| TIME | EVENT | VENUE | SESSIONS | |||
| 08:30 to 09:30 | Conference Registration | Dome | REGISTRATION | |||
| 09:30 to 10:25 | Inaugaration | Dome | DGFASL Director General S.B. Mathur & Dr. Sudhir Jain | |||
| 10:30 to 11:15 | Keynote | Dome | Prof. Sam Mannan | |||
| 11:15 to 11:45 | Tea Break | Shed 3 | ||||
| 11:45 to 13:00 | Parallel Sessions 1 | Shed 3 | Process 1 | Fire 1 | Hazard 1 | Transportation 1 |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch Break | Shed 4 | ||||
| 14:00 to 15:00 | Plenary Session 1 | Dome | Mr. August W. Schaefer and Prof. Venkatesh Kodur | |||
| 15:00 to 15:15 | Break | Shed 3 | ||||
| 15:15 to 16:15 | Parallel Sessions 2 | Shed 3 | Process 2 | Fire 2 | Hazards 2 | Construction 1 |
| 16:15 to 16:45 | Tea Break | Shed 3 | ||||
| 16:45 to 17:45 | Parallel Sessions 3 | Shed 3 | Best Practice | Fire 3 | Behavioral 1 | Risk/Disaster 1 |
| 17:45 to 18:45 | Poster Session | Shed 3 | Student Posters | |||
| 18:45 to 20:00 | Break | BREAK | ||||
| 20:00 | Dinner | DINNER |
| 09:30 to 09:55 | Plenary Session 2 | Shed 3 | Mr. Satinath Sarangi and Informal Sector | |||
| 10:00 to 11:00 | Parallel Sessions 4 | Shed 3 | Process 3 | Economics | Occupational | Transportation 2 |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Tea Break | Shed 3 | ||||
| 11:30 to 12:30 | Parallel Session 5 | Shed 3 | Process 4 | Fire 4 | Behavioral 2 | Risk/Disaster 2 |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | Lunch Break | Shed 4 | ||||
| 13:30 to 14:30 | Parallel Session 6 | Shed 3 | Best Practice | Nuclear | Emerging | Construction 2 |
| 14:30 to 16:00 | Exhibition | Field | ||||
| 16:00 to 16:45 | Closing Ceremony | Dome | Dr. Anil Kakodkar + Prof. Jain |
| Time | Title Of The Paper | Name | Affilation |
| 12-Oct | Process Safety - 1 (P1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 1 (PS1)/P1/11:45-13:00 | |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | Inherent Safety In The Process Industries: Opportunities For Industrial Practice And Academic Research | Rajagopalan Srinivasan | Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , NUS, Singapore |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Validating Sub-Sea Gas Pipeline Leaks Discharge Model For Arabian Sea Conditions | Sridher P Chelliah | Head-Safety, Tata Power Company Limited, Mumbai |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Process Safety Management And Its Applicability In City Gas Distribution | Mukesh M Mahbubani, Amit Gupta | Sr. Manager-HSE, Adani Gas Limited, Gujarat |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | Safety Is Critical In Chemical Process Industries | J. K. Ghelot | President, People Oriented Science and Technology Society, New Delhi |
| 12:25 - 12:35 | Implementation of Safety Instrumented Systems in process sector- Challenges and new trends. | Panini C. Ranade | Chief Manager - Projects, Emerson Export Engineering Center, Emerson Process Management, Pune, India |
| 12:35 - 13:00 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Jitu C. Patel | Senior consultant, ASSE Fellow, Arizona, USA |
| 12-Oct | Process Safety - 2 (P2) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 2 (PS2)/P2/15:15-16:15 | |
| 15:15 - 15:25 | PHA-a step towards achieving excellence in PSM | Vijaykumar Menon, Viral Desai, Priyanka B | Vice President, Technical Service, Reliance Industries Ltd, Dahej Manufacturing Division, Gujarat |
| 15:25 - 15:35 | Management Of Change | Jayaraman Gopal | Head-HSE, Energy Business, Essar Oil Ltd.,Jamnagar, Gujarat |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Implementing Functional Safety In Process Industries | J. Selvakumar | Assistant General Manager, Process Safety, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited, Chennai. |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | Loss Prevention In Process, Construction Or Any Other Major Industry | Jitu C. Patel, | Senior consultant, ASSE Fellow, Arizona, USA |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Sam Mannan | Regents Professor and Director, MKOPSC, Texas A & M University |
