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Salinee Tavaranan

Salinee Tavaranan is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Salinee Tavaranan rather than just read about it. In short: Salinee Tavaranan is a Thai mechanical engineer who specializes in solar power and other forms of sustainable energy. She is the project director of Border Green Energy Team (BGET) and the CEO and founder of the company SunSawang, making green energy systems available to remote populations.

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Reference excerpt

Salinee Tavaranan is a Thai mechanical engineer who specializes in solar power and other forms of sustainable energy. She is the project director of Border Green Energy Team (BGET) and the CEO and founder of the company SunSawang, making green energy systems available to remote populations. She received a 2014 Cartier Women's Initiative Award for her work providing renewable energy to remote areas in Thailand.

Education Tavaranan was born in about 1978 and she grew up on the island of Phuket, located in southern Thailand. She received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand in 2001. She then earned a master's degree in solar energy engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2003.

Career Tavaranan had just started a Ph.D. program when she was offered the job of project director with Border Green Energy Team (BGET). She returned to Thailand to join the project. Border Green is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which works with villagers to install green energy systems utilizing solar, micro-hydro power, and biogas. One of the reasons for training local villagers is that areas may not be reachable in the rainy season. BGET has worked with refugees at the Mae La refugee camp near the border between Thailand and Burma as well as villagers in remote areas. This work enabled people to gain access to much needed resources including water, lights, classrooms with computers, medics and health care resources. In 2004, the Thai government had supported an initiative to install solar home systems in nearly 300,000 Thai households in remote areas which did not have access to the national energy grid. Follow-up research by the United Nations Development Programme several years later showed that 80% of the systems had not been maintained and were no longer used. In 2011, BGET carried out a 300-person pilot program to test the feasibility of providing solar energy products and maintenance services for a fee, to develop a more sustainable model for local green energy development. In March 2013, Salinee Tavaranan created her startup SunSawang to provide maintenance services for solar powered systems. The company recruited and trained technicians to maintain the equipment provided by the previous government initiative. Expensive photovoltaic panels are generally salvageable and are reused with relatively inexpensive components such as micro-hydro turbines, solar-powered lanterns and cell phone chargers. Initially higher starting costs are balanced against lower ongoing costs by offering five-year payment plans. In 2014, the company focused on working with inhabitants in the Tak region, an area of forests and national parks near the Thai-Burmese border. Salinee Tavaranan continued to work to some extent with BGET as well as with SunSawang. She received one of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards in 2014 for her work providing renewable energy to remote areas in Thailand. Salinee Tavaranan was included in the BBC's 2014 list featuring 100 Women internationally.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Salinee Tavaranan

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Salinee Tavaranan claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Salinee Tavaranan before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Salinee Tavaranan ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Salinee Tavaranan

In research: Salinee Tavaranan appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Salinee Tavaranan in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Salinee Tavaranan is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century mechanical engineers, 21st-century women engineers, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Salinee Tavaranan outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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