Workshop Schedule Day-1: 28/02/2025

Time Programme

(Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC) at Indian

Institute of Technology Bombay Campus, Room 21)

9:00- 9:30 a.m. Registration

9:30- 10:30 a.m. Inaugural Session

❖ Welcome Address by the Guest of Honour, Prof. Munish Chandel

(Head, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay )

❖ Chief’s Address by the Chief Guest, Prof. Sanjay Mahajani,

(Professor-in-charge, IITB Research Hub for Green Energy and

Sustainability (GESH))

❖ Address by the Convenor, Prof. Indrajit Chakraborty

❖ Address by the Co-Convenor, Prof. Sandeep Kumar

10:30- 11:00 a.m. Tea Break

Session 1: Biochar production: Scale-up and technological challenges

11:00 a.m.-12:40 p.m. Invited Lecture Session-I

11-11:25 a.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for

Technology Assessment”

Prof. Pradip Kalbar

Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering

Department,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India.

 11:25-11:50 a.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Potential Options for Utilization of Waste
Derived Hydrochar”
Prof. Anurag Garg
Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering Department,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India.

11:50 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Biochar: From my POV”

Mr. Aditya Khandelwal
Partner at Power Line Accessories

12:15 p.m.-12:40 p.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Scaling Up Biochar Production: Technological

Challenges and Future Prospects”
Mr. Amit Sharma
Lead, Product development at Takachar

12:40 p.m.-1:40 p.m. Panel Discussion

❑ Prof. Sudip Mitra (IIT Guwahati)

❑ Prof. Sandeep Kumar (IIT Bombay)

❑ Mr. Amit Sharma (Takachar)

❑ Mr. Aditya Khandelwal (Power Line Accessories)

Moderator : Prof. Indrajit Chakraborty (IIT Bombay)

1:40 -2:40 p.m. Lunch

2:45-4:00 p.m. Session 2: Biochar Production: Supply Chain, Circular

Economy and Carbon Trading

2:45 p.m.-3:10 p.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Biochar in the frame of circular economy:
Translating success from laboratory to the real world”

Prof. Sheeja Jagadevan

Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at Indian

Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
3:10 p.m.-3:35 p.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Torrefaction and biochar as a potential
replacement of fossil fuels”

Prof. Sandeep Kumar

Associate Professor in Energy Science and Engineering Department,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India.

3:35 p.m.-4:00 p.m. ❑ Keynote talk on “Scaling Up Biochar Production: Technological

Challenges and Future Prospects”

Mr. Tanmay Telang

Head of business development at Takachar, India.

4:00-4:30 p.m.
High Tea Break

4:30- 5:15 p.m. Panel Discussion

❑ Prof. Yogendra Shastri (IIT Bombay)

❑ Prof Sheeja Jagadevan (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)

❑ Mr. Tanmay Telang (Takachar)

Moderator: Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick (IIT Kharagpur)

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 Day-2: 01/03/2025
Workshop Schedule Day-2: 01/03/2025

Time Programme

(Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC) at Indian

Institute of Technology Bombay Campus, Room 31)

9:00 to 9:30 am Breakfast

Session 3: Soil application of Biochar

9:30-10:45 a.m Invited Lecture Session-III

9:30 a.m.-9:55 a.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Agro-Waste Derived Biochar: An efficient agent for
soil and water quality management”

Prof. Sudip Mitra

Head, School of Agro & Rural Technology (SART)

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

9:55 a.m.-10:20 a.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Varaha: Scaling biochar towards a meaningful
climate solution, from smallholder farms”

Mr. Madhur Jain

Co-founder & CEO at Varaha, India

10:20 a.m.-10:45 a.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Application of Biochar: Enhancing Anaerobic

Digestion & Soil Sustainability as a Biochar-Rich Digestate”

Dr. Manju Tanwar

Chief Scientist and Head R&D,

Organic Recycling Systems Limited, Mumbai, India.

11:05 a.m.-11:20 a.m. Tea break

 10:45 a.m.-11:05 a.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Biochar for soil amendment: Market and carbon
credits”
Prof. Sonal K. Thengane
Associate Professor in Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy,
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Session 4: Novel Applications of Biochar

11:20 a.m.-12:35p.m. Invited Lecture Session-IV

11:20 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Possible functional applications of biochar”
Prof S. Parida
Associate Professor in Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials
Science IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “From waste to catalyst: Biochar for water
remediation and electrochemical applications”
Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick
Assistant Professor in Agricultural and Food Engineering Department Indian
Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
12:10 p.m.-12:35 p.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Harnessing Biochar: A Circular Economy
Solution for Energy and the Environment”
Prof. Brajesh K. Dubey
Chair-School of Water Resources,
IIT Kharagpur, India.

12:35-1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

❑ Prof. Sudip Mitra (IIT Guwahati)

❑ Prof. B. K. Dubey (IIT Kharagpur)

❑ Dr. Manju Tanwar (Organic Recycling Systems Limited)

❑ Mr. Madhur Jain (Varaha)

Moderator: Prof. Koustuv Ray (IIT Kharagpur)

 1:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch Break

Session 5: Viewing Biochar from different lenses

2:30- 3:45 p.m. Invited Lecture Session-V

2.30 p.m.-2:55 p.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Bringing rationality into design aspects of materials

by the use of computational modelling: Examples with catalysts and

biochar”

Prof. Koustuv Ray

Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India.

2:55 p.m.-3.20 p.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “PFAS remediation using waste-derived

activated carbon”

Prof. Tabish Nawaz

Assistant Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering Department

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India.

3:20 p.m.- 3:45 p.m. ❑ Keynote Lecture on “Towards tunable electrocatalysts with biochar”

Prof. Sudarshan Vijay

Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India.

3:45- 4:00 p.m. Tea Break

4:00- 5:00 p.m. Overall outcome and Closing Remarks