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Chem-e-car

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2005 Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineering

Conference Theme

Chemeca 2005 has the theme "Smart solutions - doing more with less". It will showcase the latest knowledge in process engineering specifically covering the areas of:

Education and Professional Development

Industrial and Operations Applications

Research and Innovation

Product Development and Commercialisation and

Quality, Safety and the Environment

Papers have been submitted covering developments in these areas from researchers and practitioners in the fields of:

Biomedical Engineering (including Drug Delivery and Cell and Tissue Culture)

Bioprocessing

Chemical Engineering Fundamentals

Education

Food Technology

Industrial Operations

Materials Engineering (including Advanced Materials, Biomedical, Nanostructural Materials, Metals and Composites)

Minerals Processing

Modelling

Particle Technology

Polymers (including Synthesis, Processing and Rheology)

Process Safety and Risk Assessment

Product Development

Reaction Engineering (Reactor and Catalyst Design)

Sustainability and Environmental Engineering

Waste Water Engineering

Keynote Speakers

Robin Batterham
Chief Technologist, Rio Tinto Ltd, Australia

Leeanne Bond
WorleyParsons, Brisbane, Australia

Jake de Boer
GHD Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia

Dong Chen
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Paul Greenfield
The University of Queensland, Australia

Jim Litster
The University of Queensland, Australia

Anton Middelberg
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Workshops

1. Chemical Engineering Education Forum and Annual General Meeting

2. Innovation for Engineers Workshop: Improving your own and others' innovation

3. Intellectual Property

4. Chemical Engineering for the Environment

5. Advances in Particle Technology Workshop

6. Hydrogen Technologies and Opportunities for Australia

7. Project Management

8. Risk Management

9. Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing

Technical Tour

A unique opportunity is presented for conference delegates to visit the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT) - a world class facility for R&D in the mining, energy and manufacturing industries.

QCAT was established as a joint venture between the Queensland Government and CSIRO, which has created a critical mass of expertise that provides innovative science and engineering solutions in the areas of mineral exploration, geophysics, coal mining, coal processing, coal utilisation, minerals mining, mineral processing, mine-site rehabilitation and foundry technology.

QCAT is home to:

CSIRO Divisions including Minerals, Exploration and Mining, Energy Technology, the ICT Centre and the Light Metals Flagship

Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development (CCSD)

Centre for Low Emission Technology

Alcan Queensland Research and Development Centre

Australian Centre for Mining and Environmental Research (ACMER)

Air-conditioned bus transport will be provided free of charge, for the visit on Tuesday, 27 September.

The schedule for the afternoon is:
13:05 - Depart from Elizabeth Street, Hilton Brisbane
13:45 - Arrival at the QCAT site, located in Pullenvale on the outskirts of Brisbane
15:45 - Final departure
16:15 - Return to Hilton Brisbane

Please note that:

Technical tour attire is required (i.e. closed shoes or safety boots, long sleeves and long trousers)

The Organising Committee reserves the right to modify this program depending on the number of applications received

Whilst there is no additional fee payable to attend the Technical Tour, delegates must indicate on the registration form to secure a place.

Chem-e-car

At the 6^th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Melbourne in September 2001 we held the final of the first Australasian Chem-E-Car Competition. This tradition has continued for every Chemeca since and Brisbane is no exception!

The competition is for undergraduate students. The objective is to design and construct a car that uses a chemical reaction to power it and to control the distance it travels carrying a specified load. The competition is about demonstrating ability to control a chemical reaction.

Detailed rules are available on the Chemeca website. Matt Hardin is the local coordinator and Martin Rhodes is the overall coordinator and final arbiter for any rules and enquiries about design. Entries are available through Martin Rhodes.

Date: Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Time: 10:45 – 12:05
Venue: Suncorp Piazza, South Bank Parklands
Cost: No charge

Robin Batterham

Chief Technologist, Rio Tinto Ltd, Australia
Robin Batterham joined Rio Tinto in 1988 following a research and management career in CSIRO. His qualifications are in chemical engineering and he gained his PhD from Melbourne University in 1968. His early work in Rio Tinto was focussed on the development of the Hismelt process and he later became Vice-President, Research and Technology within the Group. His current role is Chief Technologist and he advises the Head of Technology and the Board on emerging scientific and technical issues. He also holds several senior government advisory roles including that of Chief Scientist of Australia.

