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Saint Arnold Brewing Company Tour
10/12/2011, 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Back by popular demand we have added a tour of the Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Texas’ oldest craft brewery. Located close to downtown Houston, their goal is to brew world class beers and deliver them to their customers as fresh as possible. The brewery tour is capped of with a chance to sample their beers. Tour participants are limited to 4 samples and leave with a souvenir pint glass.
Cost for this tour is $30
Port of Houston Authority Barbours Cut Container Terminal and NASA's Johnson Space Center
10/12/2011 • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tour buses will depart from the George R. Brown Convention Center and head down to Morgan’s Point, on the northwest shore of Galveston Bay to the Port of Houston. The Port of Houston has an impressive listing of firsts, one being the country's first port to receive ISO 14001 compliance which focuses on strict environmental protections standards. An operational representative of the Port of Houston Authority (POHA) will be leading our tour of the Barbours Cut Container Terminal, which was designed with one priority in mind: vessel productivity. It accomplishes this by providing a fast turnaround for container and RO/RO vessels and project cargo.
On the tour you will see the terminal's six berths which provide 6,000 feet of continuous quay. Thirteen wharf cranes ensure efficient and reliable handling of containers. The facility also includes a roll-on/roll-off platform, a LASH dock, a cruise terminal, 230 acres of paved marshaling area and 255,000 square foot of warehouse space and acres of open marshaling and storage area. A computerized inventory control system tracks the status and location of individual containers. The terminal also features electronic data interchange capabilities. A comprehensive refrigerated food
warehouse is located near the terminal. Combined with competitive tariff rates, this facility's efficiency makes it an ideal port of call for shippers with cargo originating from or destined for the US Midwest and West Coast.
After the harbor terminal tour we will head over to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) for lunch and a personally guided tour. After lunch you will hop aboard a private tram for a behind-the-scenes tour of Mission Control, the training facility, and the Saturn V building. The private tour will be lead by a NASA protocol guide who will help personalize your JSC experience. After the tour you will have time to visit Space Center Houston the
official, the Official Visitors Center of NASA's Johnson Space Center which offers six different major sections as well as a variety of ever changing exhibits.
NOTE: The buildings visited on the tram tour are real working areas of JSC and are subject to close without notice.
Seats are limited, so sign up today. Due to POHA security restrictions tour registrations must be made by Monday, September 5, 2011 to allow for advance screening by POHA personnel. Each facility has the right to refuse access to any individual. The POHA provides their tour at no charge.
Please register through our online registration system
Cost for this tour is $85, lunch included.
Chemical Engineering Awards Reception
10/12/2011 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
During a reception at ChemInnovations Conference & Expo, Chemical Engineering will announce the winner for the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award.
This award recognizes and honors the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world during the two years prior to a given award year. Chemical Engineering magazine has awarded this biennial prize continuously since 1933.
Nominees Include:
ENVIRON International Corporation
Cost-Saving Control Device for Facility-Generated Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions
Invensys Operations Management and ConocoPhillips
Advanced Alkylation Measurement Solution
NSR Technologies, Inc.
Environmentally Friendly Route for Producing Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) and Hydrochloric Acid (HCl)
Oxford Catalysts and Velocys
Technology: Small Scale, Modular Synthetic Fuel Technology
Register online through our online registration to attend Chemical Engineering’s Reception honoring the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering
Achievement Award nominees and hear the winner announced.
For questions contact Cassie Davie at 713-343-1891.
Price to attend is $25.
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