National Seminar
on
Biofuels – Need of the hour
13 October 2008
Tagore Chamber, SCOPE Convention Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Programme
| 0830 - 0930 hrs |
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| 0930 - 1100 hrs |
| Inaugural Session |
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| Welcome |
| Mr. A. K. Arora, Director General, PetroFed
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| Theme Address |
| Mr. Deepak Mahurkar, Associate Director, PwC [ Presentation ] |
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| Address on National Policy |
| Mr. Jai Uppal, Sr. Advisor, Centre for Alternate Energy Research, UPES [ Presentation ] |
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| Address |
| Mr. Virendra Gupta, Additional Secretary (ITP & ES), Ministry of External Affairs |
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| Inaugural Address |
| Mr. P. K. Sinha, Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas |
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| Inaugural Session |
| Vote of Thanks |
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| 1100 - 1130 hrs |
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| 1130 - 1300 hrs |
| Session I – Bio Diesel & Aviation Biofuel
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| In Chair – Mr. M. K. Joshi, Director (Technical), EIL |
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| Bio Diesel from Jatropha & Micro Algae : Speakers – Dr. Arumugam, CEO & Group Science Director, Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies Ltd. and Dr. M. Jaya Pragasam, Director Research, Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies Ltd. [ Presentation ] |
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| Aviation Biofuel : Speaker – Dr. A. K. Gupta, Science Adviser Processing, Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies Ltd. [ Presentation ] |
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| Biodiesel Value Chain : Speaker – Mr. A. K. Bansal, Executive Director, BPCL |
| Q & A |
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| 1300 - 1400 hrs |
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| 1400 - 1530 hrs |
| Session II – Ethanol |
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| In Chair – Mr. N. R. Raje, Director (Centre for Alternative Energy Research, UPES |
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| Ethanol Value Chain : Speaker – Dr. R. K. Malhotra, ED (R&D), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. [ Presentation ] |
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| Ethanol Blending – Auto Industry’s Perspective: Speaker – Mr. P. K. Banerjee, Assistant General Manager, Tata Motors [ Presentation ] |
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| Speaker – Dr. Mathew Abraham, General Manager, Mahindra & Mahindra [ Presentation ] |
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| Q & A |
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| 1530 - 1600 hrs |
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| 1600 - 1700 hrs |
| Session III – Pricing & Regulatory Issues
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| In Chair – Mr. V. Subramanian, Former Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
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| Speaker – Mr.Amit Kumar, Senior Manager, PwC [ Presentation ] |
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| Speaker – Dr. Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI [ Presentation ] |
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| Q & A |
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| 1700 - 1800 hrs |
| Panel Discussion |
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| In Chair – Mr. B. N. Bankapur, Director (Ref), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. |
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| Panelists – Mr. Amit Kumar, Dr. Leena Srivastava, Mr. Jai Uppal, Dr. Arumugam, Mr. A. K. Bansal, Dr. R. K. Malhotra, Mr. Atanu Ganguli, Dilip Chenoy |
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| Vote of thanks |
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