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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.

 

May 04

Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Promoted to Profesor B

By Zaki1 Comment

Hi,

Here is a short email message from the Dean of Chemical Engineering Faculty.

I am pleased to announce that Prof Dr Noraishah Saidina Amin has been promoted to the post of Professor B (VK6).

Warmest Congratulations to Prof Aishah on behalf of the faculty. May this appoitment inspire you to further contribute in a major way to UTM, InshAllah.

On behalf of our research group, I would like to Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah to congratulate you for this promotion.

Jan 12

CREG’s New Research Officer

By ZakiNo Comments

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.

Nov 11

Visit by Prof. Eumora from Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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introduction about creg from prof NASA

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.

Oct 30

10 most-accessed articles from Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

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Our Professor has shared this information which was sent through the email. For the sake of those who did not receive the email, here they are. Please check it out. Maybe it will be useful for our research, especially the reference part.

The following are the top 10 most-accessed articles from Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research during the third quarter of 2010:

Kinetics Study and Characteristics of Silica Nanoparticles Produced from Biomass-Based Material
Tzong-Horng Liou and Shao-Jung Wu

Cigarette Butts and Their Application in Corrosion Inhibition for N80 Steel at 90 °C in a Hydrochloric Acid Solution
Jun Zhao, Ningsheng Zhang, Chengtun Qu, Xinmin Wu, Juantao Zhang and Xiang Zhang

Methods for Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Efficient Hydrolysis and Biofuel Production
Parveen Kumar, Diane M. Barrett, Michael J. Delwiche and Pieter Stroeve

Membrane Gas Separation: A Review/State of the Art
P. Bernardo, E. Drioli and G. Golemme

Nanostructures with Animal-like Shapes
Boris I. Kharisov, Oxana V. Kharissova and Miguel Jose-Yacaman

Synthesis of Biodiesel via Acid Catalysis
Edgar Lotero, Yijun Liu, Dora E. Lopez, Kaewta Suwannakarn, David A. Bruce, and James G. Goodwin, Jr.

Photobioreactor Design for Commercial Biofuel Production from Microalgae
Aditya M. Kunjapur and R. Bruce Eldridge

Milking Diatoms for Sustainable Energy: Biochemical Engineering versus Gasoline-Secreting Diatom Solar Panels
T. V. Ramachandra, Durga Madhab Mahapatra and Karthick B

Chemical Reaction Engineering
Octave Levenspiel

Recent Advances on the Soluble Carbon Nanotubes
Boris I. Kharisov, Oxana V. Kharissova, Hector Leija Gutierrez and Ubaldo Ortiz Méndez

Feb 25

Congratulations to REFRAC (RM 2.5 million grants)

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Hope this can inspire CREG whom is also under Energy Research Group (ERA)…

ERA would like to congratulates Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Group (REFRAC) head by Prof. Dr. Md Nor Musa for their success to get Symbiosis UTM-MTDC grant awarded by MTDC amounted RM 2.5 million.

REFRAC is going to commercialize their product called ATCS (Advanced Thermal Control System) and this grant is meant to develop a spin off company to commercialize the technology from UTM.

Congratulations!!

Thank you.

Mohd Fadhzir bin Ahmad Kamaroddin
Research Officer,
Energy Research Alliance (ERA)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Skudai, Johor
Tel: 07-5537849/37833 Fax: 07-5537849

Website: www.utm.my/era

Jan 29

Farewell Party for Linda, CREG Research Officer

By Zaki1 Comment

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.

Jan 25

Searching for New Masters and/or pH.D student

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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.

Jan 19

CREG Seminar

By Zaki1 Comment

Attention to all CREG members:

This week, we will have our 2nd “CREG seminar”

The CREG seminar ‘s schedule as follows below:

Date      :   21 January 2010 (Thursday)
Time      :   9 – 11 am
Venue    :   BMF

On that day, we have two presenters and they will present their PhD research:-

Dr Norzita Ngadi
“Mechanisms of molecular brush inhibition of protein adsorption onto stainless steel surface”

Dr Tuan Amran
“Hydrogen Production from the catalytic Ethanol Reforming in Supercritical Water”

Jan 15

Undergraduate Research Student (PSM) in CREG

By ZakiNo Comments

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.

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