Christ Water Technology expands in North Africa plant order in Egypt
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Christ Water Technology expands in North Africa plant order in Egypt
Forbes – Sep 17, 2007
The new group company will address the growing market for drinking water waste water and sea water desalination plants in the region and has an order to engineer a large drinking water plant in Egypt CWT said in a statement. No financial details were provided.
Combining Plant Sciences Biotechnology And Engineering Supported By…
Medical News Today – Sep 17, 2007
The Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technologies and Engineering (CREATE) program will focus on using plant-derived products for biofuels pharmaceuticals and industrial products such as enzymes and biomaterials said principal investigator Karen McDonald professor of chemical engineering and materials science and associate dean of the College of Engineering at UC Davis. “It’s timely because it combines plant sciences biotechnology and engineering and UC-Davis is in a prime position in these areas” McDonald said. For example one student might work on genetically engineering a plant such as tobacco to produce a vaccine while another could develop technology to process crop plants and extract the maximum value from them. CREATE is an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. The National Science Foundation’s IGERT grants are intended to encourage cross-disciplinary training of graduate students. The aim of the new program is to build a group of leaders with a broad view of plant sciences biotechnology and engineering and an understanding of the wider economic social and environmental issues in the field. Part of the program is a “Master’s to Ph.
Going Nuclear
Forbes – Sep 17, 2007
Renewables are just not enough. “Proponents of nuclear power suffered a setback July 16 when a large earthquake struck Japan’s northwestern coast near Niigata. It rattled Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant practically at the epicenter causing water leakage and a fire and toppled more than 400 drums of low-level radioactive waste; some broke open. Even worse perhaps were revelations that the initial damage reports were intentionally understated prompting calls for a complete shutdown of nuclear stations in Japan. The accident affected other nations mulling their nuclear options. Protests erupted in Indonesia where critics have long condemned a plan to build reactors in the foothills of an inactive volcano in central Java. In Thailand Piyasvasti insists that the accident hasn’t shaken support within the Thai government… The school offers the country’s only master’s degree in nuclear studies and at the Bangkok campus students share picnic lunches before big posters of nuclear plants in the nuclear engineering department. Thus far these provide the students’ only views of nuclear operations besides the models scattered around the department building dating from the country’s first nuclear flirtation in the 1970s. Sunchai Nilsuwankosit an associate professor of nuclear engineering says students are buzzing about the nuclear plans and expects enrollment to surge for the next term. “We will have to gear up with programs at many universities” says Chongkum a graduate of Chulalongkorn. We will need 400 to 500 graduates in nuclear and related fields within the next seven years.
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