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Process Engineering opportunities in advanced power generation including gasification

2012-01-01T21:05:00.001+05:30

Experienced Chemical Engineer need for take responsibility for directing capital project and technology development activities for Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and other advanced power generation projects. Duties may include project development (HMB, PFD, etc.), developing new equipment and/or process designs and improving existing equipment and/or process designs. Also responsible for supporting start-up and commissioning plans, development of operations and maintenance procedures, and supporting construction of advanced power generation facilities. Successful candidate will be expected to play a key role in development and growth of less experienced Process Engineers.

Educational Requirements

BS or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering is required.
Mechanical engineers with significant process engineering /operations experience will be considered.
Ability to use design tools such as Aspen, MathCad, pneumatic solids flow programs, etc. is desirable.

Job Experiences are also required

You can apply online with this link

A challenge - “Green Chemistry” Replacement for Traditional Polar Aprotic Solvents

2011-12-29T08:31:00.001+05:30

Are you Ready to take a challenge with your chemistry and chemical engineering knowledge. This Challenge is looking for environmentally-friendly ("green chemistry") replacements for traditional polar aprotic solvents, such as dimethylformamide (DMF), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), dimethylacetamide (DMAc), and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP).

This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution. Submitting DEADLINE: 1/15/2012

more information : visit this website

Room Temperature Activated Adhesive - A 30,000 $ challenge!

2011-12-28T13:58:00.001+05:30

A One-part Adhesive is required that is activated at room temperature. The adhesive should have a minimum set-strength upon activation for gluing a fixed substrate on metals and synthetics (polymers) which can then be fully cured by other methods.

This is a Reduction-to-Practice Challenge that requires a written proposal and experimental proof-of-concept data and sample delivery. You can also submitted theoretical papers on this challenge but the gift will be a reduced amount of original package.

More information : visit the webpage

Submit your abstract to Euromembrane 2012 conference - for academic and industrial scientists from the field of membrane science

2011-11-21T13:55:00.001+05:30

The aim of the Euromembrane Conference 2012 is to bring together academic and industrial scientists from the field of membrane science and technology to stimulate contacts and to exchange new ideas on their research work. This is wonderful chance to bring attention on your research work or application.

The conference will be organized by the European Membrane Society and Imperial College London.

Submission deadline for abstracts are 30 March 2012.

For more details : http://www.euromembrane2012.com/

Can you Propose and develop new process technology concepts for ammonium sulfate, caprolactam?

2011-10-31T21:52:00.001+05:30

Are you an Phd holder of chemical engineering field with 5-10 years experience (academic or R&D)? You have a chance as enter Honeywell Specialty Materials due to an immediate opening for a Lead R&D Engineer in the Monomer Technology group at its Colonial Heights, VA (Richmond, Virginia Area)

You can apply via Linkedin website.

subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light

2011-09-24T20:56:00.001+05:30

In 1905 Albert Einstein told with is theory of special relativity, nothing travels fater than 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second. For many years this speed limit was a barrier but CERN lab near Geneva, Swisterland claims they have founded a subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light. These findings are critical as the modern physics is mainly build on Einstein's theories, so the scientists have been asked to re-confirm the result and also they invite other research institutes to carry on the research and help to evaluate the results.

If this claim is proven, there will be lot of new theories coming and the foundation of modern physics will be hardly questioned in future.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8783011/Speed-of-light-broken-at-CERN-scientists-claim.html

'Miracle' a mix of water and diesel fuel - innovation of Nmiracle Power (Pvt.) Ltd

2011-09-18T12:22:00.001+05:30

Nmiracle Power (Pvt.) Ltd, Sri Lankan company which their manufacturing facility located near Kaduwela is about to market their revolutionary innovation 'Miracle' a mix of water and diesel fuel. According to Dr. Nalaka Gajadeera, the Charmian of the company this is one of important innovation in alternative fuel industry. They mix water with diesel using hydro thermal technology and says it has more efficiency than plain diesel.

They add 60 percent value on diesel mixed with water and in combustion of this fuel, hydrogen derived from water molecules is burnt and the oxygen emitted is used to burn hydro carbon. Further its carbon emission is 75 percent lower plain diesel.

They are an export oriented company which is planing to export into many countries including Maldives, Cambodia, Vietnam, Germany, Romania and Italy. They also working with Sri lankan government transportation wing CTB to introduce this fuel as transportation fuel of their day today use.

Soruce: SundayObserver

an opening for an SIS Control Systems Engineer in Bellingham, WA!

