Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Keynote Speech: The Advantages of Involving Women in Sustainable Development Planning....Pages 1-1
Keynote Speech: Development of Solid Waste Management....Pages 3-3
Plenary Lecture: Tariff – Its Importance for Sustainability of Power Sector....Pages 5-5
Plenary Lecture: South Asia and Management of Energy Security....Pages 7-7
Modeling of Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development....Pages 9-23
Sustainable Development Indicators for Energy in Pakistan....Pages 25-38
Status and Need of Energy Education: The Case of Pakistan....Pages 39-47
Survival of Textile Sector Through Energy Management and Monitoring....Pages 49-57
Forecasting Electricity Demand for Agricultural and Services Sector of Pakistan....Pages 59-67
Solar Drying Technology: Potentials and Developments....Pages 69-98
A Promising Technology of Pressure into Power: A Case Study of Pressure into Power Approach in Gas Transmission Lines in Pakistan....Pages 99-109
Technologies for Harnessing Tidal Power in Pakistan....Pages 111-119
Utilizing Solar Thermal Energy in Textile Processing Units....Pages 121-130
Wind Power Performance Improvements Using Artificial Neural Network Controller for DC–DC Converter....Pages 131-140
Practical Application of Solar Energy at Desert of Tharparkar, Pakistan....Pages 141-146
Ethanol Production from Molasses Using an Indigenous Strain of Thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus Under Controlled Conditions....Pages 147-159
Fluidization in Cold Flow Circulating Fluidized Bed System....Pages 161-173
Assessment of Land-Based Pollution Sources in the Mediterranean Sea Along Gaza Coast – Palestine....Pages 175-189
Impact of Sewage Water on Quality of Fullali Canal Water, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan....Pages 191-197
Environmental Impact of Untreated Effluents from Sugar Industry: A Case Study....Pages 199-206
Environmental Impacts of KPT Commercial Office Building, Karachi....Pages 207-218
Catalytic Effect of BL and BL+Ca Mixed Catalyst on Sulfur-Containing Gasses of Pakistani Lignite Chars....Pages 219-227
Improved Sustainability of Cotton Sulfur Dyeing by Pad-Ox Processes....Pages 229-235
Industrial Effluent Treatment by Photocatalytic Degradation of Sodium Dodecylbenzensulfonate (DBS)....Pages 237-243
Municipal Solid Waste Management: Options for Its Treatment and Energy Recovery....Pages 245-251
Hospital Waste Generation and Management: A Case Study of Hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan....Pages 253-263
Modeling of Solid Waste Management Systems....Pages 265-289
Econtrol Dyeing Process: An Ecological and Economical Approach....Pages 291-297
Cold Pad Batch Dyeing: Eco-friendly Dye Application on Cotton....Pages 299-305
Environmental Policies for New Road Network of Pakistan to Control Air Emissions....Pages 307-319
Indigenous Knowledge: The Way to Sustainable Development – Community Participation in Environmental Issues....Pages 321-328
New Stationary Phase Material for GC Separation of Organic Compounds....Pages 329-337
Value-Added Product Recovery from Banana Plant Waste: A Sustainable Way for Development....Pages 339-349