Aquatech China Innovation Award

The submitted documents must comply with the requirements of the application form. It will be selected by an expert jury only after passing the initial review. The information contained therein must be real and valid; otherwise, it will be disqualified from the selection.

The entries will be judged on the following 3 criteria:

1. Innovation (50%)
   Innovation serves as a key index evaluating the core value of the entry. The jury will mainly review the following aspects:
   1. Novelty of trouble-shooting: The entry shall provide a breakthrough thinking and approach to address the long-standing technical puzzles or application pain points in the industry, rather than a simple alteration of existing solutions.
   2. Potential extensibility: The entry shall pioneer some new technical routes or application scenarios, introducing extendable and innovative functions, performance or business models to the water industry.
   3. Differentiated technical route: The entry shall have significant differences from existing mainstream technologies or solutions in the core technical principles, process integration, material applications, or system architecture; anyway, it shall own its unique technical barriers.
2. Practicality (technical, economical, feasibility, 25%)
   Practicality is the key criterion for evaluating the transfer of an entry from a laboratory project to engineering applications. The jury will mainly review the following aspects:
   1. Practicability in promotion and application: The entry offers a clear industrialization route and has demonstrated its potentiality of scale promotion in terms of cost control, operational convenience, and supply chain management maturity.
   2. Stability and reliability in operation: The entry can consistently and stably perform its intended functions under preset operating mode, with demonstrated adaptability to real-time condition variations and guaranteed long-term operational reliability.
   3. Compatibility of systems: The entry can perfectly integrate with existing water treatment systems, pipeline networks or digital platforms, and can maximise the system efficiency without disruptive modifications to existing facilities.
3. Sustainability (environment, security, energy, efficiency, 25%)
   Sustainability serves as the key index evaluating the entry’s environmental value and social responsibility. The jury will mainly review the following aspects:
   1. Environmental friendliness: The entry can significantly reduce pollutant emissions, conserve water resources or energy consumption during operation, or it can demonstrate a full lifecycle environmental concept in aspects of material selection and manufacturing processes.
   2. Safety and security: The entry shall have fully considered all security risks across the entire chain, and set up a robust risk prevention and control mechanism to safeguard the security and rights of all personnel, environment, data, and end-user.
   3. Energy efficiency and resource efficiency: The entry shall have outstanding efficiency in energy and resource utilisation, delivering better processing outcomes with less or equivalent input; it shall facilitate the overall operational efficiency of the system.