In this summer, over 30 SEE undergraduates are offered summer internship places in energy- and environmental-engineering related fields. The tremendous support comes from our internship partners including but not limited to the ones indicated below
SEE strives for research excellence to enhance sustainability and livability of megacities like Hong Kong, as well as adapting them for climate change. Below is the list of SEE projects that succeeded in obtaining GRF grants.
Dr Shauhrat S. Chopra, Assistant Professor, was invited by One Earth to share his opinion as part the Voices article on "Aligning Purchasing Power with Sustainable Production and Consumption".
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution causes serious environmental problems and poses substantial health threats to human beings. NO2 leads to the formation of photochemical smog, acid rain, as well as some human diseases.
Prof. Wen-Xiong Wang received a funding with an amount of HK$3.45M from TUYF on a research project entitled "Life History Characteristics and Population Dynamics of the Four-Fingered Threadfin Fish".
Dr. Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of SEE, was invited by the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) to deliver a Webinar on “Moving Green: Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Recovery Plan” in July 2020.
Harvesting sunlight to address energy and environmental challenges has been fascinating and long sought-after in building a sustainable society. One tangible example is the maintenance of cleaner indoor environment by degrading air pollutants via photocatalysis. The key to an efficient and effective photocatalytic process is the design and development of good photocatalysts which represents a hot research area. Dr. Jin Shang Group in School of Energy and Environment has contributed to this endeavour and some recent results were published as back cover in the Flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemical Science. In an edge article entitled “Isocyanate Group-Functionalized Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF-8) for Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Gaseous Formaldehyde”, a facile thermal treatment strategy is initiated to convert one of the most well-known porous metal-organic framework, i.e., ZIF-8, to visible light driven photocatalyst exhibiting excellent performance in formaldehyde degradation. This strategy could unleash the potential of the design and development of MOF-based photocatalysts with broad-spectrum responses for efficient air purification operations. Given a myriad of porous MOFs created and documented by chemists in the past 30 years, this work may unlock a new toolbox for scientists and engineers in the field of photocatalysis to explore and develop next-generation photocatalysts.
Environmental scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have proposed a new pathway for the formation of sulfate, providing new insights for improving haze prediction to address air pollution problems.
Springer Nature recently published new journal, “Circular Economy and Sustainability”, to enhance the concerns on circular economy and sustainability issues in environmental research, and Dr Liang Dong is appointed as the editorial board member (associate editors). The journal aims to bring a new approach of the key concepts of circular economy and sustainability, by combining the scientific disciplines of economy, management, engineering, technology, environment, and society. The editorial team include the world-famous scholars in the field, mainly from Europe and USA, Dr Dong is one of the four scholars from Mainland China and Hong Kong, together with Prof. Yong Geng from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Prof. Zengwei Yuan from Nanjing University, and Prof. Kee-hung LAI from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
As one of the largest international conferences in waste management field, the 15th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT15) was organized by UNEP, Basel Convention Regional Center for Asia and Pacific and Tsinghua University, between June 28th to 30th, 2020. The theme of this year was zero-waste cities promotion in the globe. Due to the covid-19, the conference was organized online with more than 4500 participants. Affiliated with ICWMT15, Dr Dong organized session entitled “Eco-industrial development support zero-waste cities: a global perspective”, and invited scholars from China, Japan, and South Korea to share the up-to-date progress in this field. The session was awarded to “Excellent Session Award”, with over 2800 participants.
