Sunday, September 30, 2012

IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition 2012

Attention Chemical Engineering students!
How are your chemical engineering design skills? Enter our competition to find out! Aweeeeesome prizes await!


IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition 2012
Design of a Biogas Plant — Production & Utilization
Organized by Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD)

Registration Closing Date: 22 June 2012
Registration Fee: RM200/ team (maximum 5 members per team, incl. 1 team leader)

BACKGROUND
The design competition is initiated by Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) with the objective of enhancing the design competency practically and methodologically. This competition is open to all chemical engineering students, particularly those in the senior years. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the students to meet and exchange ideas pertaining to the profession with practicing engineers. 

ELIGIBILITY
  • All active Chemical Engineering Students at Diploma and Degree levels from Public and Private Institutions are eligible to participate in the competition.
  • The participating team may comprise members from the same or different institutions.
DELIVERABLES
A. Progress Report I (to be submitted end of September 2012)
  • Feasibility report
  • Process flow diagram and equipment selection
  • Overall mass and energy balances
  • Demonstration of zero emission concept

B. Progress Report II (to be submitted end of November 2012)
  • Equipment design
  • Process and instrumentation diagram

C. Final Report (to be submitted end of January 2013)
  • Proper definition of basis, criteria and limits of design, and economic performance
  • The final report should be at most 100 pages long (not including appendices)

D. Presentation (February 2013)
Presentation of final design if and upon being shortlisted

* Details of deliverables are made available upon registration.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
  • Feasibility report: 10%
  • Process flow diagram and equipment selection: 15%
  • Complete mass and energy balance: 15%
  • Demonstration of zero emission concepts: 5%
  • Equipment design: 15%
  • Process and instrumentation diagram: 15%
  • Proper definition of basis, criteria and limits of design, and economic performance: 15%
  • Presentation: 10%
TOTAL 100%

PRIZES (with IEM CERTIFICATES)
1st Placing: RM3,000
2nd Placing: RM2,000
3rd Placing: RM1,000
Consolation Prize: RM500

TERMS & CONDITIONS
The design submitted shall be original and have not been previously submitted or published.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Engr. Noor Zuraihan Mohamad Noor (P & G)
Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Thomas Choong Shean Yaw (UPM)
Ir. Prof. Dr Dominic Foo Chwan Yee (Nottingham)
Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Aziz Abdul Raman (UM)
Ir. Hj Tunai Shamsidi (Minconsult)
Ir. Juares Rizal bin Abdul Hamid (MECIP Global Engineers)
Ir. Mohamad Fadzil bin Adnan @ Nan (Petronas)
Ir. Razmahwata bin Mohamad Razalli (Synergy Oil & Gas Engineering)

Question?
Contact the secretariat, Ms. Kek Mei Tzy at 03 – 7968 4014 or meitzy@iem.org.my

Decided to join the 'battle'?
Act NOW! Download the brochure from IEM webpage here (take a look at our attractive poster too!) and fill up the registration form in it. Submit and make the payment of registration fee to us by 22 June 2012. We look forward to meeting you in the 'battle field' then!

Saturday, September 29, 2012

IEM Shout Out – CETD 26th AGM

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, TUS lecture room, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.
It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 6th October 2012.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out - Talk on Green Energy Potential in the Palm Oil Industry

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a talk on Saturday, 6th October, 2011.
The Palm Oil industry in Malaysia had attracted much negative publicity mostly from European NGOs on the issue of sustainability. As part of the measure to mitigate this issue, the Malaysian Government is encouraging the Palm Oil industry to reduce its carbon footprint.
Therefore all Mills in Malaysia are encouraged to convert the palm oil mill effluent into biogas by 2020. Conventional biogas technology had been around for more than 20 years but with the world’s energy prices going higher and with the Malaysian Government’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) program, there is a need to develop higher efficiency Biogas system.
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors is a fairly new development around the world and recently these anaerobic membrane bioreactors (An-MBR) had been used for the first time in the world for treating palm oil wastewater. As a result, more difficult processes such as thermophilic digestion with An-MBR system can become a reality and it had resulted in superior biogas yield. Through the latest technology, the green energy from the Mill can be harvested and potentially converted into other form of fuel.
As for the speaker:
Mr. B. P. Chow is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) as well as a Chartered Engineer. Presently he is the Deputy Chairman of IChemE Malaysia and the Managing Director of Aquakimia Sdn. Bhd. He had more than 34 years of working experience primarily in the Palm Oil, Water & Wastewater business. He had been instrumental in bringing the Kubota Membrane Bioreactor technology from Japan to use local engineering to adapt it for the Palm Oil Industry
Water pinch sounds interesting. Please come along, and partake of the food (both intellectual and physical).
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

IEM Shout Out - Talk on Green Energy Potential in the Palm Oil Industry

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a talk on Saturday, 6th October, 2011.
The Palm Oil industry in Malaysia had attracted much negative publicity mostly from European NGOs on the issue of sustainability. As part of the measure to mitigate this issue, the Malaysian Government is encouraging the Palm Oil industry to reduce its carbon footprint.
Therefore all Mills in Malaysia are encouraged to convert the palm oil mill effluent into biogas by 2020. Conventional biogas technology had been around for more than 20 years but with the world’s energy prices going higher and with the Malaysian Government’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) program, there is a need to develop higher efficiency Biogas system.
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors is a fairly new development around the world and recently these anaerobic membrane bioreactors (An-MBR) had been used for the first time in the world for treating palm oil wastewater. As a result, more difficult processes such as thermophilic digestion with An-MBR system can become a reality and it had resulted in superior biogas yield. Through the latest technology, the green energy from the Mill can be harvested and potentially converted into other form of fuel.
As for the speaker:
Mr. B. P. Chow is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) as well as a Chartered Engineer. Presently he is the Deputy Chairman of IChemE Malaysia and the Managing Director of Aquakimia Sdn. Bhd. He had more than 34 years of working experience primarily in the Palm Oil, Water & Wastewater business. He had been instrumental in bringing the Kubota Membrane Bioreactor technology from Japan to use local engineering to adapt it for the Palm Oil Industry
Water pinch sounds interesting. Please come along, and partake of the food (both intellectual and physical).
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out – CETD 26th AGM

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, TUS lecture room, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.
It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 6th October 2012.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.