Program

The technical program will run over two and a half days from 27 September 2010. The program will involve multiple parallel sessions that cover the following sub-themes (example topics that may fall under each of the sub-themes may be seen by simply clicking on the sub-theme):

Sub-themes

Sessions

Whilst the exact details of the sessions will depend on the submissions, we are particularly keen to run sessions in the following areas (the relevant Plenary or Keynote Speakers who will kick-off these sessions are indicated in parentheses):

Climate Change: Causes, Effects and Counter-strategies (Prof. Barry W. Brook)
Carbon Capture and Storage (to be announced)
Nuclear Energy (Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
Solar-thermal and Photovoltaic Energy (Prof. Rose Amal, University of New South Wales)
Geothermal Energy (Dr Barry Goldstein, Primary Industries and Rural Affairs South Australia)
The Hydrogen Economy (Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center, Germany).
Biomass ((Professor Dongke Zhang, University of Western Australia)
Fuel Cells (to be announced).
Batteries and supercapacitors (to be announced).
Energy Storage (to be announced).
Biofuel Production (Dr Tom Beer, CSIRO)
Sustainable Processing (Prof. Milton Hearn, Monash University)
Water and Wastewater Treatment (to be announced)
Process Intensification (to be announced)
Micro and Nanofluidics (Professor Justin Cooper-White, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland)
Nanostructured materials (to be announced)
Nanoporous materials (to be announced)
Nanofluids (to be announced)
Safety in Nanotechnology (to be announced)
Bionanotechnology (Prof. Mehmet Sarikaya, University of Washington)
Tissue Engineering (Dr Jerome Werkmeister, CSIRO)
Pharmaceutical Engineering (to be announced)
Drug Delivery and Controlled Release (to be announced)
Food Engineering (Prof. Xiao Dong Chen, Monash University)
Innovation in the Biotechnology Industrial (Dr Geoff Dumsday, CSIRO)
Innovation in the Minerals Industry (Mr John England, BHP Billiton)
Innovation in Engineering Education (Professor David Lowe (Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney)
Experimental thermofluids (to be announced)
Polymer processing (to be announced)
Particle and Powder Processing (to be announced)
Minerals Processing (Prof. Suresh Bhargava RMIT University)
Molecular Modelling (to be announced)
Mesoscale Modelling (to be announced)
Multiscale Modelling (Prof. Jinghai Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Computational fluid dynamics (Dr Paul Cleary, CSIRO)
Process Systems Modelling (Prof. Brent Young, The University of Auckland)
Process Control (to be announced)
Process Safety (Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Australian National University)

If you have any doubt about the suitability of your work for presentation at Chemeca or would like to suggest a specific session focus beyond those listed above, please do not hesitate to contact the Chair of the Technical Program Committee.

Journal Special Issues

Please note that a number of international journals have agreed to publish special issues of papers derived from those presented at Chemeca 2010. Contributions to these special issues will be by invitation only based on the quality of the contribution to Chemeca 2010

Plenary and Keynote Speakers

Five plenary lectures of a wide ranging nature will be given by speakers of international standing on highly topical subjects relevant to the field of chemical and process engineering as broadly defined. Ten or more keynote lectures of a more focused nature will also be presented by internationally recognized speakers as part of the parallel sessions. Below is the list of currently identified plenary speakers and keynote lecturers.

Plenary Speakers:

Mr John England (Olympic Dam Project, BHP Billiton)
Professor Andrew Hopkins (School of Social Sciences, ANU) - Why BP Failed to Learn the Lessons: The Texas City Refinery Explosion
Professor Jinghai Li (Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering - A Dream to be Realized?
Dr David Mills (Ausra) - Wind and Solar Thermal Electric Generation as the foundation of a New US Electricity Grid
Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen (Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany) - Fuel Cells with Wings
Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Rose Amal (School of Chemical Sciences & Engineering, UNSW) - Harnessing Solar Energy: From Clean Water, Fresh Air, Super Surfaces to Renewable Energy
Dr Tom Beer (CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research) - Biofuels: Hope, Hype or Happiness
Professor Suresh Bhargava (Applied Sciences, RMIT University) - The Way Forward for Australia's Uranium Industry: Gaining an Improved Understanding of the Science of Uranium Extraction
Professor Barry Brook (University of Adelaide) - Sustainable Energy Solutions for Successful Climate Change Mitigation
Professor Xiao Dong Chen (Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University) - Food Fantasies from Chemical Engineers
Dr Paul Cleary (CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences)
Professor Justin Cooper-White (Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland)
Dr Geoff Dumsday (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) - White Biotechnology: The Next Industrial Revolution?
Mr Barry Goldstein (Primary Industries and Rural Affairs South Australia) - Engineering Solutions to Energy Challenges for the Future
Professor Milton Hearn (ARC Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University)
Professor David Lowe (Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney) - Remote labs: improved learning, greater flexibility, higher quality, and lower cost - achieving it all!
Professor Mehmet Sarikaya (Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington) - Molecular Biomimetics: Genetically Design Peptide-based Molecular Materials and Systems for Technology and Medicine
Dr Jerome Werkmeister (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) - New Designed Materials and Technologies for Tissue Repair
Professor Brent Young (The University of Auckland) - Modelling and Simulation: Putting the Process back into Control
Professor Dongke Zhang (University of Western Australia) - How Far Can Biomass Energy Travel?

Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals

Below are just a few examples of the areas that fall under this sub-theme; this list is not meant to be exhaustive. If you have any queries at all about the suitability of a paper for Chemeca 2010 or this sub-theme in particular, please do not hesitate to contact the Chair of the Technical Program Committee.

Transport processes and properties;
Multiphase, non-Newtonian, complex and turbulent flows
Thermodynamics, thermodynamic properties and phase behaviour
Statistical mechanics
Molecular, meso and multiscale simulation
Computational fluid dynamics
Population balance modelling
Kinetics and catalysis
Seperations (e.g. Distillation, extractions, adsorption, ion exchange, membranes) and mixing;
Crystallization
Colloidal and interfacial systems and phenomena
Processing at extreme conditions
Supercritical processing
Electrochemistry
Thermodynamics
Kinetics
Unit operations

Material and Mineral Sciences and Engineering

Polymers
Composites
Biomaterials
Porous materials
Coatings and thin films
Multiscale materials and associated processes
Materials characterization
Non-destructive testing
Corrosion
Biomaterials
Materials selection
Mineral Processing
Extractive Metallurgy

Process Design, Control and Safety

Development and implementation of plant risk management processes
Current and future regulatory requirements
Current status of various PSM/plant integrity management benchmarking
Status of relevant leading and lagging KPIs for facility integrity monitoring
Design of novel processes
Systems approaches to design
Integrated product and process design
Process synthesis
Process optimization
Developments in process design software
Process dynamics
Process instrumentation, monitoring and control
Fault detection and isolation
Learning from accidents

Environment and Sustainability

Wind power
Bioremediation
Recycling of plastics
Carbon capture and storage
Water treatment
Desalination
Transport of contaminants in the environment
Remediation
Sustainable processes
End-of-pipe solutions
Green chemistry and processes
Life cycle analysis
Environment-related legislation and regulation
Materials/waste recovery

Micro and Nanotechnology

MEMS
Microfluidics
Nanofluidics
Nanofluids
Nanoparticles
Nanotubes
Nanowires
Nanoporous materials
Nanocomposites
Bottom-up Nanofabrication
Top-down Nanofabrication
Sensors
Controlled release

Particle Technology

Comminution
Agglomeration, aggregation and granulation
Particle formation in the gas or liquid phase
Particle separations, segregation and mixing
Fluidization beds
Transport in granular systems
Solids handling
Particle characterization
Modelling of particulate processes and materials

Energy and Fuels

Wind power
Geothermal heat
Coal to liquids technological developments
Fuels from coal, oil shale and oil sands
Natural gas
Methane gas hydrates
Hydrogen fuels
Energy from waste
Batteries and fuel cells
Advanced thermal cycles
Biofuels
Clean coal
Waste fuels
Hybrid energy generation
Energy conservation
Solar energy

Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering

Wine industry
Brewing
Regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry
Sunscreen technology
Food safety
Food processing
Crystallization of pharmaceutical molecules
Cell cultures
Bioseperations
Biocatalysis
Stem cells
Drug delivery
Controlled release
Systems biology

Education

Novel curricula at all levels
Novel courses
Novel delivery methods
Accreditation
Technology in education
Professional development

Industrial Best Practice and Innovation

Knowledge-based economy
Innovation management
IP protection and exploitation
Project management
Professional development

Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen

Presentation Title:
Fuel Cells with Wings

Abstract:
Fuel cell systems are highly efficient converters from chemical to electrical energy, which will play a significant role in a future, sustainable energy technology mix. Depending on the type of fuel cell, they can be operated with hydrogen, methanol, ethanol or natural as fuel - or with reformates from liquid hydrocarbons. First applications of fuel cell systems were in the US Apollo space program, and today this is still the technology of choice for space applications. For the past 20 years, fuel cell systems have been investigated and demonstrated for a wide range of stationary and mobile applications, such as automotive, submarines, combined heat and power, portable power and many others. More recently, both AIRBUS and BOEING have initiated substantial R&D programs to qualify fuel cell systems for commercial air transport. Here, the main application is the generation of on-board electricity rather than propulsion. The technological and economic benefits of fuel systems are that they can provide a range of duties in addition to electricity on-ground and in-air. They can serve as emergency power systems replacing the presently used ram air turbine, provide water by condensation of the exhaust vapor, inert gas for an tank inerting, heat for air-conditioning and power for taxiing on-ground. Thus, a completely new on-board energy architecture can be envisaged, with increased safety and comfort, and reduced emissions, fuel consumption and weight.

The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has joined with AIRBUS in the development and qualification of multi-functional fuel cell systems for aircraft applications. During the past 5 years, this consortium has developed and successfully tested a fuel cell based emergency power system in the DLR´s experimental aircraft ATRA A320. Preliminary to this, numerous tests have been performed in a specifically designed laboratory infrastructure to qualify the systems for the demanding conditions in flight, i.e. vibration, acceleration down to zero gravity, low ambient temperatures and pressure, and all this with extremely high reliability. For the first time, all legal and statutory requirements have been completed to transport hydrogen and oxygen at pressures up to 400 bar in commercial aircraft. The fuel cell systems have operated beyond expectation and are now further developed to demonstrate other applications as well. In the spring of 2010, the DLR airbus A320 will be able to taxi on an airport powered by a fuel cell system in conjunction with a novel in-wheel electrical motor. Replacing the conventional auxiliary gas turbine by a fuel cell system will avoid up to 25% of NOx and SOx emissions at airports and significantly reduce noise.

In parallel to the work on multifunctional fuel cell systems for on-board electricity generation, DLR and its partners Lange Aviation, BASF Fuel Cells and SERENERGY have designed and constructed the world's first piloted aircraft capable of starting, flying and landing with fuel cell power only. The ANTARES DLR-H2 is a motor glider capable of covering a distance of 750 km in up to 4000 m height. Using the BASF high temperature (180°C) polymer electrolyte fuel cell, this aircraft has successfully completed several world record flights since mid 2009. While its main purpose is to serve as a flyable test bed for new fuel cell concepts and components, it will now be further developed to realize the first trans- Atlantic flight of a fuel cell powered aircraft, in about 2012.

Biography:
Professor Müller-Steinhagen is Director of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Director of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering of the University of Stuttgart which collectively employ 250 staff in the areas of solar energy concentration for energy production, solar heating and cooling, fuel cells, thermal process technology, heat transfer and refrigeration, and systems analysis and technology assessment. He is also Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Solar and Thermal Technology, President of the European Committee for the Advancement of Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer (EUROTHERM), and a member of the Councils of the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg concerned with Innovation and Sustainability. He is currently Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering, and a member of the editorial board of several other international journals and committees in the field of thermal sciences. He has contributed over 520 papers to books, journals and conference proceedings in the areas of heat and mass transfer, multi-phase flow, fuel cells, solar technology and process thermodynamics, and has been the recipient of several awards and prizes including the TMS Bauxite Processing Award twice, the Light Metals Award, the UK Heat Transfer Society Mike Akrill Trophy, and the Beilby Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Andrew Hopkins

Presentation Title:
Why BP Failed to Learn the Lessions: The Texas City Refinery Explosion

Biography:
Andrew Hopkins is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has a BSc and an MA from the Australian National University, a PhD from the University of Connecticut and is a Fellow of the Safety Institute of Australia. He has been involved in various government OHS reviews and has performed consultancy work for major companies in the resources sector. He speaks regularly to audiences around the world about the causes of major accidents. Professor Hopkins was an expert witness at the Royal Commission into the causes of the fire at Esso’s gas plant at Longford in Victoria in 1998, as a result of which he wrote Lessons from Longford: The Esso Gas Plant Explosion (2000). In 2001 he was the expert member of the Board of Inquiry into the exposure of Air Force maintenance workers to toxic chemicals. He was also a consultant to the US Chemical Safety Board in their investigation of the Texas City Refinery accident. His book on that accident, Failure to Learn: the BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, was published in 2008. In 2008 he was the winner of the European Process Safety Centre safety award.

Professor Mehmet Sarikaya

Presentation Title:
Molecular Biomimetics: Genetically Design Peptide-based Molecular Materials and Systems for Technology and Medicine

Biography:
Professor Sarikaya is Director of the Center for Genetically Engineered Materials Science & Engineering, a US NSF funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC), at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Following Mother Nature's molecular ways, he biocombinatorially selects, bioinformatically designs and engineers peptides as molecular building blocks in the synthesis, assembly and formation of inorganic functional materials and systems for nanotechnology and medicine, a fledging new field called Molecular Biomimetics. Prof. Sarikaya has held a number of Visiting Scientist and Professorships, including an Institute Professorship at the Ecotopia Science Institute at Nagoya University in Japan (2006-2009), is a member of the Editorial Boards of Micron, Metallurgical Transactions A, Journal of Medical Nanotechnology, Journal Chemical Biology and Journal of Electron Microscopy, has published over 220 articles, including in Nature Materials, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Small, Nano Letters and Acta Biomaterialia, and has given many invited talks at national and international meetings.

Mr Barry Goldstein

Presentation Title:
Engineered Energy Plays Under Construction

Biography:
Barry Goldstein is: SA's Director Petroleum & Geothermal; Chair of the Australian Geothermal Energy Group (AGEG); IEA Geothermal Committee Member; Coordinating Author for the IPCC's Special Report on Renewable Energy (Geothermal), Member of Australia's Carbon Storage Task Force, American Association of Petroleum Geologist's Asia-Pacific Councillor, and serves on the ASP's Board. Barry was Exploration Manager and Chief Geologist for Santos, Chief Geologist - Bridge Oil, and Chief Geologist - KUFPEC after starting with Phillips Petroleum. He is a past President of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.

