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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!!!
Dear friends,
FYI, CREG group will organized a workshop entitle ” Modelling and Simulation using Matlab and Aspen” next week. this workshop will be conducted by our friend Maryam Khoshtinat Nikoo, our phD student who just published the paper on this topic.
Date: 23 feb 2011
Time: 2-5pm
Place: N 16, bilik taklimat CREG
all the CREG member are invited.
At the end 2010, 4 paper was accepted for publication on selected high impact journal.Congratulation to Javaid, Maryam, Yani and Prof NASA. Well Done everyone.
1. Javaid Akhtar and NorAishah Saidina Amin (2011). A Review On Process Conditions For Optimum Bio-Oil Yield In Hydrothermal Liquefaction Of Biomass, Renewable Sustainable Energy Reviewers, Elsevier, 15:pp 1615-1624.(Impact factor 4.842)
2. M.K. Nikko and NorAishah Saidina Amin (2011). Thermodynamic Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Reforming of Methane in View of Solid Carbon Formation. Fuel Proc Tech, Elsevier, 92: pp 678-691.(Impact factor 2.321)
3. NorAishah Saidina Amin and Wan Nor Nadyaini Wan Omar (2011). Optimization of Heterogeneous Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Palm Oil via Response Surface Methodology, in press, Biomass & Bioenergy, Elsevier. (Impact factor 3.326)
4. NorAishah Saidina Amin, Javaid Akhtar, H.K. Rai (2010). Catalytic ozonation of aqueous phenol over metal-loaded HZSM-5, In press, Water Science and Technology, IWA Publishing. .(Impact factor 1.094)
Hopefully not too late to wish congratulation to Maryam (phD student) and prof NASA for winning a best poster presentation in CHEMECA 2010 for
paper “Thermodynamic analysis of carbon dioxide reforming of
methane considering solid carbon formation”. The CHEMECA 2010 was held in Adelaide, Australia on 26-29 Sept 2010.
I hope it’s not too late to wish all of you a very happy and prosperous new year.
Good bye Mr. Haw, Thanks for your Contribution
Recently, our research officer, Mr. Haw, has left CREG to further his study. According to Mr. Haw, he will be doing hhis Ph.D somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, I don’t have further details on the topic or location of his new university. Mr. Haw has been with CREG for about 3 months and he has contributed quite a lot to the group. Personally he has taught me several things related to chemistry, especially how to use the software to create chemical structures, which we, engineers are not used to.
New Replacement, New Energy
Mr. Haw’s position has been taken over by Yani, a CREG member who has joined since her undergraduate project. Now Yani is waiting to defense her Master’s thesis. Being with CREG for 2 seasons, she has vast experience on various research and management aspect in CREG. She’ll be around us, assisting Prof. Nor Aishah and the other CREG group member.
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.
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.
CREG Undergraduate students surprised the crowd after winning the top 3 best presenter award in the final stage contesting all 8 best presenters from 8 sections.
Professor Uemura from Universiti Teknologi Petronas will pay a visit to CREG lab on this Thursday (11 Nov 2010). The following CREG members are required to give a short presentation (about 10 min per person) on their research:
1. Mr Zaki Yamani Zakaria
2. Ms Nazlina Ya’ani
3. Mr Javaid Akhtar
4. Ms Nurul Huda Zamzuri
5. Ms Wan Nor Nadyaini Wan Omar
| Zaki Yamani Zakaria |
Dr. Istadi paid a short but fruitful visit on the 4th of November 2010. Dr. Istadi was a Ph.D student with CREG from 2002 to 2006 and has produced a total of 9 refereed journal within that time. It was really good to have Dr. Istadi around, even for a short time. We hope CREG can collaborate with Dr. Istadi soon in future.
Photos will be uploaded soon.
Methane–Carbon Dioxide: Conversions to Syngas and Hydrocarbons, by:
Nor Aishah Saidina Amin, Istadi, Tung Chun Yaw, Ruzina Isha