Reported by: SHANG Yankai
Photographed by: FENG Jian
Translated by: JIA Tinyu
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
Updated: 2013/5/26
On May 6th, the International Water Association (IWA) China Anaerobic Digestion Committee was launched, with academician REN Nanqi, HIT vice president, as the first president. After the launch ceremony, the first academic seminar and Sino-Dutch Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology international seminar is held. LI Ping, director general of the environmental protection department of Heilongjiang Province and HIT Vice-President SUN Heyi attended and addressed the launch ceremony.
As an active and rapidly developing academic platform, the International Water Association specialized group on Anaerobic Digestion aims at developing frontier and practical technology, promoting the industrialization of new techniques around the world. During recent years, China has made a series of innovative achievements in anaerobic biological technology innovation and its engineering applications, and become an important force in the promotion of anaerobic digestion technology. There is an increasing demand for anaerobic digestion technology and equipment in waste water treatment and biological energy sources, therefore, the potential of the technology market is tremendous. In December 2012, more than 20 specialists and scholars from institutes of the Chinese Academy of Science and more than 10 universities jointly proposed establishing the IWA China Anaerobic Digestion Committee, with the aim of forming a professional association where collaborative innovation can be achieved by academia and industry of China in anaerobic digestion technology, and forming a platform where China can have academic exchanges with other countries and the anaerobic digestion technology can be developed for the market.
At the launch ceremony, Vice-President SUN conferred an honorary professor title on Glen Daigger, International Water Association president and National Academy of Engineering member. As a world famous sewage treatment specialist, Professor Daigger has made a great contribution to world sewage treatment. He was a member of Water Environment Research Foundation and the chairman of the research council, and have received many rewards.
The Netherlands is the world-renowned birthplace of efficient anaerobic biological technology and Dutch scholars have always been active on the frontier of international anaerobic academe and industry. HIT and the Delft University of Technology jointly held the Sino-Dutch AD technology international seminar in order to further increase Sino-Dutch cooperation and exchanges, seeking new areas for technology development. 12 specialists and scholars from businesses and universities including HIT, Tsinghua University, Delf University of Technology and TU Berlin, gave keynote speeches for frontier issues such as the theoretical foundation of anaerobic digestion, the development and application of the new generation of efficient anaerobic technology as well as Anammox and the application of anaerobic technology in treatment of urban and industrial waste water and garbage.
Vice-President REN also met with Professor Jules van Lier from Delf University of Technology and other seminar participants, introducing HIT overall to the specialists and scholars, and discussing further intentions for cooperation. They discussed interschool cooperation, university-enterprise cooperation and collaborative innovation cooperation.
The Launch Ceremony
Vice-president REN and Professor Glen Daigger jointly launch the China AD committee.
Vice-president SUN confers a honorary professor title on Glen Daigger
Experts and scholars attending the seminar network with each other.
Vice-president REN meets with the specialists and scholars
