Day 3 :
Track 4:Energy Conservation and Architecture
Track 7:New Trends and Technologies for RESS
Track 8 : Agricultural Sustainability
Track 10 : Nanotechnology
Session Introduction
Sven Erik Jørgensen
Copenhagen University, Denmark
Title: Application of ecological models for assessment of sustainability
Biography:
Sven Erik Jørgensen is professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He has received a master of science in chemical engineering from the Danish Technical University (1958), a doctor of environmental engineering (Karlsruhe University) and a doctor of science in ecological modelling (Copenhagen University). He is honourable doctor at Coimbra University, Portugal and at Dar es Salaam University (Tanzania). He has received the Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Science. He has in 1975 founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, The Ruder Boskovic Medal, The Prigogine Prize, The Pascal Medal, The Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen, received in 2013 the outstanding publishing achievement, “this year’s Outstanding Academic Title”.He has published 370 papers of which 256 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 79 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling “Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling”, which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. It has been translated to Chinese and Russian (third edition). Recently he authored a well received textbook in system ecology entitled “Introduction to Systems Ecology”. It was published as English edition in 2012 and as Chinese edition in 2013. He was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Ecology, that was published in 2008, and of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, that was published in December 2012. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Management received the award “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2013. He has taught courses in ecological modelling and systems ecology in 33 different countries. He is the editorial board member of 20 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He is the president of ISEM and he has been elected member of the European Academy of Science’s, for which he is the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences.
Abstract:
There has lately been an increased interest in sustainability assessment and models have been developed to assess the sustainability of ecosystems, a natural area for instance a landscape and of a well-defined area that includes not only ecological processes but also socio-economic activities. Our experiences with sustainability assessment projects are still very limited, but from many sides it has been proposed which key variables to include in such an analysis. The use of work energy as a sustainability indicator that includes expressions of natural and socio-economic activities has been proposed and also tested with a reasonable success. The efficiency of the use of work energy in general and the amount of work energy needed to maintain the various subsystems and their capacity of work energy were included in these analyses. It is, however, clear that one indicator is insufficient to assess a sustainability of a very complex system. It has therefore been proposed to supplement the use of work energy as indicator with development of models of the most important cycles for natural and socio-economic systems, namely the cycles of carbon, nitrogen and water. Two ecological factors are in focus when it is discussed what is important to include in a sustainability analysis, namely the services offered by the ecosystems and the biodiversity, that is important for the spectrum of resistances to possible impacts on the systems. It is probably important to include these two ecological factors as direct indicators in the sustainability analysis, although they are both to a certain extent covered by the work energy analysis. Socio-economic indicators are of course also needed but it is beyond the scope of this presentation. The result of use of models for the assessment of the global sustainability by use of a “limits to growth”- like model will be presented. The model has been used to assess the global development in the case of 1) more support to the developing countries by the industrialized countries 2) more green tax to reduce depletion of resources3) more investment in pollution control including the emission reduction of the greenhouse gases 4) more investment in education and research to develop new solutions of the global problems.. It can be shown that these investments and changes lead to a win-win situation. The model has also been used to calculate the ecological footprint by various scenarios. These results will be presented, too.
André Pedral Sampaio
APOLLO Research Group of Sustainable Technology,Brazil
Title: Artemis project: A thermo- electric 100% carbon free to be built at the Amazon forest
Biography:
Andra Pedral Sampaioin holds Phd in Industrial Engineering - Organizational Intelligence from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2008), Master in Industrial Engineering - Business Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2002), Computer Specialist at Educational Center for Education Graduate Olga Metting (1999), Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1986). He has extensive experience in the areas of Information Technology, Process Engineering, Hydrogen, Bioenergy, Energy Generated, Process Automation, Sustainable Development, Audit and Judicial Skill. Winner of the South Regional – Santander and Winner of 4th Prize Santander Science and Innovation with the project OPTIMUS: Creating a method for assessing the strategic management informed by MCDA-C; Coordinates of the APOLLO research group, developing research projects in the areas of technology, robotics, organizational strategies, clean energy and sustainable development. Creator, researcher and coordinator of the Engineering courses of the Faculty of Technology of Valença / Ba – FACTIVA. Founder of FACTIVA's Technology Center. Professor and researcher at the Federal University of Bahia – UFBA. Coordinator and researcher of the research groups: NDTA – FACTIVA: Advanced Technology Development Center Factiva; And GPAPOLLO – UFBA: Apollo Research Group – UFBA.
Abstract:
The Amazon is a priceless treasure that needs to be preserved at every cost. Besides being the largest forest of the world, with the largest concentration of fresh water and to have the largest biodiversity of the planet, the Amazon forest is a life source, one of the few places in the planet earth where the nature still exercises all your magnificent force. It is difficult to explain in words that every visitor sits down when knowing the Amazonian for the first time: a power never imagined magnetism, forces, emotion, respect, vastness, life and peace. The Amazon forest copper 6,5 million of KM2, of the which 4 million are in Brazilian territory. But, in spite of the Amazon basin to be formed by torrential rivers, the quite permeable soil and the little canyons presence and falls of water, they impede the implantation of hydroelectric plants in the area. Due to vast territorial extension, the Amazonian shelters a riverside population that they don't have minimum resources of survival, among them the electric power. But, due to the difficulties of taking the electrification the those communities, and the Brazilian government's constants prohibitions to liberate plants that use fuels root, more and more it appears collections and investments in several forms of clean energy generation. This way, in order to promote the sustained development, it is that was born the ARTEMIS project that foresees the rational and intelligent use of waters and waves, with hydraulic potential bass, could have or not a low oxygen level and the presence of solid substances dissolved, with the purpose of electric power production - starting from the combination of a gas turbines system, moved H2, and moved thermal units H2. Basing your proposal, in a productive structure at a low cost, with high financial profitability, and occupying a small area, the ARTEMIS project was conceived in modules, resembling each other to protounits, that has as pattern the constructive easiness, the modular form, easy exchange, the union of innovative technologies and besides everything the capacity to adapt to the needs the generation, could be used from small units of production to gigantic, what will guide your implantation cost. Besides everything, the architecture of the project doesn't generate gases of the effect it stews. Like this, the project, while it conserves the environment using up-to-date technology for energy generation, it makes with a low cost, to maintain your process. The volume of energy, produced through this project, it is high, being capable to supply the energy consumption to this associated, this everything starting from a raw material, water of the amazon rivers, tends or not, hydraulic potential bass, creating a process that will lower the production costs energy, besides guaranteeing the quality and environmental protection. Based on a fixed platform, which operates in the middle of rivers or sea, this project was built to take advantage of all conditions generated by the seas, wind and sun to generate power. Thus, the Artemis project brings together three power generation systems: thermal system, mechanical system and photo-voltaic system. The Arthemis project is similar to a big tarantula. The body of the Tarantula serves as a fixed plat- form to generate energy through photo-voltaic panels and wind generators helical. Furthermore, there are electrolytes, inside which produce hydrogen for power generation through Stirling engine coupled to power generators, that can generate power by solar heating or the combustion of hydrogen. But not only the body generates energy, the legs of the tarantula are mobile and they follow the movements of the waves, allowing what eight legs generate energy by the movement of waves. The head of the tarantula is responsible for control of the entire complex.
