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P4A introduction of WIN-911 alarm notification software enables managers and operators to be aware of problems in their plant, anywhere, anytime. WIN-911 is a real-time software that can be used with pagers, cell phones, landline phones and most wireless communications.
It works with a company’s existing control software or SCADA system to monitor operations and notify personnel of problem conditions – a process that can save time, money, and unnecessary anxiety..
21st Canadian Symposium on Catalysis
Conference Theme: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Banff, Alberta, May 9 – 12, 2010
The conference will focus on Energy, Environment, and Nanotechnology but will also include a section for fundamentals and general catalysis. In addition to three plenary talks (Opening Speaker, CIC Catalysis Medal Awardee, and Ciapetta Lecturer), there will be several invited keynote speakers, and a panel discussion on the role of catalysis in climate change issues (such as carbon capture and storage). New to the Canadian Symposium will be a short course on the fundamentals of catalysis, offered on the Sunday afternoon before the opening reception. This course will be beneficial to engineers, scientists and anyone else working with catalysts who would like to learn or refresh the basics.
Web site: www.21csc2010.ca
Chris Beale, senior safety consultant at Ciba Specialty Chemicals, was presented with the Frank Lees Medal at IChemE’s Hazards XXI symposium in Manchester, UK last week.
The medal is presented every year to the person who has authored the best safety and loss prevention publication.
Beale was awarded the 2008 medal in recognition of his paper, The Causes of IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container) Leaks at Chemical Plants – An Analysis of Operating Experience, presented at Hazards XX in April last year.
The medal was presented to Beale by IChemE Safety and Loss Prevention Subject Group chair, Mike Considine and named after the late Professor Frank Lees, author of Loss prevention in the process industries and a leading chemical engineering academic at Loughborough University.
IChemE chief executive, David Brown says: “Safety and loss prevention remain as important to the process industries today as ever before. IChemE strives to recognize the most outstanding work in the field and I congratulate Chris on his achievement.”
About Chemical Engineers
Chemical, biochemical and process engineering is the application of science, maths and economics to the process of turning raw materials into everyday products. Professional chemical engineers design, construct and manage process operations all over the world. Pharmaceuticals, food and drink, synthetic fibres and clean drinking water are just some of the products where chemical engineering plays a central role.
About IChemE
IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) is the hub for chemical, biochemical and process engineering professionals worldwide. With a growing global membership of some 30,000, the Institution is at the heart of the process community, promoting competence and a commitment to best practice, advancing the discipline for the benefit of society, encouraging young people in science and engineering and supporting the professional development of its members. For more information, visit www.icheme.org
SOURCE: Institution of Chemical Engineers
Adopted from: http://www.chemicalonline.com/article.mvc/Beale-Awarded-Safety-Medal-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO
There are people who are mad for macaroons and then there are people who are mad for macarons. That’s because American macaroons and French macarons have about as much in common as do pâté and apple pie.
American macaroons are holiday treats, gloriously dense amalgams of shredded or flaked coconut, egg white and sugar, often dipped in or drizzled with chocolate. Popular year round, French macarons are small, delicate, glossy confections of varied complexions. They’re pink, green, blue, yellow, brown, lavender, even black. And that’s what attracted Soraiya Nagree of Luxe Sweets in Austin, Texas to them in the first place.
“I saw this rainbow of colors in pastry shop windows,” says Nagree of a family trip to Paris when she was just ten. “Right then I knew I would do something with sweets. Not necessarily French pastries, but definitely with sweets. I wanted to make those macarons.”
While macarons often inspire love at first bite, most people are satisfied with just eating them. Nagree left a career in chemical engineering to pursue perfecting them.
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I was inspired to choose chemical engineering when I first saw the chemical formula from my father’s chemistry book. The chemical formula shapes look fascinating and interesting to me.
My father is an organic chemistry lecturer in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). When I was 14, I read his organic chemistry book and willingly learnt from it by myself. When I was 17, I wanted to have a career associated with chemistry. Back then, my first choice was chemical engineering and my second choice was biochemistry. To be honest, I was unaware of what chemical engineers do and what the industry is like. I could not imagine it due to lack of exposure and information.
