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Item Improvement in municipal solid waste management system in Lahore, Pakistan(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Muhammad AqeelThe administration of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a most important crisis in developing countries. Pakistan is also facing the problem of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) administration. The Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) made up of the wastes produces every day by the inhabited, business, and organizational origin. The inadequate compilation and inappropriate removal of MSW can spoil earth, atmosphere and hose down and may pretense hazard to person physical condition and surroundings. Recent literature on current Solid Waste Management practices in one of the major city of Pakistan (Lahore) has been reviewed, and an effort has been made to provide a comprehensive review on the total amount of municipal solid waste generated, storage, collection, physical composition, transfer, processing and disposal of SW. In addition, original prototype of compilation, treatment, transportation, handling and removal of MSW was evaluated for this city. The observation was lastly concluded with fruitful conclusions that will helpful to give confidence to the researcher and viable power in authority to work in the direction of more betterment and contribute to build this city clean. Solid waste management (SWM) is one of the most important reasons of environmental devastation in Pakistan. This research deals with disposal, transportation, composition, collection, generation, and in addition as the current expenditure of the waste running on the foundation of the charge of planned enhanced arrangement of management on the basis of 100% waste gathering and 60% gathering of the whole waste using the IWM-2 LCI model. A Data Ganj Bakhsh Town (DGBT) of Lahore City GIS map of District viewing shared storage space amenities has also been provided.Item Coal resources supply, handling and management of power projects in salt range area, Punjab(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Ayesha UmberThe objective of the study and the research work is to understand a conceptual methodology and practical case study for the five major areas of Coal i.e. resource availability, mine ability, transportation, consumption and environmental effects & mitigation options in establishment of coal-fired power projects. The purpose is to convert the indigenous coal resources/potential particularly in the Salt Range, Punjab to the form that can be used for power generation through a scientific and professional slant of coal resource supply handling and management. Having gone through the existing coal resources authentic estimations, on-going traditional mining and the need of a structured sustainable demand/supply market, there appears to be no hitch in establishing a 50 MW coal power plant near Pind Dadan Khan, District Jhelum (taken as a case study). The grey areas are mainly the mechanism of establishing the workable coal supplies through buying agreements and sale to the power producer. The role of a capable and viable entity in the form of a company is introduced which shall play a pivotal coordinated bridge role between the coal miners and power plant investor. A slight focus is also invited on the environmental impacts of coal transportation, consumption and emissions with mitigation proposals.Item Regulatory control over factors influencing environment and human health by cement industry(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Rumesha AkramNow a day’s air pollution due to industries is becoming major environmental problem in Pakistan. A countries’ economic growth mainly depends on its industrial sector. But this rapid increase in industrialization is deteriorating environment by depletion of natural resources and energy consumption. With the increase in energy consumption, emission of greenhouse gases (PM, CO, NOx and SOx etc) has also increased and is negatively effecting the environment and human health. And unfortunately there are no proper air emission control strategies for industries which are one of the major reasons of increase in air pollution. This study is about different factors of cement industry that have negative effects on environment. These factors are categorized into air pollution (energy source, unimplemented laws and policies for air pollutants, planned maintenance) and human health issues related to Pakistan Cement Industry (taken as case study).The pollution issues in an organization can be resolved by implementing laws and regulations in each area. Study depicted that in Pakistan, industries do not work significantly to reduce hazardous emissions and also there are mostly managerial defects in controlling industry’s pollution. Effort is being put in search out the gaps between laws present for the above mentioned factors, those which are implemented and how they can be made better.Item Implementation of safety standards and hazards management in steel industry(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Sadia AwanA countries’ economic growth is mainly contributed by its industrial sector. Industrialization in a region brings both the growth of transport and communication but with the increasing industrialization, occupational risks associated with industries are also increasing. Mass production, all over the world, has encouraged the use of machinery while the workplace security got no attention. An organization should have strong management commitment in order to be successful. This study is about the laws relating to hazards and safety management in Pakistan Steel Industry. It is proven that commitment in an organization regarding two vitals that is health safety should be given prime importance in order to achieve safe working environment. If the top management of any organization has strong leadership skills, it should have strong management commitment too concerning wellbeing of workers. Study depicted that there are mostly managerial defects in providing safe working environment to the workers. Effort is being put in to search out the gaps between hypothetical safety laws present and those of which are implemented and how it can be further