Our esteemed client Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Opencast Mining Technology and Sustainability (ICOMS-2019) on 14th December, 2019 at Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, India in association with Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. The ICOMS-2019, scheduled during December 13-14, 2019 aims to provide forum for the peers and blossoms of the academicians, scientific community & industry professionals to interact and exchange their knowledge in the field of Opencast Mines and Energy.

THEME:

Following are the themes for the Conference:

Production, productivity and safety in OC mining

• Production, Productivity and Safety: New Methods to facilitate high stripping opencast mining with improved productivity & economics
• Design and development of software to design mine working slope and dumps
• Advanced Blasting techniques
• Methods to extract inter-mine boundary coal
• Unconventional Mining Methods
• Best Practices / Benchmarking in maintenance and operations in OC mining
• Automation and Artificial Intelligence

Environmentally Sustainable Methods

• Mitigative measures to check pollution load on air and water within safe limits
• Future challenges & Energy security
• Alternatives to blasting technology, i.e., mitigating ground vibrations and air blast
• Developing eco-friendly logistics infrastructure
• Mine Closure & Sustainable Energy Management
• Social Sustainability

Renewable Energy and Clean Coal Technologies

• Clean Coal Technologies (Methane Drainage, Coal Pyrolysis and Gasification, Carbon Capturing, Storage, Utilization and Sequestration
• Low rank coal
• Biofuels
• Fuel Cells
• Solar/Wind Power
• High Efficiency Low Emission technologies
• Energy Storage
• Waste to Energy

Advanced Materials for Energy

•  Nanostructured Materials for Energy
•  Solar Energy Materials
•  Crystalline Porous Materials
•  Advanced Graphene Materials
•  Composite materials for applications in Mining/Energy sector

INFORMATION DATES:

Last date of submission of abstract	November 10th , 2019
Notification for acceptance of abstract and Registration open	November 15th , 2019
Last date of submission of paper	November 25th , 2019
Conference Registration Deadline	December 5th , 2019
Notification for time and slot of presentation	December 2nd , 2019
Date of Conference	December 13-14th , 2019

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