Tsinghua-Veolia Newsletter-No.10

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Kick-start of the sludge dewatering pilot platform

Annual JRC international workshop on Urban Waste

Best Presentation Award at the IWA International Young Water Professionals Conference

2nd Tsinghua Veolia JRC Webinar—Green Infrastructure: Connecting City-Wide

Being an oversea intern in a JRC program

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Tsinghua – Veolia Joint Research Center InternshipBeing an oversea intern in a JRC program

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Tsinghua Veolia Joint Research Center Kick-start of the sludge dewatering pilot platform

Annual JRC international workshop on Urban Waste

Best Presentation Award at the IWA International Young Water Professionals Conference

2nd Tsinghua Veolia JRC Webinar—Green Infrastructure: Connecting City-Wide

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01 Kick-start of the sludge dewatering pilot platform

JRC’s sludge dewatering project led by Pr.Zuo Jiane started the set up of pilot platform at the beginning of December. This project aims to improve the understanding of the sludge dewatering processes and its impact on the main fractions of water (free water, interstitial water, vicinal water, etc.).

The research first concentrated on the technology available to assess fraction by fraction the efficiency of the water extraction. In his second stage a pilot platform is set-up to benchmark various technologies under research and development or already available on the market. Finally, test will be conducted inside the Tsinghua laboratory to qualify the raw and dewatered sludge from the pilot installations.

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Pilot under instruction

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02 Annual JRC international workshop on Urban Waste

Tsinghua University – Veolia Environment Joint Research Center for Advanced Environmental Te c h n o l o g y c h o s e t o fo c u s i t s fo u r t h a n n u a l international workshop on urban waste under the title International Workshop on Urban Waste: Anticipating on China’s Unprecedented Urbanization Transformation.

The event, held on November 11th and 12th within the Tsinghua University’s School of Environment, I n t e r n a t i o n a l W o r k s h o p o n U r b a n W a s t e : Anticipating on China’s Unprecedented Urbanization Transformation, was organized as a gathering of over 40 speakers from China, U.S., South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Europe both from academic and industrial organizations, such as Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Hong Kong University, Zhejiang Urban &

Rural Planning Design Institute, Veolia, et al.

This workshop was designed as a gathering of specialists, with short presentation sessions on waste to energy, landfill, landfill gas and leachate management, soil remediation, industrial and electronic waste, heavy metals, to allow the participants to present their latest work ; followed by roundtables where free discussion was encourage on the topics identified as pressing for China. This format was selected to encourage high-level communication between international experts.

The workshop was lead academic chair Prof. WANG H o n g t a o h e a d o f e nv i ro n m e nt al e n g i n e e r i n g department, director of the Solid Waste Management Division in Tsinghua’s School of Environment.

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03 Best Presentation Award at the IWA International Young Water Professionals Conference1 TSINGHUA

VEOLIA JOINT RESEARCH CENTER A paper on energy use for water supply recently

won School of Environment Masters candidate Kate Smith an award for best presentation at the IWA 7th International Young Water Professionals Conference in Taipei (7-11 December, 2014). The YWP conferences, organized by the International Water Association, provide young professionals and researchers in the water sector with an opportunity to discuss and present on current and future water management concerns.

Kate presented on research that quantifies the energy and greenhouse gas emissions for urban water supply in China and identifies possible influencing factors. Over 6 billion tones of water was lost during distribution within China’s cities in 2011. Kate's research found that the energy embedded in this

lost water was equivalent to the electricity produced in six months by a typical 500 megawatt coal power plant. This is a pertinent topic given China's target to reduce energy intensity as stipulated in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. This research was conducted as part of the Tsinghua-Veolia Environment Joint Research Centre for Advanced Environmental Technology under the supervision of Associate Professor Shuming Liu.

Kate entered the Drinking Water Safety Division of the School of Environment in 2013. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science double degree from the University of Melbourne, with majors in Environmental Studies, Applied Mathematics and Physics, and is a recipient of one of Australia's most prestigious scholarships for overseas postgraduate study, the General Sir John Monash Scholarship.

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01 Being an oversea intern in a JRC program

A Lebanese student, named Ghida Ruzz from American University of Beirut, was invited as an intern on a JRC research project focusing on methane production potential and major inhibiting factors from leachate. She started her 6-months internship on August 25th.

The project during the internship is one of the JCR’s important projects, led by Associated Prof. Lu Wenjing, the output will provide data support for explaining the low methane production of landfills in China. Ruzz has successfully completed the tasks of characterization of

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impressed by her diligence and work ethic, and given a definite confirmation of her performance during the internship so far.

JRC is devoted to develop an open environment for international communications and educations, Ruzz’s internship is the perfect expression of JRC’s obligations to the society. It also establishes a good image and raises public awareness of JRC.

04 2nd Tsinghua Veolia JRC Webinar—Green Infrastructure: Connecting City-Wide

The webinars, decided in the 2013 annual meeting by the JRC steering committee, are expected to connect research teams around the world, and also review the research status of a topic of interest for the JRC.

The second webinar, Green Infrastructure: Connecting City-Wide, was held on July 3rd at Tsinghua, hosting by JRC Deputy Director Mr Goulven Inial. Professor Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman from University of Arizona, Dr Yann Moreau from Veolia, and Professor Jia Haifeng from Tsinghua (one of the project managers in JRC) gave presentations on their research and innovation on green infrastructure. A Q&A session followed the presentations.

For the video record and presentation documents of the webinar, please check http://jrc-veolia.env.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/link.aspx

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