A friend of mine, Mael, gave this link to me. It's a very interesting article about a new breakthrough regarding superconducting material fabricated by a Canadian-German team which has been made out of a silicon-hydrogen compound and does not require cooling. The implications of the discovery are enormous and could transform the way people live by cutting power usage from everything from refrigeration to cell phones.
Instead of super-cooling the material, as is necessary for conventional superconductors, the new material is instead super-compressed. The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature.
Continue reading the full article here.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Impressive Resume Formats to Get You A Job
For final year chemical engineering students, any final year students or any engineers who want to create a resume, check out 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas that work. Resume is very important when getting a job and it provides the first impression to your potential employee (future boss). Hence, it will be useful to check it out and try to use one of them
Saturday, April 5, 2008
National Chemical Engineers Symposium (NACES) 2008 in University Putra Malaysia
The next National Chemical Engineers Symposium (NACES) 2008, will be held in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) from 1st to 3rd of August 2008.
What is NACES?
2. To draw interest and concern of the undergraduates over the importance of chemical and petroleum-based industries, and highlight chemical and petroleum engineers as potential driving force to the country’s development.
3. To create a venue for all universities in Malaysia to gather their thoughts and ideas for enhancement of our future as chemical engineers.
4. To provide an opportunity for participants and committee members from various social backgrounds to interact with each other and build new friendships.
Theme
I seriusly urge junior chemical engineer to attend this symposium for to gain more exposure on the industry. Personally, I've attended the previous NACES 2007 hosted by the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering (FKKSA), UTM as a judge for the forum/debate and a workshop moderator. I can observed students actively participating and discussing throughout the session. It was a great event. I'm sure that students attending any NACES program will gain valuable precious input from the event. However, I think it is good if they can include some sort of process or production plant tour in their agenda. It will be really good if the students can see the actual distillation column, heat exchanger, cooling tower, boiler, piping, pump, understand why NPSH is very important, and learn a lot more. Well, that purely depends on the organizing committee. I'm sure they've work so hard to plan and make the whole program perfectly realized. If only there are companies in our industry who can allow students to conduct a brief site visit, that would be very lovely.
Registration deadline is at 11th April while payment are expected to be completed before 18th April. Fees are RM70 and each university are only allowed to send maximum 30 representatives.
For further informations, please drop by their official website: http://eng.upm.edu.my/naces2008/
Download NACES 2008 brochures here.
What is NACES?
National Chemical Engineers Symposium (NACES) is an annual gathering for all chemical engineering undergraduates from both public and private universities from all over Malaysia. This program can enhance the integration among chemical engineering undergraduates from different races. Apart from that, this program can provide exposure on the issues and challenges faced by chemical engineers in the era of globalization in their effort to develop the country.
In year 2005, NACES was held by Universiti Malaya (UM) in collaboration with Institute of Chemical Engineers Malaysia (IJKM). In year 2006, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) became the host for this program. Last year, NACES 2007 was held successfully in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
Objectives
There are all together 4 very good objectives for NACES 2008. The objectives are as follows:
2. To draw interest and concern of the undergraduates over the importance of chemical and petroleum-based industries, and highlight chemical and petroleum engineers as potential driving force to the country’s development.
3. To create a venue for all universities in Malaysia to gather their thoughts and ideas for enhancement of our future as chemical engineers.
4. To provide an opportunity for participants and committee members from various social backgrounds to interact with each other and build new friendships.
Theme
The key to restoring climate stability is shifting from a fossil-fuel- based energy economy to one based on renewable sources of energy and hydrogen. The good news is that this shift is well underway. The bad news is that it may not be happening fast enough to avoid a climate- disrupting buildup of pollution.
The burning of coal, the dirtiest and most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, peaked in 1996 and has dropped by 6% since then. This historical peak marked the first decline in the use of a fossil fuel. It may be followed by a similar peak in oil use within the next five to 15 years. In contrast, renewables, starting from a small base, are growing at an extraordinary pace. Worldwide, wind electric generation grew by 32% a year from 1995 to 2001. In 2001, it grew by a robust 36%. And in the United States, wind electric generating capacity jumped by a phenomenal 66% in 2001.
Continue reading about the theme here.I seriusly urge junior chemical engineer to attend this symposium for to gain more exposure on the industry. Personally, I've attended the previous NACES 2007 hosted by the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering (FKKSA), UTM as a judge for the forum/debate and a workshop moderator. I can observed students actively participating and discussing throughout the session. It was a great event. I'm sure that students attending any NACES program will gain valuable precious input from the event. However, I think it is good if they can include some sort of process or production plant tour in their agenda. It will be really good if the students can see the actual distillation column, heat exchanger, cooling tower, boiler, piping, pump, understand why NPSH is very important, and learn a lot more. Well, that purely depends on the organizing committee. I'm sure they've work so hard to plan and make the whole program perfectly realized. If only there are companies in our industry who can allow students to conduct a brief site visit, that would be very lovely.
