invited_speaker Dr. Muhammad Saghir

Dr. Muhammad Saghir

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022| icece2022_adminicece2022_admin| 0 Comment | 11:55 am
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Muhammad is a Chemical engineer and ex Bioenergy Plant Manager with specialization in bioenergy technologies and PhD from Aston University’s European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI). Currently, he is employed as a Research, Innovation and Leadership Development Project Manager at Keele University and was a project officer at Keele University on Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) (2019-2021) where 5.5MW of renewable energy is produced from solar and wind and then integrated in 200 buildings of Keele University as well as producing green hydrogen from surplus renewable energy through electrolysis and then injecting into natural gas grid to decarbonise the gas grid. As an entrepreneur he is CEO of Eco Research Ltd where he is conducting a feasibility study for a waste to energy system for Pakistan, funded by Innovate UK. He did is Post Doc at University of Birmingham (2018-19) where he served as design engineer on pyrolysis reactor design and scale up for treating organic residues for producing aviation fuel. He is a serial entrepreneur with 2 business start-ups specialising in manufacture of biodiesel, biomass pyrolysis and gasification technologies. He has served as a Bioenergy Plant Manager (2012-2015) at European Bioenergy Research Institute where he was working on 1.4 MW biomass fluidised bed gasification process which was linked to a 400-kW pyrolysis reactor and a 400 kW combined heat, power and cooling systems. He has a wide portfolio of skills in addition to his chemical engineering education to include NEBOSH Certificate, Managing Safely (IOSH), HazOp analysis, ILM Leadership and Management certificate. He has worked on various high-profile projects based around bioenergy applications in Europe and India which included:

  • Smart Energy Network Demonstrator, project funded by EU and UK government to demonstrate advanced smart grid (£15m).
  • Now Developing pyrogasification technology, to utilise waste to produce energy in the form of heat, electricity and biochar. The system uses all kind of mixed biomass and plastic waste in a patent pending pyrogasification reactor. Dr Saghir has secured funding from Innovate UK to conduct a feasibility study to deploy this technology in Pakistan. Now, seeking partners and stakeholders to form strategic partnerships for 2nd phase of project to install first demonstrator scale reactor system in Pakistan.
  • FlexJet project converting organic waste into aviation fuel, Funded by EU (£11m).
  • European Regional Development Fund which funded the creation of EBRI £16.5m
  • BioenNW, Delivering Local Bioenergy to North West Europe as an Interreg IVB NWE project €7.9m.
  • PYROGAS is supported by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP).
  • £3m Science Bridge Project, was supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and this project later on became the foundation for Energy Harvest project in India.