WHEN WHO SAYS ALCOHOL BASED SANITIZER

The outbreak of Covid-19 has turned most Nigerians to pharmacists and chemists - producing "hand sanitizer". This development has posed a serious risk to our society as these producers see it as an opportunity to make money the usual "Nigerian way".

What does WHO mean by alcohol? Alcohol (alkanol) is a big family that comprises of many members. The average Nigerian experimenting with production of hand sanitizer will be exposed to at least four types of alcohols.

Are all these effective for the purpose?

These alcohols are:

1. Ethanol ( going by our local names ogogoro, akaikai, ufofup): This is the most effective of all the alcohols that WHO recommend in antisepsis (sanitizing). Strangely, no one is using this because they do not want their product to look as if it is local. They do not want people to know their formulation. They want their sanitizer to appear foreign hence they avoid using ethanol which is far most effective.

2. Isopropanol (IPA): The next alcohol that is equivalent with ethanol in antisepsis (sanitizing) is IPA. Many producers at this time want a product that is formulated with IPA so as to make it look foreign and superior to those with local raw material. The challenge they however have is cost. A litre of IPA which was 1200naira three weeks ago now cost 1800naira. So this cost factor makes sanitizer makers to desire an alternate raw material, but not locally sourced.

3. Methanol: This is what a lot of sanitizer makers now use to cut cost. A litre of Methanol is only 800naira now. It appears almost same way as IPA but is not in the list of alcohols for antisepsis.

4. Glycerol: This is a tertiary class of alcohol which is in strict sense not a requirement for sanitizers but can be optionally used to serve as moisturizer. This will make the product to have nice feel.

All these Methanol based sanitizers people are parading about with is doing more harm than good. This is because someone who will naturally not shake hands will comfortably do that because he/she has sanitizer to use thereafter.

Please handwash with soap in running tap is still the best bet. Employ social distancing. Use sanitizer from only trusted producers

IT IS NOT UNTIL YOU HAVE HAND SANITIZER TO COMBAT COVID-19

The status of Coronavirus currently stands at 209,839 confirmed cases with 8,779 confirmed death globally (WHO).

Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). 

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 and has not been previously identified in humans.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.  Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans. 

Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death. 

Standard recommendations to prevent infection spread include regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, thoroughly cooking meat and eggs. Avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as coughing and sneezing.

Up until now, the most advertised protection against contracting the disease is the use of hand sanitizer. This write-up is to let you know that not until you have hand-sanitizer that you are protected. In case you cannot see or afford to buy hand sanitizer at the pharmacist shop, the following ways are methods that can keep you protected:

1. Hand washing with soap or detergent: This is an age long method of protection against micro-organisms. Any soap can do even to the the least expensive soda soap. Wash your hands at regular intervals.

2. Alcohol: Call it ogogoro or akaikai is more effective than the commercial hand sanitizers. So, if you have access to this product you can use it to clean your hand where water and soap are not readily available. Why Isopropanol is substituted for ethanol in the formulation of antiseptics is purely based on religious bias by christian/moslem fundamentalists who demonize this product. But ethanol sure remain a gold standard in antisepsis.

3. Izal (Phenolic): since Covid-19 is not airborne, it settles on surfaces like floors, tables etc mopping your floors with phenolic based Izal would go a long you in keeping you protected.

These and others are ways you can keep your protected during this trying time that the world is going through.

You can always count on us at Odfid Tehnical Center for your environmental safety products and many more. You can get Isopropanol based hand sanitizer, chlorine based bleach, Phenol based Germicide (Izal), Liquid detergent, Bar soap, and many more at high quality and affordable prices.

Odfid 2020 Practical Training Plan

We present our training plan for the year:

1. Aspen HYSYS Simulation - Steady State Only.
Fee: N50,000.
Duration: 1 Month,  Weekends.

2. General Fitting.
Fee: N50,000
Duration: 1 Month, Weekends.

3. HSE Competence Development Level 1, 2, 3
Fee: N50,000
Duration: 1 Month, Weekends.

4. Pipeline/Piping Fittings.
Fee: N100,000
Duration: 3 Months, Weekends.

5. Chemical Production - 10 Products.
Fee: N50,000
Duration: 3 Months, Weekends.

6. ICT - MS OfficeTools, Internet, Corel Draw.
Fee: N15,000
Duration: 3 Months, Weekends.

7.Process Design/Research Assistance.
Fee: N50,000 (without typing cost).

