MTBE, MRU, ORU, CSP

some abbreviation, some meaning . the short forms are FEW of words that a chemical plant worker should know.

MTBE – methyl tertiary-butyl ether

MRU – Me-OH (methanol) recovery unit

ORU – oxygenate removal unit

CSP – complete saturation process

 

those are some jargons used in some plants. name of unit/area of certain chemical plant. specifically referring to PolyPropylene Malaysia  Sdn. Bhd. (PPMSB) and MTBE Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (MMSB) chemical production plants. most probably located in kuantan (which i am not sure of). these are the sections of chemical processing plant’s name – which the chemical product generated are polypropylene and metyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). mtbe used as blending stock in unleaded motor gasoline whereas.

 

its an one year project in the company that i am working in,  Sciensim Sdn. Bhd. which in its completion period (upcoming march 2011). quite busy. quite tensed where the process engineers struggle hard to stimulate and model the plants in 2D and 3D models to calculate necessary details.

maths, equations, chemistry, safety features, environmental issues, programming language, modelling softwares, reaction engineering, separation process, thermodynamics, design  of materials, process plant design and chemical dynamics are some of the knowledge that based on the project.

(add the pic of stressful life)

note the word ‘SOME’ in the sentence. nothing complicated. u just need to sleep less, look at lines of programming codes & commands to search for which period or full stop went wrong, study chemical diagrams, go back home late in midnight and some little dedication of extra study. only that. nothing much. normal working engineer on move works such way i guess; at least the one who works in Sciensim doing it in such way.

scary and kinda shocking . that made me to ponder…

what for so much of scheduled time table? why living in logarithmic life? get too complicated sometimes till you might get stress and tension. perhaps one two exploding nerves

LOL

depending or working under someone/some company till hard for you to get time-out for yourselves is not satisfying at all. worst of all, u could not get the full privilege of being a owner or the Big Boss. that made me to doubt on the choice i took few years ago: why engineering field? hahaha!

whatever it is, life is good and awesome if you want it to be. MTBE, MRU, ORU and CSP are just few of abbreviations from whole engineering literature. there are a lot more to dive, a lot more to see . if there is an adversity of any sort in life, it is just to trim, shape and mould us to a better person. just to put extra twist in boring, flat life adventure. think such way and you will definitely will be smiling at yourself and the choices that you have taken.

cheerio!!!