Week 11: Research on environment friendly and socioeconomically relevant technologies
Need for research and development on environment friendly and socio economically relevant technologies. Energy from plants-problems and prospects. Petro-crops. Criteria for evaluation of different species for energy plantation
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction to energy plantations
- Week 2: Basic concepts of production ecology of energy plantation
- Week 3: Biomass production from traditional forestry operations
- Week 4: A brief introduction to bio-energy conversion technologies
- Week 5: Carbon dioxide emissions and carbon storage
- Week 6: Assessment of bio-energy programs in Pakistan
- Week 7: High Density Energy Plantations (HDEP)
- Week 8: Mid Term
- Week 9: Introduction to Bio-fuels and advanced technologies for their production
- Week 10: Fundamentals of the policies dealing with supply and consumption of wood energy
- Week 11: Research on environment friendly and socioeconomically relevant technologies
- Week 12: Identification of important fuel woods and petro-crops
- Week 13: Study of different properties of bio fuels used in Pakistan
- Week 14: Trends and Perspective of fuel wood production in developing and developed counties
- Week 15: Energy consumption pattern in rural and urban areas
- Week 16: Final Term
- week 17 Academic Calendar
- Chapters 17
- Department Forestry
- Teacher
Dr. Hafiz Bashir Ahmad
