Call For Paper

Track-1: Sustainable Materials and Technologies
  • Focusing exclusively on sustainable materials, the 6 Rs, lifecycle engineering, and life cycle assessment
  • Highlighting issues related to materials recovery, and circular economy, keeping in mind IR 4.0
  • Materials/energy/resource utilization factors, waste minimization/management
  • Use of new sustainable materials in processes (e.g., bio-lubricants) and their impact on environment and plant performance
  • Composites and nanocomposites include biomaterials, fly ash/nano-attapulgite reinforced Concrete, polymers, and GGBS-based-geopolymer for wide range of energy storage applications.
  • Interdisciplinary research that combines nano-, micro-, meso-, and macro-scale aspects of material science and manufacturing technologies with special attention towards sustainable development practices.
  • Resource-efficiency optimization (e.g., minimize amount of precious metals in product design)
  • Innovative approaches with breakthrough performance for CO2 capture and utilization
  • Material substitution to enable lower-impact production and/or use (e.g., composites)
  • Advanced manufacturing processes with reduced energy, water, and materials footprint
  • Theory and Simulation for Energy and Environmental Systems
  • Emerging materials for efficient sustainable energy and environment devices
  • New concept and technology for sustainable energy and environmental devices and systems
  • Sustainable fuel generations through efficient photo-/thermo-/electro-/chemo-catalysi
  • Theory and Simulation of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Applications
  • Sustainable biomaterials and/or sustainable technologies for biomedical applications
  • Sustainable biomaterials and/or sustainable technologies for the design of antimicrobial treatments
  • Lifecycle and techno-economics analysis of sustainable technologies
Track 3: Sustainable Products and Development
  • The influence of sustainable product innovation
  • The application of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, Big Data analytics, blockchain, cloud computing, digital twins, and the Internet of Things to new product development (NPD) and innovation.
  • Sustainable innovation practices in new product development and role in supply chains.
  • Sustainability performance evaluation for NPD and supply chains.
  • Sustainable product/service design framework, technologies, and case studies.
  • Data-driven new sustainable product development.
  • Failure mode and effect analysis in sustainable product development.
  • Decision making in managing innovation and sustainability in new product development.
  • Human-centric product/service design technologies, and case studies.
Track 5: Sustainable, Affordable, and Clean Energy
  • Biofuels and bioenergy
  • Coal energy
  • Carbon capture, storage, and utilization
  • Decarbonization of energy systems
  • Energy from waste
  • Energy Storage and flexible generation
  • Energy efficiency
  • Environmental impacts of smart technologies
  • Environmental impacts of energy sources
  • Energy transition
  • Gas energy
  • Geothermal energy
  • Greenhouse gas removal
  • Nuclear energy
  • Oil shale energy
  • Petroleum and processing industry
  • Smart technologies in energy applications
  • Solar energy
  • Wind energy
Track-7: Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Resilient environments and smart cities.
  • Distributed energy generation, alternative/clean energy sources, and management/reduction of energy consumption.
  • Maintaining and enhancing air quality in cities and built environments (e.g., management of healthy built environments and air quality);
  • Green and energy-efficient structures and communities.
  • Mitigation and adaptation to climate change in urban settings.
  • Green building practises and BMPs.
  • Management and accounting of environmental footprints.
  • Urban forestry and agriculture
  • Intelligent infrastructure, the smart grid, and ICT.
  • Urban planning and design, rules, laws, accreditation, economics, and policy.
  • The resilience and social effects of cities.
  • Behaviour analysis, change, and observation in urban areas.
  • Monitoring and enhancing one’s health.
  • Converging concerns for sustainable cities and society.
  • Trade-off and uncertainty analysis decision support systems for better management of cities and society.
  • Case studies and applications of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
  • Critical infrastructure protection, encompassing difficulties with cyber-physical system stability, security, privacy, and forensics.
  • Urban water management and water distribution, harvesting, purification, and reuse.
  • Recycling and waste reduction.
  • Collection, treatment, and recycling of wastewater.
  • Transportation infrastructure and systems that are intelligent, clean, and healthy.
Track 9: Good Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability
  • Digital Health
  • Personalized Medicine
  • Prevention and Early Intervention
  • Environmental Health
  • Global Health Security
  • Mental Health
  • Health Equity
  • Development of Quality Pharmaceuticals
  • Formulation and development
  • Drug design and discovery
  • Pharmacology and toxicology
  • Quality control and assurance
  • Complementary and alternative medicines
  • Sustainable healthcare practices
  • Personalized medicine
  • Health and nutrition
Track-2: Sustainable and Advanced Remanufacturing Processes
  • Assessing affordability-based design methodologies that consider environmental factors for advanced manufacturing.
