Burhan Gemikonakli is a Plant Chemist at Qenos, a major Australian chemical manufacturing company located at Botany, NSW.
The role of a plant chemist working in the polymer industry is concerned with the conversion of ethane to ethylene and the polymerisation of ethylene to polyethylene.
Examples of their tasks are:
• Monitoring the quality of the ethylene and polyethylene products, particularly checking for impurities
• Monitoring waste-water from the production process to ensure that environmental standards are being met
• Adjusting operating