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.

Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG) has been awarded The Best Research Group UTM for year 2008 at Citra Karisma ceremony held in Dewan Sultan Iskandar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

On top of that, Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Head of CREG) also received the award for The Best Applied Research UTM for year 2008.

For The Best Research Group category, CREG received an RM5,000 cheque with additional RM25,000 worth of research grant. Besides that, Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah has been awarded with an RM3,000 cheque for the Best Applied Research Category for year 2008.

With the incentives given by UTM management, CREG will surely strive for Creative, Excellent, Resourceful and Green in line with CREG tagline.

CREG members that were present during the Citra Karisma ceremony are as follows:

Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Head of CREG)

Associate Prof. Dr. Ramli Mat

Mr. Mahadhir Mohamed

Mr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria

Mr. Mohd Fadhzir Ahmad Kamaroddin

Mrs. Roslindawati Haron

First Degree, year: Chemical engineering- food industries, Tehran, 1996
Masters degree, year: Chemical engineering- process design of petroleum industries, Tehran, 2003
Ph.D degree, year: ongoing
Current project: Syngas and oxygenates generation via OCM reaction by a catalytic plasma reactor

E-mail: m_k_nikoo@yahoo.com

Papers and Conferences

1- Reactor type selection and catalyst used for hydrogen production via Methanol steam reforming (SRM) for fuel cells was presented in 14^th national congress of chemistry and chemical engineering (2003- Teacher Training University)

2- Deactivation kinetic modeling of commercial Cu/ZnO/Al₂O₃ catalyst in methanol steam reforming process was presented in 9^th national congress of chemical engineering (Iran university of Science and Technology- 2004)

3- Deactivation kinetics of steam methanol reforming for hydrogen production was accepted in congress of Fuel Cells Science and Technology (October 2004)-Munich- Germany.

4- Derivation of kinetic deactivation model for SRM on Cu/Zn/Al2O3 was presented in 10^th national congress of chemical engineering ( University of Zahedan-2005)

5- Environmental Effects Production Resources, Reduction and Removal Approaches of CO₂ was presented in 11^th national congress of chemical engineering (Tarbiat Modaress University- 2007)

6- Reduction and Removal Methods of Mercury in cell-Mercury chlorine-Alkali plants, Accepted in (second national conference on safety engineering and HSE management, University of Sharif-2008)

7- Waste of mercury, reduction methods, monitoring job environment and biological evaluation of CA plants in BIPC and in the world(1^st national petrochemical conference- Tehran 2008).

BOOKS

1- Oil well testing, Navid Naderpour., Maryam Khoshtinat Nikoo, 2008 PUBLISHED BY: SBS PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS PVT. LTD. ISBN: 978-81-89741-64-8. 2/9, GROUND FL., ANSARI ROAD, DARYA GANJ, NEW DELHI 110002, INDIA

NAME: Wan Nor Nadyaini Wan Omar

ORIGIN: Gua Musang, Kelantan

STATUS: Single

SECONDARY EDUCATION: Sek. Keb. Tg. Indra Petra, Gua Musang (2002)

FIRST DEGREE: Engineering (Chemical), UTM (2008)

MASTER DEGREE: On going

PROJECT: Development of Revolving Packed Bed Reactor for Biodiesel Production from Waste Edible Oil.

EMAIL: dd_puyau@yahoo.com / ddpuyau@gmail.com