Paride Evans Sebit
Bachelor (Hons) of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
Nationality: South Sudanese
Date of birth: 1st January 1992
Hobbies: Reading, watching news and documentaries, sports
Hometown: Juba, South Sudanese
Email: paride.evans@gmail.com
"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."
Reflection of courses
Kinetic & Reactor Design
This is one of the vital courses for chemical engineers. it wouldn't have been easy for me to comprehend what I have learnt in this subject so far if i hadn't taken the past related subjects. It is abit challenging because I have to recap or refer back to the pass subjects every now and then to understand the subject better. Our Kinetics and Reactor Design lecturer Dr. Suzana has a great technique teaching to instil knowledge into us by conducting excersises in class. By doing that she makes me understand the subject better than just reading through the slides. Now I can tackle hard problems from conversion and reactor sizing, rate law and stoichiometry by applying the basics from mole balance.
Chemical Process Dynamics, Instrumentation & Control
When I registered for this subject I had no idea about it at all until a friend of mine who is taking this subject told me that from all the subjects that we are taking this semester, the seniors said that we should focus more on Chemical Principles Dynamics and Instrumentation control. Reason being it a subject that is hard to understand. I doubted him and told him that, just because the subject has a long name doesn't imply that it is hard. However, when I attended the first lecture the lecturer Mr. Abbas emphasised that we really need to focus on this subject. The introduction reminded me of Mass and Heat transfer design because of the process modelling and the degree of freedom. There was similarities with Kinetic and Reactor Design under the topic of types of reactors e.g CSTR, PFR and PBR. Furthermore, I noticed we will be using what we learnt from ODE in various chapters of this subject. What I like about this subject is that the lecturer knows how to explain by providing conceptual examples that makes me understand.
Process Safety & Loss Prevention
A couple of semesters back I was taught Health Safety and Environment. I was already familiar with this subject because I had HSE training with Schlumberger during my pre-internship. Dr. Zulkarnain happened to be the coordinate for HSE and I reminisce paying him a visit to his office at one time. He was very helpful and fortunately this semester he is our lecturer for Process Safety and lost prevention. I must say that his technique of lecturing is the best of all. I was mesmerised to see algebraic, chemical and mathematical problems in this subject which turned out to be interesting. I get to learn that exposures of toxicants and the release mechanism can be calculated.
We extracted the concept of our board game from and infamous board game called cluedo. just like cluedo in our board game it is based on finding the culprit of an accident that lead to the death of the victims. You have to know where the tragedy took place and the cause of it. So, we choose an industrial area to be the location because this is where we can relate CPDIC, KRD and PSLP in terms of the application. After that we interpreted the concept into a game. In the game we also get to solve alot of chemical engineering conceptual problems. In the process of coming up with ideas this project has helped me a great deal, I have learnt how to be creative, how to make and use a websites, how to design and make a video with online applications. In a nutshell I have learnt a lot of new things.
Reflection on Board Game's Questions
We distributed the questions accordingly into easy, intermediate and hard. The questions are only limited to the knowledge of the three subjects I mentioned above. Which means that a person who doesn't have the kowledge of the three subjects, Lets just say non chemical engineering students will find it challenging to play and enjoy this game because every now and then a player is gonna have to be asked questions to answer. For this reason, this game is fun to play. At the end of the game a player can widen his knowledge from the PSLP, CPDIC AND KRD.
Suggestions
First and foremost the internet in UTP is very slow especially in our residential villages. So I would recommend that they should fix this issue because it affects us and slows our speed when working on a project like this. Secondly, time is a big factor in this project since alot of us are taking alot of subjects this semester and we hardly get time to work on this project. This project would turn out better than this if only there was ample time to work on it.
reflection of project 2
Kinetics & Reactor Design
This subject is very interesting to learn. Given the lecturer’s technique of teaching, it is quite convenient and easy to follow because of the consistent updates of lecture videos, notes and the day-to-day reminder by our lecturer Mr.Tazli. I must confess that he made learning fun and somewhat not stressful. Our project was about pyrolysis and it demanded a lot of understanding of multiple reactions which we comprehended through the videos and lectures we had.
Chemical Process & Dynamic Instrumentation Control
The subject needs constant revision and studying. However, it is a bit hard to do that because of the tight schedule and lots of tasks that doesn’t give us ample time to go through one subject for a long time. Furthermore, it is not just the time but the subject itself is difficult to learn. To incorporate the knowledge into the project, I have to understand block diagrams, their transfer functions, PFD and PID fully.
Process Safety & Loss Prevention