Miss Wylie CHUNG Wai Yi, a 2019 SEE UG Graduate, received the Best Final-Year Environmental Project Award 2019 (1st Runner-up) presented by The HKIE Environmental Division in the Annual Reception held on 8th January 2020.
Professor Chak K Chan, Dean of the School of Energy and Environment, gave a plenary talk on “Gas-Particle Interactions: Hygroscopic Properties, Phase Transformation and Heterogeneous Reactions of Atmospheric Aerosols” in the 15th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Application to Air Quality (ASAAQ) in Kuala Lumpur on October 28, 2019.
As a Co-PI, Dr. Alicia An, in collaboration with Prof. Guanghao Chen at HKUST (the PC) and other Co-PIs (HKU, PolyU, and CUHK) successfully joined the 9th round of the TRS.
An environmental scientist at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has been awarded US$100,000 by Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE), an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a novel way to cultivate 10 distinct probiotic bacteria simultaneously.
Aerosol science and technology is the focus of a major international conference that coincides with the 10th anniversary of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
Dr. Alicia An’s research group in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong has proposed a novel membrane distillation (MD) system for the efficient treatment and sustainable treatment of textile wastewater.
Dr. Edwin Tso spoke on indoor air quality on RTHK programme (in Chinese 《日常8點半》(民生l消閒)) . The importance and maintenance of indoor air quality were discussed by Dr. Tso and the hosts.
《日常8點半》(民生l消閒)
Mr. Elvis Au, Deputy Director of Environmental Protection Department of HKSAR Government, delivered a colloquium for the SEE community on 19 September 2018. At the colloquium, Mr. Au provided with the students and faculty members an overview of the major environmental challenges facing Hong Kong and the opportunities such challenges open up.
The team of Miss Zhou Yujing, Miss Xiao Lingran, Mr. Wan Ho Ching and Mr. Choi Lai Yun, (three second-year-undergraduates and one third-year-undergraduate majoring in Energy Science and Engineering) won Second Prize in “Technology Innovation” at the 11th Competition of National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction held on 9 August 2018.
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.
