PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE (PEC)

The college is an autonomous institution funded by Government of Puducherry and is

affiliated to Pondicherry University which is a Central University of Government of

India. The college is situated on East Coast Road facing Bay of Bengal at about 12 km

north of Puducherry. PEC is an AICTE recognized Minor QIP Centre for doing M. Tech

and Ph. D. It is also an AICTE recognized research institute offering National Doctoral

Fellowship for doing Ph. D. The college is also receiving funds from AICTE, DST,

MNRE, etc. of Government of India, through several projects undertaken by the

faculty. More information about the college is available at www.pec.edu.

CONTACT ADDRESS

The URL of the conference is www.ncecb.pec.edu and it will be updated periodically.

The participants may contact any one of the organizing secretaries for any additional

details.

PatronChairmanCo-ChairmanOrganizing Secretaries

Advisory CommitteeMembers

Dr. K. Vivekanandan, Principal, PECDr. K. Mahadevan, HOD, Mechanical Engg.Dr. G. Srinivasan, HOD, Chemical Engg.

Dr. S. Sundaramoorthy, Professor, Chem. Engg., PECDr. K. Subbarayudu, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. T. Senthilvelan, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. A. Selvaraju, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. N. Alagumurthi, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. G. Chandrasekhar, Professor, Chem. Engg., PECDr. M. Pugazhvadivu, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. P. Mathiazhagan, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. AV. Raviprakash, Professor, Mech. Engg., PECDr. S. Rajagopan, Professor, Chemistry, PECDr. G.S.Gunasegarane, Assoc. Prof., Mech. Engg., PECDr. M. Venkata Ramanan, Professor, Anna UniversityDr. M. Premalatha, Professor, NIT, TiruchirappalliDr. R. Vinu, Assoc. Professor, IIT MadrasDr. B. Saravanan, Asst. Professor, IIT HyderabadDr. R. Thirumaleswara Naik, Asst. Professor, IISc, Bangalore

Dr. L. Kumararaja, Associate Professor, Mech. Engg. Dr. R. Sridar, Associate Professor, Chem. Engg.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

National Conference on Energy and

Chemicals from Biomass (NCECB),

Dr. L. Kumararaja,

Organizing Secretary – I,

Department of Mechanical Engg.,

Pondicherry Engineering College,

Pillaichavady,

Puducherry – 605 014.

Email: ncecb.pec@gmail.com

Mobile: 9486008622

Department of Chemical Engg.,

Pondicherry Engineering College,

Pillaichavady,

Puducherry – 605 014.

Email: ncecb.pec@gmail.com

Mobile: 81899 79972, 98947 57209

Dr. R. Sridar,

Organizing Secretary – II,

National Conference on Energy and

Chemicals from Biomass (NCECB),

Sponsored by

All India Council for Technical Education

Organized by

Department of Mechanical Engineering &

Department of Chemical Engineering,

Pondicherry Engineering College,

Pillaichavady,

Puducherry – 605 014

www.pec.edu www.ncecb.pec.edu and

National Conference on

Energy and Chemicals from Biomass (NCECB)

National Conference on

Energy and Chemicals from Biomass (NCECB)

10-10-2019 and 11-10-201910-10-2019 and 11-10-2019

Publishing :

Energy is an important ingredient in the development of any country. India imports

petroleum to an extent of 80 % of its total requirement. It implies that oil prices and oil

availability are not under our control and such a kind of dependence on imports leads to

energy insecurity. In this context, renewable sources of energy especially bioenergy

gains significance. Besides, biomass is a storehouse of various chemicals. Much

advancement has taken place in the utilization of biomass for deriving energy as well as

chemicals.

The NCECB is expected to bring together professionals who will show-case the progress

achieved by them in the field of biomass research. The conference will have (i) plenary

sessions of eminent professors from IITs, IISc, NITs, Anna University, etc., (ii) oral

presentations by the researchers / professionals working in this field, and (iii) exhibition.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Technical papers reporting original research, case studies, review papers are invited for

oral presentation in the following topics:

v Biomass resource assessment, types of biomass, properties, drying, briquetting,

v Vegetable oil, transesterification, biodiesel,

v Thermo-chemical processes- combustion, gasification, pyrolysis,

v Bio-chemical processes-anaerobic digestion, fermentation,

v Biohydrogen, syngas, Fischer Tropsch synthesis,

v Phenolic compounds, sugars, solvents, oxy-chemicals,

v Biorefining,

v Manufacture of charcoal, activated carbon, electrode grade carbon,

v Bioenergy conversion devices like furnaces, engines, turbines,

v Machineries for biomass processing, etc.

