YNU students shine at national low carbon competition

Winning teams from Yunnan University (YNU) pose for a group photo. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Recently, the 16th National College Students Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Social Practice and Sci-tech Competition was held at Southeast University in Nanjing, with teams from Yunnan University achieving stellar results.

The competition focuses on China's needs in terms of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and has developed into a national event for college students with great influence.

Five teams from Yunnan University won the national third prize in the main category, two teams won the bronze award of the Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan and international track (equivalent to the national second prize in the main category), and three teams from the same track won the excellence award (equivalent to the national third prize in the main category).

In addition, Yunnan University won the Excellent Organization Award.

The works that helped secure the third prize in the main category included "a low-carbon technology for the production of organic fertilizer from green waste and domestic sludge" and a "3D printed solar evaporator for wastewater treatment in paper mills".

Two works dubbed a "smart solar moisture collection and power generation device for intelligent flower maintenance" and "a sustainable self-charging environmental protection mask system" – jointly completed by Yunnan University and the University of Macao – won the bronze award in the Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan and international track.

Yunnan University's winners of the excellence award included "tiny current ably concerned", the "design specification of a self-powered smart insole for health monitoring", "gold diggers: microfluidics-based microbial recovery of precious metals", and "a miniature robot for pest detection and control utilizing a gel-based piezoelectric luminescent actuation system".