Joseph Zeaiter
The American University of Beirut, Beirut
Title: Conversion of olive stones and dates pits to fermentable sugars using ammonia and dilute acids
Biography:
Joseph Zeaiter is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering & Architecture at American University of Beirut. His research interests include thermolysis of plastic waste into fuel, process modeling, advanced process control and optimization.
Abstract:
The use of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste has received considerable attention as a sustainable feedstock that can replace fossil fuels for the production of renewable energy. Therefore, municipal waste in the form of date pits and olive stones was investigated as a potential feedstock for fermentable sugars production. Treatment of the biomass by ammonia was investigated in order to convert lignin into fermentable sugars. Further hydrolysis by dilute phosphoric acid was carried out in an Autoclave Parr Reactor where reactor temperature (135 to 200° C) and acid concentration (2.5 to 10% (w/w)) were examined. Analysis of the decomposition rate of hemicellulose biomass was undertaken using HPLC of the reaction products. Initial results indicate no hydrolysis of hemicellulose by ammonia and only lignin was broken down. Acid hydrolysis lead to the breakdown of biomass into Xylose where the maximum concentration was obtained at 135° C, 120 min reaction time and at 2.5 (wt) % H3PO4, 150° C and 60 min reaction time. For glucose, an average yield of 26% was obtained at 2.5 (wt) % H3PO4, 200° C and 30 min. Furfural and 5-Hydroxymethlyfurfural (HMF) formation was clearly affected by reaction temperature where the higher the temperature the higher the formation rate. The produced sugars can be used as a source for fermentation to produce bioethanol.
Cuk Supriyadi Nandar
Center for Technology of Manufacturing Industry, Indonesia
Title: Robust and adaptive pid control design for stabilization of interconnected smart power system with high penetration of renewable energy
Biography:
Cuk Supriyadi Ali Nandar received B.Eng degree from Electrical Engineering Department, Gadjah Mada University in 2002. He earned his M.Eng Degree in Electrical Engineering from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in 2009, and D.Eng from Kyushu University. He is currently researcher at Agency for The Assessment and Application of Technology. His field of interest includes smart grid power system and renewable energy. He has published 2 (two) International Book Chapters, 14 International Journals and attended 21 International Conferences.
Abstract:
When large power output renewable energy generation connected to grid, the number of conventional rotating type of generators in operation decreases, which results in the reduction of total inertia constant and it makes the power system stability weak. Moreover, the uncertainty of renewable energy generations may cause the dynamic characteristic of the power system changeable. On other hand, the performance of controller depends on the dynamic characteristic of the power system. Therefore, we need to re-estimate the system to adjust controller parameters to enhance the stability of the power system. This paper proposes design of energy storage controller in interconnected power system by considering robustness and adaptivity. The structure of controller is PID controller due to the most applicable in industry, simple structure, low cost and high reliability and performance. Robustness of controller is guaranteed by taking system uncertainties such as various generating and loading conditions, system nonlinearities etc., into consideration, the concept of enhancement of inverse additive perturbation is formulated as the optimization problem of PID parameters. The generic algorithm is applied to solve for controller parameters. In adaptive control, the controller parameters are changed depending on the situations. However, it is not desirable that the parameters are changed too frequently. It is preferable that the parameter alteration is done at the right moment. Here a system identification technique and the robust controller design method are combined into an indirect adaptive controller design. The result of model identification is used to monitor discrepancy between output of the actual power system and output of the identified model. When a large discrepancy is detected, a new set of controller parameters is determined to adapt to the new situation. The effectiveness of proposed method is evaluated in interconnected power system with high renewable energy penetration against various line flow conditions and inertia constant in comparison with the conventional robust controller without considering adaptivity. Non linear simulation in interconnected power system confirm that the proposed controller design is effective to stabilize the system against various line flow conditions and inertia constant due to renewable energy penetration.
Yudi Widodo
Indonesian Legume and Tuber Crops Research Institute, Indonesia
Title: Integrating root crops with animal husbandry for providing renewable energy in rural remote regions
Biography:
Yudi Widodo has completed his Bachelor’s degree of Agronomy from the State University of Surakarta (UNS). In 1984 and 1985, he was trained at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan Nigeria and Centro International Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) Cali Columbia. He has obtained his Master’s degree on Plant Science from Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Yogyakarta in collaboration with Brawijaya University (UB) Malang, by international lecturers from Australia and Netherlands. He has more than 125 articles published domestically and international proceeding. He actively struggle for Proposing Indonesia-Madagascar Partnership in Agricultural Limkages (IMPARTIAL) as a new Alliance for Sustainable Development starting from 2014.
Abstract:
Energy has to be available everywhere in any location including in rural remote areas where communities live. A major figure in developing countries, poor electricity were suffered by inhabitants of rural remote areas, due to wire connection from state is not available. Electrical facility is providing for community who able to buy energy for their daily life. In fact at rural remote areas whereas agriculture is existing, biomass produced as byproduct from existing agriculture can be used as raw material to provide renewable energy with ecologically friendly. At least two of daily basic needs namely food preparation and light or heat have to be available. Cassava, sweet potato and the other root crops are mostly grown by farmers in rural areas. The main economical yield in the form of starchy root and tuber are directly for human consumption, however the abundance of biomass aside as source of feed, it also provide potential renewable energy by mixing with animal dung. Methane released from this integration system can be burnt to prepare food as well as to provide light. By implementing this method, free methane emission into atmospheric zones is avoided, so indirectly converting methane as renewable energy is a part of the endeavor to reduce global warming. Waste from methane digester can be mixed with organic material for worm rearing as source of protein for fish and chicken as well. Worm dunk is spent for organic fertilizer of agricultural field to attain greener environment.
Sismudjito
North Sumatera State University,Indonesia
Title: From waste to renewable energy: The significant contribution of green innovation for rural community
Biography:
Sismudjito has completed his Bachelor of Sociology at University of Gadjah Mada Yogyakart and his Master and Doctoral Degree of Sociology were completed from North Sumatera University (USU Medan) where he has been working as lecturer of Sociology since 1990.
Abstract:
Field survey was carried out at the rural areas of 13 villages under subdistrict Secanggang at district Langkat province of North Sumatra during April to June 2014. The main objective of this study is to determine the innovativeness belong to rural community in response to the need of renewable energy, and in fact in their circumstances waste as raw material is abundance. From the field survey indicated that rural community dealing with livelihood as farmers, fisheries and animal husbandry are dreaming about the potential of waste convertion into renewable energy, due to the existing energy consumption was mainly fulfilled by unrenewable fuel without ecologically friendly. Rural community aware that renewable energy is a reality in developed countries, due to commitment of government to realize the agenda for anticipating global warming by reducing emission of gaseous released from unrenewable fuel from fossiel. Imagination, inspiration and intuition as well as invention of renewable energy from waste were gathered as collected idea to be implemented into their circumstances. However as common character and attitude of rural communities, in order to perform the effectiveness of tool and apparatus for converting waste to renewable energy the real demonstration need to be installed. By showing the newly example in small scale means that seeing is believing, consequently rural community will be stimulated to develop based on their innovatiness response.
