Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI)

What we do

Innovative engineered solutions for the water and environmental markets
With Research - Engineering - Deployment  (RED) as our guiding philosophy, NEWRI harnesses the value of our efficient, reuse innovations and natural waste to create an impact, through industrial and CSR projects, to develop a truly circular economy.

Robust engineering coupled with industry-level translation
NEWRI supports Singapore’s national water and environmental priorities, combining deep research and robust engineering to pilot and deploy water- and waste-saving innovations at full scale in real-life settings.

Highlights

Over 220 intellectual property for commercial development and deployment
Over 200 researchers, scientists and engineers with multi and inter disciplinary competencies 

Collaborations across various industries and multitude of institutions, nationally and globally. 

More than 2500 publications with 1170 within top 10 percentile (TR2 to current)
Cutting edge facilities available at CleanTech Park, and Singapore's first gasification Waste-to-Energy R&D facility (Tuas)

Research Focus

More on our research focus

The research arm of NEWRI looks at real-life problems from a fundamental science perspective and devises practical solutions. Our deep research encompasses five domains:

Modelling & AI

Translating and applying mathematical models and visualisations

Modelling and AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Membrane Technology

Membrane technology for water, environment, energy and cleaner production.

Membrane Technology
Resource Recovery_a

Solid waste value capture through waste to energy to materials technologies

Resource Recovery
Biotechnology & Bioprocesses

Energy & Resource Recovery through sustainable water and biosolids management system

Biotechnology and Bioprocesses
Sustainable Chemistry & Materials

Physical and chemical materials for environmental treatment applications

Environmental Chemistry and Materials