报告题目：Lodomat – an innovative technology enabling energy neutral/positive sewage treatment（Lodomat： 一种可以实现能量自给自足/盈余的污水处理新技术）

报告人：Prof Zhiguo Yuan (the University of Queensland)

时间：2016年5月11日   10:00

地点：校本部东区环化楼915会议室

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摘要：

Sewage treatment plants are large energy consumers. However, sewage contains a substantial amount of chemical energy, equivalent to around 150 kWh/person•year. This is about 5 times the amount of energy required for the entire sewage treatment process. While contemporary treatment plants do incorporate anaerobic digesters to produce biogas from sewage sludge, the amount of energy recovered is typically only 5-7% of the energy available in the raw sewage, providing around 1/3 of the energy required for sewage treatment.

Researchers at the Advanced Water Management Center at The University of Queensland has recently developed an innovative, yet elegantly simple technology for enhancing biogas production while achieving regulatory discharge standards. This technology has been successfully demonstrated in laboratory studies. The technology can be easily implemented at existing sewage treatment plants to achieve energy-neutral sewage treatment through minor retrofitting with an expected payback time of less than one year, or incorporated in new sewage treatment plant designs leading to energy-positive sewage treatment.

报告人简介：

 

Prof Yuan is the Director of the Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) at The University of Queensland. Prof Yuan is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), and also a Fellow of the International Water Association. He was named as one of Engineers Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers for 2015.

He has to date published over 280 fully refereed journal papers including a paper in Nature (2013) and Science (2014). His h-index is 52 (Scopus, April 2016), with over 8500 citations. He is the founder of three biotechnology businesses namely SeweX, Cloevis and Lodomat, and his research has delivered documented savings of over $400 million to the Australian water industry. His research achievements and leadership have been recognized through national and international awards with the most recent being the 2015 ATSE Clunies Award and the International Water Association (IWA) 2014 Global Project Innovation Award (Applied Research Category) – as Project Leader.