Track Categories

The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.

Track -1: Advanced Biofuels

 

Advanced biofuels are fuels that can be processed from numerous types of biomass. First generation biofuels are processed from the sugars and vegetable oils formed in arable crops, which can be smoothly extracted applying conventional technology. In comparison, advanced biofuels are made from lignocellulose biomass or woody crops, agricultural residues or waste, which makes it tougher to extract the requisite fuel. Advanced biofuel technologies have been devised because the first generation biofuels manufacture has major limitations. First generation biofuel processes are convenient but restrained in most cases: there is a limit above which they cannot yield enough biofuel without forbidding food supplies and biodiversity. Many first-generation biofuels rely on subsidies and are not cost competitive with prevailing fossil fuels such as oil, and some of them yield only limited greenhouse gas emissions savings. When considering emissions from production and transport, life-cycle assessment from first generation biofuels usually approach those of traditional fossil fuels. Advanced biofuels can aid resolving these complications and can impart a greater proportion of global fuel supply affordably, sustainably and with larger environmental interests.

 

  • Track 1-1Lignocellulosic Biomass
  • Track 1-2Thermochemical Routes
  • Track 1-3Syngas from Biomass
  • Track 1-4Second generation biofuels
  • Track 1-5Microbial pathways for advanced biofuels production
  • Track 1-6Synthesis of advanced biofuels
  • Track 1-7Advanced biofuels from pyrolysis oil
  • Track 1-8Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion & Storage
  • Track 1-9Cost effective techniques for biodiesel production
  • Track 1-10Nonfood crops for biofuels production

We are funding a broad portfolio of biofuels research programs, including our ongoing efforts on algae as well as programs on converting alternative, non-food based biomass feedstocks, i.e. cellulosic biomass, to advanced biofuels. We believe our work with algae offers some of the greatest promise for next-generation biofuels, which is why ExxonMobil has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to algae research. We are working with leading researchers and have designed our portfolio to progress the science that we feel will be needed to deliver advanced biofuels with environmental benefits. Our advanced biofuels research portfolio includes joint research collaborations focused on algae-based biofuels with Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), Colorado School of Mines and Michigan State. We are also exploring a variety of biomass conversion processes that could be used with non-food based feedstocks such as whole cellulosic biomass, algae feedstocks and cellulose-derived sugars. These programs are being carried out currently with Renewable Energy Group (REG) and the University of Wisconsin.

 

  • Track 2-1Innovative Biofuels
  • Track 2-2Biofuel applications in the developing world for indigenous development
  • Track 2-3Futuristic pathways for biofuels production
  • Track 2-4full scale research biogas plant

Track – 2: Aviation Biofuels

Aviation biofuel is a biofuel utilized for aircraft. It is reckoned by some to be the paramount means by which the aviation industry can diminish its carbon footprint. After a multi-year technical analysis from aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and oil companies, biofuels were advocated for commercial use in July 2011. Since then, some airlines have evaluated with using of biofuels on commercial flights. The limelight of the industry has now curved to advanced sustainable biofuels (second generation sustainable aviation fuels) that do not compete with food supplies nor are major consumers of prime agricultural land or fresh water.

  • Track 3-1Developing new sources for aviation biofuels
  • Track 3-2Commercialization of aviation biofuels
  • Track 3-3Applications of aviation biofuels
  • Track 3-4Jet biofuel
  • Track 3-5Green replacement fuels in flights
  • Track 3-6Synthesis of aviation biofuel via Fischer-Tropsch process
  • Track 3-7Cost reduction policies
  • Track 3-8Large scale biogas production & challenges
  • Track 3-9Risk analysis of aviation fuels

Global Market for biofuels is projected to reach US$57.8 billion by 2020, driven by superior energy efficiency benefits over conventional fossil fuels, government support of eco-friendly alternatives, higher biofuels blending mandates for transportation fuels, and focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as means to achieve energy sustainability and security. The United States represents the largest market worldwide, with a 45.2% share of global consumption in 2015.in the United States and European Union; growing popularity of second generation biofuels and use of cellulose feedstocks will reduce the subsided offered on conventional biofuels. Asia-pacific ranks as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 14.5% over the analysis period. Latin America represents the second fastest growing market. Tropical Climate with abundant sunshine and arable land availability make developing Asian countries attractive markets for biomass and biofuels production