Registration deadline is at 11th April while payment are expected to be completed before 18th April. Fees are RM70 and each university are only allowed to send maximum 30 representatives.
For further informations, please drop by their official website: http://eng.upm.edu.my/naces2008/
Download NACES 2008 brochures here.
Some Problems We Find in A Processing & Production Plant
As a process engineer or production executive, we shall always hope and wish that the plant will be smooth. A processing or production plant will always have a problem whether we like it or not. What will the problem be? Are they thought in the university? Can you get them in the text books? I bet you would not get those valuable informations anywhere there?
So, how can you get them? You'll actually get them when you work and experience those problems yourself. Another way of getting those precious information is by asking and learning it from experience executives and engineers.
I've been working for almost three years in my current work place and I observed all these problems. I think it might be useful if I share all those plant problems with you guys. There are a lot of problems and I shall post it in this blog from time to time. The problems varies and comes from various angles and areas such as (without any particular arrangement):
1. Utilities problems :
power, natural gas, steam, water, chemicals, LFO, diesel, processing aid, air etc. Processing cost can increase the overall production cost.
2. Maintenance & Equipment problems :
Pump, piping, instrumentation, pressure transmitter, level transmitter, temperature indicator, NPSH, cavitation, control valve, steam trap, leakage, insulation.
3. Human resource problems :
Disciplinary, Late coming, absent, failure to obey instruction, negligence, psychology.
4. Report & Documentation problems :
Daily report, monthly report, quarterly report, yearly report, ISO & GMP related documents.
5. Communication problems :
Miscommunication, instruction, network, PC, server, bad relationship with up line, down line and colleagues.
6. Quality problems :
Laboratory, lab checking, quality control, testing error, solution/chemical contamination.
7. Supplier problems :
Raw material - product - goods out of spec, cheating.
8. Supporting equipment problems :
Deterioration of cooling tower performance, heat exchanger performance.
9. Planning problems :
Administration interruption, supply demand, market, margin.
10. Control system problems :
Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Human machine interface (HMI) and PC, IT, network, softwares.
11. Stock, raw material, storage tank problems :
Network, false information, over flow, insufficient storage tank, contamination.
12. Stress, Pressure & Health Problems :
Meeting deadline, lack of time, inadequate knowledge, 24 hours alert and standby, meetings, reports, various crisis, inability to manage pressure from top management.
OK. That would be some very general and surface introduction on what problems we can expect from running a plant. I'll try to update and add more on those details from time to time. I welcome anybody who want to share problems that they faced in their plant. We can discuss it here and share it with the rest of the readers.
So, how can you get them? You'll actually get them when you work and experience those problems yourself. Another way of getting those precious information is by asking and learning it from experience executives and engineers.
I've been working for almost three years in my current work place and I observed all these problems. I think it might be useful if I share all those plant problems with you guys. There are a lot of problems and I shall post it in this blog from time to time. The problems varies and comes from various angles and areas such as (without any particular arrangement):
1. Utilities problems :
power, natural gas, steam, water, chemicals, LFO, diesel, processing aid, air etc. Processing cost can increase the overall production cost.
2. Maintenance & Equipment problems :
Pump, piping, instrumentation, pressure transmitter, level transmitter, temperature indicator, NPSH, cavitation, control valve, steam trap, leakage, insulation.
3. Human resource problems :
Disciplinary, Late coming, absent, failure to obey instruction, negligence, psychology.
4. Report & Documentation problems :
Daily report, monthly report, quarterly report, yearly report, ISO & GMP related documents.
5. Communication problems :
Miscommunication, instruction, network, PC, server, bad relationship with up line, down line and colleagues.
6. Quality problems :
Laboratory, lab checking, quality control, testing error, solution/chemical contamination.
7. Supplier problems :
Raw material - product - goods out of spec, cheating.
8. Supporting equipment problems :
Deterioration of cooling tower performance, heat exchanger performance.
9. Planning problems :
Administration interruption, supply demand, market, margin.
10. Control system problems :
Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Human machine interface (HMI) and PC, IT, network, softwares.
11. Stock, raw material, storage tank problems :
Network, false information, over flow, insufficient storage tank, contamination.