| 13-Oct | Process Safety - 3 (P3) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 4 (PS4)/P3/10:00-11:00 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Redefining HSE vision 2025 and goals for Oil & Gas industry | Hari Kumar | Head – HSEQ, Cairn Energy India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon, Haryana |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Safety System And Management Of Lethal Chemicals | G.Vishwanathan | Former Deputy General Manager in IPCL, Chennai |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Performance Based Approach To Burner Management System (BMS) | Shirish M. Ratnaparkhi | Sr. Project manager, Emerson Export Engineering Center, Emerson Process Management, Pune. |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA) Methodology For Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Determination | Mahrshi Thakor, Yogendra Dave |
Head - HSE, Zeppelin System India pvt. Ltd., Alembic campus, Vadodara, Gujarat |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan | Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , NUS, Singapore |
| 13-Oct | Process Safety - 4 (P4) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 5 (PS5)/P4/11:30-12:30 | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Process Safety Culture – A Tool To Measure Process Safety Performance | K Ramesh Ramalingam | Assistant General Manager, Process Safety, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited, Chennai |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Wellcon – A Safer Approach To Well Control | Naveen Velmurugan1, Tushar Sharma, Gopal Bansal | Graduate Student, School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Hazop Study Of A Batch Process | Sumita. P. Panchal and N. V. Bhate | Chemical Engineering Department, The M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Do You Have Right Hse Measures In Your Company Balanced Score Card? | Ahmed A Abbas | Manager; Health, Safety & Environment Group, Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Hari Kumar | Head – HSEQ, Cairn Energy India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon, Haryana |
| 13-Oct | Best Practices In Industries -2 (BP2) | 13:-Oct/Parallel Session 6 (PS6)/BP2/13:30-14:30 | |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Systematic approach for effective PSM implementation | Ravi Ramaswamy | Senior Vice President, Centre for HSE Excellence,Reliance Industries Limited , Navi Mumbai, |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Integrating process safety during design stage | Subba Rao | Chief Executive, Risk service, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services, Chennai |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Improving Safety Compliance Through Safety Inspection – Using A Powerful Technique | Krishna Nirmalya Sen | Head, HSE Hydrocarbon Construction & Pipelines, Hydrocarbon IC, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | An Industry Problem | Hugo Vits | General Manager Bitumen Technology / Site & HSSE Manager, Shell Technology Center, Bangalore |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Sam Mannan | Regents Professor and Director, MKOPSC, Texas A & M University |
| 12-Oct | Safety In Transport - 1 (T1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 1 (PS1)/T1/11:45-12:45 | |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | Reducing Brake build up time – Major approach in reducing Traffic accidents- ContiGuard© | Joachim Nell | Head of TechCenter India & Director Affordable Cars Strategy, Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Safety Issues in Indian Railway | Ajai Banerji | Author of Major Railway Accidents In India and Worldwide Railway Accidents |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Safety Analysis Of An Automobile | Geetesh Gaga | Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, K.C. College of Engineering and I.T, Nawanshahr, Punjab, |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | An Approach To Develop Safety Audit Framework For Urban Roads | Pratik J. Dave, Pradip. J. Gundaliya, Rajan Lad. | Consultant, Urban Transport, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. R. Srivastava | Dy. Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India |
