Annual Conference on Green Catalysis and Sustainable Energy November 15-16, 2018 Dubai, UAE

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Dr. Amer Al-Hinai is the director of the Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC) and Associate Professor at Sultan Qaboos University. He started his reseaAmer Al-Hinai is the director of the Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC) anDr. d Associate Professor at Sultan Qaboos University. He started his research career as a research assistant at the Advanced Power & Energy Research Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, the USA during his postgraduate studies. His main research topic was related to the control and operation of distributed generation. In addition, he was part of a research team for several projects funded by different US institutions such as Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Energy Technology Laboratory. Dr. Amer has carried out more than 33 industry- funded research projects, with total funds exceeded 3 million USD, related to energy savings, power system analysis, power system quality and transient stability of power systems. His research funding agencies include but not limited to Petroleum Development Oman, Occidental Oman, Petrofac, Authority for Electricity Regulation Oman (AER), Muscat Electricity Distribution Company, Oman Electricity Transmission Companyrch career as a research assistant at the Advanced Power & Energy Research Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, the USA during his postgraduate studies. His main research topic was related to the control and operation of distributed generation. In addition, he was part of a research team for several projects funded by different US institutions such as Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Energy Technology Laboratory. Dr. Amer has carried out more than 33 industry- funded research projects, with total funds exceeded 3 million USD, related to energy savings, power system analysis, power system quality and transient stability of power systems. His research funding agencies include but not limited to Petroleum Development Oman, Occidental Oman, Petrofac, Authority for Electricity Regulation Oman (AER), Muscat Electricity Distribution Company, Oman Electricity Transmission Company

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Penetration of renewables in global electricity generation is expected to rise to 30% by 2022, mainly due to growth in wind and solar generation capacity. Power generated from these renewable resources is replacing power from conventional powerplants due to their priority dispatch status and low marginal cost. Integration of renewables in the power system introduces new challenges that arise from variability of generation, reactive power scarcity, change of power injection pattern, fault behavior and asynchronous nature of renewables. This research focuses on the intermittency of the renewable resources. The current practice to utilize the available renewable energy resources for power generation is just as a means to reduce fossil-fuel consumption. This is mainly related to the inherent variability and non-dispatchability of renewable energy resources. Such a practice poses a threat to the power system reliability and requires utilities to maintain power-balancing reserves to match the variable supply from renewable energy resources and demand power levels. Maintaining these reserves for renewable generation imposes additional cost for the utility and jeopardize the economic value of renewable energy projects. Accordingly, enhancing the integration of renewable power generation from wind and solar into the traditional power network requires the mitigation of the vulnerabilities posed to the grid as a result of the intermittent nature of these resources. An Energy Management System (EMS) determines suitable operating points based on the available resources and limitations. EMS may be employed at different levels of the power systems, from the generation level down to the consumer loads. While the dispatch of conventional power generation depends on EMS, such a tool has not been yet developed for renewable energy generation. An EMS for renewable generation should consist of 4 key units, i.e. weather forecaster, power aggregator, scheduler and real time controller. Further elements may also be added to an EMS for renewable generation depending on the applications and available equipment. Employing an EMS in a hybrid wind-solar powerplant with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) can enable provision of dispatchable power from renewable generation by using the synergy of the wind and solar generation as well as the charge and discharge capability of BESS. EMS, collectively, utilizes forecasting models for wind speed and solar irradiance in addition to optimization techniques to determine suitable power set-points for BESS, wind and solar farms. The main objective of EMS is to make full use of the complementary nature of the wind and solar generation whilst using minimal energy storage capacity to ensure power fluctuation mitigation and high-power supply reliability over a given time interval (settlement period)). As implied, two roles are defined for BESS, in such a configuration, smoothing the power output of the renewable powerplant and alleviating the power curtailment. 

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Krishna Chattopadhyay has completed her PhD from the Department of Physiology, (2002) and Postdoctoral studies from the Department of Chemical Technology, University of Calcutta, India. Presently, she is working in the Chemistry Department of Jadavpur University as a Women Scientist, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and also associated with School of Community Science and Technology, IIEST, Shibpur, India as Guest Faculty. She has published several papers in reputed national and international journals and delivered talks in many international conferences. Her field of interest is nicotine toxicity, diabetes and natural antioxidants