Professor Rose Amal

Presentation Title:
Harnessing Solar Energy - from Clean Water, Fresh Air, Super Surfaces to Renewable Energy

Biography:
Professor Rose Amal is a UNSW Scientia Professor and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow (APF). Prof. Amal was appointed Director of the Centre for Particle and Catalyst Technologies at UNSW in 1997 and in 2004 became the NSW/ACT Node Director of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials. More recently (2008), this position was superseded where she is now the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. She is also the Inaugural Director of Centre for Energy Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA), a new UNSW Energy Research Institute.
Prof Amal's research has spanned varying fields including particle aggregation during the early stages of her career through to photocatalysis and nanoparticle fabrication in more recent years. Applications include water pollution and air quality control, self cleaning surfaces, sustainable and clean alternate energy technologies and biotechnology. Her research has produced over 200 refereed publications.
Throughout her career, Prof. Amal has procured over AUD$9 million from nationally competitive funding sources (ARC, CRC and industry grants). In 2007 she was elected as a member of the ARC College of Experts (Engineering and Environmental Sciences Panel) and in 2009 she was appointed the Chair of this panel. She was also the Chair of the 17^th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, held in Sydney, in 2008.

Professor Xiao Dong Chen

Presentation Title: Food Fantasies from Chemical Engineers

Biography:
Born in Beijing in 1965, graduated with a BE in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University (1987), then completed his PhD in chemical and process engineering at Canterbury University in New Zealand (1991). After working for Fonterra for 2.5 years, he took up a lectureship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Over his 16-year academic career, he has published over 290 refereed journal articles and 180 conference papers, 3 books, 14 book chapters, and over 50 reports on industrial consulting projects. He was made a Personal Chair of Chemical Engineering in 2001 at Auckland. In 2006, he was appointed to the Chair of Biotechnology and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has received many awards of distinction including Shedden Uhde Medal (1999), ER Cooper Medal (2002), Hood Fellow (2005), Nan-Qiang Scholar (2004), Inaugural Fonterra Award (2006), ADC Award of Excellence in Drying Research (2007), AFISA Award for Excellence in Drying R & D (2008), Monash Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (2009). He is the Deputy Head of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean International for the Faculty of Engineering at Monash (2007-2009). He was a con-current Chair of Engineering at China Agricultural University (2005-2008). He is a Fellow of Royal Society of NZ and a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and is a Fellow of IChemE. He currently holds Adjunct Professorships at China Agricultural University, The University of Auckland and Shangdong University of Science and Technology.

Professor Brent Young

Presentation Title: Modelling and Simulation: Putting the Process back into Control

Biography:
Brent Young is Director of the Industrial Information and Control Centre, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary. Brent was previously an Associate Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary (1998-2005) and a Lecturer in Chemical Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (1991-1998). He has also held prestigious visiting positions including an NSERC at Calgary (1995), an Erskine at Canterbury (2005) and a Gledden at Western Australia (2009). He received his BE (1986) and PhD (1993) degrees in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury. He is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers United Kingdom and a Vice President of the Institute of Measurement and Control New Zealand. He has co-authored over 200 refereed publications including the book "A Real-time Approach to Process Control", published by John Wiley (2^nd Edition, 2006). He was Engineers Australia John A. Brodie Medallist for the best paper in the discipline of chemical engineering presented at CHEMECA for the last two years. In 2008 he also received the NZ Waste Water Association Conference best modelling paper award. In 2007 he was principal control consultant to MWH NZ responsible for their Association of Consulting Engineers NZ Award. Brent's teaching, research and practice centre on process modeling, simulation, control and design. He is actively involved in applied research and industrial consulting and has taught and practiced in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Abstract:
Automatic control, plant-wide management of production and resources, and process simulation have a major role to play in the future of globally competitive economies. The ability to compete globally will be boosted by the enhanced management of processes and resources and more efficient energy utilisation, the result of turning data into industrial information for control. Modelling and simulation are at the heart of this transformation (of data into information) as good models encapsulate process information. Consequently, high quality modelling and simulation are the key to good control, and in particular process control. It is therefore more than a truism to say that one must understand one's process to achieve good process control.
The Industrial Information and Control Centre (I2C2) was established at The University of Auckland in 2007. Its role is to address these issues and to provide a focal point for research, postgraduate study, graduate training, continuing education and industry consultation in industrial information and control. This talk will introduce the I2C2 and describe in detail the centre's real-time process simulation educational philosophy and simulation model-based research approach. These concepts and practises will be illustrated by industry relevant research project case studies carried out by the Centre in diverse areas such as aluminium smelting process fault monitoring, dairy powder process control, process steam optimisation, oil and gas process design, rotary drum mixing and agglomeration, washing machine rinse water minimisation, and wastewater treatment energy saving.

Dr Geoff Dumsday

Presentation Title: White biotechnology - the next industrial revolution?

Biography:
Geoff Dumsday is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies based in Melbourne and currently leads a team focused on development of microbial products and processes. He has a BSc and PhD (Microbiology) from Monash University and has held research positions at The University of Melbourne and CSL Limited. Dr Dumsday is an Industrial Microbiologist and his research experience ranges from biological production of biofuels to process development for therapeutic proteins used in human clinical trials. He has worked with many different academic and commercial organisations and providing consulting, research and microbial process development services to a variety of industrial sectors. His main research interests include: fermentation process development, microbial discovery, biocatalysis/biotransformation and biomass utilisation.

