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CoE Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC)
Director: Nanyang Professor Tony Fane
Deputy Director: Associate Professor Wang Rong
Vision
To be the Centre of Excellence for world-class research and
application in membranes for environment and water
technologies (EWT).
Mission
To spearhead Singapore’s R&D efforts in fundamental and
applied membranes technology.
• Research & Development – provides research with links to
industry and international community;
• Education & Training – supports education and training for
post graduates and researchers in membranes;
• Industry & Application – acts as incubator for novel
membrane technologies
Research and Training Activities:
Established in 2008 and supported by EDB/EWI, SMTC
research activities are mainly directed towards membrane
technology for Sustainable Water and this is achieved by
combining multidisciplinary talents across NTU as well as
through collaboration with other universities and industry
partners. To date, SMTC has up to 70 full-time researchers
coming from ten countries.
Building on the successful research outcomes from the
Temasek Professor Program on Membrane Technology for
Sustainable at NTU (2002-2006), the Centre is establishing
research activities within the following six programme themes:
1.Water production – water treatment, desalination
2.Water reclamation – pre-treatment and reversed
reverse osmosis
3.Wastewater Membrane Bioreactors – conventional
and novel
4.Energy issues – including Life Cycle Assessment
5.Special Needs – chronic and acute, decentralised
6.Sensors and monitors
CoE Residues and Resource Reclamation Centre (R3C)
Director: Professor Rainer Stegmann
Co-Director: Associate Professor Wang Jing-Yuan
Vision
To conduct cutting edge research and strengthen Singapore
environmental industry‘s capability in the area of waste
resource management with emphasis on use-inspired R3
(Residues, Resource and Reclamation) research and
translation for Singapore, Asia and Pacific region.
Mission
To further its research philosophy ‘Wastes are not waste, but
misplaced resources’ through activities such as:
• R3 research and translation in Singapore and the
Region
• R3 resource and technology transfer centre
• Education and training for R3 professionals
Research and Training Activities
Officially launched on 5 October 2009, R3C, a centre
supported by EWI/EDB provides a platform for urban waste
management research and development, especially for
resource recovery and remediation. The main aim is to
support the Singapore industry in developing novel and
appropriate technologies for the local and regional markets on
urban waste management.
R3C aims to conduct research and translation work and
ultimately to develop technologies on waste minimization,
conversion of residues into resources, contaminated
environment remediation, and other related fields. The
research programmes within R3C are grouped into three
multidisciplinary clusters including both basic and applied
research in R3 field.
These three clusters include:
• Cluster 1: Waste to materials
• Cluster 2: Waste to energy
• Cluster 3: Contaminated sites remediation
R3C has a focal point for synergistic research collaborations
with leading government agencies, industry partners and
educational and research institutions, both locally and around
the world. R3C has active collaborations with the key
environmental players in Singapore, including the Ministry of
the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR), the National
Environment Agency (NEA), and the Public Utilities Board
(PUB). R3C is also working with industrial partners including
ecoWise, SembEnviro, Sulo, Lioapex, IUT, Keppel-Seghers,
Alpha biofuels and CH2Mhill. R3C’s overseas partners are
internationally renowned and highly regarded for their
residues and resource reclamation research. In addition to
performing research, R3C provides consultancy and advisory
services to various agencies and corporations.
CoE Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre
(AEBC)
Co-Director: Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor Ng Wun
Jern (NTU)
Co-Director: Professor Peter Steinberg (UNSW)
Vision:
A Centre of Excellence that will apply environmental
biotechnology and bioprocesses to address environmental
issues and provide the biotechnology and bioprocess R&D
platform for Singapore’s environmental and water industry.
Mission:
To address national and global issues relating to increased
demand for fresh water, wastewater management, water
resource and waste management, and ecosystem stress and
health by applying environmental biotechnology to fill the
knowledge gap that exists on the biology of engineered
systems (i.e. bioprocesses), resulting in better translation of
academic knowledge into industry.
Research and Training Activities:
Officially launched on 10 May 2010, AEBC is the NEWRI
Ecosystem’s latest member centre, supported by EWI/EDB. It
is a unique collaboration between two Universities, NTU and
UNSW, reflecting their respective complementarities and
excellence in R&D, and representing a merger of the strong
environmental biology and biotechnology platform at UNSW,
with the technology based bioprocess expertise at NTU.
• It applies strong research platforms of fundamental and
applied environmental molecular and microbiology to
address issues of environmental bioprocesses and
sustainability
• It develops biotechnologies relevant to geographical
areas addressed by Singapore’s environmental and water
technologies (EWT) industry.
• It provides leadership in use-inspired R&D on bioprocesses
• It is a foundation centre to develop and build a strong
NTU-UNSW educational and research axis, for Singapore