March 2011 - Che-courtesy-list

FW: Lane restrictions on service road south of railroad tracks
by Valley, Jeffrey L 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

FYI.................... From: Riese, Gail A [mailto:gariese@purdue.edu] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 11:06 AM Subject: Lane restrictions on service road south of railroad tracks Communications Announcement Purdue University - Physical Facilities TO: Building Deputies [Please distribute.] FR: Physical Facilities DA: Monday, March 07, 2011 RE: Lane restrictions on service road south of railroad tracks Effective today, March 7, 2011, and for the next 2-3 weeks, lane restrictions will be in place along the service road located east of the Purdue airport and west of S. Russell Road (just south of the railroad tracks). Contractors will be relocating gas pipelines in preparation for the U.S. 231 bypass project. A map of the area is available here: http://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/travel/pdf/service_rd_south_RR.pdf. For questions or concerns, please contact Dan Pusey at dipusey(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dipusey@purdue.edu> or 49-43415.

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IMPORTANT - CANCELLED SEMINAR: Dr. Alan W. Weimer, Mar. 8, 2011
by Luedtke, Deborah P 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Good morning, please make note that the seminar scheduled for tomorrow (3/8/11) afternoon has been cancelled. Dr. Alan W. Weimer from the University of Colorado, Boulder is unexpectedly unable to make the trip to Purdue. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Debbie Deborah P. Luedtke, Secretary School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Forney Hall, Room 1144 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100 Tel: 765-494-4365 / Fax: 765-494-0805 Email: dpmcdani(a)purdue.edu

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Purdue University, School of Chemical Engineering - Graduate Seminar Series, Spring 2011 - Dr. Alan W. Weimer
by Mamph, Jennifer A 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series Dr. Alan W. Weimer H.T. Sears Memorial Professor Executive Director, Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels Department of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering University of Colorado-Boulder "Functionalization of Fine Particles by Atomic/ Molecular Layer Deposition (ALD/MLD)" March 8, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 Abstract: The functionalization of fine primary particles, including nanoparticles and nanotubes, is easily carried out using sequential self-limiting surface reactions. The self-limiting reactions result in the deposition of atomic or molecular layers, i.e. ALD or MLD. This functionalization process, referred to as Particle ALD/MLD, can be used to deposit conformal and pinhole-free films of refractory oxides, non-oxides, metals, and hybrid polymer-based materials, among others. Fluidized bed reactors are well suited for large scale operations. In this process, the particles are normally fluidized under reduced pressure conditions using an inert gas. Precursor doses can be delivered to the bed of particles sequentially and, in most cases, can be utilized at nearly 100% efficiency without precursor breakthrough and loss. The progress of the coating process can be monitored continuously using an in-line downstream mass spectrometer. The ability to use precursors with efficiencies approaching 100% opens the door for a unique opportunity to utilize precursors that previously might have been considered to be too expensive. Fluidized beds containing particles comprising hundreds of thousands, even millions of m^2 of surface area can be coated efficiently. The dose times depend on the amount of surface area required to be coated and the flow rate of the precursor into the fluidized bed. Although dose times could potentially be very long for coating millions of m^2 of particles, i.e. minutes to hours, the efficient use of the precursor to place nearly perfect films on primary particles makes Particle ALD/MLD the low cost and potentially only process that can cost-effectively functionalize high surface area ultra-fine particles. Particle ALD/MLD has been demonstrated to place films on primary nanoparticles as small as 10 nm as well as on nanotubes having surface areas approaching 1000 m2/g and within the porous structure of polymeric materials having porosity near 95%. Physical, optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of the particles can be controlled in order to passivate, activate, or is some manner functionalize the particles. Bio: Al Weimer, H.T.Sears Memorial Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, joined the faculty of the University of Colorado after a 16 year career with the Dow Chemical Company. He was named Dow Research Inventor of the Year in 1993 and received Dow's "Excellence in Science Award" in 1995 for commercializing high temperature processing to produce advanced materials. He was named University of Colorado Inventor of the Year in 2004 and received both the campus wide and the College of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty Research Awards in 2005. He is recipient of the 2005 DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, the 2009 AIChE Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems and will receive the 2010 AIChE Excellence in Process Development Research Award in November. His former students have co-founded two spin-off companies out of his university laboratory. He is named inventor on 24 issued U.S. Patents and author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He received a 2004 R&D 100 Award for his invention and commercial development using atomic layer deposition to functionalize fine particles (i.e. Particle ALD). At Colorado, Al teaches the capstone design course sequence while directing 12 Ph.D. students and 4 Postdocs. He is currently working on the 6th edition of the famous Peters and Timmerhaus text "Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers".