12. Stress, Pressure & Health Problems :
Meeting deadline, lack of time, inadequate knowledge, 24 hours alert and standby, meetings, reports, various crisis, inability to manage pressure from top management.
OK. That would be some very general and surface introduction on what problems we can expect from running a plant. I'll try to update and add more on those details from time to time. I welcome anybody who want to share problems that they faced in their plant. We can discuss it here and share it with the rest of the readers.
Friday, March 28, 2008
The European Refining & Fuels Conference on Low-Carbon Fuels Implementation
If you are interested in the energy industry, there'll be a very interesting conference coming on this May. Check out the detail below (which I received in my mailbox):
HART Energy's World Refining & Fuels Conference The European Refining & Fuels Conference on Low-Carbon Fuels Implementation returns to Brussels for the 11th consecutive year and promises to be, once again, the premier exchange platform between key
energy policy-makers and industry leaders.
Topics include:
* Europe's Low-Carbon Fuel Strategy - Hear from key Members of Parliament
* Methodology for GHG Emission Reduction from Fuels - EU Commission Keynote
* The U.S. Low-Carbon Fuel Standard - Learn from California's experience
* Integrated Carbon Reduction Approach - Point of view of Major oil companies
* Panels:
o Upstream Carbon Reduction Efforts
o Downstream Low-Carbon Product Options
o Vehicle Pathways for CO2 Reductions
o Life-Cycle Analysis Debate
Registration to the conference includes our unique Dinner Debate at the European Parliament. Don't miss it!
Date: May 27, 2008 - May 28, 2008
Location: The Stanhope Hotel
Rue du Commerce 9
1000 Brussels Belgium
Tel: +32 (0) 2 506 91 11
Fax: +32 (0) 2 512 17 08
info@stanhope.beClick here for information on The Stanhope
To register or to to get more information, click here.
HART Energy's World Refining & Fuels Conference The European Refining & Fuels Conference on Low-Carbon Fuels Implementation returns to Brussels for the 11th consecutive year and promises to be, once again, the premier exchange platform between key
energy policy-makers and industry leaders.Topics include:
* Europe's Low-Carbon Fuel Strategy - Hear from key Members of Parliament
* Methodology for GHG Emission Reduction from Fuels - EU Commission Keynote
* The U.S. Low-Carbon Fuel Standard - Learn from California's experience
* Integrated Carbon Reduction Approach - Point of view of Major oil companies
* Panels:
o Upstream Carbon Reduction Efforts
o Downstream Low-Carbon Product Options
o Vehicle Pathways for CO2 Reductions
o Life-Cycle Analysis Debate
Registration to the conference includes our unique Dinner Debate at the European Parliament. Don't miss it!
Date: May 27, 2008 - May 28, 2008
Location: The Stanhope Hotel
Rue du Commerce 9
1000 Brussels Belgium
Tel: +32 (0) 2 506 91 11
Fax: +32 (0) 2 512 17 08
info@stanhope.beClick here for information on The Stanhope
To register or to to get more information, click here.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Plate Heat Exchanger Cleaning
This video is soda blasting a sugar mill heat exchanger plate removing heavy scale new SS range Soda Blaster from Australian Soda Blasting Supplies. Notice how they can remove the scale without any damage or removal of the rubber seal on the outer edge. ASBS are the only design and manufacturer of Soda Blasting machines and Soda in Australia. See the new SS4, SS2 and the small SS09 in action. Visit www.asbsupplies.com for further details.
Various Heat Exchanger News and Updates
Here are some links related to heat exchanger updates around the globe. Check it out:
Wigwam Mills is keeping it green
City water that comes into the plant at a temperature between 40 and 50 degrees is sent to the heat exchanger, and the hotter the water in the holding tanks
Continue reading...
Green Line: answers to readers' environmental questions
This is a system where a fluid runs through the solar panels and through a heat exchanger in my special solar water tank. The solar panels do not convert ...
Continue Reading...
Energy upgrades
When the stagnant and fresh air pass one another in the system, they are pushed over a heat exchanger, which transfers about 70 percent of the heat from the ...
Continue Reading...
Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator
An important efficiency-boosting design element is the regenerative heat exchanger located between the hot and cool zones. This allows the hydrogen gas ...
Continue Reading...
Heat scheme not just a pipe dream
The idea would need the backing of building owners and the infrastructure would need to be installed in shops and the tunnel. heat exchanger...
Continue Reading...
Ionia revisits wood as fuel
Water comes from one of Ionia's two independent wells and, when heated, circulates past a five-pass heat exchanger contained within the Garn boiler vessel. ...
Continue Reading...
