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Enzymatic biodiesel synthesis using novel process intensification principles
Ilmi, Miftahul
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Acknowledgements
Looking back at the years performing this research always makes me smile. Those years are filled with new experiences, new friends, and new knowledge. Many people helped me during those years, and I would like to express my grat-itude to them.
I’m very grateful having great people as my supervisors. First of all, I’d like to express my deepest gratitude to Prof. Erik Heeres for letting me joining the Breakthroughs in Biofuels project and guided me patiently through all the process. I learned a lot from him, not only about engineering, but also how to become a better scientist, and a better person. I would also like to thank Dr. Chusnul Hidayat and Dr. Pudji Hastuti for introducing me to the project, and also guiding me and giving me inputs throughout my Ph.D. study espe-cially during my research in the Department of Food and Agricultural Product Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, UGM. I also thank Prof. Marc van der Maarel for all the guidance, fruitful discussions, and the friendship we have.
I am sincerely thankful to the assessment committee, Prof. A.A. Broekhuis, Prof. J.P.M. Sanders, and Prof. G.J. Harmsen, who spent time to read my man-uscript. Your willingness to evaluate this thesis as well as the inputs and insight on my work are much appreciated.
I like to express my gratitude to Prof. Gert-Jan Euverink and Dr. Arjan Kloekhorst for their inputs and comments on completion of my thesis. Also a deep gratitude for Dr. Jos G.M. Winkelman and Arne Hommes (paranymph) who helped me modelling the experimental data and contributed to many parts of the thesis.
I’d like to thank people who helped me setting up the experimental set-ups: Anne Appeldoorn, Marcel de Vries, and Erwin Wilbers. Special thanks also for Jan Henk Marsman, Leon Rohrbach, and Henk van de Bovenkamp who assisted me with gas chromatography analysis. Many thanks also for Alle van Wijk who assisted me during my experiments in the Aquatic Biotechnology and Bioproduct Technology Group. Marya de Jonge and Inge B. Meijerink-Verver, thank you very much for helping me with administrative stuff. Special thanks to important people in the Breakthroughs in Biofuels program who helped me with financial and administrative matters: Alphons Navest, Tim Zwaagstra and Ponti Caroline.
All my lab and office partners, especially Yusuf, Teddy, Laura, Jenny, Ria, Louis, Fachri, Angela, Susan, Ima, Frita (paranymph), Henk, Wang Yuehu, Yin Wang, Anna, C.B., Agnes, Diego, Valeriya, Zheng Zhang, Esteban, Rodrigo, Cynthia, Frank, Laurens, Martijn, Patrizio, Patrick, Maria Ortiz, Adel, Maria
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Martinez, Martin, and whose names are not mentioned here, thank you for all the support during my stay in the lab in Groningen.
I also like to say thank you to all Indonesian students in PPIG who have become my family-far-from-home and always made me laugh and smile. The friendship they offered gave me strength to finish my study.
Mother and father, I dedicate this thesis to you. I’m deeply grateful for your support and pray. I will never be able to repay. My sisters, thank you for your help in taking care of Dian, Shidqi, and Hanif during the first year of my Ph.D. Lastly, for Dian, thank you for being so patient with me and taking care of Shidqi and Hanif, and giving me equanimity during completion of my study.
