Announcements
| December 29, 2011 | ||
| 1. | M3TC Seminar on "Bioleaching of Precious Metals From Mineral Ores" by Dr. O.P. Karthikeyan is scheduled on January 30, 2012. (for more details click here) |
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| 2. | A talk on "Innovation's Holy Grail : Getting More from Less for More" by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar is scheduled on January 19, 2012. (for more details click here) |
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| 3. | M3TC workshop will be held in conjunction with the 5th Asian Particle Technology Symposium (APT2012). (for more details click here) |
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| 4. | There are plans to hold an international conference entitled “M3TC Symposium on Advances in Minerals, Metals and Materials Processing Technologies” in October 2012. Details will be provided in the near future |
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News Headlines
November 30, 2011
| M3TC Recognized for contribution to development of Industrial Drying R&D |
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At the 7th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference held in Tianjin in September 2011, the global scale contributions made by M3TC were recognized with award of a Certificate which is reproduced below. Aside from R&D contributions via extensive archival publications the role of M3TC in promoting and disseminating R&D results was recognized via this special award. |
November 01, 2011
| Recently M3TC held seminar on "Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town – Education, Research and Future Vision" on October 28, 2011.. (for more details click here) |
| Recently M3TC held a Seminar on "Upgrading of Low Rank Coal" on October 21, 2011.
More than 15 industrial personel participated in the seminar. (for more details click here) |
October 13, 2011
| Dr. Agus Pulung Sasmito, Research Fellow at M3TC, recently attended two conferences as follows - 22nd World Mining Congress and Expo held during 11-16 September 2011 at Istanbul, Turkey (for a detailed trip report click here) 4th Sriwijaya International Seminar on Energy Science and Technology (SISEST) held during 5-7 October 2011 at Palembang, Indonesia (for a detailed trip report click here) |
October 5, 2011
| M3TC is pleased to welcome Professor Rajasekhar Bala as Director of Research effective immediately. Following is a brief introduction to Dr. Bala.
Visitors are encouraged to contact him at ceerbala@nus.edu.sg concerning R&D projects at M3TC as well as for industry collaboration. |
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About A/Prof Rajasekhar Bala A/Prof Rajasekhar Bala has been a faculty member at the National University of Singapore since 1996. Prior to joining NUS, he worked at the New York State Department of Health and at Brookhaven National Research Laboratory, USA as a scientist. Prof Bala and his research group have been investigating a wide range of research topics, from urban air pollution to environmental sustainability. The major goals of his research are to (1) develop the information needed to assess and mitigate human health effects resulting from air pollutant exposures, (2) identify and implement pollution prevention/control strategies and technologies to mitigate climate change, (3) establish alternate methods of augmenting fresh water supply and (4) recover valuable materials and energy from wastes. He has published over 100 research articles in high impact international journals. He has managed several multi-national, multi-disciplinary research projects successfully over the years. He has also won numerous teaching awards at Department, Faculty and University levels. For more details please visit- http://www.ese.nus.edu.sg/CV_Bala.php |
October 3, 2011
One Day Workshop on Industrial Drying: Principles and Practice One Day Workshop on Industrial Drying:Principles and Practice was held successfully at NUS on October 1, 2011. Over ninety participants were present. Aside from graduate students from NUS ME department a number of faculty members and graduate students from Malaysia and Indonesia attended this event. Notes of this workshop given by 6 lecturers are available under e-books section of this website. M3TC sponsored this event. For photos please look up photo Gallery of this website (2011). |
September 26, 2011
| 1. | Prof.Mujumdar and Dr. Sachin Jangam attended ADC2011- 7th Asia-Paciic Drying Conference,in Tianjin September 18-21, 2011. With over 210 attendees from 30 countries and some 160 papers presented this was the largest ADC to date. The next one will be held at the Convention Centre in KL,Malaysia in 2013. IDS2012 will be held in Xiamen in November 2012.
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| 2. | Prof. Mujumdar presented an opening speech and later a plenary lecture. Academician Li of Chinese Academy of Science ,Beijng ,presented the second plenary lecture. Dy.Mayor of Tianjin and President of Tianjin University of Science and Technology opened the event. The event was covered extensively by local news media both TV and newpapers. See links below for reports including a video clip in Chinese. The links of the news reports are as follows: http://news.tust.edu.cn/kdxw/26577.htm http://news.tust.edu.cn/kdxw/26579.htm http://news.tust.edu.cn/spxw/26582.htm http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2011/09/19/007820240.shtml (Tianjin TV)
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| 3. | M3TC was given a special recognition with a citation certificate for major leadership role in global R&D in industrial Drying through managing the Drying Technology journal,numerous seminal books and also several international events and workshops that promote state on industrial drying around the world. It was noted that Singapore is only next to China in number of papers contributed to Drying Technology Journal while Prof. Mujumdar was recognized as the World's TOP Contributor to Archival Drying Literature with over 250 refereed papers to his credit.
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| 4. | M3TC presented three research papers at ADC2011 and participated actively in its scientific program and organization. Prof.Mujumdar met with several dryer manufacturers and also visited facilities of one of the largest dryer companies of China. Interestingly, many chinese dryer companies started fabricating vibrated bed dryers after Prof.Mujumdar's first series of lectures on drying in 1984. Now some 400 companies in China manufacture vibrated bed dryers- probably most popular dryer in China today.
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