Renewable Fuels

Renewable fuels, in the present times, have become important to curb emission of greenhouse gases, which are causing damage to the environment and leading to climatic changes. Ideally, their utilization can be a zero carbon operation. Planting suitable trees on all waste lands and agro forestry on a large scale can fulfil the needs of timber, fuel, fruits, etc. All kinds of lignocellulosic biomass can be converted by several methods to useful liquid fuels like alcohols, biodiesel, methane, renewable diesel and renewable gasoline. Hydrogen can be used as a renewable fuel because of its desirable characteristics and properties for its use as a green fuel.

Er. Rajni Kant retired from UP State Electricity Board as Chief Engineer, Thermal Design and Engineering following which he remained Consultant/Advisor to a number of Design and Engineering Organizations namely Premier Engineering Technologies-Engineering and Management Consultants, New Delhi, M/S Premier Mott Macdonald (Consulting Engineers) New Delhi and other organizations.Throughout his career both in UPSEB as well as a Consultant/Adviser (after superannuation), he has actively participated in Planning, Design and Engineering, Development, Construction & Erection, Testing & Commissioning and Operation & Maintenance of Thermal Power Plants of various capacities. He was also deeply involved in Environmental studies, Planning and Environmental design of various power plants.Er. Rajni Kant, an Electrical Engineering graduate from BHU in 1954 (now IIT BHU Varanasi), received an extensive training in the works of M/S Hitachi Ltd. (Japan) and also at large capacity Power Stations and Projects of Georgia Power Company (USA). He has more than 50 years of experience to his credit in the aforesaid fields and has authored about 40 papers in various fields including Power Plants and Environmental Engineering, which were published in National and International Journals and Proceedings of National and International Conferences. He is an author of 2 books entitled, ‘Water Pollution, Management, Control and Treatment authored by Er. Rajni Kant and Dr. Keshav Kant, New Age International Publishers’ and ‘Air Pollution and Control’ authored by Er. Rajni Kant and Dr. Keshav Kant, Khanna Book Publishing Co. He is a member of several professional Organizations namely; (1) Member of the Association of Technical Scholarship (Japan), (2) Member of the Association on Electrical Generation, Transmission & Distribution (Afro-Asian Region), (3) Member Central Board of Irrigation & Power (India) and (4) Member of the International Society of Environmental Botanists.Dr. Keshav Kant is a former Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, who after superannuation in June 2005, served as a Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and later as the Director in a number of private Engineering Colleges/Institutes. He has also been Professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at PSIT Kanpur. He has almost 50 years of total teaching and research experience to his credit. He has 3 Monographs and 95 publications to his credit in National and International Journals and Proceedings of National and International Conferences. He has also been a Consultant to Rural Technology Action Group of IIT Kanpur for almost 3 years.He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi in 1964, Master of Engineering with Hons. from the University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee) in 1966, and Ph.D. Degree in 1983 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He served as a faculty of Mechanical Engineering mostly at IIT