Professor Suresh Bhargava

Presentation Title:
The Way Forward for Australia's Uranium Industry: Gaining an Improved Understanding of the Science of Uranium Extraction

Biography:
An eminent scholar and researcher in chemistry, Prof. Suresh Bhargava has won encomiums for his contribution to environmentally-friendly industry-related research in many areas of applied science and technology.

As a young student he completed his M.Sc. at the age of 19. Prof. Bhargava was the only student in chemistry in 1979 to be selected as a Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholar from all the Indian universities. The scholarship allowed him to complete out his Ph.D. in chemistry in UK. Since this time Prof. Bhargava has focused on research in the field of environment and advanced materials, and is now well-known for his innovative solutions to industrial environmental problems. His areas of specialisation are industrial chemistry, and nanoscience and technology. Prof Bhargava is presently researching gold nanoparticles, with a view to facilitate their use in medical formulations, and mercury removal in industrial waste.

Currently Prof. Bhargava is the Dean of the School of Applied Sciences at RMIT University, Melbourne. He also heads the Industrial Chemistry Group at the same institution. The group consists of ten post-doctoral fellows, 18 Ph.D. students and three honours students. Prof. Bhargava's research has resulted in a major breakthrough in alumina technology, three industry-related patents and over 140 publications, plus 151 confidential industrial reports and conference proceedings. Prof. Bhargava has over 1860 total citations in the industrial chemistry field, encompassing the areas of alumina technology, environmental chemistry, catalysis, and inorganic and materials chemistry.

Some of the important awards that have provided recognition of his work are the AGR Mathey Gold Medal for outstanding contribution in the field of applied gold chemistry, the RK Murphy Award 2008, and Fellowship of the RSC, London. In addition, Prof. Bhargava received an Honoris Causa D.Sc. in 2009 conferred by Rajasthan University, India and presented by Smt. Pratibha Patil, the President of India.

Professor Jinghai Li

Presentation Title: Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering - A Dream to be Realized?

Biography
Li Jinghai graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year, obtained his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. He conducted his post-doctoral research at the City University of New York and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After returning to China in 1990, he served as assistant professor, associate professor, professor, vice director and director of IPE in succession. In February 2004, he was appointed a vice president of CAS.

His research is focused on the establishment of Multi-Scale Methodology for multi-phase complex systems and application of computer simulation in scaling-up chemical reactors

Dr Jerome Werkmeister

Presentation Title: New designed materials and technologies for tissue repair

Biography:
Dr Jerome Werkmeister is a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO where he is leader of the cell and tissue laboratories in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Program at Molecular and Health Technologies. He has particular expertise in development of materials for wound repair including cartilage systems, and tissue sealants for dura, lung, GI and other areas. He has extensive experience in collagen-based biomaterials for applications in wound healing areas, and more recently on a new photo-crosslinking technology that can be used with various biological and matrix proteins. He currently sits on the Standards Australia Technical Committee HE/1/4 on Surgical Implants, and was on the Organising Committee and Program Chair of the 7^th World Biomaterials Congress. Dr Werkmeister serves on the editorial board of several international biomaterial journals, was a co-founder and Secretary of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Past President for a number of years. Dr Werkmeister has been internationally recognised for his scientific contributions to the field of biomaterials science by the award of Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering.

Dr Tom Beer

Presentation Title: Biofuels: Hope, Hype or Happiness

Biography:
Tom Beer, D.Sc., Ph.D. leads the Transport Biofuels Stream of the Energy Transformed Flagship of CSIRO and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy. He founded the Risk Special Interest Group of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, of which he is also a Fellow, specifically to examine issues related to atmospheric emissions and health. He is an international expert on environmental risk management, including greenhouse gas and air quality issues and particularly their application to transport and to health. He was part of the team that won the CSIRO Chairman's medal in 2000 with his component being the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from hybrid electric vehicles. He has been a lead author, and an expert panel member for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

From 2001 to 2006 he applied life-cycle assessment and risk assessment methods to alternative transport fuels and co-ordinated a number of influential studies including a major study to quantify the health effects of ethanol in petrol . The study conducted for the Australian Greenhouse Office on fuels for heavy vehicles was used to set determinations under the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme, and was followed with a study on fuels for light vehicles. He has undertaken similar studies for industry - in particular Shell (Shell Aquadiesel), Caltex (2% Biodiesel) and the Australian LPG Association (LPG). Dr Beer has led various consortia of researchers: to examine the appropriateness of the Government's 350ML biofuels target; and to examine the life-cycle of greenhouse gas emissions from maize, which is a possible feedstock for ethanol.

Dr Beer is President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and was Leader of the Hazards Science Theme of the International Year of Planet Earth. Dr Beer chaired the meeting at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that, in June 2002, adopted the Budapest Manifesto on Risk Science and Sustainability (http://www.iugg.org/publications/reports/budapest.pdf). During 1995 he was Science Adviser to the Environment Protection Agency in Canberra and undertook a risk review of national environmental priorities. Subsequently, Dr Beer undertook two of the preparatory studies for the National Environment Protection Measure for Ambient Air Quality. He was a lead author for the Atmosphere Theme Report of the Australian 2001 and 2006 State of the Environment reports.

