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Oral presentations

List of Oral Presentations

Dr Sanjay Nagarajan delivered a webinar on the topic ‘Nature Inspired Processes’ on 13-May-2020, organised by the department of biotechnology, Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, India. ~300 students and academics from all over Tamil Nadu, registered to attend the talk.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan delivered an invited keynote lecture in a 2-day virtual International conference on Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Better Tomorrow (SESBT 2020) on 23rd and 24th Jul, 2020, organised by the department of mechanical engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. The title of the talk was ‘Biogas based bio refineries for a circular economy’.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan delivered a webinar on the topic ‘Biogas based Biorefineries’ on 27-Jul-2020, organised by the department of biotechnology, St. Peter’s College of Engineering and Technology, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, India. ~1200 participants from all over India registered to attend the talk.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan delivered a lecture titled “High Performance Liquid Chromatography: An Introduction” as part of a month long web lecture series organised by Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy, Environment and Healthcare applications (ANEH) scientific platform, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, ThermoFisher Scientific India. (www.aneh.in) on 17-Sep-20. ~40 undergrad, masters, PhD and post docs from across India registered and listened to the lecture.


 Dr Sanjay Nagarajan from QUB, attended the 12th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 5th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology, in Florence, Italy and gave an oral presentation titled “Enhancing Biomethane Yield from Sugarcane Bagasse Using VoDCa Pre-treatment”. This conference was conducted by the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, in Sep 2019.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan from QUB, attended the 1st UK EBNet ECR meeting, in Sheffield, UK and gave an oral presentation titled “Enhanced Biomethane Generation from Distillery Spent Wash Upon Vortex Based Hydrodynamic Cavitation”. This conference was conducted by the UK Environmental Biotechnology Network, in Jul 2019.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan from QUB, attended a Workshop on Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels Through Synthetic Biology, in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and gave an oral presentation titled “Valorizing Waste from Sugar & Allied Industries Innovations in Pretreatment, Bio-transformations and Process Intensification”, introducing the vWa project to target audience. This workshop was conducted by National Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Brazil in partnership with the BBSRC and the University of Nottingham, UK, in May 2019.


Dr Sanjay Nagarajan, Queen’s University Belfast, attended the NEPIC Technology Showcase Event, in Middlesbrough, UK and gave a pitch titled “Enhanced Biogas Yield via Vortex based Devices for Cavitation”. This event was conducted by the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, in Feb 2019.


 Dr Sanjay Nagarajan presented on “Cavitation Pre-treatment for Enhanced Biogas Generation” in the UK Catalysis hub – Supergen Bioenergy hub Joint Virtual Meeting on 6-Aug-20.