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his research experience comprises advanced thermochemical processes (mainly
gasification, but also combustion and pyrolysis) of biomass, coal, and wastes. It also
includes expertise in catalytic gas cleaning, H 2 production, and CO 2 capture. As a
result of his participation in different R&D projects on a national and international
level, he is coauthor of numerous contributions to peer-reviewed conferences, tech-
nical reports, and scientific journals, with his work being recognized by other authors
with more than 300 citations.

Halit Ziya Kuyumcu was awarded his diploma as Diplom-Ingenieur at the Technical
University of Berlin in 1973, his PhD in 1976, and his Habilitation in 1981. Between
1981 and 1997 he was in several mining and environmental techniqueserelated
engineering and producing companies as project engineer, project manager, board
member, and managing director. His technological contributions were as follows:
He first introduced stamp-charging technology in India, Ukraine, and China. He
managed large-scale operations on remediation of uranium mine sites and brown
coal mining and processing areas in former East Germany. Since 1998 he is full
professor and chair of the Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering and Solids
Processing at the Technical University of Berlin and since 2014 he was professor
emeritus. His working areas are particle technology, separation process technology,
coal and mineral processing, biomass processing, solid waste materials processing,
soil decontamination, and brown field remediation. He was member of the advisory
board in several industrial enterprises and the owner of a consulting and engineering
company. He is presently acting as a senior consultant to industry.

Hardarshan Singh Valia is a professor, Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering
and former Head, Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of
Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. He obtained his BE degree in Chemical Engineer-
ing from R.E.C, Srinagar (NIT Srinagar), DISM and MTech in Fuel Engineering from
the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India. He received his PhD in the field of Spon-
taneous Combustion characteristics of Indian Coal Seams from the Indian School of
Mines, India. He had over 34 years’ experience and guided 9 PhD degrees and
45 MTech degrees in the area of coal characterization, coal combustion, coal carbon-
ization, enhance oil recovery, rheology, etc. He is currently guiding eight research
scholars in the field of coal and biomass gasification, carbonization, chemical looping
combustion, rheology of drilling fluid, etc. for their PhD. He has published over 100
papers in peer-reviewed journals/conferences/seminars. He has carried out the research
project in the various areas as coordinator and co-coordinator. He has contributed as
editor in four conference volumes. He was conferred with the Institution of Engineers
(India) Gold Medal for the best paper in Chemical Engineering in 1987e88.

Hari Prakash Tiwari is a principal researcher at the Tata Steel Limited (TSL) in
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. He received his MTech in Fuels and Combustion
from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India, and a PhD degree in Fuel Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. His area of interest ranges from the
characterization of coals for cokemaking and PCI injection, design of cheaper coal