Start
Nov 27, 2014 - 15:00
End
Nov 27, 2014 - 16:00
Venue
Room 118 Creativity Hall Chemical Engineering
Event Type
Speaker
Dr. Sachin Jadhao Department of Chemical Engineering Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai India
Title
Thermodynamic Assessment of Resource Utilization and Destruction in India in Past Four Decades: Insights from Exergy Analysis
Abstract: Part I: “Thermodynamic analysis of resource use in Indian society over four decades to assess efficiency irreversibility and emissions” Previous studies on the resource assessment of national economies using thermodynamic analysis methods have been found to useful for analysing how efficient the respective society is in utilizing the natural resources. These studies show that a larger fraction of the total resource used in the society gets wasted. The aim of this work is to gain insight into the metabolism of India over the last four decades as it evolved from a controlled to a more open free market economy and its implication for sustainable development. Trends of emissions resource consumption and its conversion into useful work in various sector (Utility Industry Transport Residential-commercial and Agriculture) are analyzed using exergy analysis and the results are compared with those of other developing and developed economies. This work also focuses on the conversion of resources to useful work with change in technology industrialization and economic liberalization.Part-II: Municipal Solid Waste Management options in India: Insights from Exergy Analysis This work compares the waste management practices of incineration plasma gasification and landfilling in the context of megacities. The focus of this study is on evaluating the exergetic efficiency of these technologies in the Indian context considering the facts that the composition climate segregation practices moisture content of MSW etc. in a developing tropical country like India differ significantly from those of developed societies which have been the location of previous such studies.