This 13-year-old student's bio-diesel
project is a winner
Rich
haul of medals by students from suburbs at
State meet
STUDENT
INNOVATION: Shameena Banu demonstrating her
bio-diesel project at Zion Matriculation
Higher Secondary School in Indira Nagar,
Selaiyur, near Tambaram on Monday. — Photo :
K. Manikandan
TAMBARAM : An eighth standard student, who
created a project on bio-diesel as a viable
alternative to fossil fuel, came up winner
at the recently concluded State-level
students' meet at Madurai.
Shameena Banu's project on bio-diesel
secured the first place in the Industry and
Environment category for students in the
sixth-eighth standard category at the 33rd
Annual Jawaharlal Nehru Science and Maths
competition held at Madurai.
The 13-year-old student of Zion
Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
Selaiyur, near Tambaram, secured the first
place when her school hosted the
Chengalpattu Education District-level
competition last month and was selected for
the State-level meet. She would soon be
visiting Bangalore to compete in the South
Zone meet.
Daughter of Jawahar Sulaiman, working in the
Southern Railway in Tambaram and Seema Banu,
a housewife, Shameena said she was
interested in working on deriving a fuel
from Jatropha for about one year now. It was
with the support and encouragement from her
parents, teachers and school authorities
that she was able to put in place what she
had dreamt of.
Briefing mediapersons on her project, she
said bio-diesel was extracted from the seeds
of Jatropha, commonly known as
'kattamannaku.' As it adapted to all
climatic conditions, the tropics being the
most suitable, it could be cultivated on
arid land that was unfit for cultivation.
Jatropha seeds were first cooked in the
presence of steam, crushed to get vegetable
oil and filtered through industrial cotton,
she explained. Then, methanol and a catalyst
were added to produce methyl ester with
glycerine as derivative. After a few other
processes, such as recovery of methanol,
washing and removal of moisture, the refined
methyl ester — the bio-diesel — was
obtained.
A basic unit would cost around Rs. 20,000
and it could make 1,500 litres of
bio-diesel. Shameena said a litre of this
alternative fuel would cost about Rs. 20.
Its advantages were almost nil presence of
sulphur, reduction of soot emissions and
ability to decompost easily, among others.
Another student from Tambaram area who would
be joining Shameena at the Bangalore meet is
V.Nandakumar, a ninth standard student of
Government Higher Secondary School in
Peerkankaranai. His project `Single Cell
Protein: Algae as alternate food' won the
first prize in the environment category for
ninth-tenth standard students at the Madurai
meet.
According to his schoolteachers, Spirolina
was the selected single cell algae and
Nandakumar demonstrated how protein could be
derived from it to prepare healthy food.
At the district-level and State-level
events, Nandakumar had prepared some dishes
made from Spirolina, teachers said.
K.Ramanujam, chief educational officer of
Kancheepuram District, said it was a rich
haul of byschools coming under the
jurisdiction of the Chengalpattu Education
District.
Students from St. Paul's School in Tambaram
Sanatorium and CSI Corley Higher Secondary
School in East Tambaram won prizes for their
projects on Transport and Environment. Prema
Joseph of Peerkankaranai Government Higher
Secondary School won the overall best
teacher prize for ninth and tenth standards,
Mr. Ramanujam added.
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மற்றும் வழிகாட்டி மையம்
தமிழ் பிரிவு
அல்கோபர்
அல்கோபர் மாநகரில் புதிதாக
தொடங்கப்பெற்ற இஸ்லாமிய அழைப்பு மற்றும்
வழிகாட்டி மையத்தில் இன்ஷா அல்லாஹ்
வருகின்ற ஜனவரி 18, 2007 ஹிஜ்ரி
29-12-1427 வியாழக்கிழமை முதல் வாராந்திர
மார்க்க சொற்பொழிவு நிகழ்ச்சியும்,
இஸ்லாமிய(ஷரிஆ) வகுப்புகளும்
ஆரம்பிக்கப'படவுள்ளன என்பதை மிக
மகிழ்ச்சியுடன்
தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கின்றோம். எனவு,
தமிழறிந்த இஸ்லாமிய சகோதரர்கள்
அனைவர்களும் தவறாமல் கலந்துகொண்டு
பயன்பெற அன்புடன் அழைக்கின்றோம்.
- வாராந்திர மார்க்க சொற்பொழிவு
நிகழ்ச்சி வயாழன்தோறும் இரவு 9 மணி
முதல் 10.30 மணி வரை நடைபெறும்.
- இஸ்லாமிய பயிற்சி வகுப்புகள்
வெளிதோறும் காலை 8 மணி முதல் 11
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Fifteen
distinguished overseas Indians were
honoured
New Delhi: Fifteen distinguished
overseas Indians, including Syed M.
Salahuddin and B.R. Shetty (UAE) and
Indian American publisher Gopal Raju,
were honoured with the Pravasi Bharatiya
Samman by President A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam on the concluding day of the 5th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here
yesterday.
The largest number four of the awardees
is from the United States. Two are
from the UAE and the others from the
United Kingdom, Canada, Fiji, Portugal,
Kenya, Malaysia, Germany, Jamaica and
South Africa.
The
award winners are: Dave Sukhdip Singh
Hayer (Canada), Sir Moti Tikaram
(Fiji), Sibabrata Roy (Germany),
P. Jayaraman, Nirmal K. Sinha, Dr M.
Anirudhan and Gopal Raju (all
from the US), Kenneth S. Benjamin
(Jamaica),
Pheroze Nowrojee (Kenya), Abdool Magid
Abdool Karim Vakil (Portugal), Billy
Nair (South Africa), Dr K.R.
Somasundaram (Malaysia), Syed M.
Salahuddin and
B.R. Shetty (UAE) and Lord Daljit Rana
(United Kingdom).
Roy (Germany) and Nair (South Africa)
could not attend the packed function
at the Vigyan Bhavan convention centre
that included more than 1,100
delegates from as many as 47 countries.
Gopal Raju founded the New York-based
India Abroad, the oldest and largest
circulated newspaper serving the
Indian American community, as well as
the
India Abroad News Service that later
became what is the present-day
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS).
He also started the Indian American
Centre for Political Awareness (IACPA)
in 1994 to empower the community and to
encourage them to participate in the
political process and public policy in
the US.
Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer has been
playing an active leadership role in the
community and has held several important
positions in the Canadian
government.
He is recognised for his contributions
in the field of public service.
Source : Gulf News 10.01.2007
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