CREG members: Dr. Tuan Amran, Mahadhir, Zaki and Huda traveled up to PJ last Wednesday to attend a 3 hour workshop on control instrument and software – Labview which was provided by National Instrument. The workshop was very good but as usual it cost money to buy this equipment. Maybe, for the time being, we shall stick to manual control of our experimental rigs. However, when the budget is there, we shall fully automize our experimental rigs…
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A secret farewell party was organized and executed today for Linda, our CREG research officer who have served the research group for 2 and half years. The simple but meaningful ceremony was attended by all CREG members including lecturers, Ph.D students, Master students, and PSM students.
The ceremony which took place on a beautiful afternoon at CREG meeting room was chaired by me. Then I invited Prof. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin to give her speech and inside her speech, she highlighted almost all jobs/tasks as well as contribution that Linda has made to CREG. Then, Linda was invited to deliver her speech, but she was speechless!!! She could not say anything because she was so supprized with the ceremony and never expected it to happen. She cannot say anything, accept thanks. After that, Mahadhir, one of the PhD student recite doa and all of us enjoyed the meal.
The special meal presented was Nasi Serai. I haven’t tasted Nasi Serai before. It was marvelous… 
Pictures will be uploaded soon from Yani’s camera… Please be patient…
Special thanks to Naz and Yani to help to plan and organized this event. Also, special thanks to all who have contributed in whatever means to make this ceremony happen.
Great news!
CREG is searching for new masters and/Ph.D student for the coming semester. We are searching candidates with excellent academic results, strong computer modeling knowledge and impressive dedication.
If you are the person, you will join a dynamic research group consisting of numerous undergraduate, masters and pH.D students. Please explore this website to learn all about the potential research work that you can work on with.
For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin at:
07-5535588 (office) or 012-7165490 (hand phone) or email: noraishah@fkkksa.utm.my.
Here is the list of undergraduate students with CREG this semester. The students are supervised under Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin. However, each and every student has their own co-supervisor to guide them with their research.
1) Izyan Zafirah bt. Abdul Rahman
Co-Supervisor: Javaid
Research title: Preparation of activated carbon from empty palm fruit bunch.
2) Noor Aina Bt Mohd NAzri
Co-Supervisor: Zaki Yamani
Research title: Effects of reactant and catalyst bed dilution on conversion of glycerol to olefin
3) Nurul Jannah binti Arsad
Co-Supervisor: Maryam
Research title: Preparation a toolbox for methane reformaing
4) Nur Aainaa Syahirah Bt Ramli
Co-Supervisor: Nazlina
Research title: Ionic liquid treatement in biomass conversion
5) Siti Fatimah Binti Mohamed Razak
Co-Supervisor: Wan Nor Nadyaini Wan Omar
Research title: Heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production.
Nur Shafizah bt Ishak and Nor Sharina bt Anwar are 2 Master students from Centre of Excellent of Catalysis Science and Technology (COMBICAT) UPM. They has joined CREG for 16 months starting from 13th January 2010 until 13th April 2011. They will carry out their research using the high pressure reactor.
For those who are interested to learn about STATISTICA software, a class will be conduct by Yaani on this Thursday, 14th January 2010.
The proposed place will be at CREG meeting room (2nd floor) or else will be notified later.
Please confirm your attendance (simply by reply this email) or if you want to arrange another date, please to do so.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
NURUL HUDA BINTI ZAMZURI
MSc. Student,
Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG),
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
81310 Skudai,
Johor, Malaysia.
012-3637451/013-7021035
nurulhudazamzuri@yahoo.com
Dear fellow coleagues (CREG members),
In order to consistently maintain a clean and systematic environment for our working place a.k.a our CREG lab, we’ve come out with a system where each postgraduates are held responsible to ensure that the segmented areas define below are of well order. The spring cleaning just now was a start and after this we shall allocate 1 hour a week dedicated to clean, organize, and perform house keeping in our lab, working space and our areas of in charge. Up to today’s discussion, we are allocating every Thursday from 4 to 5 pm to be dedicated for 5S Hour. With this, we hope that we can create a better and pleasant working environment.
Following are the 5 areas with the respective person in charge.
1. Documentation (files, books, catalogs, web, posters) – Linda, Zaki, Nazlina
2. Chemicals (liquid/solid inventory/record etc) – Maryam, Jazrina
3. Keys, Tools (Fawzi, Huda)
4. Glassware and gas tanks (Jawaid, Yani)
5. Equipments (Mahadhir, Ruby)
For the 5S Hour, attendance is compulsory. Please regard this as a social activity for us rather than something that we have to do. This is a moment where we can relax for a while from research and mixed, socialize together. Don’t you think so?
However, the responsibility is not limited to the above only. Please ensure that your working place, office rooms, experimental rig etc are well organize and kept.
Zaki
Today, CREG members gathered and carried out spring cleaning. It was almost a year since we performed our massive spring cleaning. Now, we are planning not to repeat any type of spring cleaning.
Instead… we are going to regularly perform weekly housekeeping. The house keeping which will take only one hour per week will hopefully be the solution to maintain CREG lab efficiency, effectiveness and cleanliness. Almost all CREG members participated in the spring cleaning which commenced at 2.30 pm and ended at 5.00 pm.
Dear all CREG’s member,
There will be a CREG seminar for three days on 15 to 17 December 2009. Everybody are needed to present a one year progress report in powerpoint presentation. Each student will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A session. Attendance are compulsory. Below are the details on the seminar:
Date and venue:
15 December 2009 – Bilik Mesyuarat Fakulti (BMF)
16 December 2009 – Bilik Pengajaran 3, N29
17 December 2009 – Bilik Mesyuarat Fakulti (BMF)
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Since I don’t have everybody’s project title, so can you all give me the title so i can fill in the schedule? TQ.
Methane–Carbon Dioxide: Conversions to Syngas and Hydrocarbons, by:
Nor Aishah Saidina Amin, Istadi, Tung Chun Yaw, Ruzina Isha