| 13-Oct | Safety In Transport - 1 (T2) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 4 (PS4)/T2/10:00-11:00 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Road Traffic Crash Scenario In India | Raj Ponnaluri | Director, Center for Management Studies;Professor & Area Chairperson Operations Management, ASCI, Hyderabad |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | An in-depth study on highway road safety and the role of construction companies : A case study on NH 71A | Anup Kumar Ghosh, Suparno Ghosh | Director, SD College of Management, Israna, Panipat, Haryana |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Enhancing Road Safety Capacity Of India For Saving Numbers Of Lives | P. M. Joshi, N. R. Chaudhary, Chirag N. Patel | Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, Swami Sachchidanand Polytechnic College, Visnagar, Gujarat |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Electrical Safety Perspective In Rail Transport: Special Emphasis On Fire Accidents In Indian Railways | V.Dileep Kumar, M.Roja Lakshmi | Faculty, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Joachim Nell | Head of Tech Center India, Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore |
| 13-Oct | Nuclear Safety (NS) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 6 (PS6)/NS/13:30-14:30 | |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Safety Aspects In Design Of Inclined Fuel Transfer Machine For Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor | Somesh Rai, J.P. Singh, Ritesh Ranjon, K.M. Prabhakaran, M. Dev, S. Roy, K.P. Sarkar, R.J. Patel | Scientists, Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Safety Of Nuclear Power Reactors | Sabyasachi Behera | MBA Student, (P.T.U. Jalandhar), Former Design Engineer, Walchandnagar Industries Limited (Nuclear Division), Pune. |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Engineering Of Thermal Safety In The Design Of Transportation Packages Of Radioactive Materials | Manjunath S.Bychapur, Ramesh Chandra J.Patel and Suhas.G.Markandeya | Scientists, Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Dr. Anil Kakodkar | Formar Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India |
| 12-Oct | Risk And Disaster - 1 (RD1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 3 (PS3)/RD1/16:45-17:45 | |
| 16:45 - 16:55 | Risk Assessment And Disaster Management | K. U. Mistry | Chairman, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Govet. of Gujarat |
| 16:55 - 17:05 | Emergencs And Disaster Mitigation By Implementation Of Integrated Management System | M.Vijay Kumar | General Manager, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, Dahanu TPS, Dahanu. |
| 17:05 - 17:15 | Making District Disaster Management Plans Pro-Poor | Vandana Chauhan | All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, New Delhi |
| 17:15 - 17:25 | Discussions | ||
| 17:25 - 17:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. R. Srivastava | Dy. Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India |
| 13-Oct | Risk And Disaster - 2 (RD2) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 5 (PS5)/RD2/11:30-12:30 | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | To Be Announced | R. Banerjee | CEO, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Gujarat |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Risk Assessment--A Neglected Tool For Health, Safety And Environment Management | Damodar Vishnu Lele | Retired Medical Officer Hindustan Unilever Ltd. |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Global Regulations On Quantitative Risk Assessment | Prerna Jain, Prashanti Bhupathi and Prabir Ghosh |
Centre for HSE Excellence, Group Manufacturing Services, Reliance Industries Limited |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Training Through Games For Checklist Based Procedures In Emergency And Disaster Management | Onkar Hoysala, Bharath Palavalli , Harsha Krishna, Eswaran Subrahmanian | Fields of View, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Bangalore |
| 12:10 -12:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Durgesh Rai | Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur |
| 13-Oct | Emerging Issues (EI) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 6 (PS6)/EI/13:30-14:30 | |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | School Safety: Past Initiatives And Way Ahead | Piyush V. Ramteke, Isha R. Popat, Komal G. Kantariya | Sector Manager, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA), Gandhinagar |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Child’S Right To Safer Schools: A Campaign | Sanchit Oza | All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, New Delhi |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Safety Education in India – Looking back, Looking ahead | Akhil K Das | Former Chief Manager Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd.; Ex-Senior Engineer KNPC Kuwait; |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Criteria Of Selecting The Contractor For Developing Safety Culture While Establishing Wind Energy Power Plants In India. | Mallikarjune Gowda M C, Bharath Repaka, Dr Puttabore Gowda and Dr R Chandrashekar | General Manager-HSE, Gamesa Wind Turbines Pvt. Ltd, Chennai |
