “Hybrid Solution for Everyone” is a plug-in parallel hybrid technology solution which can be fitted in both existing and new car. 

Pre-compliance tests conducted at the Automotive research Association of India (ARAI), Pune have confirmed that the technology provides fuel efficiency improvements by over 40 percent and reduction in green house gas (GHG) emissions by over 30%

Solution is based on research that fuel consumed during running of the vehicle only 20 to 30% is used to run the vehicle and other 70 to 80% is wasted. So Revolo tries to utilize this wasted energy and increase efficiency.

Revolo is designed to work in city traffic.

Revolo solution claims:

• 25% + saving in net energy expense for city driving
• 35%+ reduction in fuel consumption (Fuel Efficiency Improvements of over 40 % as tested by ARAI)
• Overall 30% emission reduction

And about Revolo – it’s a product which is manufactured through Joint Venture between Bharat Forge Limited and KPIT Cummins.

The Revolo kit consists of below components:

 

• Electric motor (7.5 to 10 HP)
• Electric motor controller
• Battery pack  (lead-Acid batery)
• Mechanical assembly and coupling
• Proprietary software
• Intelligent battery management system

The kit can be installed in both petrol and Diesel vehicles.

Below information is gathered by referring - http://revolo.kpitcummins.com/downloads/revolo_brochure.pdf

How it works:

● ‘Plug-in’ – The batteries used in the solution can be charged from a standard

external electricity source such as a domestic power outlet.

● ‘Parallel hybrid’ – The motor and engine work simultaneously at all times. The

vehicle will never work like an EV (electric vehicle) only and hence will continue

to operate as a conventional fuel vehicle if the batteries are fully discharged.

● The load sharing between the motor and engine is seamless and does not need

any user intervention.

● The solution is fuel-agnostic, it can be adopted for both petrol and diesel

vehicles.

● The batteries are recharged through opportunity based regeneration and

regenerative braking thereby enhancing the range per charge.

● The solution also includes an inbuilt Stop-Start feature, which improves the fuel

efficiency in ‘stop & go’ traffic situations.

● The solution also has in-built intelligence which recognizes driving patterns and

self-adjusts to provide optimum efficiency.

● Similarly the solution can also adjust performance based on user provided range

selection.

● The solution is battery-agnostic, it can be adopted to work with various types of

batteries such as lead-acid or lithium-ion batteries. The solution currently uses

‘Valve Regulated Lead Acid’ batteries. These batteries can withstand high

ambient temperatures without compromising on safety or performance. They

are sealed gel-based batteries which do not require topping up with distilled

water.

● The solution works without any interaction or interference with the existing

Engine Management System (EMS) of the vehicle. The system is thereby also

adaptable to vehicles without EMS and without electronic engines.

● The solution requires low maintenance and has a reliable three phase AC

induction motor.

● This solution can be made available as an Original Equipment Manufacturer

integrated solution or even retrofitted on vehicles as an aftermarket solution.

● 14 global patents have

Innovation Awards:

• Technology Innovation Award - 2011 by Wall Street Journal
• Best Implemented Sustainability Innovation of the Year 2011 by Knowledge@Wharton
• Parivartan Sustainabiity Leadership Award 2011 by Indian Carbon Outlook
• Promising Innovation of the Year 2010-11 by NASSCOM
• Best Electronic of the Year 2011 by India Semiconductor Association
• Automotive Idea of the Year 2011 by Economic Times Zigwheels
• Innovation Award in the Cummins CMD Awards, 2009
• Maharashtra State IT R&D Innovation Award 2010

Cost:

Average cost would be around 100,000

Key Benefits:

• Improvement in Fuel Efficiency of over 40% (as tested by ARAI).
• Green House Gases Emission Drops by over 30% .
• Providers additional boost in power.
• Increases engine life by reducing load on the engine.

Use Poison to cure not to kill – use Smartphone to learn not to spoil

“Use Poison to cure not to kill” - there are many things in this world which we say are bad or danger.
But if the same thing is used in a specific way it can be miraculous.

I will start with an example of a knife.

Everyone know one can be killed by a knife, but if everyone starts thinking knife is dangerous today our kitchens would have not been having knives to cut vegetables and our Mothers, sister and wives still would have been using stone age equipments to cut vegetables.

There are many such things in life which are dangerous but we humans use it intelligently in way it reduces our burden in doing some tedious tasks easily.

21^st Century is Smartphone yuga.  

Today everywhere we can see complaints like Smartphone addiction is spoiling young generation.

But here if we compare SmartPhone with Knife we referred in above example – SmartPhone has disadvantages if used for wrong reasons.

But its our responsibility to make intelligent use of a SmartPhone to learn new things, read about new places.

There is a saying in Kannada “Desha Sutti Nodu – Kosha Oodi Nodu” – it means roaming the whole world to learn new things is equivalent to reading the book.