Aryan Azad
Sejong University, South Korea
Title: Enhanced hematite-based photoelectrochemical water splitting by comparing coating and doping methods
Biography:
Aryan Azad was born in 1985. In 2008 and 2011 she obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Textile Chemistry Engineering. Ms. Azad became top class honor student amongst the students graduated in the Textile Chemistry Engineering in both bachelor and master courses. Currently she is PhD student in Nano Technology and Advanced Materials Engineering department in Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea. She also has some publications in both Nano Technology and Textile science.
Abstract:
According to the global energy problem one of the solutions can be renewable solar hydrogen which is produced by splitting water and solar energy. Hematite (α-Fe2O3) thin films and Ti-doped hematite were grown on Fluorine thin oxide (FTO) substrate by hydrothermal method. On the other hand TiO2 and Fe2O3 were coated by layer by layer (LBL) method on Fluorine thin oxide (FTO) glasses. Samples were heat treated in different temperatures between 550 °C and 750 °C with various times between 10 min and 2h. The photoelectrochemical performances of undoped and doped hematite and coated FTO glasses by TiO2 and Fe2O3, were characterized and compared by X-ray characterization (XRD), optical band gap energy, photocurrent density (I-V) and field emission scanning electronic microscopy (FESEM). It has been demonstrated that the photoelectrochemical performance of Ti-doped hematite on the FTO glass, which was sintered in air at 550 °C for 2 h and annealed at 750 °C for additional 10 min, illustrated significantly high photo catalytic activity by increasing photocurrent density, decreasing the band gap energy and reducing electron-hole recombination.
Rafael Sánchez Solano
CINVESTAV-IPN, México
Title: SOTHPUWI: Solar tracker of high precision using web cam and control interface
Biography:
Rafael Solano Sanchez has completed his Bachelor as a mechanical electrician engineer at the age of 23 years from the Universidad Veracruzana. He is currently studying Masters in Bioelectronics in the CINVESTAV in México City.
Abstract:
SOTHPUWI is an automatic, high-precision solar tracker, with a graphical control interface, and a temperature control for recording the temperatures reached by a Fresnel lens used as solar concentrator. The tracker is a metal structure of two-axis, on which the Fresnel lens of 0.32m² is always oriented perpendicularly to the direction of the solar rays in order to obtain the highest energy efficiency. The tracker uses a web cam as a single sensor for the tracking of the sun. This sensor captures ten pictures per second and it sends the information to a computer through a USB cable, where using the interface, we can watch the position of the sun in real time according to the plane of the collector. The interface automatically sends feedback signals through an electronic device to two DC motors in order to maintain the collector perpendicular to the radiation source. The interface allows the displaying of readings from various sensors mounted on the tracker and it also enables or disables functions such as the web-cam to control the tracker via digital keypads and on the other hand, it is possible to reactivate the web-cam to return the automatic position control to it. SOTHPUWI proved an accuracy of 0.1° and a response time of 0.7 seconds. The maximum temperature recorded was 410 ° C, on a cloudy day at 14:30 hours in Mexico City. The interface remains open to the new programming features. The system proved its satisfactory operation for future applications.
Hui-Ping Zeng
Beijing University of Technology, China
Title: The evolution of the bio-filter layer for Manganese removal and the countermeasure
Biography:
Huiping Zeng received his M.E. and Ph.D. from Harbin Institution of Technology in 2010(Thesis: Biological purification of groundwater with high concentration of iron, manganese and ammonia and engineering application) and 2007(Thesis: Deterioration of biological filter for the purification of groundwater with iron and manganese), B.E. from Hunan University in 2005(major in water supply and drainage engineering). His research interests include the theory, technology and engineering application of biological purification of groundwater with high concentration of iron, manganese and arsenic. He has finished several demonstration projects of biological purification of groundwater with iron and manganese in Harbin and Shenyang. He has Published over 20 papers and participated in several research projects, including China Postdoctoral Fund (2012), National Natural Science Foundation(2013) and Beijing Education Commission Project(2014).
Abstract:
Biological filtration is the highly-efficient and economical process for manganese removal from groundwater, but after the bio-filter's long time operation manganese concentration of the effluent often exceeded the PRC national standards for drinking water quality. In order to know the truth, the as-prepared samples of the filter media were characterized. The filtration experiment had been done using filter media in various properties from mature bio-filters which had run for different time: just maturation, after 2 years operation. Also we replaced the old sand in the bio-filter with the new sand in different proportion (50%, 30%, 25%, 15%, 10%) to investigate the filtration effect. The results indicated that the diameter of the filter media became more and more lager due to the adhesion and accumulation of oxides of iron and manganese after long time operation, which led to the change of filter bed structure and even the deterioration of filtrate. Therefore, to maintain high efficiency of manganese removal in long-term operation, replacing some old filter media which optimum thickness was 10cm to 15cm with new one periodically was necessary and feasible.
Biography:
Chris Castro is an emerging social entrepreneur, community organizer, and sustainability professional with a passion for accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy. Chris is currently a Sustainability Program Manager and Senior Energy Adviser for the City of Orlando, working on implementing the Green Works Community Action Plan and developing policies and programs to advance clean energy and sustainability initiatives throughout Central Florida. In 2008, Chris co-founded IDEAS For Us, an award-winning international 501c3 nonprofit and UN-accredited NGO that’s building a movement of people working to accelerate environmental solutions on campuses and communities in more than 20+ countries around the World. In 2012, Chris also helped create Citizen Energy, a clean energy consulting and development firm working to implement energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in commercial buildings throughout Washington DC. In previous roles, he has also held sustainability & energy-related positions with University of Central Florida, Orange County Government, and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) in Washington DC. Finally, Chris was recently designated as Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and a delegate for the Clinton Global Initiative. In his spare time, Chris enjoys urban farming and surfing the east coast of Florida.
Abstract:
In every major American city, buildings account for the majority of energy use and carbon pollution–even more than the transportation or industrial sectors. If cities want to be more competitive and more resilient against energy-related crises, they must boost the energy efficiency of their building stock. In the City of Orlando, 6% of the number of buildings contribute to 57% of the impacts regarding energy use and carbon pollutions, showing that improving the energy performance of these buildings will yield significant, rapid results to reaching our energy and climate action goals. However, in order to achieve significant energy savings, cities must know how much energy their large buildings are using in the first place. As a participant of the City Energy Project, the City of Orlando is developing an integrated framework of policies and programs that will increase energy efficiency investments in commercial, multifamily, and industrial buildings. This multi-faceted approach will work on improving the city’s municipal building portfolio, enabling actionable information about energy use, creating new financial instruments, developing custom incentive programs for improve performance, crafting new workforce development programs that educate building operators, exploring new energy codes and green building standards (for new construction), and launching creative ways to spur investments through city-wide competitions. This presentation will unveil the overview of City Energy Project initiatives, and disclose what the City of Orlando is working on to drive economic growth and improved competitiveness, enable smarter markets and governments, improve our environment, and become a national leader in energy efficiency for new and existing buildings.
