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Organizing Chief Patron: Dr. E.Gopinathan Patrons:

Committee

Dr. K. Prabhakaran Nair, Dean (PGS&R) Dr. N. Ganeshan, Dean (P&D) Dr.T.P.Somasundaran, Dean (UG) Dr.C.B.Shoban, Dean (C&SR) Dr. Lily Kutty Jacob, Dean (Faculty Welfare) Chairman Dr.Y.Sivasubramanian, Convener Dr. Shiny Joseph Coordinators: Dr.N.Selvaraju Smt.S.Bhuvaneshwari National Advisory Committee Dr.Garima Dixit, SPRERl, Gujarat Dr Arabinda Mishra, Director, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, ND Mr. K. Rajagopal, Manager, DBT - CTEP Management Cell Dr.M.O.Garg, Director, Indian institute of petroleum ,Dehradun Dr.G.D.Yadav, Director, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Dr.S.Pushpavanam, HOD, Chern, IITM Dr.Suresh Das, Director, NIIST, Trivandrum Dr.K.B Radhakrishnan, Chairman IIChe, Trivandrum Dr.Prabhu.R.Nott, Professor, IISc,Bangalore Local Organizing Dr.Lity Alen Varghese, Dr.K.Aparna, Dr.V.Malladi Pavan Kumar Mr.Vineesh Ravi Mr.K.Hariba bu 3 Committee HOD

Microwave assisted triglyceride bio-diesel production Shamnamol G K and I.Regupathi

trans-esterfication

of fish oil for

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Pretreatment of lignocellulosic banana sheath biomass using chemical pretreatment for ethanol production: an optimization study using response surface methodology K. Kumaraguru, G.S. Dileepan and G.R. Shurrendhar

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Hydrogen as a green fuel from biomass wastes using fluidized bed gasifier Rajesh Tripathy and Abanti Sahoo 37

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Biohydrogen: ASeenivasan

an effective alternate and N.Selvaraju

to fossil fuel 38

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Comparative

study on effect of co-digestion of vegetable market 38

waste and sewage sludge P. Radha and R.A Ramanujam 13 Production of bio-ethanol from lignocellulosic material Callindria callothyrsus Shivanand Y. A 14 Energy and liquid fuels recovery from biomass wastes using fluidized bed technology

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40 P.Mounika, N.Phani R. Sundaresan 15 Kumar, M.Nagaraja, R.Natarajan and

Effect of pH on biohydrogen E.Sakazakii

production

from glucose by
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P.Karthic, Shiny Joseph and Aditi Gupta

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and in short supply, therefore lignocellulosic materials like fuel wood, agricultural crop residues seems to be viable. Cellulosic materials can be used to produce bio ethanol; Bio ethanol represents an important, renewable liquid fuel for motor

vehicles. In order to produce bio ethanol from cellulosic biomass, feed is pretreatment to rupture the structure of the cellwall for easy accessible of cellulose.

Energy and Liquid fuels recovery from Biomass wastes Using Fluidized Bed Technology P.Mounika, N.Phani Kumar, M.Nagaraja, R.Natarajan, R.Sundaresan

Abstract

- The objective of present work is to make an analytical investigation to

explore the advancement in Fluidized Bed based gasification & pyrolysis process for recovering Energy and Liquid fuels from abundantly available agro biomass.

Gasification and pyrolysis are suitable technologies for promoting the utilization of biomass wastes. Fluidized Bed Combustors (FBC) and Fluidized bed Pyrolyzer

(FBP) will be the most advanced method for thermo chemical conversion of various biomass wastes into useful energy and other by-products. Gasification occurs in a limited oxygen environment. Gasification process produces a fuel gas that can be combusted for firing up furnaces and also to generate electricity. Keywords: Gasification, Pyrolysis, Fluidized bed

Effect of pH on Biohydrogen

Production Sakazakii

from Glucose by Enterobacter

P. Karthic1, Shiny Joseph and Aditi Gupta Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode-673601; IEmail: apkarthic@nitc.ac.in Abstract - Batch experiments are conducted to study the effect of initial pH (4.5,

5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5) on the conversion of glucose to hydrogen by pure inoculum of
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