Leeanne Bond

WorleyParsons, Brisbane, Australia
Leeanne Bond graduated from University of Queensland in 1986 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and has had 18 years experience in engineering and the energy/resources industries including process/chemical engineering design, project management, engineering/design management (all disciplines), project and business risk assessment, business and financial management, engineering and technical recruiting, staff training and personnel development and development of capital projects. She has been very active in professional bodies and the engineering community through roles as the first female Queensland President of Engineers Australia in 2002 and a member of the national Chemical College Board of Engineers Australia. She has served as deputy chair of the Queensland Government's Board of Professional Engineers and was invited to be a member of the Queensland Gas Appeals Tribunal and the Smart Women Smart State taskforce. Leeanne was recognised in 2000 through the Shedden Uhde Medal for services to the profession of Chemical Engineering. She holds a management position with WorleyParsons, a large Australian-owned engineering and project management company, and is a non-executive director of Tarong Energy Corporation

Jake de Boer

GHD Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia
Jake de Boer is a Principal Chemical Engineer with leading Engineering Consultancy, GHD, in Perth. Jake has over 23 years experience in transforming various forms of energy and products for solids, liquids and gas, including renewables. He has a particular passion for energy efficiency. Jake's recognised strengths include innovative concept development and strategic and financial analysis. Following broad experience with R&D, commissioning and operations of a commercial gas phase uranium enrichment plant, Jake joined Sasol in 1988, globally the largest and most successful coal and gas to synfuels company. Jake's Sasol portfolio included long-term synfuel complex development, corporate strategy support and establishing a renewable energy group.

In Australia recent work has included:

Scoping and costing a 55 000 bbl/d carbon sequestered coal-to-synfuels plant proposal for APEL, in Victoria

Developing a low cost IGGC concept on Australian coal

Dong Chen

The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Dong Chen was born in 1965 in Beijing, China. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Thermophysics in 1987 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and was awarded his PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury New Zealand in 1991. Dong had worked at New Zealand Dairy Research Institute for 2.5 years, where he had made significant contributions (with large financial returns for the industry). Late 1993, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Auckland and in 1998, he was promoted to associate professor and a full professor (personal chair) in 2001. He was elected to the rank of Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand in the year 2000, Fellow of IChemE in 2001 and was the recipient of the Royal Society Cooper Medal (2002) for the cutting edge contribution to food process engineering in New Zealand. Professor Chen has been the leader of the Food and the Bio-product Processing Research Cluster at the Auckland School of Engineering, the academic coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratories at the same school, and the current Chairman of the NZ Food Engineering Association. Dong has published well over 200 refereed technical papers in the areas of food processing, chemical engineering and biochemical engineering. He has authored or co-authored over 50 technical reports for the contract works performed for various companies in New Zealand. He is the Professorial Principal of Food Engineering at the Riddet Centre of Excellence for Food Research, which is a joint venture between Massey, Auckland and Otago Universities. He is also the Inaugural Chair of Strategic Development for the Centre. He is currently serving on several international journal editorial boards.

Paul Greenfield

The University of Queensland, Australia
Paul Greenfield is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland. He has an honours degree and PhD in Chemical Engineering from UNSW and an Economics degree from The University of Queensland. His research interests over the last 30 years include biochemical engineering, environmental management and R & D Management.

Jim Litster

The University of Queensland, Australia
Jim Litster is currently Head of the School of Engineering at The University of Queensland where he has been academic staff member in Chemical Engineering for 18 years. He is also a distinguished visiting professorial position at The University of Delaware. Jim has a strong interest in innovative engineering education and was part of the team which introduced the project centred curriculum chemical engineering at UQ. His research interests are in particle design, where he has a strong international reputation and he has strong industrial links in Australia, Europe and the Americas.

