Biochar for Carbon Neutrality | Dan Tsang, FRSC, FHKIE

One PhD graduate (2019) received IBA-IFIBiop Best Young Researcher Award    

• Yuqing Sun (“Bridging sustainability and industrial evolution through green bioprocessing”)

One PhD student (2019) received ASE Cultural & Educational Foundation for Environmental Thesis Award   

• Tim Chung-Yu Guan (“Plant microbial fuel cell for soil remediation, green roof and waste recycling”)

One PhD graduate (2018) received Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdoctoral Researchers

• Lei Wang (“Designing low-carbon high-performance fibre-reinforced mineral-based composites by green binder and carbon dioxide curing”)

One FYP student (2018) won the HKIE Environmental Division Prize for Best Final Year Project (Second Runner-Up)

• Sarah Tsz-Ching Lam (“Recycling contaminated sediments by modified MgO cement”, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers)

Four PhD graduates (2017, 2018) received Certificate of Outstanding Reviewer for International Journals

• Lei Wang (Journal of Hazardous Materials; Science of the Total Environment; Journal of Cleaner Production; Construction and Building Materials; Chemosphere)

• Season Si Chen (Journal of Cleaner Production; Science of the Total Environment; Chemosphere; Environmental Geochemistry and Health)

• Iris Ka-Ming Yu (Journal of Cleaner Production; Science of the Total Environment; Chemosphere)

• Yuqing Sun (Science of the Total Environment)

One PhD student (2017) received Gold Medal at 45th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva

• Lei Wang (“Upcycling wood waste into particleboard by CO2 curing and adding low-carbon cement”)

One PhD student (2017) received Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award

• Season Si Chen (“Synthesis, characterization, and application of heterogeneous catalysts for biomass conversion to value-added chemicals”)

Two PhD students (2017, 2018) was final-listed for FCE Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis

• Lei Wang (“Value-Added Recycling of Construction Waste Wood into Eco-Friendly Cement-Bonded Particleboards”, 2018)

• Bay Jingzi Beiyuan (“Integrated remediation of metal-contaminated soils: Biodegradable chelant-enhanced extraction and in-situ stabilization”, 2017)

Five PhD students (2017, 2018) received Best Oral Presentation Awards at International Conferences

• Lei Wang (2nd International Conference on Bioresources, Energy, Environment, and Materials Technology, Hongcheon, Korea, 2018, “Technical and economic assessment of green remediation and recycling of dredged sediment”)

• Tim Chung-Yu Guan (Annual Conference of Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, 2018, “Plant microbial fuel cell for green roof”)

• Cheng Lei (4th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Health, 18-20 May, Tianjin, China, 2018, “Environmental transformations and ecological effects of iron-based nanoparticles”)

• Iris Ka-Ming Yu (8th International Conference on Geochemistry in the Tropics & Sub-Tropics, Shenzhen, China, 2017, “Sulfonated biochar as a new catalyst for upcycling carbohydrate-rich food waste into hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)”)

• Lei Wang (8th International Conference on Geochemistry in the Tropics & Sub-Tropics, 9-12 December, Shenzhen, China, 2017, “Green stabilization/solidification of contaminated sediment with industrial by-products and CO2 curing”)

Four PhD students (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) received Best Poster Presentation Awards at International Conferences

• Iris Ka-Ming Yu (8th International Conference on Geochemistry in the Tropics & Sub-Tropics, 9-12 December, Shenzhen, China, 2017, “Using biochar-supported acid for catalytic production of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from bread waste”)

• Tiffany Man-Wah Mak (Asia-Pacific Symposium on Biotechnology for Waste Conversion, 6-8 December, Hong Kong, China, 2016, “A system dynamic approach to enhance resources recycling in urban cities”)

• Lei Wang (3rd International Conference on Solid Wastes 2015: Knowledge Transfer for Sustainable Resource Management, 19-23 May, Hong Kong, China, “Recycling timber waste into light-weight cement-bonded wood particleboards”)

• Bay Jingzi Beiyuan (2nd International Conference on Contaminated Land, Ecological Assessment and Remediation, 5-8 October, Chuncheon, Korea, “Mitigating groundwater pollution from e-waste sites by permeable reactive barriers”)

Two PhD students and one FYP student (2015) won Champion Prize of the HKIE Environmental Paper Award

• Lei Wang, Season Si Chen, and David Tak-Wa Tsang (Environmental Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), “A novel and eco-friendly method for recycling waste formwork into cement-bonded particleboard”)

Four PhD students and one FYP student (2015) received $100,000 funding under PolyU Micro Fund Scheme

• Lei Wang, Season Si Chen, Iris Ka-Ming Yu, Bay Jingzi Beiyuan, and David Tak-Wa Tsang (Entrepreneurship Stream of PolyU Micro Fund 2015, “Make Wood-Plastic Composites Project by Greenpoly Technology”)