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Enhancing SCI’s international presence SCI was founded in the UK in 1881 but soon expanded to other parts of the world, with the SCI America section founded in 1894 and SCI Canada in 1902. SCI Australia was established in 1999 as the result of a merger with the former Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria (established in 1900). Today, about 20% of SCI’s members are based outside the UK in over 70 countries. SCI has recently agreed an
arrangement with the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) which will see SCI Canada relaunched as a forum of the CIC. CIC is the umbrella organisation encompassing the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology. The new arrangement builds on our existing relationship with CIC, which has provided the secretariat for SCI Canada for many years now, including hosting the prestigious annual SCI Canada Awards Dinner. SCI Canada will use SCI branding, in partnership with the CIC brand, to promote the forum. The refreshed Executive Committee will continue to include an SCI UK representative, Mr Derek Heywood, who is a Trustee of SCI. The establishment of SCI Canada as a forum of the CIC has the support of SCI, CIC and the Executive Committee of SCI Canada. We all agree that this is a good opportunity to make the most of the historical strength of the SCI brand in Canada and introduce new members to the forum via CIC’s well established presence and connections across the chemistry-using industries. Joanne Lyall, Executive Director
Members’ Forum – 28 November Come and network with fellow members and help shape the future of the Society. Participants will be able to contribute to discussions on member engagement, communication and other key topics. We’ll be running a poster session: present a poster for a chance to win a cash prize. Register your interest by contacting membership@
soci.org. The event at SCI HQ is from 10am- 5:30pm, followed by a networking reception. Register now at
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58 Chemistry&Industry • November 2012 Research award John Bensted honoured
Prof John Bensted has been honoured for his many research contributions at the 32nd annual Cement and Concrete Science Conference (CCSC) held in Belfast in the year of his 70th birthday. He has been researching cement science for 45 years and has published over 500 technical papers and presentations. He was presented with a mounted mineral, scawtite, from his many friends and colleagues in the cement science community. Scawtite is a calcium silicate carbonate hydrate found in hydrothermal setting and hardening, in the locality of Scawt Hill, Co Antrim. CCSC, and a parallel event, the International Conference on the Durability of Concrete Structures (ISDCS - 2012) were hosted by the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil
Event review
IEX 2012 attracts a global audience
Prof Em Michael Cox Chairman Organising Committee
The SCI ion exchange conferences (IEX) have been held in Cambridge on a regular four-year cycle since 1976; the latest of these successful international meetings, IEX 2012, was held at Queens’ College in September and attracted over 140 delegates from 26 countries. The two-and-a-half day conference included a
full programme of parallel oral and poster sessions dealing with the fundamentals and applications of ion exchange. Attendees were supplied with all the papers presented at the meeting as extended abstracts (hard copy) and full papers (electronic). Following the success of the introduction of a two-day training course on Industrial Water Treatment ahead of IEX 2008, this course was repeated, and additional courses held on Advanced Water Treatment (two-day) and Bioprocessing (one-
day). All these were extremely successful, attracting attendees from around the world. At the conference gala dinner in Gonville and Caius College SCI Separation Science and Technology Group Ion Exchange Awards were presented to Professor Yu Komatsu, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan; Professor Nalan Kabay, Ege University, Turkey; and Dr Emmanuel Zaganiaris, consultant, Dow Process & Water Solutions. In addition, through the generosity of Wiley and SCI, student prizes were awarded for the best oral presentations to Kanako Shibata, University of Kitakyushu, Japan, and Özgur Arar, Ege University, Turkey; and best poster papers to Juan Bastos Arrieata, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Evelein Van de Steene, University College Ghent, Belgium.
During the conference, an exhibition of six companies involved in the industrial application of ion exchange was held.
• Problems of incompatibility in plain and fly-ash (plus cementitious) mixtures
• Aspects of carbonation of reinforced concrete
• The carbon footprint of reinforced concrete
• Green concrete or red herring? The future of alkali-activated material
Engineering, at Queen’s College Belfast in September 2012. The two events were
organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and supported by SCI and the Concrete Society. They attracted 160 delegates from Europe, Africa, Middle East, USA, Mexico, Australia and Thailand. The plenary and keynote sessions included:
• Silicates in 6-coordination with oxygen/hydroxyl. Following the conferences, many of the participants went on a tour to the Giant’s Causeway. Numerous cementitious and related minerals occur in the highly scenic mountainous, ex-volcanic coastline of Co. Antrim, which made the journey very attractive. This visit suitably rounded off what was undoubtedly an excellent scientific and engineering programme.
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