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Adche 2020 Conference Summary

2020; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

Amit K. Thakur, Rahul Kumar, Pranava Chaudhari, Nilanjana Banerjee,

Oil and Gas Production Techniques

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun hosted a three-day International Conference, Advances in Chemical Engineering – 2020 (AdChE-2020), during 5-7 Feb 2020. Eminent speakers from India, USA, Canada and Jordon delivered distinguished and plenary lectures. There were over 300 participants who attended from all over India and the world. It was an academic treat for the participants as well as for our students. The keynote lecture on the day of the inauguration was presented by Padma Vibhushan Prof. M. M. Sharma, FRS. We had 23 other distinguished speakers including Padma Bhushan Prof. J. B. Joshi from ICT Mumbai; Prof. Rakesh Agarwal from Purdue University; Prof. A. B. Pandit from ICT Mumbai; Prof. Sadhan Jana from the University of Akron, USA; Prof. Devang Khakhar from IIT Bombay; Dr. V. Ravikumar from BPCL R&D and many more. The conference witnessed an eclectic mix of lectures and presentations, with discussions ranging from means and ways of improving the standard of living at the bottom pyramid and solving societal issues to the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol by solar photocatalysis. The event also had over 300 papers and poster presentations under various chemical engineering and allied themes like alternate energy resources, chemical reaction and reactor engineering, health safety and environment, materials science, etc. Needless to say, this conference was a complete success. The student volunteers got a considerable amount of academic and administrative experience and exposure to the best brains from around the world. Editors 1. Amit K. Thakur Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun 2. Rahul Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun 3. Pranava Chaudhari Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun 4. Nilanjana Banerjee Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun