scientific paper

[mkh012]

I been asked to write a scientific paper about my last process control application for implementing online heat exchanger efficiency calculation for each heat exchanger in Crude distillation unit in Invensys DCS system graphic displays, the efficiency value will be updated every 1 minute and displayed as % beside the heat exchanger to the operator in the crude unit graphic displays.
Please guide and help me step by step in how to write a scientific paper and how to publish it.

 

[MortenA]

Why dont you ask those who gave you the task for advice? If they dont know (or you for some reason dont dare) then i think this a too specific subject for this forum. But you may wanna take a look at some of the major publishers e.g. SPE, NACE and maybe some of the major scientific magazine e.g. Nature and Scientific American (i dont have links just guessing). I know that SPE have some directions for their contributors.

 

[Latexman]

Google "how to write a scientific paper" and get 5,880,000 hits.

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[chicopee]

Get copies of Chemical Engineering periodicals and study the structure of featured presentations and you'll get the idea.

 

[zdas04]

All of the Engineering societies have venues to get a story across. And all of them have DETAILED author instructions (I've written 3 SPE papers and the instructions and template dramatically improve every year). I would be amazed if the ChemE equivalent didn't have similar guidance. Go to their web site and look for conferences. Either find a conference you want to attend (either because of the theme or the location) and see if their call for papers has expired. If not, click on the "call for papers" link and follow the instructions.

They all seem pretty touchy about the abstract. SPE for example has put a minimum length of 200 words (max 500 words, but the minimum is new to me). Don't hose that or you are wasting your time. A committee made up of equal parts never-competents, and used-to-be-competents will review your abstract and decide to accept (rare) or bin it (90%+). Most of what the conferences are looking for is the perception that their members are actually doing something. I've had a half dozen out of the box papers rejected because they were "too controversial" for SPE or ASME. The committee's seem to want the appearance of advancing knowledge without too much boat rocking.

David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering

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