NTU Singapore, ExxonMobil and A*STAR launch corporate lab for low-carbon solutions
Published by Poppy Clements,
Editorial Assistant
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
The Corporate Lab was officially launched today by Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies and Chairman of the National Research Foundation (NRF). Corporate labs allow companies to draw on Singapore’s strong foundation of scientific capabilities to address real-world challenges. The partnership between industry and academia helps to strengthen the industry relevance of researchers’ R&D and enables innovative enterprises to stay globally competitive through gaining insights into new application possibilities.
Researchers in the S$60 million Corporate Lab will apply their expertise to advance global research efforts in lower-emissions technologies in five areas:
- Convert biomass into lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emission fuels for adoption in aviation, maritime and chemical sectors that are potentially more cost-effective and efficient.
- Carbon capture and utilisation using by-product industrial brines, such as desalination brine to produce alternative construction materials, turning industrial side streams into useful materials.
- Turn methane into low-carbon hydrogen and solid carbon materials: Develop new process technologies to produce hydrogen from natural gas, while identifying potential and new applications for carbon.
- Develop efficient carbon capture and carbonation technology for industry by-products: To produce solid carbonates for use in building and infrastructure applications.
- Large-scale application of carbon in concrete: produce and validate concrete with carbon materials for large-scale deployment to enable, durable, and sustainable building and construction applications.
The new Corporate Lab – the latest addition to over 20 corporate laboratories across Singapore – is hosted by NTU’s Energy Research Institute @NTU (ERI@N) and A*STAR’s Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), through the Industry Alignment Fund-Industry Collaboration Project (IAF-ICP) initiative, and will work on joint research programmes over the next five years. These will be focused on helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance resource efficiency.
ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. Chairman and Managing Director, Geraldine Chin, said: “I’m excited that ExxonMobil with its global leadership in energy and material technology, will continue to work with Singapore’s world-class researchers to accelerate research development for a lower-carbon future. Our involvement in the translational R&D stages can help scale up projects for commercial deployment. We look forward to collaborating with our corporate lab partners on innovative discoveries that can help change our industry and the world.”
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/the-environment/29042024/ntu-singapore-exxonmobil-and-astar-launch-corporate-lab-for-low-carbon-solutions/
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