Chemical Engineering World

I just read a website about forgotten survival food last week. It kept me thinking if I am prepared or not if the day we live now become a chaotic scenario, havoc, crisis, emergency, or suddenly a war occurred. Are we ready? Do we have the stock food to keep on surviving? I’m a Chemical Engineering educator and am constantly involved in research work. It made me think if I have sufficiently thoug…

I stumbled upon flange guards not when I was a process engineer, but rather recently when a practical student mentioned about it few months back. I goggled right away and found the answer. I realized that it is something to do with the joints and threaded fittings in the form of flanges, unions, T joints and elbows, sockets or expansion joints for any piping system. Then I asked myself why flange…

This is UTM Faculty of Engineering's Hang Out Zone #40 talk by me titled "Engineering Practice Experience Sharing". In this talk, I shared in about 1 hour an example of engineering career sharing, which was my own personal experience. The case study of engineering career dwells around my adventure in the (1) oil and gas, and (2) oil and fats industry. It' difficult to share the experiences in …

Hey guys! How are you doing? It has been quite some time since I freely write here in this very first blog of mine. This blog is my first and early success and I will never abandon this blog. I have been writing in another official work blog (the blog image is below and the url is people.utm.my/zakiyamani/ ) on a daily basis, but few days ago I thought that I should not fully ignore this blog and…

Chemical Engineering Career Talk - 3 Parts - What you need to know about preparing yourself for the industry. In this session, 3 final year students (Zulhilmi, Sufi Sazmin and Izzati ) from UTM Chemical Engineering Course were given the opportunities to ask any question regarding chemical engineering career ass they are going to seek a job and face the industry in less than 3 weeks time. WHO WERE…

This is a great blog in town discussing about chemical engineering. It is almost like this blog of mine. It is run by a chemical engineer, Mr. Barat, from India. His blog is continuously sharing about chemical industries, pharmaceuticals, refinery, power plant & offshore. It is an alternative learning platform for get lot of updated knowledge about chemical, mechanical, Instrumentation & HSE. Upo…

I accept this recognition :) I received an email last week congratulating me because my blog has been selected as the Top 10 Chemical Engineering Blogs in the internet. The email came from Feedspot.com. I am not really aware of what is Feedspot but they have somehow acknowledged my Chemical Engineering World blog. Thanks Feedspot. Then I checked the link that they sent to me and saw the top 10 li…

As a Chemical Engineering Student or Chemical Engineer , I believe that you are very much closely attached with your work place. This is actually your facility, plant etc. This is where you learn and practice Chemical Engineering. It's quite challenging, if you are not sure how to play the game and what you are dealing with. Sometimes, wrong decision can be very costly. You don't want bad thing h…

The 3rd quarter of 2018 saw that Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), my work place for the past 10 years experienced a major restructuring in its organization. I was previously in the Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering (FCEE), but after the synergy restructuring, it is now no longer a faculty, but a school. It is now known as the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering (SCEE). What hap…

FOREWORD I was inspired to choose chemical engineering when I first saw the chemical formula from my father’s chemistry book. The chemical formula shapes look fascinating and interesting to me. My father was an organic chemistry lecturer in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). When I was 14, I read his organic chemistry book and willingly learnt from it by myself. When I was 17, I wanted to have …

Freshly released from the oven. My VERY FIRST BOOK. NOW OPEN FOR SALE! ONLY HERE IN FB... This is not offered in other platform yet. Special price for October 2018 :) BismillahirRahmanirRahim... Ramblings of A Chemical Engineer - the blue book There is a lot to share, but it’s impossible to include everything in the book. I’m glad to have experienced chemical engineering in three different areas;…

Fresh and hot from the oven is my new eBook, "Ramblings of a Chemical Engineer" . Standby to DOWNLOAD this 100+ pages which is a little collection of my learning curves and experiences as an engineer. Stay tune and wait for it as I will open it for download this Sunday, 13th May 2018 . Chemical Engineering World

Time flies. Flies so fast. I did not noticed that I have not posted anything in this Chemical Engineering World blog this year of 2015. My bad. I have been really fully occupied with numerous on-going tasks, projects and responsibilities. Fortunately, I still have time to muse a word or two in 2015. Well, nothing much to write here but just wanted to highlight few things of 2015. 2015 Grand Openi…

For a small chemical engineering blog like this, it is a great pleasure and recognition when another website, Web Technology USA , feature us as their content. WEB TECHNOLOGY USA is a directory of technology websites. This directory is a good place to start when looking for a list of the top technology websites, blogs and forums. Promising websites are selected from the listing to be the featured…

I have been asked several times the steps and how to be a professional engineer having an IR status in Malaysia. Due to that, I thought it is better for me to write a special guide explaining step by step what should be done. I'll try to make this guide as compact and short possible (but still resourceful) so that it won't waste any of your time. 1. Register with BEM If you just graduate from uni…

If you fancy working at offshore oil rigs, chances of experiencing a challenging and financially rewarding job is there. It's definitely going to be a fun, tough, exciting job. I've experience it before and I know how it feels like. However, before you can work there, you need to have an offshore passport and one of the important requirement to obtain the offshore passport is to undergo Helicopte…

Most of us know what is a heat exchanger. If you are not that familiar, no problem, just read some of my past articles: Heat Exchanger : Introduction & Basic , or search other of my articles related to heat exchanger here . It is basically an equipment to allow heat transfer from one medium to the other medium. There are several types of heat exchanger such as (1) plate and frame heat exchanger (…

Are you a chemical engineer? or perhaps a chemical engineering student? Chemical Engineering is a universal engineering discipline compared to electrical, mechanical, civil, mechatronic, robotic engineering. When I studied my first degree 18 years ago, I do not know that much about chemical engineering related work and discipline. Most of my friends also were not sure what this field is all a…

I completed my Ph.D study last year and it has been a great experience, I must say. I am going to continue doing research mainly because I am very interested to conduct research, I love publishing my work, I like presenting my work in conferences as well as I want to contribute to the advancement of technology and knowledge. Hence, in order to continue the research culture, I am currently looking…

Presently, I am actively teaching and supervising students. It is important to know our students. What I mean is not to know them very close but enough in order for us to know the best way to treat them based on who they are, their background, based on what they want to be and several other factors. One of the most frequent question I asked my student are what do you want to be after you graduate…