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See the linked pages to the left for photos and discussions of some of our recent meetings.
The Bronx County Chapter of NYSSPE / NSPE, the Westchester Chapter of PMI, and the Tappan Zee Section of AIChE are pleased to announce a joint meeting onThursday, Sept 14, 2006 5:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner fee: $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Location: Eldorado West, 460 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, across the street from the Double Tree Inn, 914-332-5838 Joint meeting with BxNSPE and Westchester PMI "Engineering Aspects of the Construction of NYC Water Tunnel No. 3" Ted Dowey, P.E., Project Manager, NYC Dept of Environmental Protection Deep beneath Manhattan, nine miles (14.5 km) of tunnel have been excavated and ten shafts have been constructed, completing the excavation for New York City’s Water Tunnel No. 3. The contract for $670 million was executed by the joint contracting venture of Schiavone Shea Frontier-Kemper. The tunnel, 12’ 6” (3.8 m) in diameter and 500 plus feet (152 m) deep, was driven by a tunnel boring machine. Nine new shafts averaging 530 feet (161 m) deep were constructed in a variety of geologic and urban environments using blasting, raise boring, soil mix walls, ground freezing, pile driving, and soldier piles and lagging. The engineering components and production rates for the tunnel boring machine and raise boring machines are presented. Blasting techniques in the shaft (subject to vibration and noise restrictions) are presented. The structure of the combined DEP and consultant staff is discussed. Mr. Ted Dowey, is an Executive Construction Manager for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). He is directing the construction management of the Manhattan Tunnel contract. This is a $670 million project building nine miles of tunnel and ten deep shafts with a staff of over 30 DEP and consultant engineers, geologists, and inspectors. Mr. Dowey has been involved with the construction of New York City’s Third Water Tunnel for over 20 years, starting as a geologist, becoming a construction inspector, resident engineer, and finally the executive construction manager directing all aspects of the construction management for the project. Mr. Dowey also directs the geotechnical program which provides geotechnical information for the tunnel and shaft designers and provides a basis for contractor bids on the tunnel contracts. Mr. Dowey conducts community outreach at construction locations, informing and coordinating with Community Boards, elected officials, residential and commercial entities, and neighborhood organizations. Mr. Dowey has a BA in Geology from Columbia College, an MS in Mining Engineering from the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a New York State Professional Engineer License. Mr. Dowey has published three articles for the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference and has had three tunnel photography exhibits.
Student Poster NightTuesday April 11th, 2006 @ 7 pm
Rory Dolans Bar and
Restaurant
890 McLean Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704 Restaurant Telephone: (914) - 776 - 2946
The cost per person is $24. This includes, soup or salad, choice of 6
meals, coffee or tea, cake, and sodas. (Tip is also included) We will
have the banquet room.
Thursday April 6, 2006 and May 4, 2006
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Joint meeting with Westchester ACS
William Anzovino of Akzo Nobel
Mr. Anzovino is the Senior Safety Coordinator at Akzo. He has worked at Akzo Noble for 32 years; 18 in the Research Process Development Dept. and 14 years in the Safety Dept. His is the Sr. Safety Coordinator.
Akzo is located at the Lawrence St exit of the Saw Mill River Parkway. (Use the first parking lot on your left - visitors parking.) Dinner will be available after the meeting at Sam's Restaurant, 128 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry.
North Jersey Section meeting:
DINNER MEETING: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
"Murphy's Law in Capital Project Management", will identify
commonly made, but easily corrected, project management mistakes. Most chemical
engineers get involved in capital construction projects at some point in their
career. The most common capacities are as a project manager, a project sponsor,
or a project team member. Most of us have experienced how difficult it is to do
a project well. This talk will select areas of project management and the
construction process where easily corrected mistakes are commonly made and offer
suggestions that can be applied immediately to avoid these mistakes in the
future
Glen Rosentrater is president of CP Project Services, inc., a firm specializing in project management related seminars, and consulting. He has spent his career managing capital projects in the chemical process and food industries and has authored several papers dealing with project management, the latest being, "The Price is Right or Is It?", in December's issue of AIChE's own CEP. Glen obtained his BS and MS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is a Project Management Professional (PMP). He is a member of AIChE and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Tabatchnick's - Eppes Essen
105 E. Mount Pleasant Ave.
Livingston, NJ 07039
(973) 994-1120
SPEAKER: Mr. Richard
E. Stone, Senior Museum Conservator
The Sherman
Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
TIME: 6PM, Monday May 3, 2004
LOCATION: The New
York Academy of Sciences – The
Council Room
2
East 63rd Street, New York City -
East of Fifth Avenue
COST: $20.00
including a buffet dinner with wine
RESERVATIONS
(Limited to 25): Contact Brenda Lando, at (973) 670-2882 or
brendalando@yahoo.com
by Friday, April 30
Mr. Stone’s work entails facing the question: “In works of art how does one determine whether an object is an authentic item from the past, or an unknown recent find, or a forgery from any period?”