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Nicotine, the addictive component of tobacco severely affects our health by aggravating damages both at cellular and genetic levels. The effect is more prominent in female population because women are more susceptible to nicotine-induced toxicity due to their low innate immunity. Curcumin, a nontoxic bioactive agent of turmeric significantly reduces nicotine-induced toxicity both at cellular and genetic levels. The clinical implication of native curcumin is hindered in the target cells due to its low aqueous solubility, poor bioavailability and poor pharmacokinetics. The problem was tried to overcome by preparing nanocurcumin (Cur-NPs) with a view to improve its aqueous solubility and better therapeutic efficacy against nicotine-induced toxicity. Female albino rats of Wistar strain were daily exposed to effective dose of nicotine (2.5 mg/kg, body weight injected subcutaneously) and supplemented with effective dose of curcumin (80 mg/kg body weight orally) or nanocurcumin (4 mg/kg body weight orally) for 21 days. The preventive efficacies of curcumin and nanocurcumin were evaluated against the changes in liver function enzymes, kidney function parameters, lipid profiles, lipid-peroxidation, anti-oxidant status and tissues damage, etc. The altered hemoglobin content, DNA content, DNA damage in blood cells due to nicotinic stress were significantly ameliorated by supplementation of nanocurcumin. Results revealed that nanocurcumin more effectively ameliorated the nicotine-induced toxicities at much lower concentration both at cellular and genetic levels due to its higher aqueous solubility and more bioavailability. The Cur-NPs can be used as a potential therapeutic agent for better efficacy against nicotine-induced toxicities than native curcumin.

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Christian William s has pursued BSc with honors in Organic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, UK. He started his career as a Bench Chemist and working his way to senior management and consultancy roles for some of the most respected corporations globally.

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Studying an engineering degree has helped me acquire critical analysis and logical thinking skills, which in turn resulted in improved decision making and greater confidence when dealing with and solving problems. One of the reasons I chose a degree in sustainable energy, was to give back to society in one way or another. I grew up in Nigeria, which meant that I had a front row seat to all the electricity problems and pollution that developing countries still experience today. Following a career path like this, one that is very dear to my heart, makes me determined and keeps me intent and focused in everything I do

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This is a design based report which looks at the various and different waste-to-energy plants thathave been put into place in some major countries in Africa, from the Bill Gates funded JanickiOmni-processor in Senegal to the small-scale portable toilet, the “Blue Box”, in Kenya, and all theway to the different designs created by the Swedish company, Aquatron. It also highlights the major issues countries, especially developing ones, are suffering from and howthe urge to solve these problems brought about a greater interest in designing and developing morewaste management organisations with the key purpose of producing a cleaner, more sustainablesource of energy from the most unpredictable resource, human faeces.The challenges faced with turning waste into energy, whether faeces are in fact likely to be moreconstantly used later on as a fuel around the world, and a smaller scale proposed design system thatis cheap, easy and practical to use and that could potentially reduce any present complications, areall the aspects broadly accounted for in the main body to follow. Finally, all the reasons behind thedesign including the advantages of solid-liquid waste separation and how this increases theefficiency of the process are predominately touched upon.

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Brajadulal Chattopadhyay is currently working in the Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, India. He has completed his Masters (1987) and PhD (1994) degrees from the University of Calcutta, India and worked at Bose Institute, India and Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands. He has been working in the field of bio-concrete development by using hot spring anaerobic bacteria to enhance the strength and durability of concrete structures since 2001 and published his work in many internationally reputed journals. He has already supervised 20 PhD students and hold one national and two international patents in his research career

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Diabetes, the world largest metabolic disorder has become a serious threat to public health. The management of diabetes by synthetic drugs causes many unwanted complications. The  study was designed to explore an alternative herbal medicine (root Salep of Gymnadenia orchidis Lindl) against type-2 diabetes to achieve a complications free diabetes management. The Streptozotocin (STZ) induced-diabetic rats were supplemented with root Salep orally daily at an effective dose (200 mg/g of body weight). The body weights and fasting blood glucose levels were measured periodically for 32 days. After treatment period, the animals were sacrificed and glycosylated haemoglobin, lipid profiles, antioxidant enzymes levels, liver function enzymes etc. were determined. Phytochemically determined terpenoids was extracted from the root and orally supplemented (4 mg/g body weight) to the induced-diabetic animals. Normalization of fasting blood glucose levels, significant (P < 0.001) decrement of glycosylated haemoglobin percentage, liver enzymes activities and increase body weights and anti-oxidants levels were noted for the Salep supplemented diabetic rats. Terpenoids present an adequate amount in the root of Gymnadenia orchidis Lindl played the key role in such observations. Histoplathological parameters of kidney, liver and pancreas tissues were also examined to reveal the differences between treated and non treated groups. Here also improvement of insulin production has been revealed in diabetic groups treated with root Salep and treated with extracted terpenoids only. We can conclude that terpenoids plays the major role in reducing the diabetic condition and improving the overall health condition of the treated diabetic rats. The root Salep of Gymnadenia orchidis Lindl or its terpenoids may be used as potentially herbal therapeutic agent for long term and effective solution against type-2 diabetes mellitus

