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Prof. Dr. Shahid Munir participated in "International Waste to Energy" tour
Prof. Dr. Shahid Munir participated in "International Waste to Energy" tour


Prof. Dr. Shahid Munir Director Centre for Coal Technology participated world's largest “International Waste to Energy” tour organized by International Solid Waste Association in Vienna. He participated in a series of seminars in Vienna. Linz, Linzing and Burno. He visited fourteen power plants of various capacities that are generating electricity from house hold waste, RDFs, biomass, biogas and sewage sludge using different technologies like circulating fluidized bed, moving grate, bubbling fluidized bed incineration. He also visited composting plants. He visited waste to energy plants in Czech Republic as well. Lahore Waste Management Company is consulting him as an expert for power generation from Lahore Waste. He also visited Vienna Technical University and developed a linkage with world renowned group of professors working on waste to energy technology. Soon a Ph.D scholar from Punjab University will join them to work on Lahore waste to energy through CFBC incineration Technology.