Anton Middelberg

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Professor Middelberg is an ARC Federation Fellow and the Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Queensland. He has held academic positions at Adelaide, Queensland and Cambridge Universities, as well as a Fulbright fellowship at Berkeley. He is currently an Executive Editor of Chemical Engineering Science.

1. Chemical Engineering Education Forum and Annual General Meeting

The Chemical Engineering Education Subject Group was formed at Chemeca 2004 to promote and support chemical engineering education activities at all levels. This will be done by seeking to further information exchange between universities and industry, developing a network of interested and committed chemical engineers and sharing expertise and ideas for best practice in chemical engineering education. Although the Group's focus is on undergraduate and postgraduate education it will also be involved in continuing education activities as well as promoting the profession in schools.

In the first part of this Workshop the Group's Annual General Meeting will be held when the year's activities will be reviewed and committee members will be elected. The outcomes of the Group's first workshop on the Final Year Design Project will be presented and discussed. The Workshop will then focus on the development of plans for the coming years.

These plans may include the following activities:

Establishment of an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemical Engineering Education

Regular Workshops Focusing on Specific Topics

Visiting Overseas Speakers/Experts

Co-Ordination of Courseware Development

Education Surveys

Promotion of the Profession in Schools

The open forum will allow participants to discuss how the subject group can best respond to the needs of the broader chemical engineering education community. Participants will be able to nominate topics and future directions for discussion.

In the final section of the Workshop representatives of three selected Departments will briefly present the innovations in education practice or policy currently in place in their Departments.

Facilitator: David Shallcross
University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor David Shallcross is Chair of the IChemE Chemical Engineering Education Subject Group. An Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne he is also a member of the IChemE Accreditation Committee and a Corresponding Member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering Education Working Party. He has published education papers in Chemical Engineering Education, the European Journal of Engineering Education, Australian Senior Mathematics Journal and Vinculum.

2. Innovation for Engineers Workshop: Improving your own and others' innovation

This workshop, based on a program of research with leading international engineering organisations, is designed to help you improve both your own and others' levels of innovation. The workshop starts from the premise that just because it's novel, creative, and innovative, does not necessarily mean that it's good. It also goes beyond traditional creative thinking techniques to examine the barriers to innovation for engineers, and how engineers can get their ideas implemented within their organisation. Strategies to improve your own levels of innovation will be covered, as will strategies to help improve others' levels of innovation. Please note that this workshop is limited to a minimum of 10 people and a maximum of 30 people.

Facilitator: Kerrie Unsworth
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Kerrie Unsworth is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Queensland University of Technology. She is also Director of the Work Effectiveness Research Program within the Faculty of Business at QUT, and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Dr Unsworth gained her PhD at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK, and has worked with a number of organisations in the UK and Australia to improve their innovation, including Rolls-Royce plc, BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace), Rotherham NHS Trust UK, and Queensland Treasury.

3. Intellectual Property

Intellectual capital is a major competitive advantage. Therefore, the identification, protection and management of intellectual property should be seen as a fundamental component of business strategy for all organisations. This workshop will review fundamental Intellectual Property concepts, discuss patent landscaping strategies and overview licensing pathways to assist individuals and organisations involved in R&D, product development and commercialisation.

Topics include:

What to patent

Why protect your Intellectual Property

Introduction to Licensing strategies

Facilitator: Peter Kambouris
Future Materials, Brisbane, Australia
Peter is the founding State Manager for Future Materials in Queensland. His technical competency spans the fields of organic synthesis, polymer and material technology, surface and colloid science, biomaterials, proteomic and genomics. He also has extensive experience in the capture, protection and commercial exploitation of intellectual property as well as an appreciation for the regulatory landscape for emerging technologies.

4. Chemical Engineering for the Environment

Chemical engineering makes extensive contributions to improved quality of life for everyone. Chemical engineering also extensively interacts with and impacts on the environment. More often than not, these interactions are perceived negatively by society. On the other hand, chemical engineering has contributed enormously towards minimising the negative impacts of human activities on the environment. Chemical industries have also realised the need for sustainability, so that future industries will be based on a healthy natural environment. The challenge is that chemical engineering should not only minimise the negative impacts on the natural environment, but also positively contribute to the health of the environment such that the capacity for the environment to provide natural resources is maintained and enhanced. Therefore, chemical engineering must be good for the environment and a healthy environment is good for chemical engineering.

