Advanced Coal Utilization: Current Status and Future Prospects

A short course on

Guest Faculty:

 

Prof. Sankar Bhattacharya

Professor,

Chemical Engineering,

Monash University

 

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External participants please directly go and report at Hall 7 for accommodation. Your rooms are arranged. Directly pay the charges to the concerned person at the Hall office. In case you are arriving after 6 pm, please call the Guest Room Secy. (mobile number is available with the Security Guard at Hall 7). In case of any emergency, please call Mr. Neeraj Pandey (95590 09034) or Mr. Saurabh Gupta (99030 82909).


COURSE SCHEDULE
Registration: Jul 8 (Mon), 9:30 a.m.    Venue: L4 (Lecture Hall Complex)

Important Dates
Last date for receiving application (along with payment):	Jun 30, 2019
Candidates will be selected based on application at the GIAN portal (www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in). Only the selected candidates are required to send the course fee by DD or online money transfer. Candidates will be selected based on application at the GIAN portal (www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in). Only the selected candidates are required to send the course fee by DD or online money transfer.
About Guest Faculty
Professor Bhattacharya came to academia in 2009 after having worked for twenty-one years in industry – at the International Energy Agency in France, Anglo Coal Australia and CRC for Lignite in Australia, and Development Consultants in India. He commissioned the first CFBC in Australia, led the first Oxygen-blown HTW and Transport Reactor trials of Victorian brown coal, and worked on commissioning of coal-fired plants in India.
In his current position, he has supervised 17 students to PhD completion and currently leads a group of 16 PhD students and researchers working on gasification of coal and biomass, petroleum coke and wastes, advanced combustion for CO2 capture at lower energy penalty, biofuels production and platform chemicals from biomass.
Professor Bhattacharya believes in the near to intermediate term application of engineering research. Most of his research projects are, therefore, affiliated with industries in Australia and overseas. Professor Bhattacharya has presented extensively at academic and industry conferences in Australia, China, Germany, India, Poland, Thailand, and the USA.
Major Accomplishments
Leader – commissioning, operation and testing (Australia’s first) of Victorian and South Australian lignites in first Circulating Fluidized bed Combustion (CFBC) pilot plant in Australia, 1998-2000
Leader – first oxygen-blown gasification of Victorian, South Australian and North Dakota lignites in pressurised High temperature Winkler (HTW) gasification pilot plant in Australia, 2002-2005
Joint Leader – first air and oxygen-blown gasification of Victorian and South Australian lignites in transport reactor gasification pilot plant in Grand Forks, USA, 2003
Develop IEA’s policy recommendations for global coal-fired plant efficiency improvements for the G8 Heads of State delivered by the IEA in Hokkaido in 2008
Lead OECD-Heiligendamm Dialogue Unit’s work on coal-fired power generation for G8+5 countries, leading to final reporting in Moscow in 2009
Present IEA’s work in Cleaner Fossil Fuels in IEA member and non-member countries
Contribute to fossil fuel-fired power sections in IEA’s publications including the World Energy Outlook, Energy Technology Perspectives, Carbon Capture and Storage, and IEA’s country reviews – Indonesia, Netherlands, USA
Assist in developing technical criteria for World Bank’s financing for modernization of older coal-fired plants, 2008
Professional Appointments
Interim Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, 2017-Feb 2018
Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, 2014
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash

Short-Term GIAN Course on
Advanced Coal Utilization: Current Status and Future Prospects

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Jul 8-19, 2019

Sponsored By:
GIAN, MHRD, Government of India

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