Tom_Rufford

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineer, Teacher, Learner. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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Congratulations @WolframJoy on runner-up in Norwegian Letten Prize for 2023. Awesome news Joy and amazing recognition of your achievements and enthusiasm for science. https://t.co/DoCeU6cGOX

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UQ School of Chemical Engineering is participating in the Push for Better challenge again this year. Our electrochemistry lab team joined this fund raising challenge for the first time in 2021 and the School has since widen the particpation across our com…https://t.co/4fdud1XcHR

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10 excellent tips on conference presentations here from Andrew Akbashev. https://t.co/Grilz4H7Ar

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Join UQ Chemical Engineering to Push for Better in June. We welcome UQ students, staff, alumni, and anyone else who wants to join us.

Funds raised go towards improving critical mental health and suicide prevention services and programs in Australia. https://t.co/lNtniJ33LA

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UQ School of Chemical Engineering's second-year road trip to Gladstone is back in 2023. Well done Bev Coulter and all the organizers in UQ and the hosting industry partners for providing a fantastic learning opportunity for our students. https://t.co/dFS93HR4hd

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I've been signed up by my wife (thanks Emily :)) to swim Laps for Life in March to raise funds for ReachOut Australia, a provider of online mental health support services for young people. For more than 20 years, ReachOut has been…https://t.co/1GRqba49sI https://t.co/Tfem6evzv0

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One of the best things about working in School of Chemical Engineering UQ is the opportunity to work with people like Bev Coulter.

Thanks Bev for all your efforts and always being someone we can rely on for help when its needed:) https://t.co/wE4ZojUuxP

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I seem to be getting more invites to join a "conference organizing committee" of events that appear to already be a long way down the path of being organized. Some invites are clearly predatory spam/scam emails that go straight to trash, but other emails…https://t.co/DSYZ6odGDr

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Here's our team's latest article in the Journal of Cleaner Production reporting modelling studies for carbon recycling around a ironmaking blast furnace by integration of a process for CO2 electrolysis to CO. Well done Yichao Hu on…https://t.co/CQXxDo71Fh https://t.co/P1mQsvIppU

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Way back late 2007, I took some waste coffee grounds from the kitchen back into the lab to make supercapacitor electrodes because (1) the waste coffee grounds bin on the auto coffee machine needed emptying, and (2) I was frustrated by time required to pre…https://t.co/XC81l6dgMI

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Happy to share a fresh paper for 2023, which is a review of how organic molecules are involved in Cu-based electrocatalysts for CO2 electrolysis to C2+ products.

This review was led by Drs Ping Chen and Zhiliang W. in UQ School of Chemical Engineering UQ…https://t.co/tKdQsdJ7QA

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Couple of PhD projects and scholarships available for H2 reduction of iron ore and H2-steel making in UQ Sustainable Minerals Institute. https://t.co/McVIbvIa8C

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Thanks Isabella Bennett at University of Vermont for sharing your experience in Science Careers section about unpaid service done by graduate students. It's an important reminder of the power imbalances that exist in academia, and…https://t.co/4WrJDSz1B6 https://t.co/QoTsZUZiDi

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Great to hear your first year as a graduate engineer at Glencore has gone well Janice. https://t.co/QQJQXScRrB

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We were cheering in the atrium here at UQ ANL this morning on learning of the success for GetCO2. Excited to get this massive 7-year opportunity to work with a great team of people at UQ, across Australia, and internationally on research to enable convers…https://t.co/D4LoOXZc1a

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And here's a video of the new distillation column installed at UQ School of Chemical Engineering in the Andrew N. Liveris Building. https://t.co/JkKccp0E9u