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2010-11-19-Professional seiminar on “ Smart Building for Green Century”
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Programme Title
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Technical Seminar on “ Smart Building for Green Century”
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Organized:
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CPDC
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Supporting Organizations
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HKIUS, HKCT & ETF
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Date, Time and Venue
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19 Nov 2010 Friday
7:00pm to 8:00pm (6:30 for registration)
Venue: Rm107-108, ETech Centre, HKCT(Causeway Bay Campus)(Map as attached) |
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Speaker(s) (if applicable) Details
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Miss Tung Hoi Yan and Mr. Lam Ka Lun, the awardees of HKURC-HKIUS Utility Specialists Fund Scholarship 2010 (City University of Hong Kong)
(More Details as below)
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Programme highlight:
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The speakers will introduce the latest development of the smart building and how the smart building help to utility to performance the demand response in order to increase energy generation efficiency. (More Details as below)
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Registration:
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Online enrollment from www.uti.hk or fax back the standary reply form to 2618 4500. |
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Enquiries:
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Ms. Elley Cheng
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Tel: 2690 3899 (Email: talks@uti.hk)
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Language of presentation
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Chinese (Supplemented with English presentation material)
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Limited No of participant
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80-100 |
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Fee
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Free of charge
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Speakers Profile
Miss Tung Hoi Yan and Mr Lam Ka Lun are now studying for the Doctor of Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong and they have contributed their effort on wireless sensor network, 4G network and artificial intelligence and this research results turn to be a very significant application: energy management which is a very important step for green living style evolution. Miss Tung and Mr. Lam have applied their knowledge to develop a brand new intelligent wireless energy management algorithm and such solution may bring about 30% of energy saving for a single apartment. Calculation reveals that this system reduces the amount of residential electricity consumption by 35 hundred million kWh every year in Hong Kong and it can save up the electricity charges by $3.5 billion annually.
More importantly, this relieves the global warming by reducing 2.35 million tons CO2 emission. Their research achievements have already well recognized by both academic and industrial sector. Both Miss Tung and Mr Lam have published three journal papers, 12 book chapters and more than 20 conference papers. Also they have received all together 5 awards in international and Hong Kong region paper contests including the First prize in IEEE R10 student paper contest. This paper contest is the highest ranking IEEE student paper contest in the Asia Pacific and more than 500 hundred student branches join the event every year including Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia, China and India. From the industrial sector, some utilities are attracted by energy saving feature and they are considering adopting such solution in the daily operation.
Seminar Highlight
A local scientist warns that there will be no winter in Hong Kong 22 years later. The Earth is screaming to human that global warming is coming. The detailed causes of the recent warming remain an active field of research, but the scientific consensus that the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases due to human activity caused most of the warming observed since the start of the industrial era. CO2 is one of the major greenhouse gases in the Earth. Fossil fuel burning has produced about three-quarters of the increase in CO2 from human activities over the past 20 years. For example, electricity generation contributes over 60% of CO2 emission per year in Hong Kong. To slow down the process of global warming, most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In silence, reducing energy consumption would reduce CO2 emission effectively. In Hong Kong, it is estimated that people spent around 80% of their time indoors and 89% of electricity is consumed by the buildings. Therefore, cutting the energy consumption in public area is no longer the main goal of next generation smart building. In the future, the smart building should aim higher to provide a communication platform which caters for smart grids development. In this sharing session, the speaker will introduce the latest development of the smart building and how the smart building help to utility to performance the demand response in order to increase energy generation efficiency.
