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June 16, 2008 -  "Trends in Pavement Management and Overview of City Projects", will be presented by Bill Payne, City Engineer for Chattanooga since September of 2005.  An overview of various City projects planned over the next few years that incorporate some of the trends in pavement management will be presented.  This will include comparisons of asphalt costs and new technologies that are more cost effective and prolong the life of the roads to hold the need for increasing capital budgets to a minimum.

Lunch is available on meeting dates for $11 beginning at 11:30 am from the outstanding Cellar Buffet. Location: Tallan Cellar Restaurant, 200 West ML King Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37402.   

FUTURE MEETINGS 

June 23, 2008 – Greg Sedrick, Prof. at UTSI, will speak on “International Space Education”. 

The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) has created a partnership with the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg France to jointly explore re search and educational activities in space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society. The speaker accompanied Dr. Angie Bukley, Vice President of the University of Tennessee and Chief Operating Officer of UTSI on a  visit to the ISU Strasbourg campus in early May to plan the joint venture.   Implementation will include the design and delivery of online classes jointly taught by UTSI and ISU faculty on the peaceful exploration of space and innovative economic development resulting from exploration efforts.  

June 30, 2008 - Plant Tour of United Enertech.  United Enertech designs and manufactures commercial and industrial louvers and dampers and air control accessories for HVAC.  From a humble beginning of just 8 employees in 1998, United Enertech employs 135 today and is increasing sales at a pace of 40% per year. 

LAST MEETING 

June 9, 2008 - "GASOLINE FROM COAL" was presented by Don Thomas. 

Gasoline, diesel and the other liquid fuels presently vital to our society can be manufactured from coal, and we (the USA) have the coal to supply a large portion of our needs for generations.  Four manufacturing methods are available - coking, hydrogenation, methanol and Fischer-Tropsch - all have been used commercially.  The Fischer-Tropsch method is preferred because it is safer, can utilize any gasifiable coal and can be adapted to produce both gasoline and diesel.  A major source of aviation fuel for Germany in World War II, later the source of transportation fuels for South Africa, synthetic liquid fuel is still going today with plants as large as 150,000 barrels/day.  Pioneering work in the USA by the Department of Energy, Union Carbide, Exxon and others have demonstrated that liquid fuels can be pro vided at half the cost of present day ($135/barrel) petroleum.  Coal-to-liquid fuels would provide many thousands of high-paying jobs, improve our economy and national security and co-produce large quantities of electric power from our available Appalachian, mid-west, and western coals.

ITEMS OF INTEREST  

Please send items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club to the e-mail address in the Questions/Suggestions section. 

Professional Development Hours (PDH) are available for most meetings. 

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