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FW: Egypt's New Prime Minister - Purdue CE Graduate
by Varma, Arvind 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

FYI... From: Leah Jamieson [mailto:lhj@purdue.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:50 AM To: Ahmed Hassanein; Bajaj, Anil Kumar; Fentiman, Audeen W; Banks, Margaret Katherine; bralts(a)ecn.purdue.edu Bralts; Martin, Christopher John; Dale Harris; david carmichael; david radcliff; Deshmukh, Abhijit V; Engel, Bernard A.; George Wodicka; Hannibal, Nancy C; Harris, Michael T; Hastak, Makarand; Jamieson, Leah H.; Sutherland, John W; Bowman, Keith J; kinam park; Kokini, Klod; Crawford, Melba M; Noah, Amy R.; Percifield, Carolyn A.; Balakrishnan, Venkataramanan; Reed-Rhoads, Teri; Shih, Tom I-P.; Varma, Arvind; Smith, Kristy Jo Subject: Fwd: Egypt's New Prime Minister - Purdue CE Graduate All - In case you haven't dug far enough into the events in Egypt to learn about the Purdue connection. leah Begin forwarded message: From: "Banks, Margaret Katherine" <kbanks(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kbanks@purdue.edu>> Date: March 3, 2011 10:54:09 AM EST To: "'ce-all-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:'ce-all-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu>'" <ce-all-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:ce-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu>> Cc: "Jamieson, Leah H." <lhj(a)purdue.edu<mailto:lhj@purdue.edu>> Subject: Egypt's New Prime Minister - Purdue CE Graduate Colleagues: It was announced today that Egypt's new prime minister will be Essam Sharaf, a Purdue CE graduate. Dr. Sharaf received his MS and PhD under the direction of Professor Kumares Sinha. He was awarded the DEA in 2006. Please review the websites below to learn more about Dr. Sharaf and his new position. http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/1/64/6892/Egypt/Politics-/Meet-Es… https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/Awards/Institutional/DEA/DEA_200… Kathy

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FW: Tornado Awareness Sessions
by Valley, Jeffrey L 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

FYI.................... From: Riese, Gail A [mailto:gariese@purdue.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 3:53 PM Subject: Tornado Awareness Sessions Communications Announcement Purdue University - Physical Facilities TO: Building Deputies [Please distribute and/or post.] FR: Ron Wright, Director Campus Emergency Preparedness and Planning DA: March 1, 2011 RE: Tornado Awareness Sessions Tornado Awareness Training is FREE and available to all Purdue University Faculty, Staff, and Students Presenter: Tom Cooper, Fire Safety Specialist When: Wednesday, March 23; April 6; and April 13, 2011 Time: 10:00 to 11:00 AM Where: Police Department in the Terry Conference Room 205 South Martin Jischke Drive (Enter through side door-facing Intramural Drive) Please RSVP to Mary Stair at 4-1424 If you have any questions, contact Tom Cooper at tncooper(a)purdue.edu<mailto:tncooper@purdue.edu> or Ron Wright at rdwright(a)purdue.edu<mailto:rdwright@purdue.edu>; or call 494-0446 Content Overview: Ø SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS STRATEGY Ø RESPONSE ACTIONS Ø ACTIONS TO TAKE AFTER THE EVENT

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