Bioenergy (eBook)

Prof. Praveen Kumar Ramanujam an undergraduate in chemical engineering and postgraduate in industrial biotechnology from Annamalai University, is working as Head of the Department in Department of Biotechnology, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. His area of research includes renewable energy from biomass and municipal waste. He chaired the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies. He has organized various national-level symposiums and conferences and served on the scientific advisory committees of several national and international events. He visited EPFL, Switzerland, as Visiting Researcher in the Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group from October to November 2018. He has visited multiple countries, including the USA, Australia, China, Switzerland, Italy, Hong Kong and Bangladesh, to attend various conferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various national and international conferences. He has provisional registrations for four patents. He has published more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 17 book chapters and seven edited books and delivered 12 invited lectures and presentations and 33 other presentations. He was invited as a resource person for 10 national and international forums. He is Life Member in various professional societies, including BRSI, IIChE, IBA-IFIBiop, BigFin, ISTE, and EWB India. He has served as Management Council Member in BRSI. He was awarded with the ISTE-Syed Sajid Ali National Award for outstanding research work in the field of Renewable Energy for the year 2017, award instituted by the Indian Society for Technical Education, and 'Outstanding Young Investigator Award' for excellence in research and teaching in a rural setting, awarded by RAISE Rural.