National Commemorative Day – Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Challenges and Recent Developments
National Commemorative Day (National Food Day) titled “Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Challenges and Recent Developments” was organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, MVJCE on 16.11.2022 from 10:30 AM to12:30 PM in the Seminar Hall 4, MVJCE. This event was attended by 60 participants (Students and Faculty of Chemical Engineering Department, MVJCE).
Speakers for the Session
Dr. Ganapathi Patil, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. as Senior Scientist.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Ganapathi Patil completed his B.Tech from REC, Bhalki/Gulbarga University in the year of 1998 and completed his PHD from Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore in 2006. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT) and worked as Lead Scientist in TATA Chemicals for 4 years. He served 3 years as Production Manager in Kumar Organic Products Limited. Currently he is working in Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. as Senior Scientist. He has more than 14+ years of R&D experience in scaling up of technologies from lab to pilot scale, project management, project conceptualization and implementation, troubleshooting in process engineering, project costing, technology transfer from R&D to commercial level.
A Brief Account of the Lecture:
The session started with the welcome address of the guest speaker and students by Ms. Prema Gowda (student of 7th semester). She told about the serious concerns on the availability of water, energy, and food to meet our current and future demands. Global climate change is anticipated to have serious influences on the water, energy, and food sectors. So, there is need to understand the recent different challenges, and recent developments in the field of Food, Energy and Water.
Dr. M A L Antony Raj, COE, MVJCE presented a token of gratitude to the Chief Guest, Dr. Ganapathi Patil, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. as Senior Scientist.
The event was succeeded by the chief guest, Dr. Ganapathi Patil, started the session with a brief introduction to food energy and also spoke about petrol and its application. Sir explained about the ethanol blending process from the sugar industry application, fermentation of agricultural and industrial waste. He told about the different alternatives of petrol: biodiesel, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, and propane. Sir furnished us with knowledge on the topic of bioethanol that from where ethanol originated and what are its application. The economic sustainably of ethanol and what are the process behind the conversion of ethanol.
The speaker also differentiated the ethanol and bioethanol and also explained its classification. The bioethanol is classified into 4 generations. First, Second, Third and Fourth generation. Fourth generation is still at an R&D stage where they are working from the industrial waste CO2. In Second generation they are producing alcohol from nonfood material and in India now we have only one industry IOCL in Panipat. In Third generation they are using algae it is a food but not consumed by humans.
Sir has told about the scenario of ethanol production and status of petroleum industries. In India we have a facility to set up 500 distilleries by the end of 2024. India is the 4th largest petroleum consumer in the world. There is 50% increase in the automobiles in the recent years so to meet the demand we need ethanol blending policy. The government has planned to achieve 20% blending process by the end of 2025 and at present we stand at 10% blending as of July reports. The pure ethanol or else known as bioethanol has 99.9 % efficiency. Sir has discussed about the pros and cons of biofuels.
Outcome of the Event
An One-day Event on “Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Challenges and Recent Developments” was organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, MVJCE 17.11.2022 from 10:30 AM to12:30 PM in the Seminar Hall 4, MVJCE. This event was attended by 60 participants (Faculties and Students of Chemical Engineering Department, MVJCE). 1) Dr. Ganapathi Patil, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. as Senior Scientist. The speaker raised serious concerns on the availability of water, energy, and food to meet our current and future demands. Students got knowledge about the different techniques used production of ethanol and what are the different alternatives for the petrol. They also got information about the status and scenario of production of petrol across India in different industries.
Event Organizer
Dr. Sakshi Batra/Dr. Augusta P
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
MVJCE