Prof Johnny C.-L. Chan, Chair Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, secured major funding in the latest round of the prestigious European Council (EC)/Research Grant Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme.
The funding, worth almost HKD 2 M, shall allow Prof Chan to develop a computer modeling system to predict the frequency of tropical cyclone landfalls in the East Asia region as well as their intensities, which involves a suite of models that includes coupling with the ocean.
Congratulations to SEE PhD candidate, Guangdong Duan, for winning an Excellent Poster Award at The American Meteorological Society’s 97th Annual Meeting, Seattle.
Prof Irene M. C. Lo, Fellow Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, presented the advancement in designing magnetic nanoparticles for wastewater treatment at the inaugural SEE Colloquium.
Students taking the undergraduate course, SEE2201 Introduction to Environmental Engineering, offered by the School participated in the visit to the "ElectriCity" of CLP Power Hong Kong Limited on 21 February 2017 (Tuesday).
The research team, led by Dr Walid Daoud, Associate Professor in CityU’s School of Energy and Environment, has combined two energy conversion concepts, namely piezoelectric and triboelectric effects, to create a hybrid system.
The rapid development and economic prowess that we have enjoyed in the last century was built on the backbone of fossil energy. From heating to manufacturing, mass transportation to lighting bulbs, and even powering our remote control, the energy was sourced, directly or indirectly, from crude oil, coal or natural gas which chemical energy was converted to electricity.
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.