Any other work, directly or indirectly connected with the above topics of the conference,

will also be considered.

The authors are requested to send an abstract not exceeding 2 pages as per the template

‘Template-abstract.docx’ by email to ncecb.pec@gmail.com on or before 5-8-2019. After

screening, the ‘Corresponding author’ will be intimated by email on 10-8-2019, if the

abstract is selected. The author should then prepare the full length paper between 4 and

6 pages long following the AIP Publishing's ethical standards as described at

http://publishing.aip.org/authors/ethics, using their template available at

http://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/download and submit the same by email to

ncecb.pec@gmail.com on or before 31-8-2019. The paper will be peer reviewed and the

reviewer’s comments will be passed on to the ‘Corresponding author’ on or before

15-9-2019 for implementation in the final paper. The final camera-ready paper between 4

and 6 pages long and prepared following the AIP Publishing's guidelines should be

submitted along with a signed copy of 'License to Publish Agreement' by email to

ncecb.pec@gmail.com on or before 25-9-2019. The templates, license, conference

brochure, etc. can also be downloaded from the conference website www.ncecb.pec.edu.

PUBLICATION

All the papers presented in person at the NCECB will be published in full length form as a

single volume in AIP Conference Proceedings which is being published by AIP

Publishing, Melville, New York, USA. The volume will be published with ISBN and each

paper in the Proceedings will have a DOI and will be available online as open-access in

perpetuity. The AIP Conference Proceedings is indexed in leading abstracting and

Govt. departments/organizationsand faculty from academia

Category of authors

From industry

Research scholars and PG students

45003500

Till 25-9-2019(Rs.)

2500

60005000

From 26-9-2019 to 30-9-2019

(Rs.)

4000

The participants who wish to attend the conference as listeners should pay a registration

fee of Rs.2000. The registration fee covers registration kit, refreshments, lunch, attending

all the sessions, certificate. The registration fee can be paid in the form of crossed DD

drawn in favour of 'The Principal, Pondicherry Engineering College - NCECB' payable at

Puducherry or through NEFT in the following bank account. Please mention paper No. on

the backside of DD or in the NEFT Receipt.

Account Name

Account Number

Bank

Bank Branch

IFSC Code

MICR Code

The Principal, Pondicherry Engineering College - NCECB

8441101056253

Canara Bank

Pondicherry Engineering College Branch

CNRB0008441

605015004

Registration can be done either (i) by sending by post the Registration Form along with the DD, or (ii) by sending by post the Registration Form along with a copy of Bank Receipt for NEFT Payment, or (iii) by sending via email the scanned copies of Registration Form and the Bank Receipt for NEFT Payment. The blank Registration Form can be downloaded from the conference website.

ACCOMMODATION

A limited number of participants can be accommodated in the students’ hostels depending upon availability on self payment basis. A plenty of hotels are available at reasonable tariff at nearby Auroville or at Puducherry.

IMPORTANT DATES

Last date for abstract submission : 05-8-2019

Intimation about selection of abstracts : 10-8-2019

Last date for full length paper submission : 31-8-2019

Intimation about reviewer’s comments : 15-9-2019

Last date for final camera-ready paper submission : 25-9-2019

Last date for early bird Registration : 25-9-2019

Last date for late registration : 30-9-2019

Dates of National Conference : 10-10-2019 and 11-10-2019

INTRODUCTION indexing databases namely, Web of Science, Scopus, Inspec, Chemical Abstracts

Service, etc. Besides, the authors of selected papers will be contacted after the

conference for extending / revising / editing as per the journal’s requirements for

publication in a widely indexed, UGC approved journal without any additional cost.

REGISTRATION

Atleast one of the authors of the paper must register for presenting the paper. The

registration fee per paper for various categories of authors is as follows:

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