Scientific research experience

At the ETM center, we have a team of professionals, including several Ph.D., Masters, and engineering degree holders, with extensive experience in technology and environment management. ETM laboratory system meets  ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – VILAS 327 quality standard, VIMCERTS 052 certification. Furthermore, ETM has successfully built a network with experts,  universities, and institutions both domestic and abroad.

Thus, ETM is fully capable of conducting projects which require professional expertise in terms of technology and environment management.

The following are some outstanding projects completed:

• Conducted strategic plans and programs to protect the environment, for enterprises, provinces, cities and nation;
• Planned and carried out projects, tasks, researches for governmental departments, boards, and branch in the following fields:

-  Climate change and sea level rise;
-  Managing wastes: municipal solid wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous industrial wastes, sewage sludge, wastewater, and green house gas emission;
-  Managing natural resources and biodiversity: surface water, ground water, minerals, forest and sea resources;
-  Systemizing environmental information system; on-site investigating and examining, handling information statistic, establishing databases to manage wastes and wastewater; creating networks to monitor environment quality. 

• Training in the field of technology and environment management: compiling training documents, organizing specialized seminars and conferences, on-the-job training (sampling, responding to and resolving environmental problem, etc.);
• Setting up research models in laboratory and conducting technology transfer;
• Cooperating and sharing experience in the implementation of international projects in the fields mentioned above.

Some projects implemented:

Provincial Scientific Research Projects:

• Performing the task of scientific and technological research "Studying the level of sludge pollution from dredging of rivers, canals and arroyos in Ho Chi Minh City and developing a manual on treatment and use waste sludge from the dredging of rivers, canals and arroyos" - Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Development Fund;
• Greenhouse gas inventory in Ho Chi Minh City - Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City;
• Setting the solid waste management database in Ho Chi Minh City - Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City;
• Project on preparation of bidding plan for collection and transportation of domestic solid waste in Ho Chi Minh City period 2015 – 2020 - Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City;
• Creating a master plan for the hazardous and industrial solid wastes management system in Ho Chi Minh City, in the period of 2006-2020.

National Scientific Research Projects:

• Investigating and researching on assembling the assessment standards for the treatment system of emission gas and wastewater in Vietnam;
• Managing domestic and industrial solid wastes for 9 provinces of the South East Region;
• Improving the environmental condition at the closed Dong Thanh landfill;
• Applying environmental technology and management solutions for the construction of environmentally friendly industrial park models;
• Establishing technical guidelines for environmental pollution treatment for domestic solid waste landfills in operation and after closure;
• Updating Vietnam National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutant (POPs) – Package No.2 – inventory of new POPs, “Vietnam PCB Management” Vietnam Environment Administration/Industrial Safety Techniques and Environment Agency Project Management Unit.

International Scientific Research Projects:

• PCB Management and Disposal Demonstration Project: PCB Sampling, Testing and Mapping in 10 provinces, sponsored by GEF;
• Demonstration project for industrial waste management e-manifest system in Ho Chi Minh City, sponsored by JETRO, Japan;
• Researching on POP management (including pesticides and PCBs) in framework of ARRPET 2, project in cooperation with environmental organizations of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, sponsored by SIDA;
• Studying an appropriate method to treat wastewater from textile and dyeing plant (cooperation with Wageningen university – The Netherlands);
• Studying to treat wastewater from centralized shrimp farming area within the ARRPET 1 project which co-operated with governmental offices, environmental organizations in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The project was funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA);
• Researching on sustainable development of tapioca processing industry in Vietnam in framework of ARRPET 2 project in cooperation with environmental organizations of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, sponsored by SIDA;
• Studying to recycle bio wastes in South-East Asia cities (co-operated with governmental offices, environmental organizations in Germany, The Netherlands, Philippines, Thailand);
• Recycling sewage sludge for agricultural production and agricultural land reclamation.