Addressing the concerns of industry in the areas of

ENVIRONMENT • ENERGY • MATERIAL SCIENCES

Interactive Applied Research Seminar

jointly organized by
IIT Delhi & Groupe des Ecoles des Mines, (GEM) France
September 24th to 26th, 2008

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Vision Statement
A high level interactive applied research seminar in
engineering and technology has been proposed jointly by
"Groupe Des Ecoles Des Mines, France" and "Indian
Institute of technology Delhi. India" during September 24-
26, 2005 at IIT Delhi, India. The focus of this seminar is to
make "Engineering and Technology Research" relevant to
the industry, where the industry can look forward to
applicable technological research results. This will benefit
all the three major stake-holders, namely, researchers,
industry and the governments.
In this seminar, some of the leading national and
international researchers from India and France will make
presentations in their respective specializations and
conduct interactive sessions, with the participants on
cutting edge technological research areas of (i)
Environment (ii) Energy and (iii) Material Science
Recent Interactions between IITD & GEM, France
In this context, we have the full support of both the
institutions, i.e., IIT Delhi and GEM, France, which are
involved in collaborative, cutting edge research, with other
leading Universities and Engineering Institutes of the
world.
Presently, the Environmental Engineering Group of the
Civil Engineering Department of IIT Delhi is already having
ongoing joint research activities in 'Urban Air Quality
Management' with Department of Energetic and
Environment, Ecole de Mines, Nantes (EMN). This joint
program is having faculty-student exchange visits and
thesis evaluation by both collaborators. Now after all these
years of joint research, we are pleased to inform you that
this collaborative research with EMN has produced
conclusive results in the form of joint publications in
Solid waste is fast becoming a critical threat to the quality of life!
refereed international journals.
This success has inspired both 'Environmental Group'
Civil Engineering Dept of IIT Delhi and Department of
Energetic and Environment, EMN of France to scale up
their existing collaboration assisted by the Groupe Des
Ecoles Des Mines by inviting interested research experts
from other IITs and leading institutions/ universities in
India and France to share their research experience and
output in the selected areas of research.
The Mechanical Engineering Department of IITD and
Ecole de Mine, Douai, of France is also having a very
close scientific interaction in the area of polymers and
composite materials, particularly nano-composites, short
and long fiber composites and are recently working on
micro-cellular thermoplastic composites. There are joint
Ph.D and Post doctoral students and exchange on a
regular basis in the last four year of collaboration resulting
into more than dozen joint publications and
communications and knowledge enhancement at both
the places.
In the Department of Applied Mechanics at IITD, research
is being conducted on metal foams; their synthesis,
characterization and applications. Pure AI foam, Al-Mg
alloy foam and Al-SiC composite foams have been
synthesized by solid state sintering route and their
mechanical behavior studied. Suitability of metal foams
for helmet application is being investigated.
In this pursuit, we actively seek wider industrial
participation for identifying relevant research areas from
their point of view, It will evolve an effective and efficient
mechanism for disseminating research outputs to the
industries. With this process in place, we are confident
that we will be able to address some of the pressing
concerns in existing technological gaps.
• Bamboo as a Modern Green Engineering Material
(Material Sciences)
Bamboo is a tall grass that yields mature timber poles in just under 4 to 5 years once the
shoots come out. These have characteristic hollowness, stiffened periodically by tough
nodal plates. The bamboo pole is a classic example of a functionally graded composite
evolved by mother nature that has exceptionally high strength for a given weight. Its specific
tensile strength, in particular, of the outer skin of even 1 year old bamboo culm, is reported to
be much more than that of even high tensile steel. How ever, the creep on one hand and the
high degree of variation in properties of bamboo even with in a given specie (there are over
1200 species of which over 100 are present in India ) on the other hand need extensive
experimental studies in order that bamboo is recognized as a modern engineering material.
The study is central to our research interests, in particular with reference to bamboo based
load bearing structural elements in housing, light weight vehicular frames/bodies, wind mill
towers and frames for solar thermal and other systems, minimizing the use of energy Bamboo arch - beam - coloumn connection

intensive materials like steel, cement and man made fiber composites.