| 14:10 -14:20 | Current trends in earthing in electrical safety | P. B. Karandikar | Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Army Institite of Technology, Pune |
| 14:20- 14:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Dr. Ranjit Banerji | CEO, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Gujarat |
| 12-Oct | Building & Construction - 1 (BC1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 2 (PS2)/BC1/15:15-16:15 | |
| 15:15 - 15:25 | Challenges In Construction Safety & Practical Approach To Deal With | Ashok Ramakant Dashputre | Senior Vice President, Centre for HSE Excellence, Group Manufacturing Services, Reliance Corporate Park, Navi-Mumbai |
| 15:25 - 15:35 | Safety In Tunneling And Underground Construction | Subhash Sarin | Retired Corporate HSE Head of Hindustan Construction Company (Chief of Industrial Safety Devision), Mumbai |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Measuring Effectivenes Of Safety Management In High Rise Buildings | Varun Ajmera, Nikhil Sarwate, Nibodh shetty, Sahil Shah, Taniket Sawant | Student, Civil engineering ,studying in Sardar Patel College of Engineering (S.P.C.E) , Mumbai |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | Safety In Construction: A Safety Management Perpective | Ramesh VM, Sakthivel R | Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Gordon E. S. I. Biezeveld | Program Manager, Building Materials, Life Safety and Security Industries, Underwriters Laboratories |
| 13-Oct | Building & Construction - 2 (BC2) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 6 (PS6)/BC2/13:30-14:30 | |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Safety 2.0 | Gordon E. S. I. Biezeveld | Program Manager, Building Materials, Life Safety and Security Industries, Underwriters Laboratories |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | A Review Of Blast Loading And Blast Effects On Structure | Somnath Karmakar, Amit Shaw, Showmen Saha | Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, NIT Durgapur |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Retrofitting Safety Measures For Important Buildings In Kashmir Valley | Zahid M. Mir, Mohammad Z. Akhtar, Abdul R. Dar | Student, National Institute of Technology (Srinagar), Srinagar J&K. |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | To Be Announced | Durgesh Rai | Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Venkatesh Kodur | Professor & Director, SAFE-D Center Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University |
| 13-Oct | Economics Of Safety (ES) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 4 (PS4)/ES/10:00-11:00 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Retrun On Prevention | R. Srivastava | Dy. Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Economics Of Safety-Practical Model For Field Engineers | A Kameshwar Rao, | Engineer in Charge, C&S & S M Jalali, Superintending Engineer C&S and Head Fire & Safety, RRCAT, DAE, Indore |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Economic And Human Consequences of ‘Poor Safety’. | R.A.Venkitachalam | Vice President & Managing Director, Underwriters Laboratories – Emerging Markets |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Economics Aspect of Safety Through The window of Insurance | Abhijit Das | Director Reinsurance of Unison Insurance Broking Services Pvt, Ltd., Mumbai. |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. August W. Schaefer | Senior Vice President - Public Safety Officer Underwriters Laboratories Inc |
| 12-Oct | Behavioural Safety - 1 (BH1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 3 (PS3)/BH1/16:45-17:45 | |
| 16:45 - 16:55 | How Scientific Is Behavioral Based Safety? | Biju Dominic | CEO, FinalMile, Mumbai |
| 16:55 - 17:05 | Success Of Safety Based On Behaviour Based Safety Management System | Subhash Sarin | Retired Corporate HSE Head of Hindustan Construction Company (Chief of Industrial Safety Devision), Mumbai |
