Browsing by Author "Shahzad Khuram"

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    GSM monitoring and tap changing of a transformer
    (University of Management and Technology, 2015) Rashid Bashir; Usman Ali; Shahzad Khuram
    In our country Pakistan we are facing Electricity and Power Problems. Often there is Fluctuation of main supply that can damage our home appliances and other electrical Equipments. Also the overloading of transformers is normal problem and due to the Improper monitoring they can get damaged. This result in loss of supply of electricity and also loss of money spent on these transformers. Our aim is to cover both of these problems and somehow we have presented a Solution. Our project entitled “GSM monitoring and Tap changing of a Transformer”can Monitor remote transformers including their Voltage Current and Power. It can also Act as a stabilizer for the load and changes taps of transformer according to main Supply and load demand. Monitoring of transformer is done through GSM and is displayed on LCD. And we have used TRIAC for switching of Taps of transformer. Our thesis further elaborates this solution step by step. This implementation has a high start up cost but the maintenance cost is very moderate and acceptable. Our project also solves the problem of stealing of transformer which is a major issue Nowadays. We have installed an alarm to indicate the operator about the stealing of Transformer. Although this project can bring revolution in power transmission and generation System of Pakistan but still there is a room of improvement like installment of infrared sensor with transformers for security cooling and heating of transformers better monitoring transformers with a technology better than GSM as sometimes GSM signals can cause problem in hilly areasMonitoring of each individual load and much more. We have just presented a concept and taken a step towards improvement of monitoring of transformers and fulfilling load requirements. And afterwards we have practically implemented this concept to present a model. There can be much improvement in this as improvement is nature.
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    New frameworks for cluster development
    (Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority(SMEDA), 2012) Nadia Jahangir Seth; Sami Ullah Bajwa; Muhammad Asif; Shahzad Khuram
    Common Facility Center (CFC) is a broadly used term in economic development agencies, to describe infrastructure based projects for development of clusters and small and medium enterprises, but does not have a precise definition in literature. CFC term is sometimes used as an alternative to infrastructure projects – which in both economic and business literature is different than the concept of common facility center – cluster initiatives, hard interventions and physical projects etc. Because of this fuzzy use of the term, no evaluation framework could have been developed so far which has made it rather difficult for policy makers to evaluate effectiveness of CFCs for economic development. To address this issue, this article undergoes the archives of SME development approaches and initiatives to propose a definition and evaluation framework for Common Facility Centers.