The aim of this environmental workshop is to showcase the positive contributions of chemical engineering to the environment. Participants of the workshop will present chemical engineering research and best industry practices that are to the benefit of the environment and explore new concepts and ideas on what chemical engineering can do for the environment. Topics suitable for the workshop include: more for less - eco-efficiencies in chemical processing, sustainability principles for chemical engineering, cleaner production and clean chemical technology, industrial ecology and future urban environmental systems, new chemical processes and technologies for the environment, alternative resources supply and management, and environmental chemical processes and chemicals in the environment.

Facilitator: Jimmy Yu
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Jimmy Yu is a senior lecturer in the School of Environmental Engineering, Griffith University. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and worked at the University of Queensland before joining Griffith University. Dr Jimmy Yu's teaching and research interests include environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology, adsorption and biosorption processes, and water and wastewater treatment.

Please contact Dr Jimmy Yu for submitting an abstract and further details of the workshop:

Phone: 07 3875 5289
Fax: 07 3875 7459

5. Advances in Particle Technology Workshop

Objectives:
To showcase the latest research in Australia and New Zealand in the area of particle technology. To bring together particle technology researchers and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand to present their research findings and experience, exchange ideas and develop collaborations.

Papers on recent advances in particle technology topics selected from the following areas will be presented:

Particle and bulk powder characterisation

Particle design

New industrial applications of particle technology

Powder handling and multiphase flow

Solid-fluid separation processes

Particle technology education

Facilitator: Martin Rhodes
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Martin Rhodes has an honours degree in chemical engineering, a PhD in particle
technology, three years industrial experience in chemical and combustion engineering and 20 years as an academic at Bradford University (England) and Monash University (Australia). He has a Personal Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, where he is presently Head of Department. He is researching various aspects of gas fluidisation and particle technology, areas in which he many refereed publications in journals and international conference proceedings. He has demonstrated ability to compete for scarce research funding, to manage research projects and publish findings in renowned learned journals. Martin has a keen interest in particle technology education; in 1990 he edited a reference book entitled Principles of Powder Technology, in 1998 he published his undergraduate textbook Introduction to Particle Technology and a year later produced a CDROM entitled Laboratory Demonstrations in Particle Technology; he has also directed continuing education courses for industry on Particle Technology subjects in the UK and Australia. Martin is a past Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Particle Technology Subject Group of the IChemE, founding chair of the Particle Technology Interest Group of the JVCEC. He was instrumental in establishing in 1998 the Australasian Particle Technology Society under the auspices of the Institution of Engineers Australia and is currently President of this society. Martin was Deputy Chair of the organising committee of the 4^th World Congress in Particle Technology held in Sydney in 2002 and was a member of the technical committee for the 6^th World Congress of Chemical Engineering held in Melbourne in 2001.

6. Hydrogen Technologies and Opportunities

Global concerns over the environmental effect of carbon dioxide emissions have led to the extensive research and development of environmentally benign technologies, in particular the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. These technologies have the potential to provide a long term solution to Queensland and Australia's energy requirements, with low life cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion in the following areas:

Clean energy policies

Hydrogen generation technologies and their environmental impact

The role of low emission coal technologies as a pathway to hydrogen

Industrial strategic development to deliver hydrogen

Current R&D in fuel cell technology

Hydrogen as an alternative transport fuel

The prospects for fuel cell vehicles

Speakers from government, industry and academia will identify major opportunities and directions for hydrogen as a potential long-term carrier of energy for Queensland and Australia. Being hosted in conjunction with Chemeca 2005, which brings together a broad spectrum of Australia's leading process industry practioners and researchers, also provides numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion and networking around the theme of hydrogen technologies and opportunities.