| 17:05 - 17:15 | Safety – An Attitude | Yash Pal | Lecturer (Honorary), Institute of Disaster Management & Fire Science, Chandigarh (India) |
| 17:15 - 17:25 | Road Safety – Behavioural Management And Policy Issue | Anjali Singh | Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, New Delhi |
| 17:25 - 17:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Ahmed A Abbas | Manager; Health, Safety & Environment Group, Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait |
| 13-Oct | Behavioural Safety - 2 (BH2) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 5 (PS5)/BH2/11:30-12:30 | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Safety Culture In Industry, Adopting Behaviour Based Safety (Bbs) To Reach World Class Safety | Ajay K. Gupta | HSEF - chief, Reliance Industries Ltd, , Vadodara |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Safety Observations And Conversation (SOC-A Successful Behavioral Safety Modification Program | Debasish Kakoty and Yousef Al-Qallaf | Safety Engineer, Support Services Group (NK), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Safety Management - A Behaviour Model | Sanjay Sinha | Safety Officer / BPSCL, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Pedestrian Behavior And Safety Analysis At Controlled Pedestrian Crossing In India. | Dilip A Patel, Pankaj Verma, K.Prakash, Rama Chandra Murme | Research scholar, Department of civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Biju Dominic | CEO, FinalMile, Mumbai |
| 12-Oct | Hazard - 1 (H1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 1 (PS1)/H1/11:45-12:45 | |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | To Be Announced | Scott Hariss | OccHealth & Risk Management Consultant, UL Knowledge Services |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Ppe - Meeting International Standard | Nishith A Dand | Director, Industrial Hygiene Science, Boroda |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Review Of Safety Practices In Welding And Cutting Process | Vishvesh Badheka, Anup Sharma, Animesh Mathur , Swapnil Choudhary, Sarvjot Singh | Associate Professor, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | Environment Health Safety Practices In Cold Storages | Purushothaman Venugopal | Divisional EHS Co-ordinator for ACRPG & ACRSD , Blue Star Ltd, Chennai |
| 12:25 - 12:35 | Risk Containment And Hazard Square Off Philosophy | Amitava Lahiri | HSE manager, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., OMPL-MARC Project,Mangalore |
| 12:35 - 12:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Dunu Roy | Director, Hazard Center, New Delhi |
| 12-Oct | Hazard - 2 (H2) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 2 (PS2)/H2/15:15-16:15 | |
| 15:15 - 15:25 | Informality, Illegality, And Searching For Safety | Dunu Roy | Director, Hazard Center, New Delhi |
| 15:25 - 15:35 | Industrial Hygene - An Practical Approach | Swati D. Jadav | Industrial Hygienist, Division Head, Industrial Hygiene Service, Baroda |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Hazard Management While Transporting, Loading & Unloading Of Hazardous Chemicals | Sivarajan M, Sreenivas V | Scientist, Cell for Industrial Safety and Risk Analysis and Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | Building Risk Based Safety Management System | Dean (Dhiren) Patel | LLC Senior Director, Southwest Consultants, Occupational Safety, Health & Environmental Institute, USA |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Dr. Scott Hariss | OccHealth & Risk Management Consultant, UL Knowledge Services |
| 13-Oct | Occupational Safety (OC) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 4 (PS4)/OC/10:00-11:00 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Human Rights Perspective of Occupational Safety & Health for Sustainable Production Process | Samit Kr. Carr | Secretary General, Occupational Safety & Health Association of Jharkhand (OSHAJ), Jharkhand |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Impact Of Fly Ash On Occupational Health And Safety | Anjana Sahay | Director – EHS, Greentech Foundation, New Delhi |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Office Ergonomics | A.Prabakaran,S.Chandralekha | Post Graduate Student-Industrial Safety Engineering, K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | EMR Pollution - An Imperceptable Threat For Safety |
Lipi K. Chhaya |
