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ISRN Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 527979, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/527979
Research Article

Sustainable Energy Alternatives Experimentation at SCT

Javeed Ahmed Khan and Ramani Ranjan Panda

Faculty in Power Engineering Department, Electrical and Electronics Section, Salalah College of Technology, P.O. Box No. 608, Salalah 211, Oman

Received 12 May 2012; Accepted 20 June 2012

Academic Editors: F. Findik and J.-I. Jang

Copyright © 2012 Javeed Ahmed Khan and Ramani Ranjan Panda. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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