The Chemmat Knit – Newsletter

 

Dry Seeds, dried powders

Dry Seeds, dried powders

If you search online, you’ll be able to find sellers for freeze dryer machines small enough to fit in a kitchen. If you’re willing to spend a few thousand on one, it’s fun to see what happens to common, everyday food when you leave it in a freeze...

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Magnets on magnets

Magnets on magnets

Have you heard the story of 42.zip? It’s supposedly a compressed zip file that is only around 42 kB, but when fully uncompressed yields around 4500 TB of data. It’s an old file and there are many newer files which exceed even this limit. Yet even this is...

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Oxygen-Infused Sewage Stew: Fuelling Tomorrow’s Energy

Oxygen-Infused Sewage Stew: Fuelling Tomorrow’s Energy

Sludge in wastewater treatment is the thick, semi-solid byproduct that settles out from the treated wastewater. This sludge can be broken down by bacteria in a process called anaerobic digestion, producing biogas that can be used as fuel to power the wastewater...

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COVERT Operations

COVERT Operations

Title T. Source: Sean McGrath, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY 2.0 Have you ever thought of how the VFX people make realistic looking cloth and skin from math? One algorithm is called ‘Perlin noise’, created sometime in the 90s, and was revolutionary in computer...

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Obituary

Dr Isuru Udugama 24th June 1990 – 30th December 2023 “How can someone so full of life leave it so suddenly…”  This was said by a close PhD mate of Dr Isuru Udugama when informed of his passing. Isuru was not just a social butterfly, he was a...

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An Erudite Scholar is Recognized

An Erudite Scholar is Recognized

An erudite scholar, Professor Mohammed Farid was recently awarded the prestigious President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Distinguished Scientist by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering...

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CHEMECA 2023

CHEMECA 2023

  Chemical Engineering Conference (CHEMECA 2023), 1–3 October Chemmat in collaboration with IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineering) hosted CHEMECA 2023 at the Hilton, Auckland. The conference theme was “Leading the Transition into a Sustainable Future”...

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CHEMMAT outing at the IChemE AGM

CHEMMAT outing at the IChemE AGM

It was a successful outing at the IChemE AGM on the 17 May, which was held at Waikato University.  Isaac Severinsen represented the department and presented his work on digital twin for the IChemE Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition.  Ramin Razmi...

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Velocity Ideas challenge winner

Velocity Ideas challenge winner

Congratulations CHEMMAT PhD student, Gevargis Muramthookil Thomas, for winning the Social issues category of the Ideas challenge conducted by Velocity. Gevargis is under the supervision of Dr Filicia Wicaksana and Dr Shan Yi. The IDEAS Challenge was organised by...

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