• Solar thermal - Biomass thermal hybrid systems

(Environment /Including Energy Application)
Split bamboo - metal sheet composite panel has been demonstrated by us in applications for
solar flat plate collector. These are likely to be cost effective in water heating or air drying
applications. We propose to investigate collection of large quantities of low grade solar
thermal energy using the above. Further, we propose to enhance its quality by relatively
smaller biomass thermal energy for cost effective co-generation-shaft power (for electricity)
and waste thermal energy (for process heat in food and other industries). Such
decentralized distributed systems down to under 10kWe, effectively utilizing the local
resources without having to transport light weight biomass can form the back bone of rural
micro industrial units. The possibility of tri-generation - using the waste heat for refrigeration
as well - is another area that can lead to micro cold storage rooms in rural areas that can
empower even the small farmers in realizing a fair price for their perishable produce such as
vegetables and fruits.
Integrating the solar thermal collectors with building roofs and walls is another area that can
have substantial improvement in the economics of the solar thermal power generation
systems. We expect this to happen from the energy saved in air conditioning the building
interiors.

• Hazardous waste management

Planning and decision making for waste management options (including waste prevention
and waste recycling as well as several waste treatment and disposal technologies) must be
done with due consideration to multiple objectives such as cost, environmental impacts and
risk.

Some of the other important topics to be covered

• Fuel Cells
• Alternate fuels,
• Combustion
• Decentralized energy
• Polymer (recycling, biodegradable polymers, bio polymers, (elaboration, characterization, • Air Polution
bio degradation) behaviour and processing, nano particles in polymers Composites, bio
composites
• Metal foams
• Nano technologies / nano particles: performance optimizations of materials,
environmentally friendly materials Forming processes machining
• Chemical Looping Combustion in Recirculating Fluidized Bed Reactors
• Desorption and Regenaration of Spent Adsorbents
• Aerosol emission and climate effect: Indian and global perspective
• Characterization of the E-waste Streams and Evaluation of the Various Methods of
Reusing/Recycling and treatment
• Biological Processes for the Removal of Heavy Metals
• Arsenic Removal from Ground Water by Adsorption based processes
• Urban water: New Technologies, Emerging contaminant and River Bank Filtration
• Indoor Air Quality Modelling Techniques
• Puff Models for Air Quality Modelling......
Organising Committee

Patron
Prof. Surendra Prasad
Director, IIT Delhi
Chief Coordinators
Mr. A. Dorison
Vice Presidents of
GEM, Dirctor of EM d’Ales
France Chief Coordinator
Prof. S.R. Kale
Dean, Undergraduate
Studies, IIT Delhi
Chief Coordinator
Coordinators Session Coordinators Member
Mr. Narayan Medury Prof. N. Bhatnagar Prof. M. Balakrishnan
Director, Sustainable Mechanical Engineering Department Dean, Post-Graduate
Development-New Delhi IIT Delhi Studies, IIT Delhi
Administrative Coordinator
Prof. Mukesh Khare Prof. P. Formisyn
Environmental Engineering Group GEM International
Dr. Arvind K. Nema Civil Engineering Department, Co-operation Director and
Environmental Engineering Group IIT Delhi Net work Co-ordinator France
Civil Engineering Department,
IIT Delhi, Technical Coordinator Dr. Rajesh Prasad
Applied Mechanics
Department, IIT Delhi
Dr. Michen Pavageau
Energy and Environmental Prof. Anjan Ray
Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering
EM Nantes, France Department, IIT Delhi
Technical Coordinator
Prof J. Schwartzentruber
Head of International
Relations, EM Albi-Carnaux
France

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Please register online, at www.emn.fr/x-ener/iitd-gem

Further, we request you to identify & define those concerns, that your organisation is facing, in the areas of
ENVIRONMENT • ENERGY • MATERIAL SCIENCES. Kindly email the same to: deanugs@admin.iitd.ac.in. This will
enable our researchers from IIT Delhi & GEM, France, to study them & address them better, when you visit us at
the seminar.

Venue : Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Senate Room, Main Building,1st Floor,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 (INDIA).
Date : 24-26th September 2008
Time : 9.00pm - 5.30pm
Contact for more information:
Dr. Arvind K. Nema Mob: 9810827852, Mr. N.R. Medury Mob: 9313740672