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2nd International Conference on
February 27 – 29, 2012
Energy Environment Research Group
Department of Electrical Engineering
Mehran University Centre for Energy & Development
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management
Institute of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro
Prof. Dr. M. Aslam Uqaili
Prof. Dr. Khanji Harijan
Prof. Dr. Khan Muhammad Brohi
Prof. Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar
Dr. Suhail A. Soomro
Engr. Gordhan Valasai
Engr. Faheemullah Shaikh
Photography
Hasan Raza Shah
Sharjeel Hashmani
Sanam
The Chairman of the conference Prof.
Dr. M. Aslam Uqaili welcomed the
national and international delegates and
highlighted the aims and objectives of
the conference in his welcome address.
He said that the energy was essential
instrument and input for the
sustainable socio economic
development of any society. Energy
usage especially fossil fuels had created
environmental problems which were
causing climate change and global
warming and hence sustainable
development had become a challenge.
For addressing these issues on energy,
environment and sustainable
development, Mehran UET had
successfully organized “1st International
Conference on Energy, Environment &
Sustainable Development for growing
economies” in 2009. The conference
had attracted more than 300
participants from all over the world.
The conference proceedings were
Prof. Dr. M. Aslam Uqaili said, “Energy is essential instrument and
input for the sustainable socio economic development of any society.
Energy usage especially fossil fuels have created environmental
problems which are causing climate change and global warming and
hence sustainable development has become a challenge.”
Prof. Dr. M. Aslam Uqaili
published by Springer Wien New York.
The EESD2012 conference was aimed to
provide platform to help energy and
environmental professionals to meet
their future challenges by exchange of
ideas under the umbrella of the event.
This event was designed to meet the
needs of researchers, policy makers and
corporate sector alike and organizers
worked very closely with professional
bodies and leading industry figures to
promote the event widely engaging the
right kind of audience for the event.
EESD2012 was organized with the
collaboration of Higher Education
Commission (HEC), Government of
Pakistan and other stakeholder
organizations.
All the professionals working in the
area of Energy, Environment and
Sustainable Development were invited
to contribute/ participate in the
conference and shared their work with
fellow researchers from all over the
Prof. Dr. Khanji Harijan
world to make our mother earth better
place to live.
Selected good quality research papers
after review would be published in
International Journals including:
• International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy (IJHE)
• International Journal of Green
Energy (IJGE)
• Management of Environmental
Quality: An International Journal
• International Journal of Chemical
and Environmental Engineering
• International Journal of Low-Carbon
Technologies
• Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
More than 250 research papers were
received from various countries i.e. UK,
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh,
Nepal, Japan, Iran, India and from
various universities and public and
private sector organizations of Pakistan.
All papers were peer reviewed and only
100 papers were accepted for oral
presentation in the conference on the
following themes:
• Energy & Environment Issues
• Energy & Sustainable Development
• Energy Resources
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
• Bio Fuels & Food Security
• Combined & Co-generation Energy
Systems
• Clean Coal Technologies
• Solid Waste Management
• Water & Waste Water Treatment
• Waste to Energy
• Emission & its Control
• Energy Efficient Appliances
• Energy Analysis
• Policy & Planning
• Energy Storage
• Energy Conservation
• Gender & Environment
• Community Participation in
Environmental Issues
• Environmental Safety & Health
The conference was inaugurated by Dr.
Manzoor Soomro, Chairman, Pakistan
Science Foundation (PSF), Islamabad,
Pakistan on 27th February, 2012. Dr.
Manzoor Soomro highlighted the
responsibility of PSF in the promotion
of science and technology in the country
and in supporting conferences like
EESD 2012. The other dignitaries Prof.
Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan Rajput, Vice
Chancellor, MUET, Prof. Dr. Muhammad
Aslam Uqaili, Pro- Vice Chancellor and
Chairman EESD 2012, Dr. Fayyaz Ali
Memon (UK), Prof. BK Bala
(Bangladesh) and Prof. Susan
Buckingham (UK), Deans of Faculty;
Prof. Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhery,
Prof. Dr. Abdul Ghani Pathan, Prof. Dr. G.
