2011 News Archive
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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September 3, 2011
Another Doctor Honoris Causa for Prof. Mujumdar Professor Arun S Mujumdar will be conferred Doctor Honoris Causa from University of Lyon, France, later this year. This is the second of such award offered to Professor Mujumdar for his remarkable achievements in the field of drying. In 2008, Prof Mujumdar was awarded Doctoris Honoris Causa by Lodz Technical University, Poland. More details will be posted as they come. |
7th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2011) ADC2011 in Tianjin will be largest ever ADC with over 150 papers. Aside from the conference proceedings ,attendees will receive copies of a book of watercolors by Professor Mujumdar and also a desk calendar both designed by Sachin Jangam. Both are available for download on this website under e-books and on the home page. |
Drying R&D celebrates 30 years Drying Technology journal will celebrate 30 years of its existance with a series of special theme issues devoted to the Founding Editor Dr Carl Hall and the current editor-in-Chief. The journal expects the 2011 Impact Factor to exceed 2.0. |
Proofing stage: Modern Drying Technology Vol. 4 Vol 4 of Modern Drying Technology is in proofs stage and will be off the press in a few months. As before the quality of contributions is very high. This 5-volume set compliments the 3rd edition pf the Handbook of Industrial Drying (CRC Press). |
August 20, 2011
Visit to Sriwijaya University and coal mine 10-13 August, 2011: Director of Rusnas PEBT, Dr. M. Faizal, hosted two M3TC researchers on a very informative field trip to Palembang, Indonesia. Dr. Sachin and Mr. Hafiiz visited a coal mining project at Tanjung Enim, South Sumatera, Indonesia. This particular mine is an open-pit type offering various grades of coal. They also visited Sriwijaya University where researchers are working on their pilot DME coal drying facility. (for more details click here) |
Seminar: TEE & LCA of processes 3 August, 2011: Dr Nawshad Haque, a Research Scientist with CSIRO's life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic evaluation (TEE) team in the process integration research group, gave an insighful talk on the use of TEE and LCA to assess all the components and environmental impacts associated with a product, process or activity during its lifetime.(for more details click here) |