Alternative Fuels and Their Utilization Strategies in Internal Combustion Engines

Alternative Fuels: Current Status and Way Forward.- Diethyl Ether as an Alternative Fuel for Diesel Engine.- Bio-GTL: Recent Advances of the Potential Technique.- Production and testing of Biodiesel obtained from high fatty acid soybeans oil (HEFAOBD).- Methanol Economy vs Electrical Vehicle Economy - Indian Context.- Agricultural Waste Derived 2nd Generation Ethanol Blended Diesel Fuel in India: A Prospective.- Alternative Fuels: Current Status and Way Forward.- Production and performance parameter analysis of biodiesel from Chia oil.- Performance, Combustion and Emission Analysis of Mixed Biodiesel: A Sustainable Alternative Fuel.- Review of combustion, exhaust emissions and controls of natural gas (NG) fueled vehicles in the transportation sector.- Performance analysis of Pongamia Pinnata (L) Pierre biodiesel: A north east India perspective.- Biogas as a transportation fuel - Current status and future perspectives.- Conversion of Diesel Engine to Methanol Fueled Compression IgnitionEngine and Performance and Emission Analysis.- A Review of Coupled Geo-Chemo-Mechanical Impacts of CO2-Shale Interaction on CO2 Enhanced Shale Gas Recovery.- Production of alcohols and esters from renewable energy resources: A promising green energy carrier for clean and sustainable development

Dr. Akhilendra Pratap Singh is working at IIT Kanpur. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2010 and 2016 respectively. His areas of research include advanced low temperature combustion; optical diagnostics with special reference to engine endoscopy and PIV; combustion diagnostics; engine emissions measurement; particulate characterization and their control; and alternative fuels. Dr. Singh has edited 7 books and authored 21 book chapters, 40 research articles in international journals and conferences. He has been awarded with 'ISEES Best Ph.D. Thesis Award' (2017), 'SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Fellowship' (2017) and 'IEI Young Engineer Award' (2017). He is a member of numerous professional societies, including SAE, ASME, and ISEES.
Prof. Yogesh C. Sharma is a full Professor in Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, and a Fellow (Elected) of the Biotech. Research Society of India (FBRS). His areas of interest includes adsorption and diffusion, water remediation, renewable energy, biodiesel production and synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production. He authored of four books and published more than 150 research papers in reputed international journals. Prof. Sharma is a highly cited research author and has ~8000 citations with h index of 41.
Dr. Nirendra N. Mustafi received his PhD on particulate emissions from a dual fuel engine operated on alternative gaseous fuels (NG and biogas) from The University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2008. Then he joined back to the department of mechanical engineering at Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Bangladesh. He was appointed Professor at RUET in 2013, where he teaches different courses of mechanical engineering such as Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Applied Thermodynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Automobile