Production, productivity and safety in OC mining
•Production, Productivity and Safety: New Methods to facilitate high stripping open cast 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 measure stocheck pollution loadon 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 Pyrolysisand Gasification, Carbon Capturing, Storage, Utilization and Sequestration
•Low rank coal
•Bio-fuels, FuelCells
•Solar/WindPower
•High Efficiency Low Emission technologies
•Energy Storage, Waste to Energy conversion
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