8. General Advice.
N5,000 for a scheduled visit.

Venue: Odfid Technical Center, Eket (07037263653)

Participants for the training must meet up 90percent attendance as the training is 100 percent practicals.

"Odfid ... Ensuring Competence".

Shocking Revelations: 2020 Marks A New World Order

Hard-to-believe predictions that may soon be the reality of our world; take a read:

1. Auto repair shops will disappear.

2. A petrol/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3. Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots.

4. Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

5. Petrol pumps will go away.

6. Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity.  Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7. Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that only build electric cars.

8. Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away.  Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC! The middle-east is in trouble.

9. Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10. A baby of today will only see personal cars in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

11. In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

12. What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next  5-10 years … and most people don't see it coming.

13. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on  film again? With today’s smart phones, who even has a camera these days?

14. Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had  10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law.  So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15. It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

16. Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

17. Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

18. UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now  the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.   Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20. Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.
This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

21. In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of  IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

22. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, its 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

23. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

24. Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won't want to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

25. You will not need to park it you will only pay for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

26. This will change our cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking spaces into green parks.

27. About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles. That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.

28. Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

29. Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

30. Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.

31. Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

32. Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable neighborhoods.

33. Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

34. Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

35. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

36. Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact.  And it’s just getting ramped up.

37. Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

38. Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.  It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health purposes.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW – it actually arrived a few years ago.
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Revealing Facts About Christmas Tree

In the complicated but vital industry of drawing oil and gas out of the earth and getting it to the surface, people often get confused about the difference between a Christmas tree assembly and a wellhead. Although the terms are used interchangeably, they are not the same piece of equipment. Each has valves and related equipment that help it control and guide the flow of this precious resource.

WHICH IS WHICH?

A Christmas tree is an assembly of valves, spools and fittings used for oil, gas, water injection, water disposal, gas injection, condensate and other types of wells. It is named for its resemblance to a decorated tree at Christmas.

A wellhead must be present to utilize a Christmas tree and is used without a Christmas tree during drilling operations. The wellhead is the component at the surface of a well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface for the drilling and production equipment. Producing surface wells that require pumps (pump jacks, nodding donkeys, etc.) frequently do not use any tree because no pressure containment is required.

The Christmas tree and the wellhead work together to bring oil and gas to the surface.
Tree complexity has increased over the last few decades. The trees are frequently manufactured from blocks of steel containing multiple valves rather than made from multiple flanged valves.

The primary function of a tree is to control the flow into or out of the well, usually oil or gas.
A tree often provides numerous additional functions including chemical injection points, well intervention means, pressure relief means (such as annulus vent), tree and well monitoring points (such as pressure, temperature, corrosion, erosion, sand detection, flow rate, flow composition, valve and choke position feedback, connection points for devices such as down-hole pressure and temperature transducer.)

WHAT PURPOSE DOES A TREE SERVE?

Trees function for these purposes:
On producing wells, injecting chemicals or alcohols or oil distillates to prevent and or solve production problems (such as blockages).
Controlling the injection of gas or water on a producing or non-producing well to sustain economic “production” volumes of gas from other wells in the area (in the field).

The control system attached to the tree controls the downhole safety valve (surface controlled subsurface safety valves, downhole safety valve or subsurface safety valve) while the tree acts as an attachment and conduit means for the control system to the downhole safety valve.

Figure 2

As Figure 2 shows, there are five valves: the kill wing valve, swab valve, production wing valve, upper master valve and lower master valve. When the operator, well and facilities are ready to produce and receive oil or gas, valves are opened and the released formation fluids are allowed to flow into and through a pipeline. It is important to understand where these valves are located and what role they play in getting gas from the well bore to the customer.

PARTS DEFINED

The two lower valves are called the master valves (upper and lower, respectively) because they lie in the flow path, which well fluids must take to get to the surface.
The lower master valve will normally be manually operated, while the upper master valve is often hydraulically actuated.
Hydraulic tree wing valves are usually built to be fail-safe closed, meaning they require active hydraulic pressure to stay open.

