SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

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Prince Sultan University taken efforts on bringing the environment pollution free and contribute towards climate change. As an important stakeholder, PSU contributes towards the achievement of sustainable cities and communities through various events, practices, and research. It regularly organizes events and exhibitions for students and employees to promote the responsible consumption and production.

The strong commitment can be witnessed from the type of support provided in events related to, E-waste and the sustainable practices followed for sustainable PSU campus to promote responsible consumption and production, research contribution, etc. Moreover, the integration of consumption and production as an important topic is endorsed in our curriculum and outreach.

IMPACT EXAMPLE

The Prince Sultan University is involved in several industrial collaborations that are leading the way in the search for alternative energy sources. One such example comes from our Renewable Energy Lab, who are in cooperation with Power and Telecom Technologies Co., KFB Holding Group, Riyadh for a collaborative consultancy project on investigations on minimizing electricity cost and feasibility study of self-sustainable campus.

The main objective of the project is to study PSU Lighting electricity network to provide Strategic solutions as per the sustainable development goals (SDG 12, 13, 17)

Clear plan for executing energy saving measures by identifying the energy Intensive electrical utilities inside the campus
Economic analysis for power quality improvement and energy savings
Identifying the electrical inefficient processes in the campus
Financial benefit (reduction in the billing cost), investment and payback period

Research

Renewable Energy lab, PSU is showing a serious commitment to encourage its researchers to increase their productivity in this field.

The technology augmenting the human civilization in a significant stage is none other than artificial intelligence which has adopted human thinking level power and working as per level of the human brain, sometimes more than that also. From this point of view, the birth of machine learning and deep learning happens which are part of AI and which are basically the tool where machine learns from a human being based on data, pattern, and images. Sometimes it is very difficult for the human being to handle a huge amount of data manually, then the importance of machines is realized.

Cybernetics approaches in intelligent systems for crops disease detection with the aid of IoT

Authors: Rajesh Rathinam,Padmanathan Kasinathan,Uma Govindarajan,Vigna K. Ramachandaramurthy,Umashankar Subramaniam,Susana Garrido

Detection of crop diseases is imperative for agriculture to be sustainable. Automated crop disease detection is a major issue in the current agricultural industry due to its cluttered background. Internet of Things (IoT) has gained immense interest in the past decade, as it accumulates a high level of contextual information to identify crop diseases.

Sensorless parameter estimation of VFD based cascade centrifugal pumping system using automatic pump curve adaption method

Authors: Arun Shankar V.K., Umashankar Subramaniam, RajvikramMadurai Elavarasan, KannadasanRaju, Paramasivam Shanmugame

The Sustainable Development Goal 7 necessitates efficient energy utilization and aligning energy efficiency targets to industrial machines would pave a way for prospective developments. Pumps are inevitable in commercial and industrial sectors and they contribute to nearly 22% of the global industrial energy utilization. Attesting the fact, this paper focuses on the energy-efficient operation of a pumping system by governing the speed using Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs).

Quality Management Practices of food manufacturers: a comparative study between small, medium and large companies in malaysia

Authors: Ng Kim-Soon, Salama A. Mostafa, Mohammad Nurunnabi, Lim Hui Chin, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Rabei Raad Ali, Umashankar Subramaniam

Quality management (QM) has been intensively studied from the perspective of quality management practices (QMP) and market performance in the food manufacturing industry. However, in Asian countries, studies as regards to the sizes of food manufacturing companies are being neglected. Hence, this quantitative study investigates several aspects and focuses on the extent and level of QMP implementation among small, medium, and large food manufacturing companies in Malaysia.

Recent Trends in EV and Battery Charing Infrastructures

5:30 PM, November 17, 2020

EV Charging technology is a rapidly growing market these days, but currently it is limited to pilot projects only. Though few key players are in the market, small scale industries dominating in this competition who are mainly power electronic firms manufacturing products like power panels, battery chargers, rectifiers etc and they entered into EV chargers market due to huge demands. This presentation covers the details of the EV and battery chargers and key players in the market both plugin and wireless charging technologies. Also, it explains the contribution of smart grids, smart buildings and smart cities to drive the EV charging market.

International Virtual Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES 2021)

February 11-13,2021

Renewable Energy Lab (REL), College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University is organizing International Virtual Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES 2021) on February 11-13,2021 as a partner Institution. SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India is hosting this conference.

The Virtual Conference is a platform for researchers, academicians as well as professionals from all over the world to present, discuss and promote the knowledge, research and practice in the field of Power Electronics, Smart Grid, Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Storage, and Electric Vehicle Charging. ICEES 2021 is offering a fantastic opportunity to attend a global scientific forum from the convenience of your desktop. The conference is online, from paper submission, including reviewing, conference discussion, and post-conference processing. All papers will be referred to the double tier approval process, single-blind peer-review, and regular check. The online conference is a smart and affordable manner of presenting research results.

Selected papers will be published in IEEE Xplore at the discretion of IEEE.