Prof. Sarath Babu Anne

National Institute of Technology, India

Title: Review of energy usage and carbon dioxide management 

Abstract

Energy is not only a crucial but an inevitable driving force for sustaining human life. Around 200 years ago, the human population was limited to one billion only. With a consistent rise in energy consumption and remarkable technological advancements, today the population has grown over seven billion. Approximately 80% of the global energy requirement of this oversized human population is predominantly met by fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal. Though these sources are available in plenty, the major concern of using them is the release of greenhouse gases which in turn leads to global warming. In this article a brief review of different energy resources available for consumption, their impact in terms of carbon emissions as well as management, and sustainable chemical processing is presented. It is observed from the data that most of the energy resources are not utilized in an effective and sustainable manner. A sustainable CO2 management is are discussed along with few examples for sustainable chemical processing. In the end,some perspectives based upon the present scenario and future directions of CO2 management are summarized.

Biography

Dr. A. Sarath Babu is working in the Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Warangal since 1987. He has served the Institute in several capacities and is currently the Head of the Department. He obtained his B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D. Degrees from NIT warangal. He has an experience of over 30 years in teaching both at undergraduate and post graduate programs of Chemical Engineering. He has conducted a number of Short Term Training Programs (STTPs) sponsored by Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and TEQIP on Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering and Applications of Process Simulators in Chemical Engineering. He has conducted a GIAN program on Computer Aided Simulation of Chemical Processes. He has successfully completed 3 consultancy projects for BHEL, R&D; Coromandel International Pvt. Ltd.; M/s SS GAS Lab Asia Pvt. Ltd.

He has successfully completed two R&D projects sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. His research areas of interest include: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization; Use of Process simulators like Aspen and ChemCAD; Chemical Reaction Engineering; Carbon dioxide capture and utilization and Renewable Energy. He has published 6 research papers in International/National Journals and has presented 15 papers in National/International conferences. He received “Chinnamaul Memorial Award” for the Best Technical Paper presented at the Annual Session of Indian Chemical Engineering Congress 2002 and the paper entitled Comparison of Regular & Inverted Batch Distillation Columns has been awarded Best Presentation in the Technical Session “Separation Processes” during CHEMCON-2002 at Hyderabad.