Chemfluence

About

Chemfluence, is a national level technical symposium ( Technical and Cultural Events ) organized annually by the Department of Chemical Engineering, A.C.Tech, Anna University every year since 1994.

With an array of events spread across three days it seeks to provide a platform for dextrous Chemical Engineers across the nation to show off their technical powers and develop their full intellectual potential.

With innovation as inspiration and technical knowledge as a tool, Chemfluence aims at bringing a complete transformation to the very grassroots of the field. Chemfluence gives an opportunity for engineering students to look beyond their course and curriculum, to roll back their sleeves, with the technical wand in their hands and do some real magic.

Consortium of Chemical Technologists

A C Tech, Anna University’s most prestigious association, Association of Technologists abbreviated as AOT, has taken a new shape and form as Consortium of Chemical Technologists (CCT) , with a hope to inspire more and more budding intellectuals, and continue its successful legacy. CCT has its roots firmly entrenched in the college’s history with an experience of more than 20 years in organizing the Chemical Engineering Symposium, aptly named Chemfluence, hence strongly nourishing and imparting the knowledge of Chemical Engineering among the students. CCT takes responsibility in organizing guest lectures and demo classes from eminent scientists and industrialists to cope up with the recent trends in chemical engineering.

History

Chemfluence was started in the year 1994 by the students of The Department of Chemical Engineering, A.C.Tech, Anna University. Since then Chemfluence had been a massive success and been attracting more participants and has become a phenomenal hit among the events by other Chemical Engineers around the country.

Chemfluence 2013

Chemfluence for the academic year 2012-2013 was conducted by Department of Chemical Engineering, from February 27, 2013 to Friday, March 1, 2013.

Some of the major events conducted this year have been

Chemfluence 2014

Chemfluence 2014 was a six-day technical extravaganza organised by the students of Department of Chemical Engineering from February 25, 2014 to March 3, 2014 under the theme of Energy and Environment. Several Workshops and Guest lectures were conducted to impart practical and technical knowledge to the budding Engineers. A National Conference on Energy and Environment, EECON'14 was conducted as a part of Chemfluence'14 March 03, 2014.

Workshops

Acknowledging the mindset of budding engineers to assimilate concepts in a practical way, Chemfluence'14 gave several Workshops like

EECON'14

As part of Chemfluence'14, the final day of the symposium was reserved for EECON'14 - the first National Conference on Energy & Environment. Being the first ever symposium to be organised in the University by the student fraternity, the conference begun with the EECON'14 souvenir release and a keynote address by Dr. G. Sekaran, Chief Scientist, CLRI on handling wastes in the tanning sector at the Colin Mckenzie Auditorium. Subsequently six paper presentation sessions and a poster presentation session were held on a plethora of topics such as Solid Waste Management, Air Pollution Control and Modeling of Environmentally benign processes. Chairpersons for the sessions were personalities high on caliber including Dr. T. Renganathan, Assistant Professor, IIT- Madras, Dr. S. Kanmani, Director, CTDT, Anna University and Dr. M. K. Gowthaman, CLRI amongst many others.

Chemfluence 2015

Chemfluence for the academic year 2014-2015 was held from March 2, 2015 to March 6, 2015 based on the theme of Waste Management. GMW 2k15, A national conference on Global Management of Waste will be conducted by the organizing committee consisting of the Students and Faculties of Department of Chemical Engineering. Today’s industries are in need of innovative ideas and cost cutting techniques to increase the demands for their products in the highly competitive global market with fast depleting resources. Waste management is one of the most serious concerns in industries which needs to be tackled with highly efficient and out-of-the-box ideas that revamp the whole scenario, thus in a way, Transforming Waste into Wealth. With this in concern, Chemfluence ’15 has a theme of Waste Management. This year CCT has planned to conduct

Conference On Global Management of Waste, 'GMW 2k15'

GMW 2k15 is the national conference on Global Management of Waste 2015. It is a nationwide congregation of engineering graduates,Research scholars and Professionals to deal with Waste Management. The aim of the conference is to generate new perspectives on ways to handle waste. Waste generation is a pressing issue. In India, 94% of waste is being dumped on land. Waste includes Municipal, Agricultural, Industrial, Electronic, Fuel Waste and Land waste. Energy can also be generated from waste. Though methods such as conversion of waste water to ethanol and Vermicomposting are available, a large scale, cost effective and feasible solution is very much required. And this is exactly what we hope to achieve through GMW 2k15. GMW 2k15 will provide a unique stage for establishing new waste management related technologies that would Reform Refuse to Riches. This year, for the first time in India, video presentation will be conducted instead of the usual Poster Presentation. It is a common occurrence in International Conferences and GMW 2k15 will follow the suit.

Topics

• Solid waste management

• Waste to energy

• Bioremediation of waste

• Wastewater treatment and reclamation