National Conference on Bio Fuels & Bio Energy begins in UPES

DEHRADUN, India - June 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Moving forward in its pursuit towards becoming a centre of excellence in “Alternate Energy” UPES has organized a two day national conference on ‘Bio-Fuels & Bio-Energy’ in its campus at Bidholi, Dehradun on 12^th and 13^th of June 2015. Subject matter experts will share their knowledge, expertise and experiences in the Bio Energy space with an objective to catalyse the futuristic plans of Biomass utilization in India. Scientists and research scholars participating in this conference have come from 13 Indian states and Union Territories of India which includes Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana,  Chattisgarh & Uttarakhand. International participants include scholars from Nigeria, Kenya & Bangladesh.

Some of the experts who would be sharing their wisdom on various aspects of Bio energy in this conference over the next  two days include Dr D.K. Tuli, Executive Director R&D, IOCL; Dr M.P. Sharma, Professor, AHEC, IIT-Roorkee; Dr. P. Mondal, Associate Professor, Deptt of Chemical Engineering, IIT-Roorkee; Dr Beena Patel, Head R&D, Abellon Energy; Dr Amjad Ali, Associate Professor, Thapar University; Dr B.S. Negi, Scientist F, R&D Coordination, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and Mr S.R. Meena, Sr Scientist, Bio Fuel Division, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.

Speaking at the Inaugural ceremony the Chief GuestDr Umakant Panwar, Energy Secretary, Govt of Uttarakhand encouraged the participants to ensure positive outcomes from this conference and opined that development in Bio – Energy space will have a direct and positive impact on the life of a farmer of rural India and would contribute towards the endeavour of ‘Inclusive Growth”. Speaking on Alternate Energy in general Dr Panwar could not resist sharing his deep pain and anguish on the status of ‘Hydro-Power’ in Uttarakhand. He voiced that Only 10% of the 30,000 Mega Watts identified potential had been tapped into before vested interests without having any scientific basis were able to negatively publicise the hypothetical environmental issues and succeeded in getting stalled the development of Mini and Micro hydel projects  in the state. “A state which was referred to as ‘UURJA PRADESH’ is today purchasing electricity worth crores of Rupees everyday” he said.

Addressing the gathering the Guest of Honor Dr D.K. Tuli, Executive Director R&D, IOCL having 40 patents in his name and over 85 research papers to his credit appealed to the participants that their research work needs to be linked up to the element of costing, only then could it culminate towards its destiny and become useful to mankind otherwise most of the research efforts  would go down in vain. He also warned the participants to be clear and careful in understanding the difference between “Process & Technology”. “creating a new process or adding an element of process in borrowed Technology does not necessarily amount to meaningful research” he said.

Welcoming the guests Dr Pankaj Kumar, HOD of Chemistry department in UPES shared with the audience on the entire schedule of the conference while also informing them on the facilities available on the campus.

Addressing the gathering the Chancellor, Dr S J Chopra shared the mission of UPES in the alternate Energy Space and the various R&D activities currently happening in the bio fuel s at UPES. A souvenir on the conference was released by guests on the dias.

Delivering the vote of Thanks Mr Arun Dhand, Director – Govt Relations & Media Affairs in UPES expressed his delight at the keen and widespread participation which this conference has been able to draw. Apart from expressing his gratitude towards Dr Umakant Panwar & Dr D K Tuli, he acknowledged the subject matter experts who would be speaking on their subject during the conference. He thanked the team behind organizing this conference which included Dr Shrihari Honwad, Dr Kamal Bansal, Dr Piyush Kucchal, Dr Shailey Singhal, Dr Bhawna Lamba, Dr KSR Murthy, Mrs Shilpi Agarwal, Dr Girdhar Joshi, Dr Shefali Arora, Dr Sanjay Kumar, Dr KM Reddy, Dr Mamta Latwal and Kamal Bisht. Special mention was made for Dr Sanjeev Kumar, Assistant Professor for his untiring efforts since the past few months. Expressing his gratefulness he recognized the sponsors who are supporting this conference which includes Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India; Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt of India, MNRE, Govt of India; UCOST, Govt of Uttarakhand, IOCL – R& D; Molychem Industries and Parshvnath Associates.

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