 

  • Track 4-1Biotech industry
  • Track 4-2Bioreactor
  • Track 4-3Lignocellulosic biofuels
  • Track 4-4Pond biofuels
  • Track 4-5biofuel policies
  • Track 4-6Biofuels research portfolio
  • Track 4-7Innovative Biofuels
  • Track 4-8Biofuel applications in the developing world for indigenous development
  • Track 4-9full scale research biogas plant

Track – 3: Production of Biofuels

Currently used liquid biofuels, which include ethanol produced from crops containing sugar and starch and biodiesel from oilseeds, are referred to as first-generation biofuels. These fuels only use a portion of the energy potentially available in the biomassVarious techniques are currently being developed to produce biofuels. However, it is uncertain when such technologies will enter production on a significant commercial scale. The production of Biofuels can be done from Biomass, Biodiesel from Biomass, and Biochemical from Biomass and Biogas from Biomass

  • Track 5-1Effect on food due to biofuel crop production
  • Track 5-2Life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis of biofuel production
  • Track 5-3Application of artificial photosynthesis for biofuels production
  • Track 5-4Impacts of biofuels production/consumption on climate change
  • Track 5-5Exergy analysis of biofuel production
  • Track 5-6Cyanobacterial biofuels production

Track – 4: Algae Biofuels

Algae fuel or algal biofuel is a substitute to liquid fossil fuels that utilizes algae as its source of energy-rich oils. Also, algae fuels are a substitute to common known biofuel sources, such as corn and sugarcane. Various companies and government agencies are sponsoring efforts to reduce capital and operating costs and make algae fuel production commercially feasible. Like fossil fuel, algae fuel releases CO2 when burnt, but unlike fossil fuel, algae fuel and other biofuels only release CO2 recently withdrawn from the atmosphere via photosynthesis as the algae or plant grew. The energy crisis and the world food crisis have sparked interest in alga culture (farming algae) for making biodiesel and other biofuels utilizing land unbefitting for agriculture. Among algal fuels' attractive characteristics are that they can be cultivated with negligible impact on fresh water resources, can be generated using saline and wastewater, have a high flash point, and are biodegradable and comparatively harmless to the environment if spilled. Algae cost more per unit mass than other advanced biofuel crops due to high capital and operating costs, but are declared to generate between 10 and 100 times more fuel per unit area.

  • Track 6-1Algal biofuel and energy crops including energy crops genetic engineering
  • Track 6-2Culturing Algae
  • Track 6-3Harvesting and oil extraction system
  • Track 6-4Commercialization of algae biofuels
  • Track 6-5Wastewater based algae biofuels production

Track – 5: Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind energy, tides, water, and various forms of biomass. This energy cannot be exhausted and is constantly renewed. Biomass, is a renewable organic matter, and can include biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, and alcohol fuels.

  • Track 7-1bioenergy technologies
  • Track 7-2Solar Energy
  • Track 7-3Wind Energy
  • Track 7-4Wind Energy
  • Track 7-5Energy efficiency
  • Track 7-6Energy-from-waste
  • Track 7-7Renewable chemicals

Track-6: Nanotechnology In Biofuels

Use of nanotechnology which combines the control of materials at the size of the nanometer to green intriguing standards is "Green nanotechnology". It correspondingly intimate to the utilization of the results of nanotechnology to upgrade conformity. Keeping up and augment soil, water, and air aspect speak to the absolute most commanding difficulties encountering worldwide society in the 21st century. Contagion from such assorted sources as oil and synthetic spills, pesticide and fertilizer overflow, abandonment modern and mining locales and airborne smoggy and particulate issue from cars worsen the coincidence once a day. Identifying and treating existing contaminants and counteracting new contagion are among the difficulties. Utilization of Nano-materials in assorted fields, for example, enhance the creation and clarifying of energies and decrease of exoneration from cars, endurance stockpiling (batteries and Nano-empowered fuel cells), to give safe drinking water through enhanced water treatment, desalination, Nano-empowered protection and outline of Nano-materials for corruption distinguish and location.

