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　　A signing ceremony between National Chiayi University and Aerospace Industry Development Corporation (AIDC) kicked off on the Lantan campus on the afternoon of Oct. 24th. During the ceremony, NCYU President Chiou Yi-Yuan signed a partnership agreement with AIDC Chairman Liao Jung-Hsin. According to the agreement, both will implement effective sharing of resources, and collaborate in biogas power generation, anaerobic fermentation technology development, and research on fermenting and feeding of mixed pig sewage, among others. The ultimate goal is to create a partnership between industrial sectors and academic institutions, enhance the mechanism of academic-industrial cooperation, and to save energy and reduce carbon emissions for the planet.

　　NCYU indicated that the interdisciplinary cooperation team consists of teachers and students from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Based on the existing Microbial Fermentation Team, the interdisciplinary team generates gas for power generation from organic wastes such as kitchen waste or animal manure by means of microbial fermentation. The anaerobic fermentation technology not only enables decomposition and reduction of biological sludge, but generation of methane for production capacity. In addition, factors such as microbial flora, organic matter composition and concentration, content of microbial inhibitors and temperature changes may affect the biogas production during the process of organic waste fermentation.

　　According to the cooperation project, an organic waste biogas power generation cooperation team will be organized in the future, which aims to further strengthen AIDC’s power generation capacity, and NCYU Microbial Fermentation Team’s competence in bacterial flora research and metabolic analysis. By forming the team, they hoped to maximize the marginal benefits of livestock waste, enhance the students’ competitiveness and opportunities in the job market through academic-industrial collaboration, and improve teachers’ ability of research and development. Last but not least, they hoped to assist the livestock and aquaculture industries in entering the circular economy system, thus reaching the objective of environmental sustainability.