Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Introduction * Modeling of energy and environment for sustainable development. * The importance of gender equality when planning for environmental sustainability. * Food security and sustainable development. * Sustainable power supply- short term and long term planning. * Tariff - its importance for sustainability of power sector. * Sustainable development indicators for energy. * The existence of energy managers in an industry - a need of the time in the energy starved environment. * South Asia and management of energy security. * Status and need of energy education in Pakistan. * Survival of textile sector through energy management & monitoring. * Indigenous knowledge: the way to sustainable development - community participation in environmental issues. * Forecasting electricity demand for agricultural and services sector of Pakistan. * A promising technology of pressure into power - a case study of pressure into power approach in gas transmission lines. * Development of sustainable ecomaterial for engineering applications. * Flood water management of Mithawan hill torrent in D.G. Khan of Pakistan. * Implementation of environmental policies for new road network of developing countries: case study of Pakistan. * Solar drying of fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants and fish: developments and potentials. * Utilizing solar thermal energy for textile processing units. * Wind power performance improvements using artificial neural network controller for dc/dc converter. * Ethanol production from thermotolerant kluyveromyces marxianus yeast growing at 65 c using sugar cane molasses in controlled bioreactor. * Municipal solid waste management: options for its treatment & energy recovery. * Socio-economic and socio-cultural change after light through solar home systems (SHS) at district Tharparkar. * Practical applications of solar energy at desert of Tharparkar. * Tidal power harnessing technologies for Pakistan. * Bio-hydrogen production by microalgae microcysis aeruginosa: using optical fiber as an internal light source. * Assessment of land-based pollution sources in the Mediterranean Sea along Gaza Coast-Palestine. * Fluidization in cold flow circulating fluidized bed system. * Environmental impacts of untreated effluents from sugar industry- A case study. * Environmental and social impact: analysis of KPT commercial office building, Karachi. * Air pollution control: a route to safer and healthier environment. * Investigation of environmental pollution caused by vehicles service stations in Taxila city. * Study of noise impacts on human health in textile based cottage industries. * Source mechanism and seismotectonic investigations of earthquake of October 28, 2008 in Ziarat. * Modeling of municipal solid waste management. * Improve bio-degradability by recovering humic substance in MSW landfill leachate. * Bottom ash analysis of MSW incineration on laboratory scale by XRF. * Hospital waste generation and management - a case study of hospitals in Karachi. * Role of scavengers in the collection of recyclable solid waste material in Hyderabad city, Pakistan. * Two stage bioreactor: sustainable landfill. * Hydrothermal process for restaurant garbage. * Biotechnological approach for the treatment of waste water. * Cause and effect of newly developed organic polymer for treatment of Indus river water. * Contamination of sewage water by effluents of industry into Fulali canal water, Hyderabad city. * Biological approach to solve the salinity problem in selected saline areas of Samundri, Faisalabad. * Catalytic effect of Bl and Bl + ca mixed catalyst on sulfur containing gases of Pakistan lignite chars. * New stationary phase material for GC separation of organic compounds. * Pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate as a reagent for GC analysis of metal ions. * Study of kinetic & thermodynamic parameters using thermotolerant kluyveromyces marxianus yeast for the production of ethanol in 23l fermentor under optimized conditions. * Industrial effluent treatment by photocatalytic degradation of sodium dodecylbenzensulfonate (DBS). * A sustainably promising technology for the production of quality Castor Oil & its future prospects. * Cold pad-batch dyeing: ecofriendly dye application on cotton. * Improved sustainability of cotton sulphur dyeing using pad-ox processes. * E-control dyeing process: an ecological and economical approach.

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