Dr. Patrick Lee and Dr. Carol Lin Sze-ki (Associate Professors in SEE) were two of the three recipients of the BESS Achievement Awards in the Bioenergy and Biorefinery Conference organised by the BioEnergy Society of Singapore (BESS) held in National University of Singapore on May 16-18, 2018.
37 students joined a field trip to visit the Shatin Racecourse on a Saturday morning, not for horse racing nor gambling, but to see their energy saving system.
Engineered nanomaterials are being exploited for applications in numerous fields including medicine, consumer electronics, and many others. While these materials are engineered with function and cost in mind, there is no consideration of long-term environmental impacts associated with them early in the design process.
Pollutant concentrations are halved by about 17 m from the road edge! So is the latest finding by Prof. Peter Brimblecombe and his group. The pollutant gradient can be described using an analytical dispersion equation that allows for dispersion along the wind direction.
Hong Kong is one of the most populous cities in the world with a density of 130,000 people per square kilometre, generating more than 6 million tons of trash per year. Waste management is particularly difficult due to the geography of the archipelago which, like other island regions, lacks space.
Dr. Masaru Yarime participated in the Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes (GCSO) Second Annual Meeting, which was held in Washington, D.C. on 21-23 February 2018, on behalf of the representative of the City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Masaru Yarime spoke on innovation and government policy at RTHK Radio 3 "Backchat" on 7 March 2018. The guests coming from academia and industry discussed the recent government plan to make a large invest in innovation and technological development and its implications for the industry's competitiveness and people's welfare in Hong Kong.
RTHK Radio 3 "Backchat"