After completing my high school education, I pursue my A-Levels and took 3 core subjects which are essential for engineering: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Then I continued my degree in chemical engineering. I managed to get a place in Bradford University, United Kingdom. I was unlucky because in our contract, practical training or sandwich course is not included by our sponsors. Therefore, we don’t have any valuable practical and industry exposures. That doesn’t matter and I keep on studying until I graduated in 1999.
To be continued in the next post…
Here is a few journal for my and your references if you want to read, refer or publish. Number in parentheses indicates the impact factor in 2007. If you have any journals to add in this list, please contact me.
1. Applied Catalysis A-General (2.63)
2. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (3.942)
3. Catalysis Communications (1.878)
4. Catalysis Letters (1.772)
5. Catalysis Today (2.148)
6. Chemical Engineering Science (1.629)
7. Chemical Engineering Research and Design (0.747)
8. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering (0.393)
9. Energy & Fuels (1.519)
10. Energy Sources Part A-Recovery and Environmental Effects (0.425)
11. European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2.769)
12. Fuel (1.358)
13. Fluid Phase Equilibria (1.68)
14. Fuel Processing Technology (1.323)
15. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
16. Journal of Applied Polymer Science (1.306)
17. Journal of Catalysis (4.533)
18. Journal of Crystal Growth (1.809)
19. Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology (0.914)
20. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology
21. Journal of Materials Chemistry (4.287)
22. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (4.115)
23. Journal of Rare Earths (0.368)
24. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2.796)
25. Molecular Sumulation (1.084)
26. Petroleum Chemistry (0.191)
27. Petroleum Science and Technology (0.308)
28. Thin Solid Films (1.665)
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Day 8 (9/7/09) – Thursday
Not much research work today, but the research group cleaned up the lab. The lab is getting better and nicer. We threw away all the junks and other old stuffs.
Later in the afternoon, visited a home stay for Prof. Jahanmiri with Zura and Iman (his ex-student). The house is located in Taman Harmoni 1.
Then, had a meeting about Sustainable PG in BMD.
Day 6 (7/7/09) – Tuesday
We run the experiment using a used/old quartz reactor in a small tube furnace. Temperature was set to be at 30o Celsius. GC-TCD was already running fine, in standby mode to be injected with the gaseous from the glycerol reaction. We saw the viscous liquid moving slowly – flow rate of 60 ml/min using a syringe pump. The system seems to be not efficient or something else is wrong because the glycerol is not 100% converted to gaseous form. We can see the liquid coming out at the exit of the furnace inside the reactor. The tube was not directly connected to the GC inlet but instead to a beaker containing water, so that we can see the gaseous escape – bubble of course.
After seeing the fluid, we decided to stop the experiment. We switched off the power supply and allowed the temperature to cool down. I then try to disconnect the rubber tube from the quartz reactor. Suddenly, I can feel that the quartz reactor is very loose. I immediately know that the quartz tube has already broken into 2 pieces.
Check other furnaces. 3 big furnaces but only 1 is functioning. We are going to run an experiment tomorrow using a stainless steel reactor and the bigger furnace. We already set up the experiment for tomorrow. Good luck Zaki, Mahadhir and Huda…
Other activities of thee day:
- Attended briefing for new post graduate students at N29.
- Contacted RMC to check on the LO status of the purchased of my digital syringe pump. Still not settle yet because problem RMC – CICT.
- Discussed with supplier about the quartz tube that we want. I sketched the design of the quartz tube and emailed to the supplier. Later the same day, we discussed with the supplier on what we want.
- Complete reading elsevier abstract summary journal and identified important journals for me.
- Emailed my co-supervisor.
Day 6 (6/7/09) – Monday
It’s a new week and my jobs continue…
-Met my Prof for the first time as a Ph.D student. Discusses few things regarding faculty jobs and some research job as well.
-Met my friend Tun and Mr. Amin (the supplier) at lab to discuss about the quartz reactor we plan to use for our experiments.
-Set up a general experimental rig to test it out. Have not completed yet. The GC seems to have weird problem going on. Not sure what’s the problem. Will ask Fadhzir’s help to look at it. The quartz reactor we recently bought seems to be so thin and brittle. It was not as thick as the reactors I purchase in 2002 which has thickness about 2mm. The idea is just to run the experiment, get the feel of it, make sure the GC is running fine… We’ll continue with the job later tomorrow. At least we’ve done something and we are closer to run the experiment tomorrow.
-Printed: Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 4, July 2009, Pages 234-304. Maybe there’s something good inside it…
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