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CREG Seminar #3

Admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:51:07 +0000

Today, the 3rd CREG seminar is being held. This time, the presenters are Nur Aainaa Syahirah Ramli and Muhammad Tahir. The seminar was chaired by Mr. Izirwan. The seminar started at 9.00 am in CREG meeting room.

The title of Aainaa’s presentation (which is her proposal for Ph.d) is “Utilization of ionic solid catalyst for production of Levulinic Acid”. She is in her first semester.

The title of Tahir’s presentation is . Tahir is in his sec“Sol-Gel Synthesis and Characterization of TiO2 Nano Composites for Visible Light Response Photo Activity”. Tahir is in his second semester.

Attendance:

Prof. Dr. NASA
Dr. Asmadi
Dr. Fawzi
Dr. Jawaid
Dr. Hussein
Ir. Zaki Yamani Zakaria
Mr. Mahadhir
Mr. Izirwan
Mr. Saeed
Miss Yani
Miss. Aainaa
Mr. Anif
Mr. Hafiidz

CREG Spring Cleaning Activity

Admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:35:54 +0000

On Monday (yesterday), CREG organized a spring cleaning session. The mission is to total cleaning and reorganizing the lab to be in a more conducive environment for research and togetherness. It is also the early stage for the execution of 5S in CREG lab. Following are some of the pictures taken during the spring cleaning.

Yani in action during the spring cleaning

Yeo, the PSM student helping as well.

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This is another view of the area that we will make a serious make over

Izirwan and Aainaa in action

UV-Spectrophotometer Missing! Get Rewarded for Returning Back the UV-Spectrophotometer

Admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:05:00 +0000

It is unfortunate that our UV-Spectrophotometer has disappeared from the lab. Since it is a small and portable equipment, the UV-Spectrophotometer is easily brought out from the lab unnoticed. We are going to reward RM100 to anybody who can help us return or provide information on the missing UV-Spectrophotometer. Please contact Prof. NASA, Zaki, Yani or any CREG member if you have information about the missing UV-Spectrophotometer.

For your information the UV-Spectrophotometer is a photometer (a device for measuring light intensity) that can measure intensity as a function of the color, or more specifically, the wavelength of light. In CREG lab, Uv-Spectrophotometer used to measure the Kappa Number of EPFB in order to evaluate the lignin content of the samplw. Besides, it also being used for enzyme-related research.

Contact/Email:

Prof NASA: profnoraishah@yahoo.com (012-7165490)
Yani: ddpuyau@gmail.com
Zaki: zaki.yz@gmail.com (07-5535553)

Visit by Dr Haruo Kawamoto from Kyoto University to CREG

Admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:14:33 +0000

As mentioned previously, It was our pleasure to host Dr. Horuo Kawamoto from Kyoto University to our lab. The event started as early as 9am at CREG’s meeting room. Soon after that, Dr. Kawamoto was brought to view our equipments, facilities and lab. In the afternoon, we had lunch with Dr. Kawamoto at Pulai Spring resort. Below are some moments with Dr. Kawamoto.

The meeting commenced with Prof. Nor Aishah’s briefing about CREG to Dr. Kawamoto.

This was followed with presentation by Yani, our latest Ph.D student who was also recently completed her Masters degree with CREG.

After several students presentation, Dr. Kawamoto provides his briefing about their research group in Kyoto Universiti.

Everybody were paying extra attention because the research culture in Japan is really different than us in Malaysia.

At the end, a token of appreciation by Dr. Kawamoto to Prof. NASA.

Gold Medal for CREG in INATEX 2011

Admin — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:14:09 +0000

It was a pleasure to announce that CREG won another Gold Medal award in the INATEX 2011 competition held in Dewan Sultan Iskandar yesterday. The research that won the Gold medal belongs to Yani. The title of the research is Production of Biodiesel from Waste Cooking Oil.

Ph.D Student Wanted

Admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:23:30 +0000

Advertisement for Ph.D student

May 1 , 2011

Interested local Ph.d students please contact :
Professor Dr. NorAishah Saidina Amin.
Chemical Reaction Engineering Group
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
UTM

Tel: 07-553-5579/012-716-5490
Email: noraishah@cheme.utm.my/profnoraishah@yahoo.com

Title of project: Photocatalytic microreactor for conversion of methane and carbon dioxide to methanol

Duration: 5-6 semesters

Requirement: 2nd upper or 1st class

Closing dateline: July 31, 2011

Appointment of Energy RA Dean (effective 1st March 2011)

Admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:27:51 +0000

Following is an email from our Research Officer, Fadhzir from Research Energy Alliance.

Dear Researchers,

The secretariat is pleased to announce that we have Prof. Dr. Zainal Salam (PEDG, FKE) as our new Dean of Energy RA effective from 1st March 2011. Our heartiest congratulations for his appointment and hope all Energy RA members can give him full support to bring Energy RA to a greater heights.

Our million thanks to Prof. Dr. Hamdani Saidi for his support, guidance and leadership since the inception of Energy RA and wish you all the best.

Thank you.

Congratulations for passing your masters degree Yani

Admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:37:23 +0000

Last Friday, one of our CREG members, Yani, defended her masters research project. The VIVA was examined by Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman from USM and also Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramli Mat from Faculty of Chemical Engineering, UTM. The VIVA which commenced at 9am ended at 11.30am and Yani officially passed her masters degree with minor correction.

Well done!!!

Visit by Prof. Eumora from Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:11:03 +0000

CREG was very honored to receive a visit by Prof. Eumora and his Research Officer/Ph.D student, Mr. Wissam Omar from Universiti Teknologi Petronas. The meeting took place in CREG Meeting room in Reaction Laboratory, First Floor from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm.

CREG members present were Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Head of CREG), Zaki, Mahadhir, Maryam, Javaid, Yani, Huda, Nazlina and Haw. All CREG members presented their research work. It was very interesting because we received good feedbacks and recommendations from both Prof. Eumora and Mr. Wissam.

More photo in GALLERY.

Get CREG updates from FACEBOOK

Admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:07:09 +0000

Great news!!! You can get CREG update not only from this weblog, but also from CREG Facebook. The Facebook group has just recently been established by Mr. Haw, our research officer. To be a member or to join the group, please visit here.