R&D Knowledge Sharing Session on ‘Design of Municipal Waste Plant and Solid Waste Management’ & ‘Harnessing Energy from Roads’

The Civil Engineering department had its second session under R&D cell on the 9^h January 2021 at 4.00 P.M. There were two speakers for this session.

Prof. Satyesh Kakodkar presented a research paper while Prof. Akshata Kudchadker presented on a recent trend.

Prof. Satyesh presented his paper titled ‘Design of Municipal Waste Plant and Solid Waste Management’.

Prof. Satyesh, in his paper has proposed the design of a waste management plant for the Mapusa area. He elaborated on the various processing and disposal technologies in practice and the criteria for selection of the most suitable technology. The components designed in the proposed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) plant are Windrow Composting Plant, Landfill Management and Leacheate collection system. The paper was presented at ICER-14, 7^th International Congress of Environmental Research, held at R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, from 26^th to 28^th December 2014.

Prof. Akshata presented on ‘Harnessing Energy from Roads’. With the increased demand for electricity in recent years, newer techniques of generating energy have emerged, like harnessing energy from roads. Energy from roads can be harvested in two ways, by piezo-electric generators and kinetic road ramps. Among these the amount of energy generated from piezo-electric roads is more than that generated by road ramps. This technique has been used in Israel and California.