B. Khaskheli and Prof. Dr. Roshan Shah
Rashidi, Dr Khanji Harijan, Secretary,
EESD 2012, heads of all the
departments of MUET and Sindh
University, keynote speakers, authors,
national and international delegates
from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, China,
UK, Iran and from other states, and
representatives of sponsors
participated in the inauguration
ceremony.
Dr. Manzoor Soomro
The conference started with the
recitation from Holy Quran.
Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Rajput, Vice
Chancellor, Mehran University of
Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro,
Pakistan, in his address said that MUET
was one of the leading engineering
universities in Pakistan. The university
was determined to achieve academic
excellence in every discipline studied at
the university ranging from
undergraduate to Ph. D level. Vice
C ha nc e l l or a pp re c i a t e d t he
participation of a large number of
experts from different parts of the
world in the conference, indicating the
anxiety of the crux of international
science and reaches communities in
hoping to think together about
strategies and technologies for
sustainable development in the world in
general and in Pakistan particular. Prof.
Dr. Muhammad Aslam Uqaili from
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Mehran University of Engineering and
Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, gave
an overview of the conference. Defining
the sustainable development he said,
“Development that meets the needs of
Prof. Dr. A. Q. K. Rajput
Prof. Dr. Susan Buckingham, Brunel
University, UK, delivered her keynote
speech at the inauguration of the
conference. In her keynote lecture, Dr.
Buckingham presented some specifics
related to the solid waste management
issues in Pakistan by gender
perspective. She mentioned that
children, girls and women in Pakistan
were more susceptible to
environmental problems. Children and
women are a large fraction of garbage
collectors in Pakistan.
In one of her presentation slides, she
quoted a Quranic Verse: ‘But waste not
by excess, for Allah does not love the
wasters’ (Qu’ran: Al An’am (6) 141)
(EcoIslam, no 4, 008)
Professor Buckingham said that 12.5
per cent wheat and 15 per cent milk
were wasted in Pakistan annually. She
said that some 77 million Pakistanis
were currently facing food insecurity
and one-third of Pakistani children
were stunted by malnutrition.
Dr. Abdul Momen Miah from the
Bangladesh Agriculture University
shared a practical way of safeguarding
the environment through women and
participatory videos. Through learning
videos, Miah and his team
communicated with the women of rural
Bangladesh and the recipes of botanical
pesticides, the cultivation of organic
brinjal and leafy vegetables and the
production of vermi-compost.
The videos imprinted a cinematic
pattern on the women minds and they
were quickly able to replicate the ideas
of sustainable agricultural practices. A
simple process needed to produce
vermi-compost – a natural fertilizer –
which essentially needs cow dung and
species of worm. This mixture of cow
dung and worms contains nutrients and
beneficial microbes.
The compost triggers additional
vegetable growth and the production of
fertilizer adds economic benefits for the
rural women. Many people also adopted
worm farming for the compost as the
quantity of worms triples within 45
days. Now more women are learning
the eco-friendly and economically
beneficial practices via videos.
Professor Muzzaffar Mahmood from NED
University, Karachi, talked about the
promising technology of fuel cell
development. He added that the cost of
fuel cells is currently very high but that
we should not give up the research for an
economical production of the fuel cell.
Professor Mahmood also talked about a
fuel cell based eco-car developed by the
NED University, Karachi. Some 30 fuel
cells were installed in the car, which
participated in the EcoMarathon held in
Indonesia where it traveled two and a half
laps out of three. All the components of
the car were indigenously built by
students from NED University Karachi.
Dr. Anjum Khalid of NED University
proposed a biogas plant installation at the
Bhains Colony, Karachi. The colony has
the largest dairy farm in the city and
produces 5,000 tons of manure each day.
Anjum presented a biogas digester with
multiple applications as it serves to
produce electricity, biogas, and bio
fertilizer and also serve as cold storage for
dairy products. At least 10 per cent milk
goes to waste at Bhains Colony due to a
lack of cold storage facilities. The cost of
this 12 megawatt plant was estimated at
US $ 72 million.
