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Perfect result in ChemE Car competition

Packed into a hall in Montreal’s Palais des congrès, home to the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, ten university teams from across the globe put the final touches to a whole host of weird and wonderfully shaped cars. The object of the competition, a long running event organised by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, is to design and build a shoebox-sized car powered by a controlled chemical reaction. With a varying load of between 0 to 500ml of water and no more than two minutes on the clock, the car must run and come to a stop at a distance of between 50 to 100 feet without using mechanical breaks.

Wednesday 26 August, 2009 04:48 PM

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