Assistant Professor, Nirma University, Ahmedabad |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Design of health facilities is essential for pregnant women and new born safety | Rajeev kumar | Regional Manager, Care-India, Patna, Bihar |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. Satinath Sarangi | Founder Bhopal Group for Information & Action |
| 12-Oct | Fire Safety -1 (F1) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 1 (PS1)/F1/11:45-12:45 | |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | Total Fire Protection | Pravinray D. Gandhi | Corporate Fellow, UL LLC, Director, Corporate Research, USA |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Numerical Modelling Of Suppression Of Diffusion Flame Over Fuel Surface By Water Mist | Amit Kumar | Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Nano-Calorimeter Platform For Detection Of Explosive And Combustible Materials | D. Banerjee, S. Kang, N. Niedbalski, S. Mannan | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University, |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | Early Fire Detection Using Tdls Based Gas Sensor | Abhishek Upadhyaya, Arup Lal Chakrabortyb | PhD Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Prof. Kathy A. Notarianni | Head, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 12-Oct | Fire Safety -2 (F2) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 2 (PS2)/F2/15:15-16:15 | |
| 15:15 - 15:25 | Multi-Scale Modeling Of Dust Explosions | Vimlesh K. Bind, Shantanu Roy and Chitra Rajagopal | Scientist 'D', Explosive Safety Group,CFEES (DRDO), Timarpur, Delhi |
| 15:25 - 15:35 | Technology Solutions For Remote Diagnostics And Servicing Of Fire Detection Systems | Manjuprakash Rama Rao, Anthony Moffa | Engineering Manager, Advanced Research and Development, Tyco International, Bangalore |
| 15:35 - 15:45 | Liquid hydrocarbon pool fire suppression: Part I- experiments using direct foam injection (DFI)-methodology in a 5m2 x 2m-cylindrical tank | R.S. Chimote, Shashi, Surendra Kumar, Kathirvel, Jeevanandam | Scientist, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute,Roorkee |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | On The Sizing Of Obstacles In Confined And Partially Confined Geometries To Avoid Catastrophic Explosions |
Amit Kumar, Vijay Cheeda, K Ramamurthi | Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Dr. Pravinray D. Gandhi | Corporate Fellow, UL LLC, Director, Corporate Research, USA |
| 12-Oct | Fire Safety -3 (F3) | 12-Oct/Parallel Session 3 (PS3)/F3/16:45-17:45 | |
| 16:45 - 16:55 | Development Of A Portable Flashover Predictor (Fire-Ground Environment Sensor System) | Kathy A. Notarianni, David Cyganski, R. James Duckworth | Professor and Head, Department of Fire Protection Engineeringand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
| 16:55 - 17:05 | The Societal Impact Of Fire Sprinklers | Sumit Kumar Khanna, Brendan MacGrath, Vikram Kalbag | Consultant, International Codes & Standards, FM Global, Bangalore, Karnataka |
| 17:05 - 17:15 | Kitchen Fire Safety System | Akshay Jain, Adnan Ansari, Prateek Nyati, Nakul Nuwal, Chinmay Ghoroi, | B.Tech Student, IIT Gandhinagar |
| 17:15 - 17:25 | Fire In Storage Tank In West Bengal | S K Das, S. Bhattacharyya, Gargi Bhattacharjee | Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Calcutta, Kolkata |
| 17:25 - 17:45 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. R.V. Venkitachalam | Vice President & Managing Director, Underwriters Laboratories – Emerging Markets |
| 13-Oct | Fire Safety - 4 (F4) | 13-Oct/Parallel Session 5 (PS5)/F4/11:30-12:30 | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Bombay High Offshore Platform Fire | G.Vishwanathan | Former Deputy General Manager in IPCL, Chennai |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Beyond Carlton - A Case Study | Uday Vijayan | Founder, Beyond Carlton, Bangalore |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Safety Enhancement Of Industrial Process Monitoring And Control Using Ultra Low Power “Multidrop Wired”/ “Wireless” Digital Communication System | Manish Thakkar | Assiatnat Professor, DDU, Nadiad |
| To Be Announced | M.F. Dastoor | Fire Chief of Ahmadabad, Gujarat | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussions | ||
| Session Chair | Mr. August W. Schaefer | Senior Vice President - Public Safety Officer Underwriters Laboratories Inc |
