Students taking SEE6101 Energy Generation and Storage System learnt about the concepts underlying biomass energy and also energy conversion methods such as heat engines/Rankine cycles. The students finally got a chance to see the operations of the principles in real life. On 12 November 2016 (Saturday), 33 students visited T · PARK. It is actually not only a park for recreation, but also a facility where the sludge is burnt and converted to electricity.
Dr. Sam H.Y. Hsu, Assistant Professor, has developed a general method for re-solving the trade-off between effciency and stability of metal–insulator–semiconductor photoelectrodes by employing dielectric breakdown for solar fuel application published on Nature Materials this year. This work has been featured on the front cover of the January 2017 Volume 16 No 1 issue of Nature Materials, http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n1/covers/index.html. Dr. Sam collaborated with Researchers in Microelectronic Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas
Students taking the Gateway Education course, GE1337 Urban Green City: Pollution and Solution, offered by the School participated in the visit to the Transformation Park (T-Park) on 2 November 2016 (Wednesday). T-Park is a sludge treatment facility using advanced technology to transform Hong Kong in the area of waste-to-energy.
A group of 31 MSc Energy and Environment students and research degree students taking the course, SEE6213/SEE8221 Wastewater Engineering and Water Quality Assessment, from the School of Energy and Environment visited the Shatin Sewage Treatment Works on 1 November 2016 (Tuesday).
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE3103 Energy Efficiency for Buildings, offered by the School participated in the visit to the International Commerce Centre (ICC) on 22 October 2016 (Saturday).
A group of 23 students from the undergraduate, master and PhD programmes joined in for a trip to Lamma Island on 29 October 2016 (Saturday) to visit the power plant there. We were led by Ir C.K. Liu, the Chief Operations Engineer at HK Electric during the tour. Ir Liu explained to us the operation of the power plant, including many technical details about steam cycles, combined cycles, etc. We then got a scenic view of the power plant from the top of a hill, and saw how the coal used for the plant was handled and stored.
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE4112 Energy Systems: Modelling and Analysis, offered by the School participated in the visit to the Education Path of Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) on 18 October 2016 (Tuesday).
The groups of Dr. W.Y. Teoh and Dr. Denis Yu reviewed the advancements in functionalized graphene composites and their applications in Energy and Environment. The work was one of the most read in Chem. Mater. in the past year.
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE3201 Atmospheric Science – An Introductory Survey, offered by the School participated in the visit to Hong Kong Observatory on 7 October 2016. The visit was guided by Mr. Ken Wong, Experimental Officer (EO) of the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO).
Students taking the Gateway Education course, GE1308 Energy: Today and Tomorrow, offered by the School participated in the visit to the Zero Carbon Building on 2 October 2016 (Sunday).
