CityU Discovery Experience and CityU EngD Society Meeting

CityU Discovery Experience event organized by CityU EngD Society, ARO and SYE Dept on 23^rd Mar 2024. The event aimed to give experience on STEM, agricultural and visit to CLP Power Low Carbon Energy Education Centre inside CityU.

In the beginning, volunteer explained the use of technology for agricultural planting.  

All participants then practice.

After that we visited CLP Power Low Carbon Energy Education Centre.

Finally, representative of the Centre explained the low carbon energy strategy to us.

After the event, we had the 2^nd CityU EngD Society Meeting both online and onsite.

CityU EngD Society President Dr. Rocky Lam appreciated to all volunteers, participants and EngD cohorts through Whatsapp group below.

大家好，午安

感謝天父賜給我們一個美好的早上！今日成功完成這個咁有意義的活動，首先要非常感謝ARO Cindy, Tony 的熱誠招待！還有Jack, Albert,Agnes, Howard 對STEM 和種植的細心指導！更多謝CityU CLP Lab 的導師們的有趣講解！最後就是埔浸社服的舒婷姑娘，－班導師, 小朋友和CityU EngD Society 的teammates, 令今次的活動充滿活力和愛心。謝謝

Reference:

CityU EngD Society - https://engds.org/

CLP Power Low Carbon Energy Education Centre - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/lowcarbon/

Visit to T·PARK

 Dr. KS Chin and I visited to T·PARK (Transformation Park) on 27^th Aug 2021. We would like to observe if it is suitable for student visit because one of subjects in the course (ADSE2066) related to sustainability.  When arrived, I took a photo in front of the entry.

Dr. Chin and I took a photo before went into the building. T·PARK signifies the continuous drive to shape Hong Kong’s “waste-to-energy” ambitions for the good of the community. It also reflects a vision to encourage positive change in people’s attitudes and behaviors towards waste management and resource recovery and recycling.

Then we saw the whole actives introduction banner in the walk of theater.

The whole T·PARK model was showed.

Before the tour, we attended the briefing video.

After that there were three teams followed with tour leader to visit different part of T·PARK including Sludge Grabber, Fluidized Bed Incinerator, Bag Filter, Reverse Osmosis plant, Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR), Air Cooled Condenser, Steam Turbine, etc. 

The Sludge Grabber is real size and it weights 4.85 tonnes empty and can lift 5 tones of sludge. It can move on average 24 full loads of sludge per hour that is 120 tonnes of sludge per hour, or 2880 tonnes per day.

The fluidized bed incinerator contains 690 individual air nozzles. Each incinerator can treat up to 550 tonnes per day of wet sludge and nearly 23 tonnes per hour.

Reverse Osmosis plant can produce up to 600m³ of water from sea water each day and the reverse osmosis system includes 24 vessels containing a total of 128 filter membranes. 

Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) gives a total surface area for the bacteria to grow on of 2300m².  80Nm³ of air blows through the MBBR every hour to provide oxygen for the bacteria.

The left two cylinders contain activate carbon and then the three cylinders for acid and alkaline treatment, as well as the last five cylinders are Ash silos.

We also visited the roof. 

The video explaining for waste to energy was showed at the end.

Finally, we had lunch in the T·CAFÉ.

It is my first time to have lunch in restaurant and need to clear all dish by customer!

Reference:

T·PARK - https://www.tpark.hk/en/

Student_Handbook-ITME - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/adse/programme/2021-22_Student_Handbook-ITME.pdf

HKCTC & PolyU meeting in Science Park for Food Hygiene Management

During HKAS liaising meeting, I met Ms. Lynn Ho and we discussed about Science Park Hygiene Control mechanism.  It is golden opportunity to be cooperated with PolyU to implement the Food Hygiene Standard Certification System (FHSCS).  Therefore, we arranged a three parties meeting in Science Park on 23^rd Dec 2017.  In the beginning, Mr. Kevin Edmunds (Senior Manager, Sustainability, HKSTP) briefed our licensing requirement for catering and restaurant type tenants which included Safety, Health and Environment requirements, as well as, Food Hygiene monitoring mechanism. They needed to submit food hygiene report, which performed by Certification Bodies, to us quarterly.

Ms. Jane Lee (Secretary-General Testing and Certification, HKCTC) briefed the role of HKCTC and would like to promote testing and certification in Hong Kong.  Food Hygiene Standard Certification System (FHSCS) was one of their focus items.  

The Opening Ceremony of CityU’s CLP Power Low Carbon Energy Education Centre

City University of Hong Kong sponsed by CLP Power Hong Kong Limited to develop the CityU’s CLP Power Low Carbon Energy Education Centre which offers visitors an insprining and enlightening experience as they learn about the importance of low carbon energy to address the environmental challenges we face.  The opening ceremony was held on 30 Oct 2017.  I was honor to be invited by CityU Eminence Society to attend this ceremony and visit the centre.

In the beginning, Prof. Kuo Way (President, CityU) gave a welcome speech and he said that we all were looking at green energy which is factor of survivability of the Earth.  The centre presented energy efficiency to the environment using sensitivity analysis and educating to public about green energy.  He thanked CLP support not only on sponsorship but also expertise.  We would become a good citizen in the community. He also discussed about University Ranking and he said “Ranking is not important because we are much better than Ranking.”

The guest of Honour was Mr. Wong Kam-sing, GBS, JP (Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR Government) and he gave a key speech.  He said the last September was the hottest month in Hong Kong record indicating the impact of global warming.  He encouraged and promoted the clean and renewable energy to community and to achieve environmental targets during the initial stage of the Hong Kong 2030 Study.  He said we can decarbonization Hong Kong. His approach for Renewable Energy was “Promotion”, “Interaction” and “Innovation”.  Lastly, he expected all of us supported their waste charging scheme.

HealthBaby 10th Anniversary Visit to Geo-park

I joined the HealthBaby 10^th Anniversary Visit to Geo-park with my wife on 14 June 2016.  HealthBaby is the first cord blood bank located at Hong Kong Science & Technology Park, (HKSTP) which provides the most advanced infrastructure and backup facilities with continuous power supply and much more comprehensive than that of industrial / commercial buildings. Being the largest H.K. cord blood bank (occupying 15,000 sq. ft. area), HealthBaby's laboratory is equipped with advanced biotechnology backup facilities. I would like to share our visit to Tung Ping Chau (東平洲) Marine Park below.