Hydrogen production by microbial electrochemical system at low temperature (4℃)Credit: Harbin Institute of Technology
Committed to education and research on environmental protection and ecological safety, HIT’s School of Environment (SE) has a 100-year history. Thousands of outstanding graduates have passed through its high-level faculties, including four members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Housing eight national research platforms for creating sustainable solutions to the world’s challenges, the SE has become an important base for the cultivation of high-level innovative talents and scientific research in ecological environment. The SE is well known in many research specialisms, including wastewater treatment, drinking water safety, waste disposal and recycling, causes and control technologies of air pollution, and environmental functional materials. Their innovative technologies have been used in treating wastewater from the pharmaceutical, printing, and chemical engineering industries.
The SE is also ambitious in emerging research directions, including sponge city theory and technology, bioresource and bioenergy recovery from waste streams, and microbial electrochemical technology. From studying the global migration of atmospheric pollutants, to exploring emergency measures for environmental crises, SE researchers have applied big data and other emerging technologies to safeguard environment and human health.