Mr. Stone has over thirty years of experience in the field of archaeology, art conservation, forensic evaluation. He has done field work in Turkey over the course of four seasons, and served as conservator to the Sardis Expedition. He has performed evaluations of mosaics at the Church of Derea, of the Bruges Madonna, of Tullio Lombardo’s Adam, of many works in bronze (including Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes), of methods of ancient glassmaking, and in many other areas; and has many publications to his credit.
Mr. Stone received a Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, with a major in Art History. He received a Master’s degree from the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, and has done post graduate work. He has received many honors, and taught at NYU and at John Jay College.
| Please join the Tappan Zee Section’s Fifth Annual Poster Competition when Chemical Engineering students of our adopted school, MANHATTAN COLLEGE, present their independent research PROGRAM:
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Manhattan College undergrads and grads will be presenting their yearlong independent research through posters and Q&A. Judges are needed to choose the winner! Judging at the Poster Competition is an excellent way to get involved with your Tappan Zee Section, meet other industry professionals, and learn what current Chemical Engineering students are researching. Guest speaker, Brenda Lando, of AIChE Young Professional Advisory Board will speak to the audience about what the society can offer! |
The North Jersey Section has scheduled a
1-Day
Workshop on
Pharmaceutical
Engineering Fundamentals
Saturday
- March 27, 2004
(Note: This meeting provided NY State Licensed PEs with 1 PDH of the 36 per triennium required for registration by NYS)
JOINT MEETING WITH ACS WESTCHESTER SECTION
GLASS MICROREACTORS AND MICROREACTION SYSTEMS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION Wednesday Feb 18, 2004
Speaker: Craig Wurzel Business Mgr. and Owner Mikroglas of North America
Abstract: For years, scientists and engineers have been setting up micro scale reaction systems in their laboratories and pilot plants on an individual basis to obtain reaction information and sample material. However, lacking were components such as scalable equipment, sensors, analyzers, safety features, etc suitable for industrial use and design.
Craig Wurzel's presentation will describe the setting up of micro-reaction modules utilizing the photostructurable glass "FOTURAM" and its combination with pumps, valves, sensors, safety features, process control units, etc. to run a micro-reactor for a rapid exothermic reaction with aggressive chemicals. The "mikrosyn" micro-reaction device will be shown. Craig's presentation will also include reactor innovations, phase separation components, in-line IR spectrometers, etc.
This talk introduces the drug development process and "Good
Manufacturing Practices" (GMP) for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).
The costly and risky drug development business requires heavy upfront
investment and long term commitment. Despite of the publicity of drug
cost,
pharmaceuticals are still the most cost effective means in health
management.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated in the
United States and other industrialized countries. US recently
adopted
The ICH guidelines (Q7a) on "good manufacturing practices" for
"active
pharmaceutical ingredients." Key elements of the regulations are
illustrated.
Bio:
Dr. Ping Chang received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
University of Washington, Seattle. He has had almost thirty years of
experience in
product discovery, process development, pilot production and manufacturing of
active pharmaceutical ingredients and fine chemicals. He is fluent in the
new drug application process and GMP. He is also familiar with other
regulations governing the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry. He
started his industrial career as a research engineer at Occidental Petroleum
Corporation. He then spent 17 years at Pfizer and its spin-off companies
in a variety of research and business development positions. He is
currently the Director of Chemical Development of Purdue Pharma, LP, at
Ardsley,
New York.
We are now living in a topsy-turvy world when it comes to air quality regulations affecting the chemical and other industries. While the Bush Administration is in the process of implementing new rules to streamline compliance with some air quality rules (or in some people’s opinions, weaken these rules), other, very stringent rules, scheduled a decade ago, will soon be in place.