Michael Steifman
CEO & Founder of UtiliSave, USA
Title: Energy solutions: How to organize and monetize data
Biography:
Upon graduating from the Wharton School of Business, Michael began his career in 1986 at the Starrett Housing Corporation where he was ultimately promoted to a corporate Vice President. There, his duties included implementing and monitoring all phases of real estate development projects from site negotiations and acquisitions, to design, financing, construction management, marketing, and leasing of projects. Michael acquired a wealth of knowledge within the real estate sector and more specifically, property management in the context of the property’s utility consumption and billing. In 1992, he founded UtiliSave seeking to educate clients on their energy use, uncover billing errors, and develop trustworthy relationships to identify cost saving opportunities.
Abstract:
Big data is changing the way the world does business and is set to revolutionize the utility industry as well. In the past, utility information was collected just once a month, it can now be collected in 15 minute intervals (and even more frequently in some situations), an incredible 35,000 times a year. Analytic tools are capable of making sense of this information and providing insight for verifiable business decisions, paving way for serious ROI. A new generation of technologies are being designed to extract economic value from these large swaths of previously unavailable data. Yet having all of the data in the world will not positively influence your bottom line unless you know how to organize it and how to analyze it. This data can be used for making internal operations more energy efficient while simultaneously being monetized as it relates to the utility company billing, in both regulated and deregulated markets. Are heating and cooling systems operating at the same time? Is equipment being activated at off-hours, are motors and drives properly calibrated? All this can be discerned from the data, it is even possible to know what equipment is being operated and when, from the analysis of the data. The more granular the data, the greater the opportunity for conservation and savings.
Tom Willie
Blue Pillar Inc., USA
Title: Optimizing energy efficiency with centralized facility management
Biography:
Tom Willie brings a successful 15-plus year start-up, technology and smart grid history to his position of CEO of Blue Pillar. Mr. Willie was most recently CEO of Current Group and had also served as CURRENT’s Chief Product Officer and its Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining CURRENT, Mr. Willie served as Vice President and General Manager of Siemens/Efficient Networks. He previously also served as the Vice President/Vice Chairman of PRIME Alliance AISBL and held strategic worldwide marketing management positions at Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor. Tom Willie obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
Abstract:
Energy efficiency programs for businesses and facilities offer important financial and environmental benefits. The concept of energy efficiency is easy for businesses to grasp, but many are unaware of how to best gather energy data from their existing infrastructures to make informed energy management decisions, preventing them from operating at maximal efficiency. This session will cover technology innovations that make it possible to create a Digital Energy Internet of Things (IoT) network that connects controls and gathers data from core facility and electrical equipment regardless of make, model or vintage. Once connected, facility managers are able to control an entire facility’s equipment portfolio, execute critical power system compliance and readiness testing, monitor critical powers systems, and automate energy efficiency programs such as Demand Response. Using Centralized Facility Management (CFM), a new operational management trend, facility operators and corporate managers can monitor their connected equipment across geographically dispersed facilities and holistically view the energy efficiency and resiliency all of their dispersed operations. This session will discuss how an IoT network and CFM platform can help businesses leverage the power of asset connectivity, control, and data management to improve energy resiliency and efficiency across all facility operations.
Biography:
Usha Bajpai had obtained her M Sc Physics and Ph D degree from the University of Lucknow. After serving for 13 years in Nigeria in the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, she joined the Department of Physics, University of Lucknow as a faculty member. She established the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory in the Department and she is presently the Coordinator of Renewable Energy in Centre of Excellence in Renewable Energy Education and Research of the University of Lucknow. She started M Sc Programme in Renewable Energy in 2007-08. A new programme called B Voc Renewable Energy Technology from the current academic session and the University of Lucknow. Prof Bajpai has more than 115 research papers published in International and National Journals or presented in International and National Conferences. She has also authored a book on “Sustainable Building and Climate Change-An Indian Perspective†published in Germany in 2012. She is a consultant of MNRE and is a member of many professional societies. She is an editor/reviewer of various International and National Journals including Solar Energy, a Journal of International Solar Energy Society.She has developed solar photovoltaic powered bicycle and tri-cycle for handicapped persons which have been launched by Kalyanam Karoti in Lucknow in 2012. She has been awarded many prizes and awards including Lokmani Award by Bharat-Bharti in 2012 for development of Parivar Kalyan Chullha and its popularization. She has also been awarded Samaj Shiromani Award in Science and Technology by Nai Dishayen India in 2014 for outstanding achievements in the field of Science and Technology.
Abstract:
Skill is the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy or both. The rapid growth in renewable energy sector requires an extensive pool of competent manpower (skilled and knowledgeable) to design, install and maintain the renewable energy systems. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India had proactively initiated a project to estimate the future human resource needs in the renewable energy sector and evolve suitable human resource development strategies for meeting them. The strategies involved were to analyze trends in renewable energy industry, quantification of existing job opportunities in different functional areas, estimation of manpower requirements in renewable energy sector in short term (5 years) and medium term (5-10 years), map the skill requirements at different functional levels, develop sector wise human resource development strategies, develop strategies for possible partnership models between industry, institutions, academia and government towards skill development and develop inputs to integrate renewable energy into the current curricula at industrial training institutes, polytechnics and universities. The skill requirements for renewable energy technologies are unique in nature and vary widely across different sub-sectors. Certain skill requirements are common across all sectors of renewable energy, i.e. mechanical, electrical, installation and maintenance skills. A few other skills are unique to specific sectors i.e. wind resource assessment, techno-commercial marketing, installation of building-integrated photovoltaic systems, boiler and turbine operation, maintenance of biomass power plants, design and operation of biogas plants are highly specific. The skill mapping survey carried out by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India with the Confederation of Indian Industry in a study covered the sub-sectors of renewable energy like wind energy, solar photovoltaic conversion, solar thermal conversion, small hydro power and biomass/biogas. Function-wise skill gaps in each of the sub-sectors included research and development, project development and consultancy, manufacturing, construction and installation, operation and maintenance and marketing activities. Recently, the Government of India has created a new Ministry called the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and the State Governments also created such setups for all round skill development in the entire spectrum of the Indian economy. National Skills Qualification Framework has been adopted and several innovative programs including Bachelor of Vocation programs have been started in renewable energy technologies. With all these efforts of the Government of India, development of required skills in renewable energy will be reality in the near future.
Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini
AUT University, New Zealand
Title: Future of intelliginet green built environments
Biography:
Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini is an academician at the Department of Built Environment Engineering, School of Engineering, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. He has achieved well-recognized international innovation awards in addition to publication of various international level patent, journal articles, books, conference papers, etc. His research interests concern the wide spectrum of BIM; design cognition and computing; Building automation systems; Energy efficient buildings; Green building development; Green roofs; Environmental design behavior; Sustainable design developments; Adaptive environments; Smart housing; Intelligent buildings; Artificial intelligence in design & construction and integrated design studies.
