Dr. Edwin Tso and Prof. Michael Leung have recently received HK$800,000 funding from the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department of HKSAR Government on the research project entitled "Study on Performance of Plate-tube Chiller".
A career talk was provided by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Environmental Division on 21 October 2020. The talk entitled "Becoming an Environmental Ir in Hong Kong - Why, What and How?" provided students with a clear path to Scheme "A" training to acquire Chartered Engineer in Environmental Discipline. Students and graduates were also encouraged to join the HKIE Environmental Division.
SEE invited Dr. Jeanne Ng, Chair of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals Limited (HKIQEP) and Director of the CLP Research Institute, to be the guest speaker of the online "Dialogue with Professionals: Rise of the Environmental Profession - Growing GDP While Reducing Negative Environmental Impacts".
Professor Wen-Xiong Wang recently published a book entitled “Environmental Pollution of the Pearl River Estuary, China: Status and Impact of Contaminants in a Rapidly Developing Region” with Springer Nature.
Dr. Alicia An’s paper "PDMS/PVDF hybrid electrospun membrane with superhydrophobic property and drop impact dynamics for dyeing wastewater treatment using membrane distillation" is listed as one of the most cited articles in Journal of Membrane Science (top journal in the field of membrane science).
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.
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.
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.