improved.Item Design and analyze a solar-wind hybrid power generation system(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Arslan Ali KhanElectricity is basic to the monetary development and social improvement of any nation. Indigenous electricity assets should be created to the ideal level to limit reliance on imported energizes. This prompted to a lift in innovative work and additionally interest in renewable power generation industry looking for approaches to take care of electricity demand and to lessen reliance on fossil powers [19] [20] [25]. This theory concentrates on an incorporated cross breed renewable power producing framework comprising of wind and sun powered electricity. Pakistan, has been honored with renewable electricity sources. As indicated, the desire of advancing in power generation through renewable asserts, the Government of Pakistan has tasked the AEDB (Alternate energy development board) to ensure 5% of total national power generation capacity to be generated through renewable energy technologies by the year 2030[1]. This theory gives knowledge into the vitality situation and current circumstance of renewable vitality improvement in Pakistan. As indicated by wind and sun oriented potential maps of Pakistan which was created by NREL in 2003, many parts of the nation can possibly create financial power generation frameworks. Through these maps’ areas were recognized where both wind and sun-oriented potential is high. A point by point study was completed in these areas with continuous field information. The point of convergence of this proposition is to propose and assess a sun-wind oriented half and half power generating framework for selected area. Matrix tied frameworks make utilization of sun powered PV or twist turbines to create power and supply the heap by interfacing with lattice. In this review, HOMER (Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables) PC demonstrating programming was utilized to display the power framework, its physical conduct and its life cycle cost. The cross breed power generating framework was intended for Jhimpir in sindh Pakistan. Through the reenactment procedure, establishment of 8 quantities of 840kW wind turbines and1MW sunlight based PV modules were recognized as most practical to supply normal of 3MWload associated with lattice where the straightforward payback time of the framework was 3.4years.Item Lean manufacturing assessment in weaving textiles with regards to ergonomics practice- A case study(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Asma AslamRapidly changing textile environment and intense competitive situation forced many organizations worldwide to reduce cost and become more responsive to customer demands of which speed, time, and customized services are of high importance. Lean manufacturing offers them a proven method to reduce costs, eliminate waste, increase productivity, maintain high levels of quality and still make a profit. The concept of lean manufacturing was developed for maximizing the resource utilization through minimization of waste, later on lean was formulated in response to the fluctuating and competitive business environment. Due to rapidly changing business environment the organizations are forced to face challenges and complexities. Any organization whether manufacturing or service oriented to survive may ultimately depend on its ability to systematically and continuously respond to these changes for enhancing the product value. Therefore value adding process is necessary to achieve this perfection; hence implementing a lean manufacturing system is becoming a core competency for any type of organizations to sustain. Taking into account the previous researches, it is concluded that in textile sector, weaving is the most ignored sector by the researchers and if lean is implemented, ergonomic factor is ignored. In this research, a lean route is developed for the organization to implement the lean 5S technique integrating ergonomics principles as it is a key to take out one of the types of wastes called Muri. The Qualitative survey analysis’ repercussions of Sapphire Textile Mills (STML) weaving unit are summarized to illustrate the study of lean elements assessment and implementation in demanding and challenging environment. The data was collected through questionnaires and semi-structural interviews. The findings of this study were synthesized to develop a unified theory for implementation assessment of lean elements with regards to ergonomics.Item A study on Pakistan’s climate change policy and the challenges it will face in future rapid climate change(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Muhammed AbrarThere is growing global consensus that climate change is the greatest upcoming global threat to humankind in modern times and is likely to have serious consequences for socio-economic sectors such as health, food production, energy consumption, security and natural resource management in near future. Pakistan is a developing country that has been severely hit by climate change affects in some last year’s Although Pakistan contributes very little to global greenhouse gas emissions. To face potential impacts of climate change in near future, a strong policy and institutional setup should be developed. Therefore this research aims to study the possible knowledge that policy makers and the government officials should focus on Therefore they can prepare themselves in the near future. Focusing on future vulnerability is the key feature for the achievement of Sustainable development. Government officials and policy makers face many challenges for Effective implementation of strategies to face the possible climate change affects, but the main gap lies in lack of participation of different affective communities at any level of policy-making. Therefore there is a strong need of Education on climate change and affective awareness at the governmental and local levels that will help us for Building the capacity for researchers policy makers and local communities. Therefore according to present and past circumstances effective measures should be needed to address climate change phenomena in Pakistan. It is essential that the government strongly recognize potential future climate risks and protect the environment.