Dr Beer is the author of fourteen books, over 100 articles in refereed journals, a similar number of book chapters and papers in conference proceedings, and over 44 specialised consultancy reports.

Professor Milton Hearn

Biography:
MILTON T W HEARN B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D., D.Sc. FTSE, FAICD, FRACI, is currently Professor of Chemistry and Director, ARC Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University, Australia. He has authored 535 scientific publications and several books, and named inventor on over 20 patents related to developments in chemistry and biotechnology. He is the recipient of numerous Awards, including the Centennial Medal of the Commonwealth of Australia for his contributions to the chemical sciences and biotechnology. Professor Hearn has actively interacted with the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and scientific instrument industries, in Australia and overseas, for more than 25 years, associated with the development and commercialization of new products, some of which have arisen from the discoveries made by Professor Hearn and his research team.

Professor Barry Brook

Title:
Sustainable energy solutions for successful climate change mitigation

Abstract:
Given current and future impacts of climate change, oil shortages, health effects of coal burning and the growing need for future energy for electricity, to create energy carriers, and for desalination, society desperately needs a clear vision for our short- and long-term low-carbon energy future. In this talk he will briefly review the twin climate and energy crises, and critically assess the relative prospects for renewable energy and nuclear power, from a global and national perspective.

Biography:
Professor Barry Brook holds the Foundation Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the University of Adelaide. He has published two books and over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and regularly writes opinion pieces and popular articles for the media. He has received a number of distinguished awards in recognition of his research excellence (including the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal). His focus is on climate change, computational and statistical modelling, systems analysis for sustainable energy, and the synergies between human impacts on Earth systems. He is currently writing a popular book on nuclear power as a sustainable energy source.

Chem-E-Car

Saxa Salt

1. OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this competition is to design and construct a car that uses a chemical reaction or reactions to power it and to control the distance it travels carrying a specified load. The goal of the competition is to have your car stop closest to a specified finish line (not being out of bounds) while carrying a specified load. The competition is about demonstrating ability to control a chemical reaction.

2. COMPETITIONS:
During the early part of 2010 it is proposed to have competitions within Chemical Engineering Departments in Australia and New Zealand. The winners of these competitions will play off in a Grand Final at the CHEMECA in Adelaide, Australia, 26 - 29 September 2010.
There are two parts to each level of the Chem-E-Car Competition; a poster competition and a car performance competition.

