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Dec 15

Visit by Dr Haruo Kawamoto from Kyoto University to CREG

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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.

 

Sep 17

CREG’s New Research Officer

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The Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG) has just received a new research officer, Mr. Haw Kok Giap.

He is actually a chemist who graduated from Chemistry Department, Faculty Science in 2008. He then pursued his study at Masters Degree level in chemistry field (full time by research) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and specialized in inorganic heterogeneous chemistry.

Presently, all CREG members are from chemical engineering background. With Mr. Haw around, providing chemistry input into the analytical research work, it will surely provide us with better discussion and analysis. Well, that is what we are aiming for.

Mr. Haw Masters degree titled is “Catalytic oxidative desulfurization of diesel utilizing peroxides, activated carbon and supported transition metals doped Molybdena“. He managed to published his research work in Fuel Processing Technology recently. Details of the publication is as shown below:

Kok-Giap Haw, Wan Azelee Wan Abu Bakar, Rusmidah Ali, Jiunn-Fat Chong, Abdul Aziz Abdul Kadir. 2010. Catalytic oxidative desulfurization of diesel utilizing hydrogen peroxide and functionalized-activated carbon in a biphasic diesel-acetonitrile system. Fuel Processing Technology. 91 (9), 1105-1112. Elsevier. Impact Factor: 2.321.

Mr. Haw first degree research title was: Oxidative desulfurization of diesel fuel with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by activated carbon and organic acid.

If you are interested to contact Mr. Haw, you can email him at: hawkokgiap[alias]yahoo.com.

Jun 26

China moving on with their coal to olefins projects

By ZakiNo Comments

I’m interested in the glycerol to olefin project which supports the green technology efforts. However, China in the other hand, perhaps because they have substantial coal reserves have long planned to commission their Coal-to-Olefin (CTO) project. This is confirmed from the news which I just read from Steelguru.com, below:

It is reported that three Chinese factories making olefins from coal are slated to start up this year, part of a serious look that Beijing is taking at using its large coal reserves to reduce its heavy dependence on imported polyolefins. But before the government lifts some restrictions it imposed in May 2009 and allows more projects making polyethylene and polypropylene from coal, analysts say that government officials will want to see more details on the economic and environmental performance of the factories.

Mr Sun Weishan vice general secretary of the Beijing-based China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association Speaking at a recent industry conference in Beijing, several Chinese petrochemical industry officials urged the government to give coal-to-olefins work high priority, considering that the country imports about half of its PE and one-third of its PP. The three projects starting this year will provide a boost to China’s polyolefin supplies. The factories, in the coal belt of northern and western China, will have He said that capacity for 1.56 million tonnes of polyolefins, or about 6.9% of the country’s current PO capacity.

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