Abstract:
Advancement of green built environments is of extreme significance to contemporary researchers. Application of highly sophisticated methods to achieve this has emerged the concept of incorporating Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Building Management Systems (BMS). Consequently, the notion of employing knowledge-based BMS is promoted. On the other hand, utilization of Life-cycle Assessment (LCA) for various building performances has indicated positive sustainable possibilities. Thus, incorporation of LCA and real-time building monitoring with knowledge-based BMS is recommended as a promising potential to endorse advancement of future green/sustainable built environments. It is overstressed that, such developments should not be only limited to consideration of green design principles for to-be-constructed buildings however, the idea of greening existing buildings following similar policies is recommended.
Biography:
Suresh C Bajpai holds MSc Physics, LLB and PhD degree’s from University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India. His areas of specializations are photovoltaic systems, energy in buildings, green buildings, energy modeling, energy managements and conservation. He has served as Ag Director of the Sokoto Energy Research Centre, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria and also the UNCHS Expert on use of New/Renewable Energy in Low Cost Housing at the Building Research Institute, Kingston, Jamaica. Recently, he worked as Chief Advisor (Research and Product Development), Ren-En-Gen Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Chief Advisor, Research Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (RISE). He has authored above 110 research papers which have been published in National/International Journals or presented in various conferences/workshops/seminars. In addition he has also co-authored/co-edited three books on renewable energy and has delivered many invited lectures at National and International institutions and organizations. Dr Bajpai is a member of many editorial boards of journals including the Editorial Board of the Solar Energy Society of India and is actively engaged in propagating photovoltaic energy conversion systems, energy conservation and management and green building ideas in India and abroad. Dr Bajpai is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, New Delhi. Presently, he is the Guest Faculty and Subject Expert at Centre of Excellence in Renewable Energy Education and Research, University of Lucknow (New Campus), Lucknow, India.
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Energy is the prime mover of economic growth, and is vital to sustaining a modern economy and society. Future economic growth significantly depends on the long-term availability of energy from sources that are affordable, accessible and secure. India’s energy demand is expected to double by 2030. In the face of its present energy constraints, the country needs to use its energy as efficiently as possible and generate more power through renewable energy. The Government of India launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in 2010, with an aim to establish India as a global leader in solar energy and to deploy 20,000 MW of solar power capacity by 2022. JNNSM targets were to be achieved in three phases: Phase 1 (up to early 2013), Phase 2 (2013-17) and Phase 3 (2017-22). In the Phase 2 – Batch 1, Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) auctioned total 750 MQ of solar projects divided in two categories – open and domestic with 375 MW in each. This had a strong interest with bids from 58 developers for 2,170 MW as against 750 MW capacity on offer. However, with new Government coming in May-2014, the targets were revised to 1,00,000 MW by 2022 on account of solar energy alone. Besides the national program, solar programs at the state level are also driving solar growth in the country. At present, India has only around 2.8 GW of solar modules and 1.4 GW of solar cell manufacturing capacity. Significant portion of it remains underutilized, as the domestic manufactures fail to compete with imported solar PV price. It is generally agreed that, unless the market is backed by aggressive R&D, this growth may not continue and solar PV will not achieve the potentially substantial contribution that it could make to energy supplies. Further, a mechanism that seamlessly integrates technological advances to industry on real-time basis and also supports the industry to take the technology risk would be important for India.
Amine Boudghene Stambouli
University of Science and Technology of Oran, Algeria
Title: Stem technology initiative by Sahara solar breeder project: Chemistry and electronics of oxides as stem material for future energy and environment
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Professor Amine Boudghene Stambouli is a graduate of the University of Sciences and Technology of Oran (Algeria) in 1983. He received his master's degree in modern electronics (1985) and his PhD in optoelectronics (1989) at the University of Nottingham in England. He joined the University of Sciences and Technology of Oran in 1989. His studies started in the field of High Field Electroluminescence and optoelectronics and lately changed to environmental friendly production of energy. His research interests include at present: Photovoltaics, Fuel cells, hybrid systems, and environment impacts. He is a full Professor of optoelectronics and material science for environment and energy applications at the Department of Electronics. Prof. Amine Boudghene Stambouli is United Nations consultant (Index 382958), member of many scientific and industrial organizations and director of several doctoral courses.
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The energy crises and challenges around the globe in the last few decades are a major concern to all countries. Solar energy is a widely used technology nowadays due to its availability. It has no negative effects on the environment as compared to other conventional energy such as the use of fossil fuel which eventually increases the earth’s average temperature and pollution. The earth’s surface accepts a solar amount of 108 kWh day-to-day, that is equal to 500,000 billion of barrels of oil, i.e., a thousand times any oil reserve identified to humans. This more than adequate availability makes solar energy less costly with no pollution. Every living thing preserves its life in a pseudo-steady state flow of energy and material to form a universal cycle for regenerating its origin, i.e. stem species, from the final product in the life cycle with the aid of sun light or other external energy. People start　worrying about a serious effect that may be caused by losing the energy-material balance due to the rapidly growing fossil fuel combustion. The inevitable result is the CO2 accumulation to threaten our sustainability by the global warming effect with CO2, which is not only anticipated but also recognised scientifically. As we could assign the stem cell to branch into every part of animals and plants, it is presumed to be possible to propose the stem concept and technology for in-organic (non-living) materials as well. Although there is a big difference in the life span, rocks, metals, and even our cosmos are aged and changed into various forms to be the most stable species on the earth, i.e. mostly oxides. In this article, we propose the stem technology initiative for recovering the balance in our future world, where human population and energy consumption keep growing, by developing a clean global solar energy supply system coupled with sustainable social security consensus．Our strategy for initiating stem technology R & D is based on the following scenario: 1. Define stem energy and stem material; 2. Design and propose the route to stem energy initiative; 3. Bridge the stem energy and stem material technology; 4. Sahara Solar Breeder (SSB) plan as a promising stem material/energy hybrid technology; 5. Extension to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and central Asia; 6. Future prospect: Si renaissance and High critical Temperature Superconductor (HTcSC) transmission.
C. I. Chuks-Ezike
Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Title: Policy drivers propelling the uptake of renewable energy target within the European Union barriers hindering its speedy adoption
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C I Chuks-Ezike has just completed his Master’s program in Oil and Gas Law from the Robert Gordon University. He will be joining PhD program on Environmental Management in October 2015. He was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Nigerian Supreme Court in November 2013 upon a successful program at the Nigerian Law School where he has graduated with a Second Class Upper. He has since engaged in scholarly writings of articles and journals for local and international conferences, some of which he has delivered orally as papers or posters.
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It is asserted that the European Union (EU) cannot achieve its energy objectives on its own. Energy constitutes a horizontal policy issue since the EU’s energy policy is a component of policy areas such as foreign policy, environmental/climate change and competition. Core energy matters such as climate change have a global viewpoint; hence the EU approach also has to be external. The issues of sustainability, security of supply and competitiveness are common a challenge that has plagued the EU member states over the years, hence have formed the foundation of a Common Energy Policy (CEP). This policy aims at achieving the targets reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, increasing energy efficiency and increasing the share of the renewable in the energy mix. This is because oil and gas exploration has been strongly linked to environmental problems such as climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. This thus means that the EU seeks an energy that is not only available, affordable, enhances competition instead of a monopoly and is also sustainable. The author of this work is of the view that these elements of a clean and available energy are only policy drivers for the adoption of Renewable Energy (RE). This is on the grounds that RE possesses all the qualities of cleanliness and availability described hence should be an alternative to conventional energy source. It is however notable that despite the policy drivers, most nations, whilst EU nations are yet to work uniformly and steadily towards achieving the renewable targets set.
