Makesh Kaliyaperumal is a Chartered Engineer and works for Ricardo E&E as Principal Technical Consultant based in. Makesh has been working in the Power and Energy Industry for three decades and is currently engaged as lead Technical consultant on various EfW plants at differing scales. Initially, he worked in the industry as a Power Plant Commissioning Engineer with broad range of power and cogeneration plants firing Coal, Oil , Gas, HRSG, MSW, Agro waste and Petcoke firing on various steam raising plant technologies. Makesh moved into the Process Design Department within Thermax Babcock and Wilcox, India prior to joining Doosan Babcock Ltd, UK in 2010. Makesh worked as a Principal Engineer within Corporate Research and Development Institute (CRDI). Makesh background is in technical development and prior to joining REE he has been working on biomass conversions, combustion upgrades, low carbon technologies, carbon neutral and carbon negative technology design development such as Oxy-fuel and Carbon Capture.