Fong’s Institute of Advanced Materials and processing (FIAMP)

Background

Fong’s Industries Group and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering jointly established the FIAMP in 2006, which primarily focuses on the research of advanced materials and processes. HKUST, under the leadership of the Co-Directors, helps organize interdisciplinary terms of researchers and students to solve the problems related to dyeing materials and technologies in a coordinated manner. Fong’s provides technical support and most importantly pilot plant testing that can be more conveniently performed at an industrial site. This arrangement is expected to accelerate the transition of fundamental advances from laboratory to market.

 

FIAMP’s Mission

FIAMP develops critical technologies for Hong Kong’s development in the dyeing and allied industries. The Institute has two sites – HKUST at Clear Water Bay and Fong’s Headquarters in Tsing Yi, Hong Kong.

 

The mission can be summarized as follow:

a.                   Establishing the Institute as a world-class R&D centre with core competences in advanced/ nanomaterials and processing technologies for the dyeing and allied industries, technology transfer, and international collaboration;

b.                  Developing fundamental knowledge and novel dyeing equipment/ devices and processes for sustainable economic development;

c.                   Implementing and commercializing such newly developed technologies, with the help of Fong’s professional engineers and technicians, in order to upgrade the technologies of the dyeing and textile industries in Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta region and the world.

 

FIAMP’s Projects

Ø      Integrated wastewater treatment plant design

Ø      Development of simulation code for plant design

Ø      Use of ozone to treat rinsing water for process reuse

Ø      Synthesis of decoloring agents and coagulants

Ø      Synthesis of chemicals for advanced oxidation process

Ø      Treatment of membrane concentrate

Ø      Novel anaerobic fluidized bioreactor design

Ø      Isolation of specific bacterium from sludge

Ø      Development of adsorption and ion exchange columns