Hamad Al-Mebayedh
Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
Title: Contaminated soil treatment technology selection and management process
Biography:
Highly skilled petroleum, environment, energy, and construction senior projects engineer, with a proven record of success in driving major environmental projects strategies and plan, dealings with government leaders and corporate management. Experienced at coordinating and overseeing culturally diverse and widely distributed environmental project teams. Outstanding history in developing major oil companies environmental strategies, procedures and standards.
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This paper serves as the written guideline for contaminated site remediation projects, and Provides a framework for the key issues such as contaminated sites management process and decision framework for technology selection that need to be considered throughout remediation programs, to ensure that reports prepared by consultants, Contractors, or and any responsible party on the investigation and remediation of contaminated sites project contain sufficient and appropriate information. And to enable efficient review by regulators, the Site Auditor and other interested parties. In this paper, we eliminate the fact that the soil characteristics is a very important element in the remediation technologies selection process as site soil conditions frequently limit the selection of a treatment process. Process-limiting characteristics such as pH or moisture content may sometimes be adjusted. In other cases, a treatment technology may be eliminated based upon the soil classification (e.g., particle-size distribution) or other soil characteristics. This concludes the fact that we have to evaluate the technologies on the base of the contaminants and soil characterization. The effectiveness of the remediation technologies depends on three groups (Contaminant and site Characteristics, Regulatory Requirements, and Cost limitations); the Effectiveness of Technologies Dependency (ETD). Contaminate prospective, and RI/FS a very important element in our decision framework on the Contaminated Site Management and Technology Selection Process (CSM&TSP). Up on site characterization and the site investigation data requirement, technology group could be identified either In Situ or ex situ. The main advantage of in situ treatment is that it allows soil to be treated without being excavated and transported, resulting in potentially significant cost savings. However, in situ treatment generally requires longer time periods, and there is less certainty about the uniformity of treatment because of the variability in soil and aquifer characteristics, and because the efficacy of the process is more difficult to verify. The main advantage of ex situ treatment is that it generally requires shorter time periods than in situ treatment, and there is more certainty about the uniformity of treatment because of the ability to homogenize, screen, and continuously mix the soil. Ex situ treatment, however, requires excavation of soils, leading to increased costs and engineering for equipment, possible permitting, and material handling/worker exposure conditions. In this paper Contaminated Site Management and Technology Selection Process (CSMTSP) has been introduced as a guideline for Remediation Project Managers RPM to support their technology selection decision. Information in this paper is intended to give project managers a comprehensive understanding of the process to screen and select treatment technologies for specific contaminated sites, and guidance for further consideration of treatment technology and its applicability.
Rizeq Hammad
University of Jordan, Jordan
Title: Integrating solar technologies into the building envelope: A case study: Integration of a photovoltaic system in a house in Amman city
Biography:
Rizeq NS Hammad is full professor in the Department of Architecture, Jordan University, Amman- Jordan.He holds a Ph. D. in Architecture and Building from Engineering department of Liverpool University, UK. He has pursued M. Sc. In Computer Aided Design from Strathclyde University, Glasgow-UK.He has authored 5 books in lighting & acoustics and has some 40 scientific researches published in international refereed journals.
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This paper describes the integration of electrical generating energy system using sunlight and day lighting within building skin design, and utilizing this energy as supplementary (and main energy supply in the near future). This system is has led to reduction of the building’s electrical bill in a limited energy resources country, like Jordan. The total electrical bills within 50 years in Jordan are equal to the primary cost of the building construction. A photovoltaic system is installed in a small house in Amman City, and the electrical energy output is carefully studded through two years period. This system is integrated with the electrical board which is supplied by the electrical company. The system consists of photovoltaic panels, an electrical converter and a two way electrical meter. When the system is produces additional electricity, (more than that required for house-hold needs, this extra load passes to the main electrical board. The electrical meter counts the supply from the main board and the additional electricity produced by the system. The final electricity bill is the difference between the in and out watts. The maximum allowable watts from this system should not exceed 3kw per hour. This system proves to be efficient during the two years, where the sunny days in Amman are approximately 300 days, and the overcast days are few. The average monthly production is 500 kilowatts, and that contributes to 30% of the final bills during the winter and 60% during the summer. This reduces the final monthly electrical bills to $15 during sunny days compared to $150.This system will cover its initial cost within 7 years despite the fact that the maximum allowable watts for this house are 3kw/hour. This system has many advantages in a poor energy resources country, such as Jordan and produces electricity without any additional cost, needs no maintenance and produces green energy. The system will even continue to produce free energy without any charges and charge the electrical board while the occupants are enjoying their vacations.
Parimal M Patel
V.N.S.G.University, India
Title: Effect of coal fly ash on somatic chromosomes of Cajanus cajan L.
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Parimal M Patel works at the Department Of Biosciences at V.N.S.G. University, Surat, India.
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To assess possible impacts of coal fly ash on somatic chromosomes of Cajanus cajan L. were investigated. The root was treated with diluted, semi-diluted and concentrated solution of fly ash. The mitotic and phase indexes were determined and chromosomal abnormalities were investigated in both control and test groups. It was found that coal fly ash had a marked mitodepressive action on mitosis. Chromosome aberrations were observed in all stages of mitosis. Results of laboratory experiments reveals that cell size increased with the treatment of semi-diluted and concentrated fly ash solution respectively, but cell size not affected when root tip treated with the diluted fly ash solution. The types of chromosomal abnormalities observed included: chromatid bridge, c-mitosis, disturbed metaphase. A pronounced toxic effect is observed in semi-diluted solution and above its.
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G. S. Murty is a professor and Former Director of School of Chemistry at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
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The presentation will focus the importance of cow based organic farming for the sustainable development of the rural economical condition of India. Indian agriculture is centered round the cow and its progeny since vedic ages ( about 9000 yrs old) and is true( to some extent) even now.India has an arable land of about 17million hectares and 16 million farmers of which 60% hold less than a hectare.Mahatma Gandhi, in his vision for India, envisaged a system of devolved, self-sufficient communities, sustaining their needs from the local environment, and organizing income generating ventures around co-operative structures. But in view of shifted priorities and Rapid changes in Indian economic front, particularly in service sector, is effecting the agriculture.It will be an enigma to predict the future of Indian agriculture unless specific effective programs are carved out addressing the rural economy which would also enable employment of the rural masses that are spread in six lakh ( 0.6 million ) villages. We know that Energy access is a critical prerequisite to poverty reduction and the answer Indian villages lies in gober gas and its improved version Bio methane that can be harnessed from the cow dung available ( about 1250 Mt ) in rural areas from 300 million cattle. In 1992, the Government of India established MNRE, the world’s first ministry committed to renewable energy. According to MNRE reports presently there are about 4 million family-size biogas plants installed in the country and has a potential for 12 million family-size biogas plants , estimated as 17000MW energy. Researchers showed that the dung produced by each cow corresponds to energy equivalent of 225 liters of petrol. Thus even if half of the cow dung is harnessed properly in India, it can meet all the LPG and Kerosene needs used for cooking purposes and fuel. In addition the slurry produced as by product is excellent organic manure, meets the entire fertilizer requirement for 150 Million hectares of crop lands of India. India is on the road of organic farming and several agencies are working towards this goal. Organic sustainable agriculture practices can provide synergic benefits that include mitigating climate change, improving ground water level and quality, reducing the agricultural GHG providing both quality and quantity of the products and in turn the health of the people. Harnessing this potential is a challenge but if addressed properly several solutions will emerge for the rural development where India lives mostly.