2011-09-08T22:28:00.001+05:30

Engineer with haveing in-depth knowledge and understanding of all phases of the SIS life cycle, including applicable ISA/IEC standards from a background of BSEE, BS Chemical degree, or related engineering degree from accredited college/university is needed for a reputed company in Bellingham, WA, United States. He should be a self-motivated degreed engineer with 12 or more years of experience in the oil and gas industry, petroleum refineries or other heavy industry processing facilities such as power plants, chemical plants or petrochemical plants.

Apply online

Sub-critical water – Definition

2011-09-08T22:19:00.001+05:30

It is an intermediate state of water between normal water and supercritical water. Supercritical water is at a temperature and pressure above its critical point. (temperature >374°C, pressure >221 atm) Subcritical water lies below ranges of the critical points. So simply it is a stage under supercritical water with controlled temperature and pressure according to the requirement of application.

Sub – critical water can be used as a cheap, non-toxic, non-flammable, clean solvent in organic chemical research and even commercial applications.

Following research is example usage of sub-critical water as solvent in hydroxymethylfurfural research.

Research: Dehydration of fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in sub-critical water over heterogeneous zirconium phosphate catalysts by Feridoun Salak and Hiroyuki Yoshida of Osaka Prefecture University.

(I am try to make definitions for rare scientific terms and need support for improve the quality of this definitions, please send feedbacks to dilantha[at]chempro[dot]org)

Chemical Plant seeking Chemical Engineer for Plant Manager Position in Taft, California

2011-09-05T05:41:00.001+05:30

A Fortune 500 company is currently looking to fill a position for a Plant Manager position for a chemical processing plant with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Plant and Six Sigma experience will be required.

Please send resumes to mbox@gmarshallgroup.com

I found this job in one of my linkedin group and thought to share with my readers. This message is from a recruiting company.

Get your Free copy of 500 papers and presentations on multiphysics simulation (COMSOL Conference CD 2011 )

2011-09-04T10:17:00.001+05:30

You can received a COMSOL Conference CD 2011 which contians 500 technical papers and presentations illustrate your peers ground-breaking projects in the area of multiphysics
simulations.Following topics will be featured in the CD

- AC/DC Systems
- Acoustics
- Bioengineering and Biosciences
- Earth Science
- Education
- Electrochemical Engineering
- Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
- Fluid Dynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Material Science and Nanotechnology
- MEMS

And more

Request you free CD

Aspen Plus Free Evaluation Software for 90 days

2011-09-04T09:56:00.001+05:30

Aspen Plus is a market-leading process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, and performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and coal power industries. Aspen Plus is vital software for industry professionals and research fellows in above-mentioned fields.

The company Aspentech offers 90 days of evaluation copy on request. You can request for 90 days free trials using following page.

Request Aspen Plus Evaluation Copy

Evaluation copy consist of many features including following majors

Aspen InfoPlus.21
Aspen Process Explorer Trending And Analysis
Aspen Calc Server Real-time Calculation Server
SQLPlus and Excel Add-In

Optimization of crude distillation system using aspen plus

2011-09-04T09:47:00.001+05:30

Today I found quite rare article on using chemical engineering software package Aspen plus. Four scientists of Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India had published a paper on Chemical Engineering Research and Design journal on Optimization of crude distillation system using aspen plus and it is indepth analysis of Effect of binary feed selection on grass-root design. Their primary objective was to provide and build up guidelines available as general rules of thumb for the grass-root design of crude distillation unit (CDU) using binary crude mixtures.

For more information read the article on sciencdirect:

Contact Research Team:

Vijaya Kumar Bulasara b.vijaya@iitg.ernet.in

Ramgopal Uppaluri ramgopalu@iitg.ernet.in

Tel : Tel.: +91 361 2582260; fax: +91 361 2582260.

What is Aspen Plus ?

"Aspen Plus is a market-leading process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, and performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and coal power industries. Aspen Plus is a core element of AspenTech's aspenONE® Engineering applications." Quoted from Aspen Plus official website

Honeywell seeking a Polymer Processing Engineer with Plastics Extrusion experience for their Pottsville, PA location.

2011-09-01T22:14:00.001+05:30

If you are with BS in Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Materials or Mechanical Engineering and5 + years of plastics extrusion experience you will be targeting by Honeywell for a Polymer Processing Engineer with Plastics Extrusion experience for their Pottsville, PA location. You should have a background in Polymer extrusion processing, particularly film processes and polymer compounding processes. You should also have a solid understanding of Polymer properties and the relationship of processing to properties as well as be able to communicate understanding. Being able to use knowledge to influence and drive projects through out the organization is also important.

In order to apply for this job you must follow this link on Linkedin and may be it will show you after you join the group (Chemical Engineers) .

The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering has provided over $114 million in scholarship

2011-09-01T22:02:00.001+05:30

The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering has provided over $114 million in scholarship /support to more than 22,000 underrepresented minority students. The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering aka NACME is part of a larger outreach effort to engage and communicate with past and current recipients of those scholarships.

