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<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 10

Up until the last week or so my time here has seen a very smooth unfolding of events at the power plant, but this is no longer the case as I mentioned in my previous blog. Stress levels are on the increase with the staff here as every time a problem is...

Published 06-Sep-2011 10:20 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 9

This week at the Moerdijk power plant we introduced a new toy to our arsenal to help me carry out my work as steam chemistry engineer. As some of you may know, or perhaps not, Silica is present in the steam system as it is used for steam attemperation...

Published 29-Aug-2011 13:29 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 8

08/08/2011 - 14/08/2011 So the beginning of a new week and we didn’t get off to a good start at the power plant. The plant tripped (shutdown automatically, kind of like when you stall your car) because of a vibration in bearing 6 of the steam turbine...

Published 23-Aug-2011 7:43 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 7

Hey folks, Chris McGuire here. For those of you that don’t know, I am the Saltire Intern for General Electric in Holland working as a steam chemistry commissioning engineer. I have now reached the halfway point of my time here and I thought I would...

Published 18-Aug-2011 9:53 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 6

This week my data analysing seems to be taking shape. The plant is running for more hours every day giving me a bigger list of results on the spreadsheet. By the end of the week my boss and I hope to have the first chemistry report ready to send to HQ...

Published 14-Aug-2011 18:08 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol, General Electric Beginning suspicious

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 5

Hello humans, for your reading pleasure I bring you instalment number 5 of my Witty Blog Title series. Hard to believe it’s nearly been a month since I left my old life behind in sunny Scotland, crazy times. The weather seems to have improved this...

Published 04-Aug-2011 11:27 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol, guitar, go-karting

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here> Part 4

Another week has passed here at the Moerdijk site and the weather has been as unpredictable as Charlie Sheen! One minute the rain was battering down and there was literally a small river flowing through the site and then the next day the sun was out,...

Published 28-Jul-2011 7:33 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Titile Here> Part 2

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Monday 11th July - Friday 15th July Hi guys and dolls, hope you are all enjoying your internships and having a fun Summer. I seem to have settled into my apartment and I have everything in order, house...

Published 21-Jul-2011 7:40 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

<Insert Witty Blog Title Here>

Wednesday 6 th July – Sunday 10 th July Greetings fellow Saltire scholars and blog readers, Chris here reporting in with my first blog. For those of you lovely people who don’t know me I am a Heriot Watt Chemical Engineering student making...

Published 18-Jul-2011 13:30 by Chris McGuire

Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Heriot Watt, Amsterdam, GE, Moerdijk, Scotland, Chris McGuire, General Electric, chemical engineering, power plant, Breda, guiness, Holland, university, Rotterdam, dutch, The Netherlands, Belgium, Antwerpen, schiphol

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