Yasser E. Abu Eldahab
Ain-shams University, Egypt
Title: Design and implementation of a novel search technique to the global maximum power point under partial shading conditions
Biography:
Yasser E. Abu Eldahab is currently pursuing his Masters at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain-shams University, Cairo, Egypt. His research areas include Renewable energy and Photovoltaic systems.
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The partial shading issue is one of the most critical problems facing the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms. This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel search technique for global maximum power point (GMPP) under partial shading conditions (PSC). It utilizes a two-stage algorithm to overcome the partial shading issue. In the first stage, it uses the genetic neural algorithm (GA) to determine the nearest point to the GMPP. In the second stage, it starts from the optimum point obtained in stage one and applies a new and smart MPPT algorithm to increase the searching speed. In order to determine the performance parameters and evaluate the validity and efficiency of the new method, a complete experimental prototype is implemented. The experimental results prove that, under all possible partial shading conditions, the new technique reaches directly the GMPP with very limited steady state oscillation. Moreover, it tracks the maximum power point (MPP) much faster than the traditional methods. Consequently, the new technique has a significant improvement in energy extraction efficiency from the photovoltaic array to the load.
Jay Prakash Verma
Banaras Hindu University, India
Title: Current need of alternative sustainable bioenegry production from lignocellulosic biomass
Biography:
Jay Prakash Verma is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India. His research area includes Soil Microbiology, Biofertilizer, Bio pesticide, PGPR, PGPF, Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Biotechnology and Microbiology, Plant-Soil-Microbe Interaction, Soil Fertility and Soil Health Management, Pesticide Degrading Microbes, and Cellulose Degrading Microbes for Bioethanol Production from cellulosic material.
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The foreseeable depletion and negative environmental impact of fossil fuels in burgeoning population, around the world advocate the utilization of renewable energies, particularly the liquid bio-fuels like bio-ethanol. The fossil fuels consumption causes lot of environmental pollution such as emission of green house gases which help in global climate change. So that urgent need of research towards the alternative green energy such as wind, water, solar and bio-ethanol. In this review we want to discuss about sustainable bio-energy production from lignocellulosic biomass. Ethanol produced from lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable and alternative to diminishing petroleum-based liquid fuels. And the major bottleneck for ethanol production is the disruption of lignin from plant cell wall. The lignocellulosic residues used to produce bio-ethanol are promising feedstock due to its compositions that are rich in polysaccharide. The lignocellulosic biomass (cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin) is the most abundantly found carbohydrate in the nature. The cellulose and hemicelluloses is easily degradable by cellulases enzyme while the lignin is most recalcitrant that reduce the rate of cellulases at time of hydrolysis of plant biomass. Lignin, the aromatic heteropolymers are primarily derived from the monolignols (the main building blocks of lignin), that accounts for nearly 30% of the organic carbon on Earth. The bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol involves three major unit steps: pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. The enzymatic digestibility of recalcitrant substrates especially, lignocellulosic material, depending upon the source of biomass, increase with lignin removal. Among these processes the pretreatment is the crucial step for lignin disruption that it makes the cellulose to more accessible for enzymatic hydrolysis. The second and most imperative step is the enzymatic hydrolysis which involves the synergistic action of cellulolytic enzymes i.e., cellulases such as endo-1, 4-β-glucanase, cellobiohydrolase and β-glucosidase for the conversion of carbohydrate polymer (Cellulose) into fermentable sugar. Fermentation process involved for conversion of glucose to bio-ethanol. This studied focused the future need of research and development towards sustainable bioenergy production from lignocellulosic biomass.
Chayma Ouhibi
University of Avignon , France and University of Tunis El Manar,Tunisia
Title: Effects of UV-C radiations on the response of romaine lettuce to abiotic and biotic stress
Biography:
Chayma Ouhibi is currently pursuing her PhD from Université d'Avignon, Avignon, France. Her research interests include physiology, food science, irrigation and water management.
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Applied in high doses, UV-C radiations are harmful while administered at low doses. These same radiations stimulate beneficial answers. This phenomenon is known as hormesis and the beneficial dose is qualified hormic. The application of low doses of UV-C on fruits and vegetables in post harvest enhances resistance against pathogens; improve their nutritional quality and their performance to grow. This works were carried out on different species. In my thesis, we treated a single species of romaine lettuce var claudius after harvest with a non-harmful dose of UV-C (0.85 kJ.m-2) and we evaluated its effect on resistance to Botrytis cinerea (BC87) and Sclerotinia minor (SM) in their nutritional value during storage and their responses to salt stress. The analysis of all the results obtained showed that the UV-C dose decreases the sensitivity of romaine lettuce to these two pathogens, improve nutritional value by increasing the content in phenolic compound in ascorbic acid and acquire to plants from seeds pre-treated with UV-C greater potential for adaptation to salt stress.
Mandeep Kaur
CT Group of Institutions, India
Title: Tungsten supported Ti/SiO2 nanoflowers: mesoporous catalyst for biodiesel production
Biography:
Mandeep Kaur works at CT Group of Institutions, Jalandhar, India. Her research interests include application of nanotechnology for production of biodiesel.
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Present work demonstrated a convenient method for the synthesis of flower shaped tungsten supported TiO2/SiO2 (W/Ti/SiO2) without using templates by sol-gel method in a single step. The prepared W/Ti/SiO2 has been employed as heterogeneous catalyst for the transesterification of variety of feed stocks viz., fresh cotton seed, waste cotton seed and karanja oil with methanol. The surface morphology and shape of prepared catalyst was determined by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) studies. The catalyst structure and crystallite size were determined by the by powder X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) study. The catalyst active sites were quantified by NH3 temperature programmed desorption (TPD) study and surface area of prepared catalysts was determined by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) technique. Under optimal reaction conditions of methanol/oil molar ratio of 30:1, catalyst to oil weight fraction of 5 % and 65° C reaction temperature, a 98% fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) yield was obtained from the waste cotton seed oil in 4 hour. The optimized catalyst was reused successfully for transesterification reaction up to 5 cycles without any significant loss in activity. Few physicochemical properties of the prepared biodiesel sample have also been studied and compared with standard values.
Amod Panthee
Kathmandu University, Nepal
Title: Development of guidelines for welding repair of hydraulic turbines
Biography:
Amod Panthee has completed his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Kathmandu University in 2014. His area of research is design and welding repair of hydro-turbines. He is currently working as a Researcher to develop guidelines for welding repair of hydro-turbines which is collaborative work between the hydro industry in Nepal and Kathmandu Univesrity. He has presented his work in several conferences including one International Conference in 2013. In addition he has 3 papers published in peer reviewed international journal.
