Remember in my last post I asked the question about the clothes on the clothes line... Well usually on a summers day the humidity would be a lot greater which means that there is a lot of moisture in the air already, comparing to on a winters day where the humidity would be less which would mean that the drying would be better, but this isn't always the case... I could give you a big long nerdy answer but the lads in college would only get a serious laugh off of me...
It's coming to the end of the second semester in college and the pressure is on to get assignments, lab reports and trying to fit in some study. We have finished all our labs at this stage, and when I think about it now I never said anything about physics labs. Personally I liked the physics labs because you could always have a laugh in there with the lads or the lecturer himself, so if you ended up with a boring experiment you could always walk around and annoy someone who was working quiet happily until I came along... We did some interesting experiments in there too, one in particular was one in which we used a Geiger counter and couldn't the amount of radiation from different Beta and Gamma sources... Our last lab in the chem eng labs was an experiment with a cooling tower, where water was passed from a height and we are to calculate how much heat energy the water is using and carry out energy balances, it's hard enough but we all work together in the groups which is good because it's very hard when your trying to figure out the calculations on your own... And back to the assignment I was talking about in my last post, well I'm almost finished now, I was tipping away at it every other day and I should be finished it in before the deadline which would be great because of exams coming up and having to study. I had to figure out how much propane and propylene was in the feed stream, the recycle, bleed and product streams where I end out with 100000 kgs a day of propylene...
I've got the second semester exams in two weeks and we're all stressed, but it has to be done, it's hard to find time for everything when trying to finish off lab reports and assignments and stuff but first year will be over in about three weeks and then working for the summer earning a few notes will be good again...
Johnny Twomey
1st Year Chem Eng
Cork Institute of Technology