Co-Facilitator: Joe da Costa
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Joe da Costa is the Associate Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Functional Nanomaterials and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Joe has over 20 years working experience in industrial, consultancy and academic roles in Brazil, England and Australia. Currently, he leads several research projects in the area of membranes and membrane reactors. And proton conduction (electrolyte) membranes for fuel cells. His research is particularly directed towards CO2 capture and sequestration in coal power generation, H2 and the water gas shift reaction in coal gasification, and to improve proton conduction to increase power density in fuel cells. His work involves the application of the principles of functional nanotechnology to fabricate high quality membranes to provide engineering solutions to real industrial applications such as hydrostability, regenerability as a strategy to combat membrane fouling, high fluxes and selectivities. He has collaborated in the research and development of reformate clean up in PEM fuel cells with Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Division (UK). Joe has over 50 international publications including 3 book chapters on nanomaterials for membranes and membrane reactors.

Co-Facilitator: Andrew Dicks
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Andrew Dicks graduated from the University of Loughborough in Industrial Chemistry and went on to gain a PhD in catalysis. Subsequently he has spent a career in the UK gas industry, working on catalytic process development including coal gasification, before developing an interest in energy systems analysis. In 1986 Andrew was appointed to lead fuel cell research in British Gas. Working with European developers such as Siemens, ECN, Gaz de France, Enericerche, Alstom, and Sydkraft, his research team gained international recognition for their work on high temperature fuel cells. He also chaired a major research project on PEM fuel cells at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, part-funded by Ballard Power Systems. For his work in fuel cells, Andrew Dicks was awarded the Henry Jones medal of the Institution of Gas Engineers. He has published widely in the scientific literature, is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Power Sources, and continues to give many keynote lectures at international hydrogen and fuel cell conferences. He has served on several conference committees, and is leading the organisation of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference that will be held in Brisbane in 2008. Andrew was a member of the UK DTI Fuel Cell Advisory Panel and was consulted on the drafting of the European strategy on fuel cells and hydrogen. In 2001 he was awarded a fellowship to pursue research at the University of Queensland. His current projects involve collaboration with Ceramic Fuel Cells, Melbourne and the Gas Technology Institute, Chicago.

Further information available here.

7. Project Management

To be successful a project must be both well defined and well implemented but in the real world neither can be assured. This workshop explores the methods and tools for both identifying viable projects and the benefits of relationship contracting in delivering them. The workshop draws on the guidance of highly experienced practitioners in both project development and alliance contracting with reference to real world examples and case studies.

Part 1 - Project Development, presented by Assoc. Prof. David Brennan will address the specific themes of project definition, safety and inherent safety, technical risk, sustainability and environment, project evaluation, life cycle costing, plant revamps and capacity ramp up.

Part 2 - Project Delivery via Relationship Contracting presented by Brad Cowan and John Davis, Southern Pacific Alliance Network, will examine the origins of Relationship Contracting, their different styles identifying advantages, disadvantages, relevance, recent learning from actual alliance contracts and the issues that this contracting style must resolve to be an effective, sustainable infrastructure and service delivery vehicle. Several case studies, drawn from actual projects will be presented and analysed.

The workshop will be of interest to anyone involved in project feasibility, project development, project and financial analysis, contracting strategy, construction management or project management. The workshop is being organised jointly by the IEAust, IChemE, RACI and the Australian Institute of Project Management.

Co-Facilitator: David Brennan
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
David Brennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne. After graduating in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales, he worked with ICI Australia and Simon Carves Australia in plant design and operation. He then began lecturing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, subsequently completing Master's (Monash) and Doctoral (Melbourne) degrees. He joined Monash University in 1989. During his academic career he has been seconded to ICI Australia, Orica and Aker Kvaerner to work on various aspects of project planning and review. His teaching and research interests are in process design, economic evaluation and environmental assessment (including Life Cycle Assessment) applied to process industry projects and problems. He is the author of 3 books (on process economics) and over 60 papers. He is a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society.

Co-Facilitator: Alan Tupicoff
Alan has a diverse background within the construction industry within both the public and private sectors. He has a degree in Quantity Surveying and is currently employed within Project Services as Principal Contracts Officer. Alan has served on the Queensland Chapter of AIPM as Councillor, Secretary and currently Chapter President. He was Chairman of the state organising committee - Institute's Project Management Achievement Awards from 2000 to 2004, and now is the Assistant Chair of the National Events Committee.