The right-hand valve is often called the flow wing valve or production wing valve, because it is in the flow path the hydrocarbons take to production facilities.
The left-hand valve is often called the kill wing valve. It is primarily used for injection of fluids such as corrosion inhibitors or methanol to prevent hydrate formation.
The valve at the top is called the swab valve and lies in the path used for well interventions like wireline and coiled tubing.
The choke is the device, either stationary or adjustable, used to:
Control the gas flow, also known as volume, or
Create downstream pressure, also known as back pressure
Understanding the various parts of these assemblies can help oil and gas industry professionals see the differences between wellheads and Christmas trees.
 (Credit: Jessica Lee, Valve Magazine)

3 Weeks Special Classes For Science Students

This is to inform the general public that there will be 3 Weeks special classes for science students.

Features: Math/Further Mathematics, English Language, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. ICT and Vocational training, Science Practicals.

Target: Senior Secondary Science Students, School Leavers, JAMB and SSCE candidates, 100 Level University students studying Medicine, Engineering, Health Sciences, General and Applied Sciences.

Schedule: 3pm to 5pm Mondays to Fridays. Saturdays 10am to 1pm.

Duration: 20th December 2019 through 10th January 2020.

Fees: N10,000 per participant. Participants with special financial constraint can be considered for negotiated fees.

Venue: Odfid Technical Center, Eket (07037263653)

... Building capacity in science and technology.

Get A Skill In Instrument Mechanic Work NOT Instrumentation

In my 300L as a Process Engineering student I was on a job verifying the flow of a pump in an oil facility in Eket- as a regulatory requirement. With the help of the tool I used, I discovered the pump was underdelivering. I recommended that the pump be reset. I was told it would take days to get that done because the instrument mechanic has to be brought from Aba. I shook my head and wondered, with all the instrumentation and control degrees and diploma we have in Eket, no one has the instrument mechanic skill as an added advantage?

My dear Instrument and Control Engineering graduates that need skill why not for instrument mechanic work? It is true that you were taught a lot of the Engineering involved in Process Instrumentation (I did too as a Process Engineer, now specializing in Process Design). You did the Laplace and Z-Transform, The Fourier Series, The Controller Tuning, The Working Principle of Bourdon Guage, The P&ID etc. That was all that was required for your Engineering Training. Some of your friends have gotten work with it. Others that will go into lecturing will religiously hand those theories to the next generation. You that need to go for skill should get a utility based tool.

Many go for skill after their degree and get stucked in another classroom activity. The training centres would just decorate this training as Instrumentation Course. They would rehearse all you heard in school and thereafter collects a whooping sum from you and issue you another paper. The highest achievement these centres may have might be a model plant having few pipework, valves, a pump, and pressure guage. They would point hand and show you these instruments and that would be all for the training.

Choose a course in Instrument Mechanic Work instead.


Instrument mechanics in engineering are tradesmen who specialize in installing, troubleshooting, and repairing instrumentation, automation and control systems. The term instrument mechanic came about because it was a combination of light mechanical and specialised instrumentation skills. The term is still is used in certain industries; predominantly in industrial process control.

Job Description:

1) Installs, repairs, maintains, and adjusts indicating, recording, telemetering, and controlling instruments and test equipment, used to control and measure variables, such as pressure, flow, temperature, motion, force, and chemical composition, using precision instruments, and handtools: Disassembles malfunctioning instruments or test equipment, such as bargraphs, electrical ovens, multimeters, environmental cabinets, and weatherometers, and examines and tests mechanisms and circuitry for defects.

2) Replaces or repairs defective parts, using handtools.

3) Reassembles instrument or test equipment, and tests assembly for conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as potentiometer, resistance bridge, manometer, and pressure gauge.

4) Inspects instruments and test equipment periodically and adjusts calibration to ensure functioning within specified standards.

5) May calibrate instruments or test equipment according to established standards.

6) May be designated according to type of instrument repaired as Aircraft Instrument Repairer; Panel-Instrument Repairer; X-Ray-Control-Equipment Repairer.

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