EMN Ecole des Mines de Nantes

From May 31st to June 3rd, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) and the Groupe des Ecoles des Mines (GEM) organise a Research Seminar on Indoor Air Quality: Monitoring, Prediction Assessment and Cleaning. The seminar will be held at the Ecole des Mines in Nantes. It is supported by the IFCPAR (Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research).

The seminar is a direct outcome of the “Interactive Applied Research Seminar”, jointly organized by the IITD and the GEM, September 24th - 26th, 2008 at the IITD, India, addressing the concerns of industry in the areas of Environment, Energy and Material Sciences. As a result, “Air Quality” has been identified as one of the thrust areas of environmental research to be investigated further.

The aim of the present seminar is to explore innovative techniques related to sampling/ analysis and monitoring of the respirable fraction of indoor dust, bio-aerosols and VOCs. Exploring suitable modelling methodologies for prediction of indoor concentrations of respirable particles and VOCs along with exposure assessment will also be under the scope of the seminar.

The second objective is to exchange and compare the different methodological approaches on air treatment processes optimization and modelling taken in France and India, considering the different way of life in both countries.

As it happened with the first GEM-IITD research seminar in 2008, it is expected that the proposed collaborative research seminar will strengthen the existing research capabilities and expertise of the Indian and French consortium of participating institutions. Finally this seminar aims at bringing together researchers from both institutions but also from other universities to exchange, explore and define areas of cooperation with a view to establishing joint research programmes with the objectives to answer industrial needs and governmental guidelines or regulations.

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