3. RULES AND REQUIREMENTS:
3.1 Poster Competition:
(a) A poster board must be displayed with the autonomous vehicle on the day of the competition. This poster should describe how the car is powered using the chemical reaction, the unique features of the car, weight of the complete car without the prescribed water load, and environmental and safety features in the design. Entries will also be judged on creativity. If obvious safety violations have occurred the judges have the discretion to disqualify the entry.
(b) The poster competition display and judging will occur prior to the Chem-E-Car performance Competition. Team members should be present during judging to answer questions from the judges.
(c) Winners of the poster competition will be announced at the start of the performance competition.
3.2 Chem-E-Car Performance Competition:
3.2.1 Team Formation and Ethical Conduct
(a) Only undergraduate students enrolled in Chemical Engineering and related degree courses for 2008 are eligible for entry.
(b) The competition will be conducted on the honor system. Academic staff and postgraduate students can only act as sounding boards to the student queries. The academic staff cannot be idea generators for the project.
(c) The students working on the project must also sign a statement saying they have abided by the rules.
(d) This is a team competition. The minimum team size is 2 participants.
3.2.2: Rules and requirements
(a) Each car will be given two opportunities to traverse a specified distance carrying a certain additional load. The required load and distance will be announced to the teams one-hour prior to the start of the performance competition. The distance will be between 10 and 30 m ± 0.005 m and the load will be between 0 and 500 ml water. Teams may not add or remove any water (or other items) to adjust their vehicle weight once the poster session has concluded. Figure 1: Chem-E-Car course layout 10 – 30 m 30 degrees Course boundaries Start line Designated finish line
(b) The car will start with its front end just touching the designated starting point. There will be a designated finish line. The distance will be measured with respect to the front end of the car. The goal of the competition is to have your car stop closest to the specified finish line (not being out of bounds) while carrying the specified load. When measuring the distance from the prescribed distance it does not matter if the car goes longer or shorter than the prescribed distance. The course will be wedge shaped with a starting point and the prescribed distance clearly marked in an arc of constant distance from the starting point (Figure 1). The physical site will dictate the exact course layout. A vehicle that goes outside the course will be disqualified from that round of competition.
(c) The Chem-E-Car Competition judges will announce each team just prior to the start of their run. The team then has 2 minutes to get to the starting line, introduce their entry to the audience (team name and briefly mention your propulsion system) and start their car. Each car will have 2 attempts. The best score of these two attempts will be used in the judging. In the first round of attempts the order of the teams will be by random drawing. At the completion of the first round of attempts there will be a 5-minute break before the second round begins. The competition order in the second round of attempts will be determined by the 1^st round standings, beginning with the entry that had the entry furthest from the prescribed distance and ending with the team that was closest.
(d) An objective of this contest is a demonstration of the ability to control a chemical reaction. The only energy source for the propulsion of the car is a chemical reaction. The distance travelled by the car must be controlled by a chemical reaction and no other means.
(e) All components of the car must fit into a shoebox with dimensions equal to or smaller than 32 x 20 x 12 cm. The car may be disassembled to meet this requirement. If the judges are uncertain whether the car will fit inside the box when dissembled they may request that the team demonstrate they can do this.
(f) The car must carry a container that holds up to 500 mL of water without spilling. An example container is a 500 ml Low-Density Polyethylene bottle (Selby Biolab catalogue number: NAL2003-0016 or equivalent). At the competition, only the water will be supplied, thus each car must already have its own container.
(g) The cost of the contents of the "shoe box" and the chemicals must be less than AU$500.
(h) A car that uses a pressurized device must have evidence of proper design and pressure testing.
(i) Any car using or producing corrosive chemicals must have these chemicals contained to prevent leakage – even in the event of the car overturning.
(j) Students are responsible for providing a hazard assessment on their cars, safety data and disposal information on the chemicals used. For the Department Competitions provision of chemicals will be arranged by the Department Competition Coordinator and the Department Safety Officer or equivalent. (Other arrangements will be put in place for the Grand Final). Hazardous chemical protocols must be followed and reported on the poster. If obvious safety violations have occurred the judges have the discretion to disqualify the entry. If there is an uncertainty on an issue of safety contact the Competition Coordinator: Matt Hardin (matt.t.hardin@gmail.com).
(k) All cars must safely operate inside a building. If a car is deemed unsafe, then the judges may disqualify it. If there is an uncertainty on an issue of safety or other judging criteria contact Matt Hardin.
(l) Appropriate personal protection must be worn when handling chemicals and working with the car. Such protection must be provided by the entrants.
(m) Chemicals must not be stored or used in hotel rooms.
3.2.3: Things that are specifically disallowed
(a) The car must be an autonomous vehicle and must not be controlled remotely.
(b) Pushing the car to start it is not allowed.
(c) Starting the car using a mechanical device is not allowed.
(d) Commercial batteries (for example, AA batteries) are not allowed at all on the car.
(e) The car must be designed to avoid any liquid discharge. Any liquid on the car must be contained and not allowed to discharge from the car. Vehicles that intentionally spray liquids will be disqualified. (Given the general public’s lack of understanding of general chemistry, anything that is visibly left behind by the car may well be construed as chemical pollution or even a hazardous material.)
(f) A car which uses a naked flame or ignition source (e.g. spark) is not allowed.
(g) A car which emits smoke is not allowed.
(h) The use of anything resembling a fuse, either commercially available or home made, is not allowed. Simple “rocket” cars which discharge gas and liquid (acid and baking soda producing CO2, for example) as a means of propulsion are not allowed.
(i) No mechanical force can be applied to the wheel or ground to slow or stop the car (e.g. no brakes).
(j) There can be no mechanical or electronic device may be used to stop the chemical reaction or to stop the car.
If in doubt whether your idea is legal, consult you’re the coordinators Matt Hardin (matt.t.hardin@gmail.com).

4. PRIZES
Winners of the Grand Final competition at CHEMECA will be recognised with the following prizes:
Poster Competition
1^st 2^nd and 3^rd Places: Certificates
Performance Competition
1^st Place: Trophy and certificates
2^nd Place: Certificates
3^rd Place: Certificates

5. DESIGN TIPS
Many cars in recent competitions have failed because of poor mechanical design.
So take particular care to:

Ensure that your car will travel in a straight line.
Ensure that you car is able to travel on different surfaces. We cannot guarantee that the surface for the Grand Final Competition is as level or as smooth as the one you used for the Department Competition or your test work.

6. WHERE TO FROM HERE?
(a) To enter the competition, make up a team and contact your Department Competition Coordinator.
(b) Before proceeding with any practical trials, each team must receive the go-ahead in writing from your Department Competition Coordinator.
(c) To obtain the go-ahead, each team must submit to the Department Competition Coordinator a written description of the concept for the car. This must include a risk assessment (see Safety section below) and details of chemicals to be used and their associated hazards.

7. SAFETY
Before commencing any practical trials, each team must receive the written approval to proceed from their Department Competition Coordinator. The approval to proceed will be given in response to submission to the Department Competition Coordinator of a satisfactory thorough written risk assessment. The risk assessment will have two components: (a) the handling and disposal of the chemicals involved and (b) the car design. The risk assessment must demonstrate how the risks involved in handling chemicals and in operating the car have been minimized to a low level through appropriate design features and operating and handling procedures.
The component of the risk assessment on the handling and disposal of the chemicals will include safe work instructions, which ensure that the risks involved are minimized. These instructions must include details of how the chemicals used, together with any reaction products, are safely disposed of.
As an example of the component of the risk assessment on the car design, in the case of a design where a gas is generated under pressure, the assessment would involve calculating the maximum pressure to be achieved in the vessel under normal operation, demonstrating by calculation that the vessel and associated piping is of sufficient strength to contain the pressure, identification of possible abnormal operation scenarios leading to overpressure and selection of a suitable relief valve to vent pressure.