8. Risk Management

Following on from the conference Process Safety and Risk technical sessions, an open forum discussion session will be held in which speakers and delegates will be invited to contribute case studies and or personal experiences related to the actual implementation of safety and risk practices. The open forum discussion will be chaired and led by Greg Ramsay with the intention of eliciting where practice is succeeding and failing and identifying a road map for future improvement. The session will be an ideal opportunity for delegates to make their own contributions to this conference theme and to network with other industry professionals.

The forum will provide the speakers from the Process and Safety Technical Sessions the opportunity to explore in much greater detail the key industry trends and learnings they have identified and presented in their papers. A central theme for the forum will be the Safety Lifecycle Process for process plants.

Elements of this theme are covered by a number of speakers and include:

Process Hazard Studies;

Risk Assessments;

Design Safety; and

Emergency Response and Consequence Management.

The various speakers also represent different sections of our industry including:

Process Facility Operators;

Design and Engineering Companies;

Contractors; and

Emergency Services Authorities.

The forum will seek to use this body of expertise as represented by the technical speakers in combination with the total body of experience and "lessons learnt" of conference delegates to develop a combined view of the "way forward" for the development of safer and hence more sustainable processing facilities.

Facilitator: Greg Ramsay
Hatch Consulting, Australia
Greg is the Global Director - Risk Management with Hatch Consulting and has over twenty years experience in infrastructure and resource development. He specialises in the areas of project development, due diligence, project risk, project value analysis and business strategy. Greg has also developed project and business risk analysis methodologies that have been documented as Functional Guides for use on major projects and studies by Hatch. Capital risk methods have also been developed utilizing Monte Carlo analysis that can be used to develop project capital budgets, targets and contingency budgets.

9. Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing

The Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing was established in late 2003 with an aim to create new methods to produce minerals and metals in a way that benefits the community, the environment and industry. CSRP is a combined industry, researcher and government initiative with more than 40 organisations currently participating in CSRP activities.

CSRP's Research effort is structured across four programs:

Strategic Analysis and Methodologies

Eco-efficiency of Existing Operations

Regional and Supply Chain Synergies

Breakthrough Enabling Technologies

The activities within these programs will look to breakdown the technical barriers to improving current minerals operations and develop a technology platform to enable the minerals sector to best develop more sustainable operations in the future. This will provide a range of near and long term outcomes across the whole of the minerals sector and related industries, reducing the environmental footprint of the minerals sector, whilst delivering improved economic returns in harmony with community expectations.

CSRP will provide an update on the work currently underway, review the results to date and provide a view of future directions and challenges for CSRP in achieving its objectives.

This series of papers will include presentations on development of zero waste flow sheets, sustainability metrics, reducing energy intensity, the impact of minor elements, regional synergy case studies, geopolymers from wastes and more.

Facilitator: Stevan Green
Centre for Sustainable Resources Processing, Western Australia
Stevan has a wealth of local and international experience and knowledge of the engineering, minerals and energy industry. West Australian by birth, Stevan is a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Western Australia. Since then he has worked for a number of major organisations, including Shell, BHP Billiton and the North West Shelf Venture.

Stevan has spent much of his professional life finding innovative solutions to issues including:

Responsibility for the design of the first of its kind Methanol Research Plant in Melbourne;

Helping the Government of Mozambique upgrade its edible oil production facilities; and

Developing commercial opportunities for the North West Shelf Venture

Social Program

Welcome Reception
All full delegates are invited to attend the Welcome Reception. Renew old friendships and make new acquaintances as we welcome you to Brisbane and Chemeca 2005. Drinks and cocktail food will be served.

Date: Sunday, 25 September 2005
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Hilton Brisbane, Poolside
Cost: Included in the registration fees (please indicate on the registration form if you will be attending)
Additional tickets: $45 per person

Conference Dinner
The Conference Dinner is traditionally the social highlight of the program. It is a chance to network with peers in a relaxing and enjoyable environment, whilst sampling some delicious cuisine. Wanganui River Gardens is positioned on the banks of the tranquil Brisbane River and is set among the beautifully landscaped gardens.

