D I S T I L L A T E S
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Indianapolis Section

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 5:30 PM

5:30 to 5:45 pm gather

5:45 to 6:30 pm talk and facility tour

Some may gather at a nearby restaurant for dinner after the tour

Midwest Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), Carmel, Indiana

701 City Center Drive (corner of West Carmel Drive and Guilford Road)

Carmel, Indiana 46032

For a printable map and directions, please see the attached file "Directions.pdf"

From I-465

Go North on I-465 to the U.S. 31 north/Meridian Street exit (exit number 31).

Take the North Meridian Street exit (U.S. 31) and proceed north about 2.5 miles to the 126^th Street/West Carmel Drive stoplight.

Turn right (east) onto west Carmel Drive.

Drive a half mile to the third stoplight, which is Guilford Road.

Turn left (north).

The Midwest ISO is on the northwest corner of Guilford Road and West Carmel Drive. The entrance is on the west side of Guilford Road.

Please RSVP by Monday, January 28, 2002 by 3:00 PM to Tom Leas (317) 232-8945 with name, company, and telephone number. There is a maximum of 15 attendees for the tour, so please contact Tom if you discover at the last moment that you can come.

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2001-2002 Meeting Schedule:

January 29, 2002 – Tour of Midwest Independent System Operator, Inc.

February 12, 2002 – Joint Meeting with Indianapolis American Chemical Society

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There was a convergence of the movers and shakers of the local AIChE at the December 11, 2001 planning meeting with the National AIChE executives.

Our AIChE visitors from New York City were:

The goal of the meeting was to acquaint local membership with our anticipated role in the upcoming AIChE 2002 Annual Meeting that will be held here in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 3 to 8. Fun Lee is our contact to national on the AIChE Annual Meeting.

Local participation is always utilized to fill positions on the General Arrangements Committee (GAC). The committees making up the GAC and volunteers currently signed up for positions on these committees for this year’s meeting consist of the following:

Welcoming Reception Chair (funding and arrangements)

Although local participation is not utilized for the technical programming, the following contacts are provided for your reference:

We need all the help we can get to make this a memorable Annual Meeting for all attendees. Please continue to volunteer your support either by contacting me or by getting in touch with the local chair of the General Arrangements Committee that interests you.

Since I am no longer limited to one side of a legal sized sheet of paper, I am going to include a copy of the email sent out monthly by the National AIChE. The AIChE Exchange is a list of interesting blurbs that the Institute believes would be of interest to the membership, and I am including this as a Forward entitled "January AIChExchange.doc" I hope you find it interesting!

I will also be including updates from the GAC in upcoming issues, as they become available.

Due to the success of "Get To Know A Member" and "What You Missed," they are back, again! In fact, since there was no December issue, you get a double dose of "What You Missed!"

Just so that people do not think that any member who is profiled is a megalomaniac, I should mention that I have been recruiting people to be profiled! Further, there is no shame in wanting to be profiled. If it is of any comfort, no one will ever know if you volunteered or if I badgered you into it. So, please contact me if you would like to be "introduced" in "Get To Know A Member" in future issues!

Thanks!

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Our secretary/treasurer, Jim Elwood, is still in England, and will be there for the rest of the year. We have all the account information the new treasurer will need, and all the information for the secretary.

Our webmaster, Lynne DeVito has moved to the East Coast. As anyone who has attempted to visit our Indianapolis AIChE web site knows, we are in dire need of a new Webmaster. If you have skills in this area, we need your help!

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Sangtae "Sang" Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, but grew up in Montreal, Canada. He now makes his home in Indianapolis, Indiana

For just over a year, Sang has worked as a Vice President and Information Officer for Lilly Research Laboratories (Lilly Corp. Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285). Lilly Research Laboratories is the R&D division of Eli Lilly and Company, and Sang himself does information technology for pharmaceutical R&D. Prior to joining Lilly in 2000, Sang was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) from 1983 to 1997; he worked for Warner-Lambert from 1997 to 2000. Overall, he feels that his greatest achievement has been helping his former graduate students on the path to their PhDs (17 in all).

Sang was influenced to pursue chemical engineering by the energy crisis (oil embargo) of the 1970s. He received his BSc from California Institute of Technology, and earned his PhD from Princeton University.

On a personal note, Sang and his wife Julie have two daughters, Denise (a junior at Harvard) and Joyce (a senior in high school). He is extremely proud that both girls are interested in pursuing careers in engineering and technology.

His favorite childhood toys were Legos and other building block toys, although he now likes to "play" with his open source computing and computational tools, and his hobbies include an interest in all things historical. His favorite quote is: "A fool with a tool is still a fool"

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What You Missed – November Tour of Belmont Waste Water Treatment Plant

I never thought of raw sewage as being particularly interesting. It seemed pretty gross, actually. So, I did not know what to expect when I entered the security code and passed through the gates of the Belmont Waste Water Treatment Plant. Getting out of my car, I was impressed by the absence of an overwhelming stench.

Our tour began at the screw conveyors that carried the sewage up into the first treatment building. They were very, very big, and moved a tremendous amount of, um, well, raw sewage. Up in the first building, there was a life preserver hanging above the churning raw sewage. I have tried not to think too much about the implications of that piece of equipment. There is just too vivid of a visual, but I digress. From there, we viewed the series of clarifiers and settling tanks leading up to the biological treatment reactors. It was apparent that the design of the facility had required many engineering calculations, including fluid flow through pipes, and residence time calculations for the tanks, clarifiers, and biological reactors. Computer monitoring allows a very small staff of operators to perform all the necessary process control for continuous functioning of the facility, guaranteeing that the temperature and residence times in the biological reactors are sufficient to ensure sufficient exit water quality.

We even got to walk through the chamber beneath and between the final clarifiers. General consensus amongst the tour attendees was that these chambers were transcendentally non-dimensional (bigger on the inside than on the outside, from the TV show Dr. Who). The final hurrah of the tour was when we went down to bridge above the place where the plant effluent entered the river. It certainly looked clean, although we were told that there are other plants that handle the transformation into potable water. I suppose that is for another day and a different tour.

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What You Missed – December Dinner Meeting with local AIChE members and National AIChE

Not only did we have the opportunity to meet and greet the executive committee of the National AIChE, we learned the variety of ways we will be able to assist them in making this the best Annual Meeting ever!! To top it off, they picked up the tab for dinner in the new Marriot hotel, Circle City Bar and Grill at 350 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wow! If you did not attend, you really missed out! You should have seen the size of those chocolate-laden deserts-Yum! Fortunately, the dinner was held before New Year’s Resolutions were in force! But seriously, our local Indianapolis Section has the honor and privilege of being invited to assist with the Annual Meeting. This is a tremendous opportunity for national exposure for Indianapolis and our local AIChE Section and our members. National AIChE is very excited about coming to Indianapolis, and we are equally excited to have the chance to host them. If you are interested in being part of the General Arrangements Committee (GAC), please refer to the list of contacts in the Message from the Local Indianapolis AIChE Chairman and contact the appropriate Sub-committee Chair.

Lia M. Treffman

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