8. DEPARTMENT COMPETITION DATE:
Your Department Competition should take place towards the end of semester one or in early semester two. The exact date will be announced by your Department Chem-E-Car Competition Coordinator.

Team Talledega Knights

Journal Special Issues

The Organizing Committee is very pleased to be able to announce that a number of international journals have agreed to publish special issues of papers derived from those presented at Chemeca 2010. Contributions to these special issues will be by invitation only based on the quality of the contribution to Chemeca 2010.

To date, the following top-rated international journals have all agreed to host special issues:

We are also in discussions with the editors of other highly-rated international journals in the nanotechnology, and engineering education fields and hope to be able to announce further partnerships soon.

Professor Dongke Zhang

Presentation Title: How Far Can Biomass Energy Travel?

Biography:
Professor Dongke Zhang FTSE is a Winthrop Professor, Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering and Inaugural Director of Centre for Energy at The University of Western Australia, and a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and John Curtin Distinguished Professor.

His research interests spread over combustion science and fuel technology; ignition and flames; coal and biomass pyrolysis, combustion and gasification; natural gas combustion and reforming; gas to liquid, coal to liquid and biomass to liquid (XtL); conversion and utilisation of biomass and organic wastes; bioenergy; homogeneous combustion catalysts for internal combustion engines; applied catalysis and surface science; mining and minerals processing; industrial explosives; spontaneous combustion; CO2 capture technologies and abatement and strategies, including integrated biofuel production and carbon biosequentration; and energy options and sustainable energy development. He has successfully raised and managed funding for research, valued more than A$26 millions over his 16 years academic career, from the Commonwealth and States Governments, and Australian and overseas industries.
A contemporary scientist and a "can-do" engineer, Professor Zhang has conceptualised, trialed, and succeeded in his theories and practice in developing a modern University - industry relationship. He believes that the true value of academic research is best measured by its practical use. Knowledge belongs to the society and technology belongs to the industry. He works closely with the industry to rapidly disseminate his knowledge to the society and industry. He has repeatedly demonstrated his ability and the "dare to push the limits" attitude in successfully transforming his scientific imaginations into commercial realities through persistent strategic fundamental research, tactical applied research and technological innovations.

Professor David Lowe

Presentation Title:
Remote labs: improved learning, greater flexibility, higher quality, and lower cost - achieving it all!

Biography:
Prof Lowe is the Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology, Sydney. This research centre is a designated UTS Research Strength focused on blending embedded systems and telecommunications in addressing real-world problems. He is also the Project Director for the LabShare project: a national initiative focused on sharing of teaching laboratory infrastructure through the use of remote access technologies. Prior to his current role he spent 6 years (2002-2008) as the Associate Dean (T&L) for the Faculty of Engineering, UTS, in which role he had overall strategic and operational responsibility for all teaching programs offered by the Faculty.He has active research interests in the areas of real-time information management, web systems, and software engineering. Two key areas of current focus are on real-time control of embedded systems in the web environment, and remote access to, and control of, physical laboratory systems . He has published widely, including three texts (most recently Web Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, McGraw-Hill, co-authored with Roger Pressman). He is also on numerous Web conference committees and journal editorial boards (including as Editor-in-Chief of the ICST Transactions on the Real-World Web, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering). He has undertaken numerous consultancies related to software evaluation, Web development (especially project planning and evaluation) and Web technologies.He has an outstanding teaching record, including teaching and course development in software engineering, engineering design and Web technologies. He also has considerable consulting experience in the areas of web systems and software engineering, as well as running industry short courses in these areas. He also serves as a Higher Education Generalist on DET Assessment panels

Dr David Mills

Presentation Title:
Wind and Solar Thermal Electric Generation as the foundation of a New US Electricity Grid

Biography:
Mills is known worldwide for pioneering Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology and for his work in non-imaging optics, solar thermal energy, and PV systems over 32 years. Mills originated and ran the research program that in 1991, with colleague Dr. Q-C. Zhang, developed the most advanced sputtered double cermet selective absorber coating, which is now used in evacuated tube receivers by China's largest solar company, Himin. He developed or co-developed other commercial systems including the Prism solar concentrator and the "S" evacuated tube reflecting system (Solahart). He is a former president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) and served as inaugural chair of the International Solar Cities Initiative (ISCI). In 2002 he co-founded Solar Heat and Power which built the Liddell solar power station. In 2009 Mills became the first VESKI Entrepreneur in Residence for the State of Victoria, and gave the Deakin Lecture in September. In February of this year, Ausra, the startup company he co-founded in the USA in 2007, was sold to the huge AREVA conglomerate as the new solar division after three years of operation. He has recently submitted patents, among others, on advanced collector systems and thermal storage as Ausra's CSO.

Chemeca 2010

26–29 September 2010

Hilton Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia