Soumya Mandal, Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque
This study investigates the potential application of hybridized energy system (i.e., PV/Wind/Diesel) with battery storage in the northern region of Bangladesh. A techno-economic feasibility of different system configurations is evaluated and an optimized system is selected using HOMER (Hybrid Optimi...
Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque, Soumya Mandal, Tapas Pal et al.
Md. Nurun Nabi, S.M. Najmul Hoque, Md. Shamim Akhter
Najmul Hasan, Shah Jahan Miah, Yukun Bao, Md. Rakibul Hoque
The study investigates critical factors which are important to evaluate enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the post-implementation stage. A conceptual framework is proposed with a set of relevant hypotheses and a structural equation modeling is used to analyze the survey data using Smart-PLS pack...
Barun K. Das, S.M. Najmul Hoque
Bangladesh is an agriculture based country where more than 65 percent of the people live in rural areas and over 70% of total primary energy consumption is covered by biomass, mainly agricultural waste and wood. Only about 6% of the entire population has access to natural gas, primarily in urban are...
Najmul Hoque, Amit Roy, Mohd. Rafiqul Alam Beg, Barun K. Das
In the summer season, irrigation sector in Bangladesh suffers a lot due to the country wide electricity crisis. Solar pump offers a clean and simple alternative to the conventional fuel fired engine or grid electricity driven pump in this regard to resolve the issue. In this paper, the techno-econom...
Md. Nurun Nabi, SM Najmul Hoque
The use of biodiesel is rapidly expanding around the world, making it imperative to fully understand the impacts of biodiesel on the diesel engine combustion process and pollutant formation. Biodiesel is known as "the mono alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from renewable lipid feedstock...
Israt Jahan Kakoly, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Najmul Hasan
As type 2 diabetes becomes more prevalent across the globe, predicting its sources becomes more important. However, there is a big void in predicting the risk factors of this disease. Thus, the purpose of this study is to predict diabetes risk factors by applying machine learning (ML) algorithms. Tw...
S.M. Najmul Hoque, Barun K. Das
Climate change and energy crisis are the serious challenges that Bangladesh is facing at the moment. Energy situation in Bangladesh is extremely critical and its major power stations are run by natural gas and it’s reserve is now under threat if no new gas mine is identified. This acute electricity ...
Najmul Hoque, Monjur Mourshed, Barun K. Das
This paper investigates the production of biodiesel (BD) from karanja (Pongamia pinnata), pithraj (Aphanamixis polystachya), neem (Azadira chtaindica) and mahua (Madhuca longofolia) seed oil through acid esterification, followed by the investigation on the transesterification process and physicochem...
S.M. Najmul Hoque, Barun K. Das
Only 47% of the populations in Bangladesh have access to electricity and per capita electricity use is 183 kWh p.a. which is very low compared to other developing countries. The government has the policy and vision to supply electricity to all citizens by 2020. Decentralized electricity generation b...
Najmul Hoque, S. Kumar
Tahsina Khan, Komatsu Satoru, Kaneko Shinji, Ghosh et al.
Currently, 1.317 billion people worldwide suffer an indigent supply of electricity, of which 99.8% live in rural areas of developing countries. The overall prevalence of electrification in Bangladesh is 60 percent for the nation but much lower for rural areas, at only 42.5 percent. In this regard, t...
Barun K. Das, Md. Abdul Kader, S.M. Najmul Hoque
Abstract- The underprivileged management of MSW is a growing problem in most cities and small urban communities in Bangladesh. Wsate collection effeciency of Rajshahi city of Bangladesh is not so significant and majority of waste is dumped in the open space. Landfill gas is generated naturally due t...
Abdur Rahim, Mohammad U. H. Joardder, S.M. Najmul Hoque, M. M. Rahman et al.
This paper describes the socio-economic and environmental impacts of battery driven Auto Rickshaw at Rajshahi city in Bangladesh. Unemployment problem is one of the major problems in Bangladesh. The number of unemployed people in Bangladesh is 7 lacks. Auto Rickshaw reduces this unemployment problem...