Conference Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Bioenergy Research

Part 1: Biomass and Energy Management.- Part 2: Thermochemical Conversion Processes.- Part 3: Biochemical Conversion Processes.- Part 4: Catalytic Conversion Processes.- Part 5: Electrochemical Processes.- Part 6: Waste Treatment to Energy.- Part 7: Integrated Processes.

Dr. Sachin Kumar has been working as a Deputy Director in the Biochemical Conversion Division at the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He has more than twelve years of research experience in Biochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels including lignocellulosic ethanol, biogas, biohydrogen, etc. During his career at SSS-NIBE, he has developed the state of the art laboratory facilities for Biochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels. He has completed three research projects and one consultancy project and actively engaged in two on-going research projects. He is co-ordinating for one of the projects under Indo-Brazil bilateral collaboration from Indian side. His area of research is biofuels including bioethanol, biogas, biobutanol, and biohydrogen, algal biomass, bioprocess engineering, enzyme technology, metabolic engineering, etc. Dr. Sachin has published more than 45 papers in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and papers in conference proceedings and 07 edited books. He has been granted one US patent and one filed patent in India. He is a recipient of 2016 ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US Research Professorship and selected as Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research (B- ACER) Fellow 2016 by DBT and IUSSTF. He is serving as an editor, assistant editor and editorial board member of various peer reviewed journals. He has coordinated three national & two international conferences and four national training programs.