My Chemical Engineering Career Background
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
My father is an organic chemistry lecturer in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). When I was 14, I read his organic chemistry book and willingly learnt from it by myself. When I was 17, I wanted to have a career associated with chemistry. Back then, my first choice was chemical engineering and my second choice was biochemistry. To be honest, I was unaware of what chemical engineers do and what the industry is like. I could not imagine it due to lack of exposure and information.
After completing my high school education, I pursue my A-Levels and took 3 core subjects which are essential for engineering: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Then I continued my degree in chemical engineering. I managed to get a place in
Post graduate - Research and Development
After completing my degree, I returned to
Oil & Gas Exposure – Servicing Company
After completing my masters, I was offered a job as chemical technologist for a local oil and gas servicing company. In a year, I became a project/chemical engineer in the same company. My main task was to lead the “internal pipeline chemical cleaning” project for a local oil company. We basically have to assist the oil company to reduce corrosion activities inside the downstream pipeline and prolong the life span of it. The pipelines were chemically treated using degreaser and corrosion inhibitors; and physically cleaned using pigs. It was part of my responsibility to ensure correct formulations as well as performing necessary test to ensure the chemicals were fit to perform its duty. To efficiently and effectively monitor corrosion activities in the pipelines, we utilized latest corrosion monitoring techniques such as electronic resistant probe (ER) and field signature method (FSM).
With this job, I traveled extensively and visited neighboring countries,
Oil & Fats Industry – Refinery and Other Challenges
I love my oil and gas career but I was unfortunate because I could not continue being in that industry. The company management has bigger plans and they moved to
A Little Something from Me
Being very vague about the chemical engineering industry during my student life urged me to improve the situation. Wouldn’t it be nice if somebody can tell and share what they can expect from the industry? It will be some sort of a chemical engineering informal education for the students and other junior engineers. That is why despite of my busy life as a process engineer, I progressively and continuously share some of my experiences in my “Chemical Engineering World” blog that I created on the third quarter last year. I sincerely hope it can provide at least some useful information for fellow young chemical engineers. I believe it’s a good thing if other professional and practicing engineers out there can do the same for others to benefit. It will be a great contribution.
posted by Kipas Repair JB @ 8:37 AM,
21 Comments:
- At February 2, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Serindit said...
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me singgah2 jenguk2 jer blog ko nih..
- At March 12, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Unknown said...
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- At March 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Unknown said...
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- At March 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Unknown said...
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man, ur great, started a blog to share ur knowledge.. nt many will do that, considering the time spent and as such.. well, keep up the gud work. reading through ur profile made realise wut a great future awaits me! Haha! yup, an undergrad, chem eng, university of Nottingham. Nt realy interested in oil and gas but I do have serious thoughts about venturing into oil and fats industry..
- At May 29, 2008 at 2:56 PM, cipan666 said...
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Assalamualaikum. Seriously, you did contribute "something" for the readers out there especially for those who practising chem eng / process eng. Frankly speaking, I love to read your blog for the first time and I am so sure I will be your big fan after this as I am practising process engineering as well and keep writing brother. I really need such informative, practical and onsite experience from you.
- At June 10, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Tze Ling said...
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inspiring~ keep it up!
- At November 9, 2008 at 11:25 PM, C. Crowe said...
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Very interesting article. I will be back to read more. Check out my site if you have a chance and you want to watch some free tv shows online!!!
But take care and keep up the interesting writing and work. - At November 9, 2008 at 11:26 PM, C. Crowe said...
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Oh yeah, I didn't mention the name of my blog in case you want to stop by. It's called http://tvontheweb.blogspot.com
Take care. - At September 3, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Unknown said...
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Hi, Zaki,
My name is Min. I have some quesitons to ask you.
Chemical composition: C = 1,36, S = 0,0003, Mn = 1,33, CO = 56,56, V = 0,015, Cr = 32,64, W = 4,42, Ni = 2,10, Me = the 1,42, hardness = the 43 50 RC. It is kind of metal board, but could you do me a favor to check what exactly the material is?
Thanks a lot.
Min
email: minhuang@live.co.uk - At March 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, aikleng said...
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I love to read your blog.
:D
thanks for everything. :D - At May 21, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Unknown said...
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Thank you for sharing. For someone considering to go into gas chemical technology, this is very helpful. TQ so much.
- At November 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Ir. Jamal said...
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Hi Zaki,
Nice to know you and thanks for sharing such valuable information like in this blog..:-)
Oil and Gas Blog - At February 12, 2012 at 2:52 AM, marie456546 said...
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Very inspiring. Infact, I am thinking of doing chemical engineering at university. What would you recommend for work experience ?
- At September 9, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Lukman said...
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Hi, This is my first visit to this blog. Keep writing and many fresh chemical engineers will get advantages from your blog.
- At August 19, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Unknown said...
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Is it all need to apply SST??
- At October 26, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Midnyt Blaze said...
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You are great as a chemical engineer and the blog is too as a chemical engineering blog
- At October 29, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Unknown said...
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Your blog is very informative and gracefully
Your guideline is very good.Thank you
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