Recent Advances in Energy Transitions Towards Sustainable Development

Dr. Avijit Ghosh (PhD, IIT Guwahati) is presently working in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. His research interests are in the area of Fuel Cells; Graphene/Synthesis and its application; Hydrogen production storage and utilization; Li-ion battery. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed national and international journals and presented a paper in more than 25 national/international conferences. He has received several awards. Presently, six PhD students are working under his supervision. He has completed three sponsored research projects, two CSR projects, and four consultancy projects. He has conducted many conferences/workshops/seminars as the organizing Secretary/Convener. He served as the guest editor in the four international journals and edited three books. He has also published six book chapters. He served as the honorary Secretary of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for the period of 2020 - 2023. Presently he is appointed as the Director, IIChE Training Institute for the period of five years from January 2024.Dr. Vilas Sapkal is currently working as Vice Chancellor of MGM University, Aurangabad. He served as Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University in 2010-2014. He obtained B. Tech. Chemical Engineering degree from LIT, Nagpur and M. Tech and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. His research interests are in the field of novel separation processes like membrane technology, reactive distillation, bioreactor in food, pharmaceutical, chemical industries. He has published 40 papers in international journals and 50 papers in national journals. He completed number of research projects of Rs 1.8 cr sanctioned by Government agencies. He has guided 20 Ph.D. students. He has received Distinguished Speakers Award of IIChE, Distinguished Service Award by Amravati University.Dr. U. Kamachi Mudali is currently Vice Chancellor of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), a deemed to be University of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) since May 2023. Earlier, he was Vice Chancellor of VIT Bhopal University (2021-23), Distinguished Scientist of DAE and Chief Executive & Chairman of Heavy Water Board (2017-20). Dr. Mudali joined the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam in 1984 and served upto 2017, and finally as Director of Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle. Dr. Mudali is an internationally renowned materials and corrosion specialist with forty years of R&D, Industry and academic expertise.Dr. Mudali has 474 Journal publications, 25 edited Books, 5 patents, 312 Honour Lectures, and 13870 citations with an h-index of 56 and i-10 index of 313 and is recognised in the World’s Top 2% scientists from India in the field of Materials. Dr. Mudali has guided/coordinated UG, PG, and Ph.D. theses of 162 students from various academic institutions. He is the Chief Editor of Journal of Electrochemical Society of India and Editor-in-Chief of IIM-Springer Book Series and CII-Corrosion Management Committee Booklet Series. He is Fellow of 12 professional associations including 4 from abroad. He was honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award from Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India, Electrochemical Society of India and National Corrosion Council of India; Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award from DAE, and Frank Newman Speller award from NACE International, USA, for outstanding contributions in corrosion engineering.

• Numerical Investigation of Steady Natural Convection from a Heated Cylinder Enclosed in Inclined Square Enclosure.- Hydrodynamics of a rotating solid-liquid feed clarification system.- Prediction of drop diameters in an immiscible molten salt and liquid metal system.- Estimation of dispersed phase holdup in air pulsed column having circular slotted plate internals: a CFD study.- Hydrometallurgical Extraction for the Beneficiation of Iron and Aluminum from their Ores.- Comparative Study on Hydrodynamic Simulation Through CFD Analysis Between Multiple Shaft Disk (MSD) and Intermeshed Spinning Basket Membrane (ISBM) module.- Hydrogen Injection in Natural Gas Pipeline Networks.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Au-Pt Alloy Nanowires: Effects of Strain Rate, Temperature, and Composition.- Plant mediated synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles: Leveraging the Antimicrobial Properties for Water Disinfection.- A Novel method of Synthesis of Copper Nanosuspension from E-waste.- Preparation of Zinc Aluminate Particles: A comparative study on the effect of two different methods on the Band Gap Energy.- Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and Its Adsorptive Studies On Removal Of Congo Red Dye.- Synthesis and Characterization of Noble Bio-Polymeric Conducting Hydrogels.- An Account on Structure, Synthesis and Application of Polythiophene and Swelling Behavior of Non-conducting Polymers.- Development of Porous Polyimide Film for Next Generation Electronic Devices.- Design and Analysis of Fluid Pressure in Integrated Microfluidic Channel for Organic Fluids.- Biochemical and Bioscience Engineering: Innovations at the Nexus of Science and Technology.- Machine Learning for classification of Diabetic Foot Ulcer using Thermograms.- Recovery of Lead and Zinc minerals from Complex Ore by using microbe mineral surface interaction.- Comparative Studies on the Effectiveness of Various Natural Materials Used as Bacterial Carriers in Self-Healing Concrete.- Process for synthesis of in situ biodiesel from mahua oil seeds.- A waste generation and consumption potential of India to increase thermal substitution rate (TSR) by co-processing activity.- Solid Oxide Regenerative Fuel Cell - Heat Recovery for High Temperature Steam Electrolysis.- Valorization of biomass-based residue blended options for energy cogeneration.- Effect of Zr-Ru promotion on SBA-15 supported Fe catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch production.- Enhancing Combustion efficiency and reducing emissions: Biodiesel and Oxygenated additives in diesel blends.- Microbial Fuel Cell as Power Source of Unified Power Quality Conditioner.