  • Track 8-1Nanotechnology in Energy Systems
  • Track 8-2Green Nanotechnology
  • Track 8-3Nanomaterials for Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Thermal Energy
  • Track 8-4Treatment & Remediation
  • Track 8-5Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy Production

Track – 7: Biomass Technologies

Biomass is organic matter extracted from living, or recently living organisms. Biomass can be utilized as a source of energy and it most often directs to plants or plant-based matter which are not used for food or feed, and are precisely called lignocellulosic biomass. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly via combustion to produce heat, or secondarily after transforming it to numerous forms of biofuel. Conversion of biomass to biofuel can be attained by various methods which are mainly categorized into: thermal, chemical, and biochemical methods.

Several technologies for converting bioenergy are commercial today while others are being piloted or in research and development. There are four types of conversion technologies currently available, each appropriate for specific biomass types and resulting in specific energy products such as Thermal Conversion, Thermochemical conversion, Biochemical conversion, Chemical conversion. The Biomass Technologies include Liquid Biofuels from Biomass and Cellulosic Ethanol from Biomass.

  • Track 9-1woody biomass
  • Track 9-2Latest conversion Technologies in Biomass
  • Track 9-3Liquid Biofuels from Biomass
  • Track 9-4Trending Research from Biomass
  • Track 9-5Cellulosic Ethanol from Biomass

Track –8: Biorefineries

biorefinery is a center that melds biomass conversion processes and equipment to manufacture fuels, power, heat, and chemicals from biomass. The biorefinery concept is parallel to today's petroleum refinery, which makes various fuels and products from petroleum. Biorefining is the sustainable conversion of biomass into a spectrum of bio-based products and bioenergy. By producing various products, a biorefinery takes advantage of the various parts in biomass and their intermediates therefore maximizing the value acquired from the biomass feedstock. A biorefinery could, for instance, manufacture one or several low-volume, but high-value, chemical or nutraceutical products and a low-value, but high-volume liquid transportation fuel such as biodiesel.  At the same time generating electricity and process heat, by combined heat and power (CHP) technology, for its own use and perhaps adequate for sale of electricity to the local utility. The high-value products boost profitability, the high-volume fuel helps meet energy needs, and the power production aids to lower energy costs and minimize greenhouse gas emissions from conventional power plant facilities. Although some facilities prevail that can be called bio-refineries, the bio-refinery has yet to be fully accomplished. Future biorefineries may play a vital role in yielding chemicals and materials that are traditionally extracted from petroleum.

  • Track 10-1Development of Biorefinery
  • Track 10-2Manufacture of chemicals in a biorefinery
  • Track 10-3Types of biorefineries
  • Track 10-4Biorefining systems
  • Track 10-5Biorefining scheme from algal and bacterial protein sources
  • Track 10-6Integrated biorefinery
  • Track 10-7Lignocellulosic material in biorefinery

Track-9: Bioalcohols and Bioethanol

Biologically synthesized alcohols, most frequently ethanol, and rarely propanol and butanol, are formed by the reaction of microorganisms and enzymes through the fermentation of sugars or starches, or cellulose. Biobutanol (also called biogasoline) is often asserted to provide a direct stand-in for gasoline, because it can be used precisely in a gasoline engine. Ethanol fuel is the most widely used biofuel worldwide. Alcohol fuels are formed by fermentation of sugars derived from wheat, sugar beets, corn, molasses, sugar cane and any sugar or starch from which alcoholic liquors such as whiskey, can be produced (such as potato and fruit waste, etc.). The ethanol manufacturing methods applied are enzyme digestion (to release sugars from stored starches), distillation, fermentation of the sugars and drying. Ethanol can be used in petrol engines as a substitute for gasoline; it can be blended with gasoline to any concentration. Current car petrol engines can operate on mixes of up to 15% bioethanol alongwith petroleum/gasoline. Ethanol has lesser energy density than that of gasoline; this implies that it takes more fuel to generate the same amount of work. An asset of ethanol is it’s higher octane rating than ethanol-free gasoline accessible at roadside gas stations, which permits the rise of an engine's compression ratio for increased thermal efficiency. In high-altitude locations, some states direct a mix of gasoline and ethanol as a winter oxidizer to lower atmospheric pollution emissions.