She further quoted project of NZAID –
New Zealand’s aid agency in which NZAID
first proposed a similar plant for Bhains
colony and had even initiated developing
a pilot plant there in 2007 but after a
dispute with KESC, the company left the
country with an unfinished pilot project.
The plan was economically viable as the cost
was to be covered in 9.8 years and would
have been beneficial for at least 50,000
persons because they were suffering from
harmful animal wastes in the colony.
Muhammad Tariq Mahar from the Center
for Environmental Sciences, Sindh
University shared his findings of ground
water quality near evaporation ponds of
distilleries.
Some 35 samples of water (10 from spent
wash, two from drainage water and 30
from ground water) were studied to
assess the effect of evaporating ponds, of
ethanol distillery spent wash on ground
water with reference to heavy metal
contamination.
He further presented that the ground
water around the evaporation ponds was
used for drinking and irrigation purposes
and 33 per cent of the ground water
samples were found extremely polluted
with heavy metals.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti from MUET talked
On third day of the conference i.e. 29th
February, the delegates visited the historic
places of Thatta district, some 67 KM east
from Karachi and about 70 KM southwest of
Jamshoro. The national and international
delegates visited Shah Jehan Mosque first.
Shah Jehan Mosque is famous because of its
great architecture and design. It is claimed
that nobody can count the exact number of
GUMBAZ without marking on those. The
Shah Jehan Mosque was built during the
reign of great Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan.
The mosque was built with red bricks and
blue glazed tiles. The delegates took great
interest in its architecture and look and
were seen busy taking photographs and
capturing videos.
Then historic Makli Graveyard, one of the
largest graveyards of the world. The tombs
at Makli Graveyard are decorated with the
art of calligraphic religious writings. Makli
Graveyard has the monuments of the rulers,
Sufis, saints and others. Delegates took
great interest in knowing its history and
architecture of the monuments and tombs.
After visiting Makli Graveyard, the
delegates were taken to Keenjhar Lake, one
of the largest fresh water lakes in Pakistan;
it also supplies water to Karachi city.
Delegates took a boat towards the center of
the lake and visited the tomb of Noori, a
historic character of Noori-Jam Tamachi
folklore and enjoyed its bank.
Website: http://www.muet.edu.pk/eeerg Location: Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan Dr. Muhammad Aslam Uqaili Research Interests: Energy Modelling, Energy Policy, Energy Systems, Environment, Combustion, Modeling and Simulation, Power System Management, Quality Education Email: [email protected], URL:http://aphds.hec.gov.pk/sup_sch_lists/supdetailview.asp?supid=2799 Dr. Hafeez ur Rahman Memon Research Interests: Fuel & Energy, Combustion Chemistry Email: [email protected] URL:http://aphds.hec.gov.pk/sup_sch_lists/supdetail.asp?id=6&offset=50 Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar Research Interests: Wastewater, Biowaste and Hazardous waste treatment and its disposal, EIA, LCA, Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation of Lined Channels and Drainage Projects Email: [email protected] URL:http://aphds.hec.gov.pk/sup_sch_lists/supdetailview.asp?supid=2481
Dr. Khan Muhammad Brohi Research Interests: EIA & SEA in Road Networks, Implementation of Environmental Standards Email: [email protected] URL:http://aphds.hec.gov.pk/sup_sch_lists/supdetail .asp?id=6&offset=100 Dr. Mujeeb uddin Memon Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing Engineering Email: [email protected] Dr. Khanji Harijan Research Interests: Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Economics and Management, Energy and Environment, Energy Modelling Email: [email protected] URL:http://aphds.hec.gov.pk/sup_sch_lists/supdetailview.asp?supid=2834 Engr. Suhail Soomro Research Interests: Energy Recovery from Waste, Combustion, Clean Coal Technologies, Bioremediation Email: [email protected] Engr. Gordhan Valasai Research Interests: Least Cost Power Generation Options Modelling, Energy Planning and Policy, Environmental Externalities
EEERG Research Group Members
