Have you ever thought about the real time applications of the knowledge of engineering? I was first inspired by the famous words of the engineer Theodore von Karman, “Scientist explores the world, it as it is and Engineers create the world that never has been”. Since our High School, Bachelor studies and further graduate studies, we are interacting with a number of projects which have higher deep academic content and most of the time which is not applicable to the real world scenarios. MSc SELECT program has changed its path towards applicability and feasibility of the education to the real world scenarios with consideration of economy, environment and social community. Because without feasibility and applicability of the technology and methodology, students who pass out from the degree programs are not worth in the real world.

A project of the year (POY) was introduced by appointing 2016/2017 SELECT first year students to the real problems with the industries and social communities. The Sri Lankan project was done by the collaboration of the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), University of Polytechnic de Catalonian, Spain (UPC) and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH) Project is basically to cover energy 3.8 megawatts annual energy demand of the Wijeya Newspapers company (Pvt) Ltd., future expansion of business with 30%-40%, Furthermore the company wishing to move for the power energy sector to cover their consumption of energy and to sell it to the national grid. Main Idea is to analysis of the feasibility studies of the potential of renewable potential for the requirements. Biomass, Solar Photovoltaics and wind potential in Sri Lanka was a parallel analysis as two groups and finally project supervisors’ assets best idea and come up with the common idea to apply integration solution with of biomass, solar photovoltaics and the improvements of the energy efficiency in the printing factory complex area. In this second phase KTH and UPC students were visits 4th of March 2017 to the Sri Lanka for the further studies about the project and few of study visits to the several power plants and useful authorities.

Considering the offset which has landed with prosperous coconut vegetation in the Bingiriya area and the potential of the renewable wind energy was neglected, due to its low potential of the area and one megawatt gasification biomass plant with one megawatt solar PV was proposed by considering the fuel (Dendro) supply chain, solar availability, community, environment and economy. In order to engage community, they have been taken into the part of the fuel supply chain and that will provide a considerable amount of contribution to the social well been and convey a good idea about the technology of the society. The important factor is to achieve challenges without harming environment balance and generate green energy from the renewable which fit into the society and economy by reducing the carbon footprint of the processes. And from the energy efficiency criteria solar roof top PV, HVAC (Heating, ventilation and air conditioning) optimization with retrofit solutions, compressor piping optimization, compressor load shifting to the off peak time, lighting optimization with considering the natural lighting and printing machineries and printing line optimization was considered. Final analysis of business model will be developed in order to achieve Sri Lanka energy policies and economy towards Sustainable Power Generation and Efficient Process Management for Carbon Neutral Operations of the company.