  • Implementing design for remanufacturing, recycling, and recovery
  • Methods for assessing sustainability in manufacturing (e.g., life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, carbon footprint of manufacturing processes) and their impact on plant performance.
  • Case studies and comparison of manufacturing processes based on their sustainability.
  • Implementing real-time energy efficiency assessment of components and systems
  • Optimizing the design and advanced manufacturing processes for optimizing energy and material efficiency
  • Optimizing process technologies for transforming scrap into reusable raw materials
  • Optimizing process planning and process scheduling for advanced manufacturing, especially in the context of low fossil-carbon and sustainability dimensions
  • Optimizing manufacturing systems under multiple sustainability criteria, such as economic feasibility, fossil-carbon emissions, and energy consumption
  • Monitoring and reducing the fossil-carbon energy footprints in advanced manufacturing process planning and production scheduling
  • Cleaner production using different cooling-lubrication conditions.
  • Additive manufacturing/3D Printing towards zero waste manufacturing
  • Eco-friendly machining
Track 4: Sustainable Design and Production
  • Sustainable design strategies, approaches, innovation
  • Systems design and system modelling
  • Sustainability indicators in design and their application
  • Life cycle design, costing and assessment.
  • Sustainable engineering product design and development
  • User-centred design and mass customisation
  • Design value chains, new design business models/methods/processes
  • e-design and Virtual design
Track-6: Smart and Sustainable Agricultural Technology
  • Smart technology applications related to algorithm development, sensors integration, on-farm decision systems, and IoT systems, as implemented on equipment, computers, or mobile devices, for field and enclosed controlled environments.
  • Production modelling utilising farm-collected data and theoretical models examined in a production setting.
  • Artificial intelligence, sensors, images, the internet of things, controls, and robots are all pertinent technological fields.
  • Utilizing modern technology for on-farm planning and production efficiency (crop identification, environmental effect, energy efficiency, adoption studies, and socioeconomic evaluation).
  • Farm zones are identified in relation to soil types and water management.
  • Soil (preparation, observation, and control of its health).
  • planting, growing, harvesting, and spotting pests and diseases.
  • feeding, robotic tracking and processing, and the health and welfare of animals.
  • Storage on-farm, primary product grading or sorting, pest recognition, and product quality evaluation.
  • The use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, aquaculture, and animal husbandry is taken into consideration.
  • Smart technology applications related to algorithm development, sensors integration, on-farm decision systems, and IoT systems, as implemented on equipment, computers, or mobile devices, for field and enclosed controlled environments.
  • Production modelling utilising farm-collected data and theoretical models examined in a production setting.
  • Artificial intelligence, sensors, images, the internet of things, controls, and robots are all pertinent technological fields.
  • Utilizing modern technology for on-farm planning and production efficiency (crop identification, environmental effect, energy efficiency, adoption studies, and socioeconomic evaluation).
  • Farm zones are identified in relation to soil types and water management.
  • Soil (preparation, observation, and control of its health).
  • planting, growing, harvesting, and spotting pests and diseases.
  • feeding, robotic tracking and processing, and the health and welfare of animals.
  • Storage on-farm, primary product grading or sorting, pest recognition, and product quality evaluation.
  • The use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, aquaculture, and animal husbandry is taken into consideration.
Track 8: WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene):
  • Access to clean water
  • Sanitation facilities
  • Hygiene promotion
  • Waterborne diseases
  • Handwashing practices
  • Safe drinking water
  • Sanitation infrastructure
  • Open defecation
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Water quality monitoring
  • Community-led total sanitation
  • Water supply systems
  • WASH in schools
  • WASH in healthcare facilities
  • Behavior changes communication
  • Global versus local design, trans-disciplinary design
  • Design-centred research and practice-oriented research
  • Design management, education, ethics, sustainability
  • Design for sustainable construction and re-manufacturing
  • Design of renewable/sustainable energy systems
  • Materials selection for design optimisation
  • Application case studies
  • Innovative design
  • Innovative technologies
  • 3D printing
  • long-run production
  • Prototyping
  • Design products for reuse and recycling
Track 10: Sustainable Healthcare Resources and Practices
  • Sustainable healthcare systems
  • Eco-friendly healthcare practices
  • Green healthcare services
  • Environmental sustainability in healthcare
  • Sustainable healthcare infrastructure
  • Renewable energy in healthcare
  • Sustainable healthcare supply chains
  • Waste management in healthcare
  • Sustainable healthcare technologies
  • Sustainable healthcare policies
  • Energy-efficient healthcare facilities
  • Sustainable healthcare financing
  • Sustainable healthcare workforce
  • Sustainable healthcare partnerships
  • Sustainable healthcare education and training