Department of Civil Engineering, HKU

Teaching Activities

CIVL1105 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CIVL3013 Final Year Project
CIVL6006 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
CIVL6023 Environmental Chemistry
CIVL6062 Advanced Topics in Water and Environmental Engineering
CIVL8011 Advanced Topics in Water/Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Membrane technology
Desalination
Water reuse
Water and wastewater treatment
Resource recovery from waste and wastewater
Clean energy production/recovery
Nano-/bio-technology enhanced separation
Water chemistry

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

Around 20-year experience in membrane technology and environmental nanotechnology; outstanding grant record, with cumulative funding of >HK$80 million (in the capacity of PI); diverse funding sources (Hong Kong, Singapore, Finland, Australia, Austria, etc.).

RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme Project on water reuse (2021-2025)
GRF Project on novel thin film nanocomposite membranes (2020-2023)
CRF Project on energy efficient and environmentally friendly smart desalination (2018-2021)
NSFC-RGC Project on membrane distillation (2016-2020)
Three ITF-funded projects on membranes and filters
Consultancy on TKO Seawater Desalination Plant in Hong Kong
Numerous contract research projects

Selected Representative Publications

>260 SCI papers; Web of Science Citation 16300 times; H-index = 71 (updated on 27 Nov 2020)

Liu, J.; Huang, T.; Ji, R.; Wang, Z.; Tang, C. Y.*; Leckie, J. O., Stochastic Collision–Attachment-Based Monte Carlo Simulation of Colloidal Fouling: Transition from Foulant–Clean-Membrane Interaction to Foulant–Fouled-Membrane Interaction. Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, (19), 12703-12712.
Yang, Z.; Wang, F.; Guo, H.; Peng, L. E.; Ma, X.-h.; Song, X.-x.*; Wang, Z.; Tang, C. Y.*, Mechanistic insights into the role of polydopamine interlayer toward improved separation performance of polyamide nanofiltration membranes. Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, (18), 11611-11621.
Zhang, M.; Jin, W.; Yang, F.; Duke, M.; Dong, Y.*; Tang, C. Y.*, Engineering a Nanocomposite Interlayer for a Novel Ceramic-Based Forward Osmosis Membrane with Enhanced Performance. Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, (12), 7715-7724.
Peng, L. E.; Yao, Z.; Yang, Z.; Guo, H.*; Tang, C. Y.*, Dissecting the Role of Substrate on the Morphology and Separation Properties of Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes: Seeing Is Believing. Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, (11), 6978-6986.
Song, X.*; Gan, B.; Qi, S.; Guo, H.; Tang, C. Y.*; Zhou, Y.; Gao, C., Intrinsic nanoscale structure of thin film composite polyamide membranes: Connectivity, defects, and structure-property correlation. Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, (6), 3559-3569.

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Editorship

Editorial Advisory Board Member (2018-present), Environmental Science and Technology Letters, American Chemical Society
Editorial Board Member (2018-present), Journal of Membrane Science, Elsevier
Editorial Board Member (2019-present), Desalination, Elsevier
Editorial Board Member (2019-present), Environmental Research, Elsevier
Editorial Board Member (2015-present), Journal of Water Process Engineering, Elsevier
Academic Editor and Editorial Board Member, PLoS One, PLoS
Editorial Board Member (2016-present), nature partner journal Clean Water, Springer Nature
Editorial Board Member (2013-present), Membranes, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Editorial Board Member (2017-present), Environments, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Editorial Board Member (2018-2019), Heliyon, Elsevier

Awards & Recognitions

RGC Senior Research Fellowship Award, 2021-2025
Vebleo Fellow Award, 2020
Nano-functionalized reusable face masks recognized by Gold Medal, TISIA Special Award & Top 20 Best Inventions, International Invention Innovation Competition, Canada, 2020
HKIE Best Paper Award, (with undergraduate students Junwei Zhang & Lydia YT Lo and post-doc Hao Guo), 2020
Rapid water filter technology recognized by Gold Medal at Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, 2019 and MIT Technology Review (Asia Pacific Region for Dr. Hao Guo), 2019
Best Poster Award (with former PhD student JY Lee), Singapore International Water Week, 2018
Named as one of the Desalters to Watch, Water Desalination Report, 2015
EuroMembrane Society Best Paper Award (with former PhD student JY Lee), 2015
Singapore Ministry for National Development R&D Merit Award, (shared with Prof. Rong Wang and Prof. Anthony G. Fane), 2013
Best Paper Presentation Award, the IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse, (shared with Prof. Rong Wang and Prof. Anthony G. Fane), 2011
Finland Distinguished Professor Program Fellowship Award, 2010
International Desalination Association Fellowship, 2010
North American Membrane Society Travel Award, 2007

Other Achievements

Leader inventor of the Patented and commercialized technology on Aquaporin-based Biomimetic Membranes, see more at Aquaporin Company

• Watch the video of the Membrane-based Environmental & Sustainable Technology (MembEST) Group (MembEST video).

Professor (Water and Environmental Engineering) Professor Chuyang Y. TANG

Professor (Water and Environmental Engineering)
Professor Chuyang Y. TANG