To realize the soil and groundwater protection and management related technologies development and promotion policy as well as the roadmap defined in the “Multi-Year Technology Development Plan for Contaminated Site”, the Environmental Protection Administration (restructured and named as Ministry of Environment, MOENV) continued to advance the efforts to achieve the goals of “technology development and optimization” and “technology penetration and application”. This project has focused on making-up the gaps in sustainability and in the technical needs that led the research and study in planning the framework of the Remediation Process Optimization (RPO) to elevate the feasibility on enhancing the remediation effectiveness and to offer a system for promoting RPO.
By integrating the research and pilot testing program supported by the Soil and Groundwater Remediation Fund for the year of 2022, an extension of the program to full-scale technical demonstration was designed and proposed. The extension program proposed was to reenforce the partnership between the public and private sectors so that the acceleration of contaminated site delisting and remediation effectiveness can be improved. Also, the roadmap for technology promotion has been followed to select research outcomes of excellency and to promoted through passive and dynamic promotion tools as well as research achievement conventions and matching works. A virtual exhibition platform was implemented along with the conventions to provide diverse technology promotion actions for achieving the goals.
On the theme of the technology development, this study has completed the reviews on the international and domestic RPO related information, the consolidation of the RPO framework and the domestic technology application trend and optimization needs. On the theme of execution, the assessment of RPO procedures was carried out and a collaboration model for academia and industry was proposed for future implementation.
For the management of the research and pilot testing program, the deliverables included the completion of requests for proposal, mid-term report review, final report review, and variety of auditing and conference meetings. The information system for the management of the program has been properly maintained during the project. Several improvements, including responsive web page design, login reminder and tracking mechanism as well as information statistical functions, have been implemented. Through the execution of the program, this study has proposed improvement solutions with respect to the procedure, performance assessment, and cost-benefit analysis to be considered in the future implementation to the program. In addition, based on domestic continued development needs and responding to national environmental development policies and international soil and water technology development trends. This work completed the revision of the 2023 plan solicitation and made recommendations on 8 major research themes and 12 sub-themes design. An online review mechanism plan was also recommended to reduce the labor burden on future management examination reviews.
To increase the degree of the technical penetration, this study has drawn out a technical promotion strategy and approaches. A related technical promotion information platform prototype was designed and implemented that has included smart searching with artificial intelligent algorithm and domain professions and expert database to increase the probability of match-making between researchers and the industry.
This project also delivered two events of “soil and groundwater technologies demonstration and matching for industry and academia” and there were over 200 participants in each event. In the events, eight technical short assays, technical columns, and short documentary film were made and released for further promotion of the valuable innovative technologies. More importantly, there were four cases of letters of intent for the technology transfer signed in the matching processes. The future challenges in the contaminated site management can be better resolved with the collaborative work and technologies transfer. In addition, handled 3 local industry-university matchmaking activities. Successfully transfer technical information to soil and groundwater industries and achieved technical collaboration matching goal.