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Turbine material is heavily eroded when operated in sediment-laden rivers in Nepal. Erosion reduces the efficiency and increases operational risk. The solution to these problems due to erosion is either to replace with new turbines or repair and operate. But, welding repair is chosen as best alternative in Nepalese energy industry due to low cost to build-up the eroded surface. Welding repair of hydraulic turbines does not impair the material property but it can be catastrophic when carried out improperly. Such problem is also observed in Khimti Hydropower (KHP) and Chilime Hydropower (CHP) in Nepal. The turbines in KHP and CHP operated without major defects before repair. But root cracks and cracks along the splitter was observed after welding repair. The occurence of cracks in welding repaired turbines is due to factors like quality of weld deposit, preheating and post weld heat treatment conditions and design changes during repair. Therefore, quality control in welding repair is essential to avoid such failures. The paper aims to discuss the current practice of welding repair and experimental study on mechanical properties of turbine material at various heat treatment conditions. The results thus obtained is used to develop a guideline for welding repair of hydro-turbines. The long term output of the project will be intallation of welding repair plant at local industry in Nepal for maintenance of hydro-turbines.
Shiba Subedi
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Title: Theoretical studies on structural and electronic properties of boron and boron nitride nanodiscs : A density functional approach
Biography:
Shiba Subedi has completed his Master’s (M. Sc.) in physics at the age 26 years from Tribhuvan University. He is interested in computational work in the field of condensed matter and applied physics. He is one of the students who is conducting SIESTA software for research in Nepal. He has some national papers and some manuscripts have been submitted to international journals too.
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Using first principles density functional theory calculations, we systematically studied the structural and electronic properties of boron nano disc (B-nd) and boron nitride nano disc(BN- nd). By using state of art method we designed two novel structures of B-nd and BN-nd with average diameter of 0.8578 nm and 0.7487 nm respectively. These structures are optimized using sufficient conjugate gradient steps followed by individual convergence test of Mesh-cutoff, K- points and lattice constants. After structural optimization our ab-initio calculation calculated cohesive energy per pair of atoms to verify the stability of structures in generalized gradient approximation (GGA) within the SIESTA (Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms) package. The main feature of SIESTA is the use of flexible basis sets composed of linear combination of numerical atomic orbitals, which can be generated by solving the Kohn–Sham equation of atomic pseudopotentials. In order to explore details of electronic properties of these nanodiscs, further density of states, partial/projected density of states, band structure and charge densities of are performed at ambient conditions. These studies show thatBN-nd is comparatively more stable and exhibits semiconducting nature with ~0.6 eV energy gap, whereas B-nd depicting metallic behavior with finite density of states at Fermi energy level. It is found that while doping nitrogen in boron disc it creates energy gap and decreases the conductance also. That mean studied systems may serve as semiconductor as well as metal depending upon the necessity. In the field of materials probably we are first time reporting a novel and theoretical studies on any nanodisc.
Mehedi Hasan
Jagannath University,Bangladesh
Title: A study on the possible amount of electrical energy can be extracted from Bryophyllum pinnatum leaf
Biography:
Mehedi Hasan has completed his Master in Physics degree from Jagannath University, Bangladesh. His thesis work was focused on the renewable energy especially on biomass from the perspective of his country.
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Producing and supplying environment friendly electrical energy has become a great matter of thought in this century. The condition in the rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Afghanistan) are very frustrating. Bryophyllum pinnatum or Miracle Leaf can be grown anywhere in these regions without any special treatment and can be used as a simplified source of electricity based on the principle of redox reaction which involves no complicated procedures and requirements but only zinc and copper plates as electrodes immersed in the sap of miracle leaf act as a fuel as a form of electrolyte which contains some sort of organic acids. In our research work, we have studied the possible amount of electrical energy can be extracted from a certain amount of juice or leaf by studying the ampere-hour of a unit cell, columbic efficiency of an unit cell and the power density, energy density, specific capacity, specific energy density of a certain amount of juice or leaf which are very useful for building Nano-power plant at the off grid regions at an affordable cost.
Biography:
Georgia M Reash is an accomplished Systems Improvement Specialist, Project Manager and Trainer with over 25 years experience fortifying institutions and communities with 21st century qualities that assure market presence and sustainable growth. She has worked extensively with over 250 cities and organizations as a capacity building consultant; helping leadership realizing performance goals through the facilitation of vision, the development of strategic sustainability plans and the creation of powerful presentation documents. Her history in sustainable community development includes 14 years of applied research and field testing involving Beacon Community, a vision framework for sustainable design. Her expertise in grantsmanship and full spectrum project financing has been vibrant over several decades; yielding over $21 million in community financial investment with emphasis on sustainability, energy efficiency and environmental repair. As a humanitarian advocate, she has directed projects of significance addressing gas emissions reductions, renewable energy technologies, poverty, cultural intolerance/minority inequity, drug and alcohol prevention and human rights.
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Workshop Goal: The goal of this workshop is to provide a valuable learning and information exchange experience that offers knowledge and tools that support renewable energy/energy efficiency action planning at the community implementation level. Attendees will gain knowledge in holistic/integrated strategic planning approaches to energy projects, neighborhood revitalization and sustainable community development designed to enhance the value intersection between technologies, economic development, social systems change and citizen engagement. Participants will receive supportive planning forms and resource information for applied use in work and community planning settings. Target Attendees: These include Municipal leaders and managers, community development organizations, urban planning/master planning strategists, grass roots neighborhood leaders, students engaged in sustainability, innovators in integrated community systems design. Overview: Few cities or villages across the globe have been left untouched by the past decade of economic tumult, market instability, globalization or the external pressures of poverty, disease, war or natural disaster. Economic stress has trickled down into every aspect of the community ecosystem including climate, governance, businesses, public services and citizenry. All combined, cities are thirsting for solutions that will help grow local economy including energy efficiency and sustainability strategies that foster renewal on multiple levels. Renewal is the key aim embodying Renewable Cities of Tomorrow; a vision of community sustainability that features renewable energy technologies as a central focus and catalyst for civic planning and economy building. Clean energy technologies provide a tangible anchor around which broader planning and change making can rally offering a platform for creating both a renewed environment and economy essential for the cities of tomorrow. The value of renewable energy technologies at the municipal level is optimized when the power of technology is coupled with the power of a local Sustainable Community Action Agenda; a plan of economic restoration rooted in a collaborative community engagement process designed stimulate awareness and the creation of sustainable enterprise. The workshop will provide a Renewable Cities of Tomorrow vision framework for table top discussion and a snapshot review of the core components that go into creating effective renewable energy cities including but not limited to: Effective Renewable Energy Leadership Consortiums; An Integrated Systems Strategy; Renewable Energy Shared Action Agenda for Cities, Business, Education and Citizens; Diversifying the Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Economic Engine; Conscious Learning-Conscious Leadership; Sustainable Systemic Change and Shared Solution Finding and Humanitarian Response Alongside Technologies