Date: Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Time: 18:30 Lady Brisbane departure 19:30 Dinner Wanganui River Gardens
Venue: Wanganui River Gardens (Corner of Orlando & Ormandale Roads, Yeronga)
Transport: Please make your way to 123 Eagle Street (Riverside Centre) where the Lady Brisbane will be waiting to take you on a leisurely cruise down the Brisbane River to Wanganui Gardens. Drinks and canapes will be served. The Lady Brisbane will depart the Riverside Centre at 18:30 sharp. Coaches will depart Wanganui River Gardens from 22:30 and will drop delegates back at the Hilton Brisbane.
Cost: Included in the full registration fees. Tickets will be issued upon collecting you registration documents.
Additional tickets: $90 per person

2005 Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineering

These awards provide a showcase from outstanding achievements in the field of Chemical Engineering. The Engineers Australia Chemical College, Institute of Chemical Engineers in Australia, Society of Chemical Engineers in New Zealand, Royal Australian Chemical Institute and Australasian Particle Technology Society in partnership with corporate sponsors, instituted these awards to encourage and recognise excellence and to highlight the contribution made by Australian and New Zealand Chemical

Chemeca Medal
This is the most prestigious award in the chemical engineering profession in Australia and New Zealand. It is awarded to a prominent Australian or New Zealand Chemical Engineer who has made an outstanding contribution, through achievement or service, to the practice of Chemical Engineering in its widest sense and who continues to serve the profession.

Alstom Award
The Alstom Award recognises outstanding contributions in the industrial field from a Chemical Engineer under 30 years of age. A candidate must be a member of Engineers Australia, IChemE, SCENZ or RACI.

ExxonMobil Award
The ExxonMobil Award recognises significant ongoing contributions to Chemical Engineering through innovations or a series of related publications over a number of years.

Fluor Award
The Fluor Award recognises exceptional management and leadership talent that has directly resulted in sustained corporate success over a significant period. It can include both line management and project management and can apply to either private or public sectors.

Rio Tinto Award
The Rio Tinto Award recognises outstanding applied Chemical Engineering.

Sheddon Uhde Award
The Shedden Uhde Medal and Prize recognises practical services to the profession and the practice of chemical engineering in Australia and New Zealand. Achievements may be in technical, marketing or management fields. Nominations can be made either by individuals themselves or by nomination from others. A candidate must be a member of Engineers Australia, IChemE, SCENZ or RACI and must be under 40 years of age.

R. K. Murphy Medal Citation
The R.K. Murphy Medal is the most prestigious prize awarded by the Industrial Chemistry Division of the RACI in honour of the memory of Dr. Robert Kenneth Murphy who was one of the founding fathers of applied chemistry and chemical engineering in Australia. Indeed, 'Doc' Murphy started the first course in Chemical Engineering in Australia at Sydney Technical College and was a founding member of the RACI.

John A. Brodie Medal
Engineers Australia John A. Brodie Medal is awarded for the best paper in the discipline of Chemical Engineering that is presented at the Chemeca Conference. The recipient of the award is to be announced at the Chemeca Conference Dinner.

Aker Kvaerner Design Prize
The Aker Kvaerner Design Prize recognises the outstanding Final Year Design Project from Australia and New Zealand Chemical Engineering Departments. Aker Kvaerner Australia are a leading project management and engineering contractor, providing industrial clients throughout the oil & gas, refining, chemicals, power, non-ferrous metals, iron ore and steel industries with design and project. The company has supported the development of young chemical engineers through the award of what is now known as the Aker Kvaerner Design Prize for more than sixteen years.

Graeme Jameson Award
The Graeme Jameson Award is to be offered by the Australian Particle Technology Society for the best paper by a postgraduate student in the area of Particle Technology at Chemeca each year. The award is named in honour of the Society's founding president, Professor Graeme Jameson of the University of Newcastle. The recipient of the award is to be announced at Chemeca 2005.