Their mission is to insure American resilience in a flat world by leading and supporting the national effort to expand U.S. capability by increasing the number of successful African American, American Indian, and Latino women and men in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers.

For more information visit their website http://www.nacme.org

Want to learn the latest process risk assessment technique for process control?

2011-08-26T22:14:00.001+05:30

Dear readers, do you want to familiarize with the latest technologies available for risk assessments in process control industry. IchemE organize a course in Staff House Conference Centre, Manchester, UK based on Layer of protection analysis. This course covers the basic methodology of LOPA and the detailed stages of its application. Participants are shown how to identify significant scenarios, estimate frequencies for the worst-case events and how to assign risk categories.

It is a two days programme and will start on 20th of September 2011 and till 21st of Sep 2011

More information

IChemE Affiliate member promotional code (coupon code) for 2011

2011-06-21T03:13:00.001+05:30

Becoming a IChemE Affiliate member is an advantage for professionals and academia in chemical engineering profession as Member benefits include full access to www.tcetoday.com, a monthly edition of The Chemical Engineer magazine and access to their Online Journal Archive and Knovel.

If you're not a current or former IChemE member, you can become an IChemE Affiliate member in 2011 for just £20.00 .

To register visit www.icheme.org/joinnow and enter the promotional code 'LINK' when prompted.

Learn the most effective ways to use LinkedIn to market yourself, find a job, and build and maintain a lasting professional network

2011-06-18T17:24:00.001+05:30

I Found a brilliant guide on using LinkedIn to market yourself, find a job, and build and maintain a lasting professional network which was prepared and published by Stanford's Career Development Center, University of Stanford. It nicely discribe the way to use the magnificent potential of it as they are being the #1 professional network in the world. Linkedin helps you to occupied with traditional tools of job seeking such as CV, Covering letters, recommendations and business cards while also providing you latest tools to build your profile and image within a target industry and turn relationship a carrier opportunity. It emphasis the important of being updated with profile, stay touch with interested companies, participating groups, follow relevant professionals in order enhance your carrier. More information you will find on following presentation which they have published in PDF format.

You can downloaded it using this link http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/cdc/files/LinkedInWeb.pdf

Following are recommended links if you wish to use Linkedin as your way of marketing your profession

Career Exploration Tools
http://www.linkedin.com/skills/
http://www.linkedin.com/careerexplorer/
Resume Builder
http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/

Help Government Leaders Shape Renewable Energy Policy by Attending RETECH 2011

2011-06-17T05:22:00.001+05:30

RETECH 2011 is Renewable Energy Conference which will be held Walter E. Washington Convention Center – Washington, D.C. September 20-22, 2011 Conference. Following areas will be discuss in the Conference and people who working with Renewable Energy Policy in US and abroad will be benefited by participating with this event.

The Strategic Issues Track will analyze key challenges faced by the renewable energy industry both in the United States and abroad. Session topics will include domestic and global energy outlook; global markets and competition; business opportunities in developing countries; the potential for a strategic collaboration between natural gas and renewables; the importance of operational excellence, and strategies for the adoption of renewable energy.

Session A1: Energy Outlook
Session A2: Global Markets and Competition
Session A3: Business Opportunities in Developing Countries
Session A4: Strategic Collaboration - Natural Gas & Renewable Energy
Session A5: Renewable Energy Ecosystem Collaboration For Achieving Operational Excellence
Session A6: Strategies for the Adoption of Renewable Energy

The combination of federal, state and local policies and programs is a major U.S. renewable energy market driver. This track will feature briefings and perspectives from key federal, state and local officials and market players.

Session B1: Update on Federal Regulations and Programs
Session B2: State Policies - Cross-Cutting Issues
Session B3: State Reports
Session B4: US Department of Energy Technology Programs
Session B5: Department of Defense Programs
Session B6: National and Energy Security in the Americas Panel

You can have an Exclusive Discount: Register before July 1 with Promotional Code GOVJUNE to save $100 off the already discounted Government rate!

For more information Contact : Carley Ziober at 713-343-1884 or CarleyZ@tradefairgroup.com. or just visit conference website www.retech2011.com

Vacancy for a Principal Process Engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Corporate Headquarters

2011-06-15T19:16:00.001+05:30

You should have a BS, MS, or PhD degree in Chemical Engineering with at least 5 years experience in chemical engineering and process design. The position will be based in Allentown, PA and will require travel up to 15% of the time.

Air Products is Fortune 500 company with 18,300 employees and operations in more than 40 countries, who serve customers across a wide range of industries from food and beverage, health and personal care to energy, transportation and semiconductors.

You can Apply www.airproducts.com/careers and go to search job openings on the left navigation bar and use Req No. #7158BR for apply

Free MultiPhysics simulation tutorials from COMSOL Inc

2011-06-14T02:51:00.001+05:30

More and more engineers and scientists are using multiphysics to accurately
model their products and processes. The brand new edition of the
Introduction to Multiphysics Kit CD demonstrates how you can benefit
from taking the multiphysics approach for your simulations.

You can Watch the animated simulation of coupled physical effects, including:

CFD

Heat Transfer

Mechanical Deformation

Electrical Currents

Request your free copy today!

Viridis Africa 2011 - Clean Technology Investment Summit

2011-06-13T12:27:00.001+05:30

Viridis Africa, a business matchmaking event that will take place on the 17th and 18th of October 2011 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton, South Africa. This event may be valuable to my blog readers who working in clean technology and energy sector as Engineers or Entrepreneurs

Following areas will be targeted by the summit and you will able to meet enterprise representatives presenting leading technologies in clean technology area. The event is advised by famous industry specialists including Andries van der Linde [internationally recognised renewable and clean technologies specialist], Raz Cohen [a successful entrepreneur] and Prof Janice Limson [an Associate Professor for the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology at Rhodes University and editor in chief of Science in Africa.]

Clean Energy Generation:
Wind, solar, hydro, biofuels, geothermal, clean coal technologies

Storage:
Fuel cells, advanced batteries, hybrid systems

Infrastructure:
Management, transmission

Efficiency:
Building efficiency, smart grids, waste heat recovery

Water & waste water:
Water treatment, water conservation, waste water treatment, desalination

Recycling & waste:
Recycling, waste treatment, organic matter, plastics

If you interested in more information please contact (international dial code +27):
Suza Adam - 011 880 0364 - General, marketing/branding, investor relations, sponsorship, networking, digital media
Raz Cohen - 011 880 0374 – Corporate / project finance / venture capital, business plan development
Dr Andries van der Linde - 082 825 0985 – Energy generation; wind, solar (CSP) photovoltaic, hydro, geothermal, storage, infrastructure, efficiency
Dr Janice Limson - 083 248 0100 – Bioremediation, environmental monitoring, diagnostics, biofuels, biomass water and industrial effluents treatment

The official Website : www.viridisafrica.com

Job for a Polymer Processing Engineer with Plastics Extrusion

2011-06-12T20:48:00.001+05:30

Honeywell Specialty Film is currently seeking a Polymer Processing Engineer with Plastics Extrusion experience for their Pottsville, PA location. This engineer should have a background in Polymer extrusion processing, particularly film processes and polymer compounding processes. The engineer should also have a solid understanding of Polymer properties and the relationship of processing to properties as well as be able to communicate understanding. Being able to use knowledge to influence and drive projects through out the organization is also important.

Qualifications

Basic Candidate Qualifications:

BS in Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Materials or Mechanical Engineering
3 years of plastics extrusion experience

Additional Candidate Qualifications:

Industry experience in plastics extrusion processes, preferably film or compounding processes or web handling technology highly preferred
Knowledge of Polymer chemistry, structure property relationship; knowledge of fundamentals of melt processing and effect of melt process conditions on properties
Familiar with principals of statistical analysis of data and application to process development and process improvement

Apply on the company website

Free ICheme Webinar - A one-hour online presentation by James Brown

2011-06-12T20:37:00.001+05:30

This Webinar will be presented by James Brown who is a Chartered Chemical Engineer working as a Principal Consultant in DNV's Manchester, UK, office. This online presentation is a factual representation of the findings of the investigations conducted by British Petroleum and the United States National Commission. Additionally A summary of basic drilling technology will also be provided, followed by a case study of incident timeline and findings of the major investigations.

This event is free of charge and free to all people online .

For more details http://www.icheme.org/DeepwaterHorizon22Jun11

Vacancy for Chemical Process Engineer in the Chicago area

2011-06-11T22:48:00.000+05:30

In Chemical Engineers Group on Linked in which I subscribed this vacancy was published by a member of the Group. I thought It would be great If I share this job with other members with my blog.

This job will pay up to 90K and qualification and responsibilities as follows

Responsibilities include:

Initiate and lead process improvements in facilities
Provides technical troubleshooting
Analyze and provide solutions for chemical storage issues
Recommends process improvements based on customer needs and demands
Examine and improve energy usage
Lead and implement process related projects from concept to completion
Support and assist in Hazards and operability study reviews
Travel to other warehouses and facilities

Qualifications

BS in Chemical Engineering
3-5 years experience
Experience in a chemical process facility
AutoCAD experience
Excellent verbal and written skills
Familiarity with PSM desired