Concluding Day of the Two-Day Workshop on “Air Pollution and its Impact on Climate Change”
29-Jun-2019
Two-Day workshop on “Air Pollution and Climate Change” on account of World Environment Day – Beat Air Pollution was concluded on Saturday, 29th June’19. This workshop was sponsored by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Mangaluru and was framed under the guidance of Dr. S. Manjappa, Director-Research.
The first session of Say Two was facilitated by by Dr. G. Shrinikethan, Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal on ‘Sustainable Development.’ Highlights of the session were - Social & Economical constraints influencing sustainable development, flue gas desulphurization, dual alkali systems, selective catalytic reduction process, staged combustion, ship emission reduction strategies and so on. The second session was delivered by Mr. U. Venkatachala Aithal, Chief General Manager, MRPL, Mangaluru on ‘Case Study – Air Pollution Control at MRPL.’ Through this session, Mr. Aithal spoke about various stipulations and mitigation strategies implemented at MRPL, Mangaluru for the control of air pollution.
An industrial visit to Udupi Power Corporation Ltd, Padubidri was organized as a part of the workshop in which the participants had an opportunity to view the various air pollution mitigation strategies implemented.
