Prof Guanghao Chen’s Research Team Won World Smart Cities Awards Finalist Award in Project
The School of Engineering is pleased to announce that the research team led by Prof Guanghao Chen of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was presented a Finalist Award in the Project category at the second edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress, on November 14 in Barcelona, Spain at the Palau Nacional de Catalunya – Montjuïc. The World Smart Cities Awards recognize the most innovative projects in the categories of Initiative, Project, and City. A total of 106 entries from 65 cities were submitted. HKUST’s winning submission was the integration of innovative sewage treatment with innovative hybrid water resource management. Team members include the Hong Kong Airport Authority, the Hong Kong Drainage Services Department, the Hong Kong Water Supplies Department, the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
This is the fifth award the team has received in 2012, following the Second Prize of Huber Technology Award in May, the Honor Award of International Water Association (IWA) Project Innovation Awards (PIA) in the East Asia Region in July, the Global Honor Award of IWA PIA in September, the Runner-Up Award of IWA Sustainability Specialist Group Prize in September. Prof Chen’s team developed the innovative triple water supply system – a hybrid water resources system and two novel sewage treatment technologies, namely the Sulphate Reduction, Autotrophic Denitrification and Nitrification Integrated (SANI) process – a sewage treatment technology which practically reduces 90% sludge production, and the SUPR process – a seawater-based urine phosphorus recovery process recover phosphorus from urine economically.
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