Challenges and Opportunities in Green Hydrogen Production

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Dr. Paramvir Singh currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Agartala. He completed postdoctoral research in Combustion Chemistry Center at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2022 followed by another postdoc focusing on fuels and combustion at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. In 2019 he was a visiting postdoc in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Sheffield UK. He earned his Master's and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur India in 2013 and 2019 respectively. His research interests span a wide range of topics including renewable energy fuel combustion systems emission control gasification and waste-to-energy technologies. He has a prolific publication record with more than 50 research articles in international journals and conferences as well as five book chapters and monographs. Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Engine Research Center UW@Madison USA (19992001). His interests are IC engines combustion alternate and conventional fuels lubricating oil tribology optical diagnostics laser ignition HCCI emissions and particulate control 1D and 3D simulations of engine processes and large-bore engines. He has published 525+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers 63 edited books 129 chapters 16200+ Scopus and 24300+ Google Scholar citations. He is an editor of FUEL an associated editor of the SAE Journal of Engines and the ASME Open Journal of Engineering. He has edited Handbook of Combustion that has 5 Volumes and 3168 pages. He was a highly cited researcher (2018) in the top ten HCR from India among 4000 HCR researchers globally in 22 fields of inquiry. Dr. Anupma Thakur is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE) at the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University and Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) USA. She is also an early career research fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Gujarat India. She completed a Ph.D. as a DST-INSPIRE research fellow at AcSIR CSIR-CSIO (National Research and Development Laboratory) Chandigarh India in August 2021. She earned a gold medal in Master of Technology (M.Tech). in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Panjab University Chandigarh India in 2016. She is a well-established young nanotechnologist in the field of advanced nanomaterials and materials science for various applications including materials for clean hydrogen energy generation carbon capture and utilization chemical sensors photo and electrocatalysis extreme environments and actuators. Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha is Professor of Applied Physics and Vice Chancellor of Gautam Buddha University Greater Noida. He was Chief Coordinator: TIFAC-Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Mission REACH Program Technology Vision-2020 Govt. of India Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering University of Delhi) Bawana Road Delhi-110042 India. He received M.Sc. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur India in 1984 and Ph.D. degree in fiber optics and optical communication technology from the IIT Delhi India in 1990.He has also served as Outstanding Professor in Engineering Sciences of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) CSIR Govt. of India. He is Author and Co-author of 380 research publications in the leading national and international journals (174) and conference proceedings (206). He has written 7 book chapters edited 3 books and originated 5 patents.