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Grad designs a cleaner technology for industrial wastewater treatment --- and published a book on meditation: Optimistic Wisdom 
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Biographic Sketch (from Trafford Publishing) Dr. Srisuda Dhamwichukorn Dr. Srisuda Dhamwichukorn (Crystal Moon) is an environmental biotechnologist who has been interested in meditation since she was five years old. She has applied the benefits of meditation to her studies, career, and problems in life with kindness and optimism. Dr. Dhamwichukorn and over a million friends who have attended meditation at the Dhammakaya Foundation around the world have shown that meditation is the most beneficial, yet least expensive method, for gaining true peace and happiness in life. The world can be at peace through inner peace or meditation. In the scientific world, Dr. Dhamwichukorn has been involved in using and developing cutting edge technologies such as bioinformatics and genomics for her environmental improvement research. However, philosophical teachings from her teachers and the great benefits of meditation have inspired and given her faith that genuine world peace can become a reality with the peace of each individual stable, bright, and pure mind. She is determined to share the teachings and the optimistic wisdom with everyone because building on each other increases the peaceful strength of humanity. Dr. Srisuda Dhamwichukorn is also vice chair of Environmental Biotechnology: ''Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery" for the International Society of Food, Agriculture and the Environment. |
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Story about Book from Publishers Web site: Optimistic Wisdom: Living in Peace without Worry, by Dr. Srisuda Dhamwichukorn. Wisdom requires clear vision-the ability to see the things that matter, to pass over the things that don't, and the discernment to know the difference. In a fast-paced world, wisdom is also sometimes not equated with optimism. But is this pessimism about the future wise? Not according to the new book, Optimistic Wisdom: Living in Peace without Worry, by Dr. Srisuda Dhamwichukorn. The waves of wisdom that travel from East to West have a peaceful swell; the ocean of Pacific is peaceful. Read more about the book at the Trafford Publishing website: http://www.trafford.com/robots/03-1193.html |
Dr Srisuda Dhamwichukorn
Hi-tech solution to wastewater
Excerpts from: Nation Multimedia Group, The Nation (Thailand) July 17, 2005, Sunday Link to Full Story
By Pathomkanok Barnes
A Thai scientist has developed an innovative process to treat industrial waste using micro-organisms found in local soil.
Dr Srisuda Dhamwichukorn, 35, a lecturer and researcher at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thon Buri (KMUTT), has developed a cleaner technology for industrial wastewater treatment, one that makes use of biological agents.
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A Thai researcher is studying the DNA structure of a bacteria she discovered that is capable of turning toxic gas into a medicinal substance.
By Pathomkanok Barnes, Bangkok Post On 7 Feb 2005
Foreign experts have already expressed interest in the discovery.
Lab results have shown the bacteria can digest methanol gas, a by-product from paper pulp and wood processing, and change the toxic gas into a cancer-preventive substance, known as an antioxidant, said environmental biology expert Srisuda Dhamwichukorn of King Mongkut University of Technology in Thon Buri.
She discovered the bacteria, native to her home province of Ratchaburi and nearby Kanchanaburi, three years ago while studying in the United States.
The American pulp and paper industry association gave her a scholarship to search for a bacteria capable of getting rid of the gas, listed by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a toxic emission.
``I do not yet know the bacteria at the genetic level. Knowledge of the DNA would allow us to locate a gene that controls this specific function,'' said Ms Srisuda, now a lecturer at the university's Graduate School of Energy and Environment.
Previous discoveries had involved genetically modified bacteria or natural bacteria found in temperate countries. She said the efficiency of GM bacteria was not as good as expected while natural ones could not digest the gas, which is usually warm, because they worked best at lower temperatures.
Factory owners needed to invest in methods to cool the gas before passing it on to the bacteria.
``Then I thought, why not find a bacteria in Thailand, since it lives in relatively warm soil?'' Ms Srisuda said.
Her discovery paves the way for the development of new bio-filters to help industries cut methanol gas emissions.
She is also interested in finding ways to extract the antioxidants from the bacteria, which would be a step forward for Thai medical research.
She said that foreign experts had expressed interest in the new bacteria, which she will name later.
One professor once asked her for a sample, saying, ``I want your hot pink bug''. The bacteria is pink and lives in a warm climate.
Ms Srisuda said the bacteria could be applied to other volatile organic compounds like xylene and methyl benzene. The two hazardous substances are often released in factories.
Story Appeared in the Bangkok Post On 7 Feb 2005