The School of Energy and Environment (SEE) congratulates Miss Yiran Chen, our Year-2 undergraduate student, for winning the prestigious Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship. Miss Chen is only one of the 5 recipients from City University of Hong Kong.
The work by Dr. Denis Yu and his group appears on the cover of ChemElectroChem. They reported the addition of Li stabilizes the Na0.7MnO2 structure, and thereby improves its cycling stability as cathode in Na-ion battery.
Dr. Chunhua Liu proposes a new electric magnetic-geared (EMG) machine, which artfully incorporates the magnetic gear into an outer-rotor inserted permanent-magnet machine.
Aude Pommeret and Lin Zhang
On December 13th, 2016 Hong Kong Electric (HKE) announced a reduction in the Net Tariff by 17.2% starting January 1st, 2017. In the meantime, CLP announced the frozen Average Tariff for 2017 with a rebate. The official justifications provided by HK Electric were first that in reducing its electricity price, the utility was returning to customers the refunds HKE had received from government as rents and rates had been overcharged in the past.
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE4217 Waste and Wastewater Treatment, offered by the School participated in the visit to Shatin Sewage Treatment Works on 6 April 2017 (Thursday).
Hong Kong (HK), while blessed with beautiful scenic terrain, has not been as well-endowed regarding natural resources – it has modest land suitable for agriculture, no significant rivers or forests, and only a handful of mineral resources.
A group of 32 postgraduate students studying the course, SEE6102/SEE8112 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technologies, went behind the classroom scenes to visit the building management system room, chillers and cooling towers at CityU on 1 April 2017 to see the operations of essential building facilities such as the chiller plant, cooling tower, and also renewable systems such as solar/hot water. Students understand how buildings energy usages are monitored and controlled.
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE4001 Engineers in Society, offered by the School participated in the visit to the Hong Kong Organic Waste Recycling Centre (HKOWRC) on 29 March 2017 (Wednesday).
In January 2017 the Hong Kong Government released its Climate Action Plan 2030+, giving details of targets to reduce the carbon intensity of the economy by 65-70% by 2030.
