| Development of Smoked Fish Processing unit for SMEs |
| Smoked fish has high consumer demand over salted dried fish and have much potential to
develop as small and medium scale industry in Sri Lanka. But, scientific surveys have found that
quality of smoked fish products are not in acceptable level. Therefore,
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| Fertilizer Applicator for Coconut Estates |
| Fertilization of coconut trees is a time consuming and labour intensive process, which has become a problem for coconut estate owners due to inadequate availability of human labour and reliable technology for applying fertilizer. This innovative fertilizer applicator improves efficiency of fertiliza... |
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| Compressed solid feed block making machine for cattles |
| National Engineering Research and Development Centre has developed a novel hay block making machine which can be used for manufacturing solid feed blocks for cattle. It is a semi-automatic machine and it makes cattle feed blocks using hay and other required nutrients in hygienic manner. Production c... |
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| Semi-auto Hopper Machine |
| This semi auto hopper machine was developed to make hoppers efficiently, hygienically with consistent size. The hopper mixture is stored in a container and discharge to the hopper making pan and spreading to get correct shape occur automatically. Weight and size of every hopper is constant .... |
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| Power Weeder for Row Seeded/ Row Planted Paddy Fields |
| Use of man power for the weeding of paddy fields is uneconomical due to high cost of labour and use of weedicides is not environmentally friendly due to harmful chemical substances. As a solution, National Engineering Research and Development Centre of Sri Lanka hasdeveloped a power weeder for row s... |
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| Temperature Controllable Bakery Oven |
| The technology is a biomass fuelled, temperature controllable, rotary type bakery oven.
Fuel ; Biomass sticks or pieces.
Temperature controllability –available.
Portable
Capacity . 80 breads /batch
Baling time: 50min /batch
Bread and any kind of bakery products can be baked.
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| Cinnamon Oil Distillation Unit |
| National Engineering Research & Development Centre of Sri Lanka has successfully developed Cinnamon oil distillation unit which consists of a heat exchanger, a boiler and a cinnamon still. One special feature of this unit is the evaporative cooling heat exchanger and it is used to condensed cinnamon... |
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| Development of an Efficient Dryer for Roof-Tile Industry |
| The traditional clay roof tiles draws a special interest as a roofing material due to its aesthetic character and good thermal comfort it provides. However the market share of these tiles is only10-15% in Sri Lanka as there are several imported roofing materials. Drying is the most critical stage in... |
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| Compact Wastewater Treatment (WWT) Facility for Vehicle Service Stations |
| Wastewater generation is a common issue for vehicle service stations since it contains hazardous and untreated impurities. Currently available gravity settling multiple tank treatment method and chemical coagulation method have drawbacks such as excessive space requirement and high op... |
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| Development of Machinery for Ayurvedic Sector - Crusher |
| In Ayurvedic sector, machineries are available for large and medium scale medicine preparation, but there are very less number of machineries for small scale medicine preparation for traditional Ayurvedic doctors. According to the requirements of the sector, a jack operated juice... |
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| CNC controlled PCB Drilling Machine |
| This machine is designed and developed at NERDC DFCI Department and it is used for making drill holes in PCB ( Printed Circuit Boards ) Automatically. The layout of Holes is done by a software and then the NC program for drilling is generated through the softwar... |
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| Teaching Aids |
| Department of Electrical, Electronics & Mechatronics has developed several teaching aids modules for school and technical colleges for demonstrating some scientific principles.
Fleming’s left hand rule, Generator/ principle, Transformerprinciple, Basic principles of electroni... |
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| Permanent Magnet Generator |
| This is a Pico scale Permanent Magnet Generator in the capacity of 100W with 12V DC output.
This is to be used for battery charging and the battery supply was taken to give 12V DC for supply homes in remote rural areas. ... |
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| Small Scale Pepper Thresher |
| Traditionally, pepper berries are separated by placing the harvested pepper in a gunny or polypropylene bag and treading by foot.
It is a labour incentive and unhygienic method which leads to large amount of wastage as well as to produce low quality products. 60kg of pepper can be separated by a w... |
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| Virgin Coconut Oil Extractor |
| In the production process, oil entrapped in coconut cells is extracted without subjecting to heat below 60 degree C. There is no risk of oil being rancid and depositing various mildews in the oil. Free fat acid value stands at 0.15 – 0.2. Production process under 65 degree C, is 100% natural and t... |
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| Manioc Slicer |
| Fried Manioc chips are well popular short food among Sri Lankans. The problem, which the fried manioc industry is facing now a day, is in the area of preparation of manioc chips of desirable size and shape. The ability to obtain desirable size and shape of manioc slices is low and inconsistent in qu... |
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| Palmyrah Juice extractor |
| Palmyrah is extensively grown in northern and eastern regions and extraction of juice form nuts is one of the main important products produced in this industry. Extraction of juice from palmyrah nut is a cottage industry and the juice is used to produce various food products like cordial, pinnatu, j... |
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| Development and application of Cost Effective Ferrocement Toilets |
| The technology was done to optimize the prices of toilets. The toilet is more suitable for lower income generation people. Precast panel can be casted separate place and assembling should be done at site.
Toilet building is made with 25mm thick pre-cast ferrocement panels. Panels are made at yard... |
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| To replace the “Traditional Edanda “ |
| This is better application for foot bridges instead of Traditional Edanda. It has possibility to cast at site. Simple equipments are sufficient. Simple techniques are used. Thin Ferrocement T- Beams are made at yard and assembled at site.
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1.Good solution for the places, where a... |
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| Airtight Ferrocement Paddy Bin |
| At farm level, paddy is stored in gunny bags in a corner of their houses. Since these bags are exposed to insects, rats and high moist environment, losses are high. It is difficult to apply insecticides to control insects since the stock is pilled up in their living rooms. In this regard, the NER... |
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| Industrial Fire Wood Stove |
| Develop user friendly, smokeless and efficient an Industrial stove unit using an empty oil barrel to use for small and medium scale industries, large scale cooking in hotels, army camps and canteens etc.
Field trials were done for kithul sap concentration, with collaboration of ITI and Ministry of ... |
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| Bio-mass Rice Cooker |
| Bio-mass Rice Cooker an excellent new technology developed by NERD Centre.It is a rice cooker which uses prices of coconut shells as fuel, the action of which is very similar to the electric rice cooker.The cooked rice can be used as a normal stove, for cooking, boiling etc. other purposes.
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