  • Track 11-1Bioalcohols as automobile fuel
  • Track 11-2Bioethanol utilization
  • Track 11-3Scale up on an industrial level
  • Track 11-4Cost models for Bioethanol Production
  • Track 11-5Delivering Biomass Substrates for Bioethanol Production
  • Track 11-6Bioethanol Economics
  • Track 11-7Sustainable Development and Bioethanol Production

Track-10: Biopower Generation Techniques

Power Engineering is a stifled of Energy Engineering and Electrical Engineering that preparations with the generation, conveyance, distribution and usage of electric force and the electrical apparatus associated with such frameworks including alternator, engines and transformers. However a great part of the field is concerned with the issues of three-phase AC power – the standard for acceptable scale power generation, transmission and promulgation over the cutting edge world – a conspicuous division of the field is worried with the change between AC and DC power and the improvement of particular power systems for example, those utilized in aircraft or for electric railway networks. The Power Systems were getting more productive with taking a break and have turned into a center region of the Electrical Engineering field.

  • Track 12-1Power Systems & Automation
  • Track 12-2Hybrid Power & Energy Systems
  • Track 12-3Fault Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance
  • Track 12-4Power & Energy Generation
  • Track 12-5Energy Storage Technologies & Devices

Track – 11: Biogas

Biogas commonly refers to a mixture of various gases formed by the disintegration of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be manufactured from raw matters such as agricultural waste, municipal waste, manure, plant material, green waste, and sewage or food waste. Biogas is a renewable energy source and in diverse cases exerts a limited carbon footprint. Biogas can be manufactured by fermentation of biodegradable materials or anaerobic digestion with anaerobic organisms, which disintegrates material inside an isolated system. Biogas is basically methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and may have small traces of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), siloxanes and moisture. The gases methane, carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen can be combusted or oxidized with oxygen. This energy yield allows biogas to be benefitted as a fuel; it can be utilized for any heating purpose, such as cooking. It can also be practiced in a gas engine to transform the energy in the gas to electricity and heat.

  • Track 13-1Biogas from agricultural waste
  • Track 13-2Biogas from algae
  • Track 13-3New & possible substrates for biogas production
  • Track 13-4Biogas technologies
  • Track 13-5Anaerobic packed-bed biogas reactors
  • Track 13-6Biogas production

Track –12: Biodiesel

Biodiesel indicates an animal fat-based or vegetable oil diesel fuel comprising of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters. Biodiesel is customarily made by chemically reacting lipids (e.g., soybean oil, vegetable oil, animal fat (tallow)) with an alcohol generating fatty acid esters. Biodiesel is suggested to be utilized in standard diesel engines and is thus well-defined from the vegetable and waste oils used to operate fuel converted diesel engines. Biodiesel can be used singly, or blended with petro diesel in any proportions. Biodiesel blends can also be utilized as heating oil.

  • Track 14-1FAME biodiesel
  • Track 14-2Biodiesel Production
  • Track 14-3Biodiesel feedstock’s
  • Track 14-4Efficiency and economic arguments
  • Track 14-5Biodiesel to hydrogen-cell power

Track-13: Green Energy and Economy

Green energy mainly associate natural energetic processes which will be disciplined with very little pollution. Anaerobic assimilation, geothermic power, wind power, small-scale hydropower, solar power, biomass power, periodic event power, wave power, and a few styles of atomic power belongs to the green energy. Green economy can be determine as an economy that aims at condensing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, which aims for estate development while not derogatory the atmosphere in keeping with the United Nations setting programmer. It firmly associated with environmental pecuniary science, however contains a great deal of politically connected core interest. A green economy is thought of together that is low carbon, asset reactionary and socially far reaching. It firmly correlate with biological pecuniary science, however contains an appreciable measure of politically connected core interest.

  • Track 15-1bio-based economy
  • Track 15-2Technoeconomic analysis of biofuel production
  • Track 15-3Utilization of Waste Materials
  • Track 15-4Green Economy Sector
  • Track 15-5Modeling Cyber-physical Smart Grids & Demand Response Management
  • Track 15-6Energy Storage, Fuel Cell Technologies & Trends
  • Track 15-7Electrical Vehicles, Grid to Vehicle (G2V) & Vehicle to Grid (V2G)
  • Track 15-8Secure & Advanced Metering Infrastructure
  • Track 15-9olar Power Systems, Energy Management & Sustainability