Traditionally, regulations to control emissions of air pollutants have followed a command and control approach. However, this approach has not always been effective, as it hampers quick responses to changes in the marketplace, provides facilities with little flexibility, and encourages lack of compliance. The greatest target of criticism is New Source Review (NSR). In response to complaints about the regulation, the Bush Administration issued reforms of the NSR program that will enable more firms to bypass the rule and allow quicker changes to operations and/or expansions. There are many opponents to these reforms stating that they will cause increases in emissions and harm to public health, and are attempting to block their implementation.
At the same time, new, stringent rules, called MACT standards, are being proposed that will impact many industries, including the chemical industry. These rules contain stringent control and monitoring standards for emissions of toxic compounds. New standards are in the process of being promulgated that are applicable to many chemical processes, as well as industrial boilers, process heaters, and stationary combustion turbines. In the upcoming years, facilities may need to spend considerable effort assessing their compliance status and complying with the new rules. A thorough understanding of the rules, before they are finalized, can help organize your efforts and save you money. There are money-saving strategies to deal with these rules. This talk will review these reforms and new MACT rules and discuss approaches that can allow facilities to take advantage of the rules to make compliance easier.
Bio:
Marc Karell, P.E. is a senior project engineer with the Air Quality Engineering Group of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in White Plains. He has Masters Degrees in Biochemistry from the Univ. of Wisconsin and in Chemical Engineering from Columbia Univ. Marc has been an air quality/chemical engineer for almost 20 years. Marc was the Chair of the Tappan Zee Section for 2 years.
The New Jersey and North Jersey Sections of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers present their
Annual Spring Symposium, co-hosted by TZ AICHE:
Advances in Chemical-Synthesis Methods for
Manufacturing Biologically Active Compounds
(or: the real nuts and bolts behind synthesizing drugs, and
what chemists and chemical engineers can teach each other
about the art and science of synthesis)
New Jersey Institute of Technology
3 rd Floor, Guttenburg Information Technologies Center
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
SPEAKER:
Huk Y.
Cheh: Vice President, Technology
Duracell
Global Business Management Group
Bethel, CT
06801 USA
ABSTRACT :
The
energy content and power capability of a battery depend critically on the
chemical nature as well as the structure of the active materials. Basic aspects
of battery technology as well as criteria for the choice of active materials in
consumer batteries are presented. Two equally valid, but conceptually very
different approaches, to the development of new/improved battery active
materials are discussed. One approach is to utilize the "Design of
Experiments" method to determine an optimal process for synthesizing
materials of desired properties; the second approach is to design/modify
materials based on a thorough scientific understanding of the chemistry and
structural aspects of materials. Practical examples will be given to illustrate
these two methods.
For More Information Contact:
Tappan Zee Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
info@tzaiche.org
Joint Meeting with Hudson Valley Council of Technical Societies
at Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, Gottesman Room, Kessel Campus Center
Panelists: (click on "bio" next to the panelists' names to view the bio they have provided)
Jonathan Falk,
National Economic Research Associates bioDavid Gordon, Riverkeeper bio
Michael Kaplowitz,
Westchester County Legislator bioVictor Nutter, Entergy Nuclear Northeast bio
Kyle Rabin,
Riverkeeper bioDavid J. Schotts,
TRC Environmental Solutions bioWhile the debate over whether the Indian Point Nuclear Power Facility
should be closed has focused on the topic of safety,there has been less discussion on the economic and environmental impact of closing the facility. We would like to explore such questions as:What uses could there be for the land that the facility now sits on?
Can the land be used at all?
How will we deal with the waste products from the facility?
What effects would there be on the Hudson River?
How will we replace the energy lost from the facility?
How will we replace the lost tax revenue?
What effect will a closure have on employment in the area?
These and many other questions will be discussed at this meeting. In the end, we hope the meeting will get everyone thinking about what can be done if the Indian Point Facility is closed. The meeting format will be a debate among four panelists evenly divided between those for and against closing the Indian Point facility.
During the first part of the meeting, each panelist will give a 15-minute presentation, answering pre-formulated questions regarding the economic and environmental consequences of closing the facility, followed by a 5-minute rebuttal from opposing panelists. The remaining portion of the meeting will be to cover questions from the audience submitted in writing during the initial presentations.
Co-sponosored by the:
Hudson Valley Council of Technical Societies
See the pdf file for more information.
Wed., October 15, 2003, 6:15 P.M.
Fax form, directions and additional information on this pdf.
Selected photos of the event can be seen here.
Tappan Zee Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
info@tzaiche.org
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