China Applied Technologies for Environment-Biogas (CATE-B) by Prof. Kuichuan Sheng from School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science and German experts was sponsored by Robert Bosch Foundation and it was officially launched.

The project involved Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University of Technology and East China University of Science and Technology. The Chinese Director was Prof. Kuichuan Sheng from School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University. CATE-B is to improve the efficiency and technique in the anaerobic fermentation of organic waste on Chinese scale farms under the Chinese scale biogas project, so that energy can be fully used by sustainable biogas project management. The project can promote the communication between Chinese and German technicians and train the young talents.

Prof. Michael Bischoff from Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, German Director of CATE-B, Prof. Bernd Niemeyer from Helmut Schmidt University, PhD. Jürgen Wiese from GKU, Prof. Bernhard Raninger from GTZ, PhD. Heinz-Peter Mang and PhD. Mingyu Qian were invited by Zhejiang University to attend the CATE-B Summit from March 26^th to April 1^st, 2010.

The summit included 4 seminars on which the attendee discussed the project goal, assignment, project schedule, budget, cooperation frame, project coordination, achievement issue (including CATE-B Website), communication and technical problem on biogas fermentation on the farm.

During the summit, Chinese Director signed the “Baseline Survey: China Large and Middle-Sized Biogas Engineering Assessment” agreement with German technology company. The German technology provided the financial aid and dispatched the German experts to train the Chinese technicians. The research team collaborated to study the scale biogas engineering in China. It was sure that the findings were helpful to the Chinese biogas engineering design, automation and management.