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He started his research career as a research assistant at the Advanced Power & Energy Research Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, the USA during his postgraduate studies. His main research topic was related to the control and operation of distributed generation. In addition, he was part of a research team for several projects funded by different US institutions such as Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Energy Technology Laboratory. Dr. Amer has carried out more than 33 industry- funded research projects, with total funds exceeded 3 million USD, related to energy savings, power system analysis, power system quality and transient stability of power systems. His research funding agencies include but not limited to Petroleum Development Oman, Occidental Oman, Petrofac, Authority for Electricity Regulation Oman (AER), Muscat Electricity Distribution Company, Oman Electricity Transmission Company

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The rapid universal energy crisis, environmental pollution, and human impact on the climate accelerate the search for new material to evolve renewable energies which have different characteristics such as environment-friendly, cost-effective and highly efficient. These issues motivate researchers around the globe to develop new solutions for replacing the traditional fossil-based energy resources and studying different materials to enhance their structural and optical properties for using them effectively in solar cells, sensors, and other applications. Nanotechnology acquiring a lot of attention currently and large expectations have been built in the academic community as well as industry and investors to fabricate and evolve new structures at the nanoscale as well as adjusting their parameters such as energy band gap and efficiency to produce novel materials and devices in many applications and different fields. The purpose of this presentation is to cover the most recent advances of nanotechnology in sustainable energy applications. Solar cells are described as the most significant example of the contributions of nanotechnology in the energy sector which is the ultimate solution to one of the great challenges of our lifetime, i.e., the production and use of energy, without compromising our environment.

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He started his research career as a research assistant at the Advanced Power & Energy Research Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, the USA during his postgraduate studies. His main research topic was related to the control and operation of distributed generation. In addition, he was part of a research team for several projects funded by different US institutions such as Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Energy Technology Laboratory. Dr. Amer has carried out more than 33 industry- funded research projects, with total funds exceeded 3 million USD, related to energy savings, power system analysis, power system quality and transient stability of power systems. His research funding agencies include but not limited to Petroleum Development Oman, Occidental Oman, Petrofac, Authority for Electricity Regulation Oman (AER), Muscat Electricity Distribution Company, Oman Electricity Transmission Company

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The rapid universal energy crisis, environmental pollution, and human impact on the climate accelerate the search for new material to evolve renewable energies which have different characteristics such as environment-friendly, cost-effective and highly efficient. These issues motivate researchers around the globe to develop new solutions for replacing the traditional fossil-based energy resources and studying different materials to enhance their structural and optical properties for using them effectively in solar cells, sensors, and other applications. Nanotechnology acquiring a lot of attention currently and large expectations have been built in the academic community as well as industry and investors to fabricate and evolve new structures at the nanoscale as well as adjusting their parameters such as energy band gap and efficiency to produce novel materials and devices in many applications and different fields. The purpose of this presentation is to cover the most recent advances of nanotechnology in sustainable energy applications. Solar cells are described as the most significant example of the contributions of nanotechnology in the energy sector which is the ultimate solution to one of the great challenges of our lifetime, i.e., the production and use of energy, without compromising our environment.

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Ajuy Sundar Vijayanandan is currently pursuing his PhD at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India

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The nanoparticle counterparts of cobalt oxide are found to have favorable magnetic, optical, light emission, charge transfer and electrochemical properties. The study elaborates optical properties of greenly synthesized nanoparticles using endophytic fungus A. nidulans that examines the ability of the nanocolloidal solution to convert light energy into thermal energy, which is a yardstick for solar energy application. An attempt has been made to compare the optical properties of the nanoparticles using experimental values and theoretical predictions. Optical transmittance of the nanoparticles obtained was higher than 65% in 550-850 nm containing visible spectrum and the experimental results were in accordance with the predictive datum. The absorption coefficient peak observed is close to the predictive value and is present in the visible region of the light. In addition, there was an excellent agreement between theoretical and experimental results in extinction coefficient and refractive index. Based on the findings, it can be contemplated that green synthesized cobalt oxide nanoparticles can be probable contenders for solar energy harvesting and photo voltaic applications.

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