Production, productivity and safety in OC mining
•Production, Productivity and Safety: New Methods to facilitate high stripping open cast mining with improved productivity & economics
•Advanced Blasting techniques
•Methods to extractinter-mine boundary coal
•Unconventional Mining Methods
•Best Practices/Benchmarking in maintenance and operations in OCmining
•Utilization of Dump Materials
•Financial Aspects of Open Cast Mining
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 airblast
•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
•Lowrankcoal
•Bio-fuels, FuelCells
•Solar/WindPower
•High Efficiency Low Emission technologies
•EnergyStorage, Wasteto Energy conversion
IT Initiatives & Digitalization Mine, advanced material Technology
•Design and development of software to design mine workings lopeand dumps
•Automation and Artificial Intelligence
•Composite materials for applications in Mining/Energy sector
•Dynamic Operation Monitoring Systems including Drone
•Skill Development & CSR
