Programme Highlights

Leveraging seawater toilet flushing practice in Hong Kong, a novel biological wastewater treatment process, named Sulfate reduction Autotrophic denitrificaiton and Nitrification Integrated (SANI^®) process has been developing for sludge minimized treatment of saline sewage since 2004 at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. This new process had gone through lab-study and pilot-scale evaluation in 2004-2006 and 2007-2010 sucessfully. It has further been evaluated in a larger scale trial at Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works in 2013-2015. The main results of this trial will be presented and discussed in this seminar.

Speaker – GH Chen

GH obtained his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering from Kyoto University in 1990. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1995. Currently he is professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST and serves as Directors of Water Technology Laboratory of HKUST and Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution (Hong Kong Branch).

GH had served as Editor of IWA Journal-AQUA and Special Issue Editor of Water Science & Technology and serves as Associate Editor/Guest Editor of Water Research. He received >30 invitations for international conference presentations and public lectures around the world. GH was elected Fellow of International Water Association in 2011 and has recently been elected Distinguished Fellow of IWA. Since 2011 GH and his team have received various honors and awards, including 2012 IWA East Asia Project Innovation Honor Award in Applied Research, IWA Project Innovation Global Honor Award in Applied Research, and finalist award for the Smart Cities Award in Project, and filed/granted around 10 patents in relation to SANI technology development.

Registration & enquiries

This seminar is free of charge with maximum capacity of 80.  For registration, please register via the EVD webpage at http://ev.hkie.org.hk.  Successful applicants will be notified.  For enquiries, please contact Ms. Jacqueline Chan at 93850223.  Attendance certificate will be awarded after the seminar.