Georgia Tech Implements a Cool Solution for Green HPC with IBM
Georgia Tech designed a unique cooling solution incorporating both standard air conditioning and IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger, enabling a compact solution ...
Continue Reading...
CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2008 to Be Featured at COADE Discovery ...
Future tour events featuring CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis are scheduled for ...
Continue Reading...
Personal Daq data acquisition systems available from Scientific ...
Finally we measure the oil temperature going into the engine and another at the output to the heat exchanger.” On the plane, engineers also monitor static ...
Continue Reading...
Some Engineering Define
Vaporizer of Evaporator, Vaporizer of Evaporator is heat exchanger for the purpose of using steam that is generated by fluid evaporation caused by heating and latent heat given. Condenser, Condenser is a heat exchanger that condense ...
Continue Reading...
Malt to Mouth Part 3
Yeast transfer heat exchanger. Pumps the yeast from the fermenters to the yeast tanks, while lowering the temperature using glycol for best storage practices. Fermenter transfer heat exchanger. Pumps and cools the “green beer” from the ...
Continue Reading...
Brightsource FAQs
Utilize long rows of curved glass mirrors to heat synthetic oil, which is piped to a heat exchanger to produce steam at about 375° C. This steam is used to drive a steam turbine to produce electricity.
Continue Reading...
Richard Rogers National Assembly Building for Wales, Cardiff
The ground is used as a heat source/sink in the form of earth heat exchangers, coupled with heat pumps to reduce the size of conventional boilers and dispense with the need for chillers. The ground source heat pump system (GSHP) will ...
Continue Reading...
Sunshine solutions
A working fluid (thermal oil, water or molten salt) passes through the tube, being heated as it does so, this is then passed through a heat exchanger ...
Continue Reading...
Wigwam Mills is keeping it green
City water that comes into the plant at a temperature between 40 and 50 degrees is sent to the heat exchanger, and the hotter the water in the holding tanks
Continue reading...
Green Line: answers to readers' environmental questions
This is a system where a fluid runs through the solar panels and through a heat exchanger in my special solar water tank. The solar panels do not convert ...
Continue Reading...
Energy upgrades
When the stagnant and fresh air pass one another in the system, they are pushed over a heat exchanger, which transfers about 70 percent of the heat from the ...
Continue Reading...
Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator
An important efficiency-boosting design element is the regenerative heat exchanger located between the hot and cool zones. This allows the hydrogen gas ...
Continue Reading...
Heat scheme not just a pipe dream
The idea would need the backing of building owners and the infrastructure would need to be installed in shops and the tunnel. heat exchanger...
Continue Reading...
Ionia revisits wood as fuel
Water comes from one of Ionia's two independent wells and, when heated, circulates past a five-pass heat exchanger contained within the Garn boiler vessel. ...
Continue Reading...
Georgia Tech Implements a Cool Solution for Green HPC with IBM
Georgia Tech designed a unique cooling solution incorporating both standard air conditioning and IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger, enabling a compact solution ...
Continue Reading...
CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2008 to Be Featured at COADE Discovery ...
Future tour events featuring CAESAR II for pipe stress analysis and PV Elite for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis are scheduled for ...
Continue Reading...
Personal Daq data acquisition systems available from Scientific ...
Finally we measure the oil temperature going into the engine and another at the output to the heat exchanger.” On the plane, engineers also monitor static ...
Continue Reading...
Some Engineering Define
Vaporizer of Evaporator, Vaporizer of Evaporator is heat exchanger for the purpose of using steam that is generated by fluid evaporation caused by heating and latent heat given. Condenser, Condenser is a heat exchanger that condense ...
Continue Reading...
Malt to Mouth Part 3
Yeast transfer heat exchanger. Pumps the yeast from the fermenters to the yeast tanks, while lowering the temperature using glycol for best storage practices. Fermenter transfer heat exchanger. Pumps and cools the “green beer” from the ...
Continue Reading...
Brightsource FAQs
Utilize long rows of curved glass mirrors to heat synthetic oil, which is piped to a heat exchanger to produce steam at about 375° C. This steam is used to drive a steam turbine to produce electricity.
Continue Reading...
Richard Rogers National Assembly Building for Wales, Cardiff
The ground is used as a heat source/sink in the form of earth heat exchangers, coupled with heat pumps to reduce the size of conventional boilers and dispense with the need for chillers. The ground source heat pump system (GSHP) will ...
Continue Reading...
Sunshine solutions
A working fluid (thermal oil, water or molten salt) passes through the tube, being heated as it does so, this is then passed through a heat exchanger ...
Continue Reading...
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