So we should start using our smartphones to reading books, searching for topics in sites like Wikipedia to explore new things, understand history.

There is so much in the world which we should know.

So do such things we can plan a strategy:

When plan for a travel we will book tickets, book hotels, book taxi, packing, etc – along with all these things we also need to plan one more very important thing.

Each time we travel – depending on traveling time we need to decide on out topic of interest that we are going to search in net and read during our journey time.

This planning will help not to waste journey time and utilize smart phone for learning new things.

We can say that we can buy books instead of using Smartphone but there is a difference,

• If we buy a book every time we travel then we need to manage a library to keep those books

• If we carry a book we are forced to read the same book

• If we need more information we don’t have option to buy more books

But with Smartphone and internet we have more flexibility which overcomes all above problems we will face with books during travelling.

Always having more knowledge is always helpful to survive in this fast moving competitive word because we never know what knowledge will help us to come out of unknown problems.

So make use of new technologies for good practice and also teach the same for our new generation also.

Because the way technology is evolving if it is used for bad purpose it will result in creating worst conditions.

Cyclone “Phailin” was disaster and next will be Cyclone “Helen” – who gives these names?

Before the official practice of naming of tropical cyclones began in 1945 significant tropical cyclones were named after

• annoying politicians,
•  mythological creatures,
• saints and
• place names or
• or were just simply numbered with a set of code letters before it.

The official practice of naming tropical cyclones started in 1945 within the Western Pacific and was gradually extended out until 2004, when the Indian Meteorological Department started to name cyclonic storms within the North Indian ocean.

Cyclonic Strom Phailin affected Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and the Indian states of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Phailin is the Thai word and meaning is “Sapphire” and according to the followed procedure of naming tropical cyclones over north Indian Oceans it was turn of Thailand suggested name in list of assigned names.

The next cyclone in the region will be called “Helen” a name given by Bangladesh which is the next in list of names given by countries in this region – i.e. Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand.

 Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists.

Year wise developments to prepare list where Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand were involved to submit names

YEAR 1999

After the 1999 Orissa Cyclone, the WMO/ESCAP Panel on North Indian tropical cyclones during its annual session in 2000, agreed to start assigning names to Cyclonic Storms that developed within the North Indian Ocean.

YEAR 2000

As a result of this, the panel requested that each member country submit a list of ten names to a rapporteur by the end of 2000.

YEAR 2001

 At the 2001 session, the rapporteur reported that of the eight countries involved, only India had refused to submit a list of names as it had some reservations, about assigning names to tropical cyclones.

 The panel then studied the names and felt that some of the names would not be appealing to the public or the media and thus requested that members submit new lists of names.

YEAR 2002

In 2002 the rapporteur reported that there had been a poor response by member countries in resubmitting their lists of names, over the next year each country, bar India submitted a fresh list of names.

YEAR 2004

By the 2004 session, India had still not submitted its names despite promising to do so, however the rapporteur presented the lists of names that would be used with a gap left for India's names.

The rapporteur also recommended that the naming lists were used on an experimental basis during the season, starting in May or June 2004.

The naming lists were then completed in May 2004, after India submitted their names, however the lists were not used until September 2004 when the first tropical cyclone was named Onil by RSMC New Delhi.

All over the world there are 7 lists from which these tropical and subtropical cyclone names are derived. These lists are derived according to the Ocean’s these cyclones are formed

1. North Atlantic - cyclones are named by the National Hurricane Center (NHC/RSMC Miami)

• Six lists of names, alternating between masculine and feminine, are used in alphabetical order, and 
• maintained by the World Meteorological Organization with them rotating on a yearly basis.

2. Eastern Pacific Ocean - Within the Eastern Pacific Ocean there are two Regional Specialized Meteorological Centers (RSMCs) who assign names to tropical cyclones

• the National Hurricane Center (NHC/RSMC Miami),
• the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC/RSMC Honolulu).

3. Western Pacific Ocean - The Japan Meteorological Agency and The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

4. North Indian Ocean - The names were selected by members of the ESCAP/WMO panel on Tropical Cyclones between 2000 and May 2004, before the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre in New Delhi started to assign names in September 2004

5. South-West Indian Ocean - the Sub-Regional Tropical Cyclone Advisory Centers in Mauritius and Madagascar who name the systems

6. Australian Region - Within the Australian Region there are five different official Tropical Cyclone Warning Centers who assign names to tropical cyclones.

7. Southern Pacific Ocean - the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Nadi, Fiji (RSMC Nadi) and in conjunction with RSMC Nadi by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Wellington, New Zealand (TCWC Wellington).

Cyclones are named for a variety of reasons, which include

• to facilitate communications between forecasters and the public when forecasts, watches, and warnings are issued.
• Names also reduce confusion about what storm is being described, as more than one can occur in the same region at the same time