UNIVERSITÉ D’ABOMEY, CALAVI, BENIN HOSTS FOURTH WASEND SYMPOSIUM

The West Africa Sustainable Engineering Network for Development (WASEND) held its 4th Symposium on 29th July 2022 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (GMT) virtually. 

Prof. Basile Kounouhewa, the guest speaker and a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Abomey Calavi gave a presentation on the theme ” The Hydrogen Vector for the development, promotion, and valorization of Renewables Energies for West Africa”. 

Sixty-five (65) participants joined the fourth symposium hosted by the College of Engineering, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin

The aim of the symposium was to give the hydrogen vector perspective in the development and promotion of renewable energies in West Africa and also give the opportunity to postgraduate students to present their research outcomes for comments and inputs from faculty members and industrial players present at the symposium.  

 

Participating ACEs (African Centers of Excellence) were:

  1. College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
  2. International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (2IE), Burkina Faso
  3. University of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Gambia
  4. College of Engineering, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin

Four (4) postgraduate students from the various Colleges of Engineering gave presentations on the underlined topics:

  1. Modeling and Prediction of Electricity Consumption in Benin with a view to the supply-demand balance by 2030. 
  2. Production and utilization of biomass Briquettes in an improved multipurpose Cookstove: A case study of the Gambia.

 

  1. Sizing and Performance Comparison of two (2) types of permanent magnet synchronous generators for the production of Electrical Energy by Wind Turbine in three (3) areas of Benin. 
  2. A Cryptography Scheme based on Artificial Neural Network for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) security. 

 

Dr. Chux Daniels, a member of the WASEND Network Advisory Board and Dr. Victor Ayisi Atiemo-Obeng, a member of the KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP) Industrial Advisory Board joined the symposium to give their inputs and comments on the various presentations. 

The Network Coordinator for WASEND, Prof. Jerry John Kponyo in his closing remarks thanked all presenters for their insightful presentations. He thanked the Advisory Board members who took time off their busy schedules to be part of the symposium, participants from the Association of African Universities, and the translation team for their translation services.