The Institute of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Punjab, Lahore is organizing an Engineering Congress on Energy and Environment on 22nd December, 2020. This congress comprises of four symposia namely “Symposium on Problems Associated with Coal Utilization”, Symposium on Production of Biofuels and Biochemicals, “Symposium on Hydrogen Energy and Catalysis, and Symposium on Solar Energy; Generation and Storage. The aim of this congress is to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, scientists, policy maker and industrialists to realize the current prospect of national challenges for energy and environment and their proposed indigenous solutions. The representatives from all sectors are invited to share their views, knowledge, experience, and scientific achievements in the area of effective and efficient utilization of conventional to renewable fuels/energy and advancements to mitigate the environmental pollution.
Thematic Areas
1. Environment-Friendly and Unconventional Utilization of Coal
21st Century Coal Utilization, Co-Combustion, Extraction of Value-Added Chemical Entities from Low Rank Coal, Biogenic Coalbed Methane, Emission Control from Fossil Fuel Combustion, Carbon Capture and Storage, Desulphurization
2. Production of Biofuels and Biochemicals
Sources of biomasses, Waste-to-energy options, Types of biomass conversion processes, Use of biotechnology for the production of biofuels, Thermal conversion processes, Life cycle assessment of biomass conversion processes, Supercritical conversion route, Pyrolysis, combustion and gasification, biomaterials for energy storage, Production of biodiesel/bioethanol, Biorefineries.
3. Hydrogen Energy and Catalysis
Hydrogen energy storage, transmission, conversion and utilization, hydrogen energy from renewable and non-renewable sources, catalysis for hydrogen energy, liquid organic hydrogen carrier, hydrogen separation and purification, hydrogenation-dehydrogenation processes, photochemical, electrochemical, catalytic, fuel cell and thermochemical routes for hydrogen exploitation.
4. Solar Energy Harvesting & Its Applications
Solar energy harvesting has become a global topic of interest for many scientists and engineers. The main purpose of solar energy harvesting is to utilize the natural sunlight for various practical applications which benefit mankind as cheap efficient energy alternative. Most notably the solar energy harvesting applications include solar cells, photocatalysts, solar fuels, solar electric vehicles, solar towers, solar evaporators, hybrid solar HVAC systems and solar powered turbo machines.
5. Air Pollution Control and Its Mitigation
Source apportionment studies of Air pollution (particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, NOx, SOx, COx, NH3, and O3), Air pollution emissions from energy sector, Laboratory and field measurements relevant to air pollution, Local and global air pollution modelling, Transboundary air pollution, Comparing air pollution status of South East Asia with the Rest of the World, Physical and chemical characterization of global air pollutants, Air pollution control technologies, Environmental policy and air pollution mitigation strategies, Primary and secondary atmospheric aerosols.