NTU and NEA launch unique S$40m Waste-to-Energy Research Facility

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) have launched a new Waste-to-Energy Research Facility that turns municipal solid waste from the NTU campus into electricity and resources.

The facility is a $40 million project supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore, NEA, the Economic Development Board (EDB) and NTU.

The first-of-its-kind facility in Singapore is managed by NTU and houses a unique slagging gasification plant, which is able to heat up to 1,600 degrees Celsius.

NTU President Professor Subra Suresh said, “The NTU and NEA Waste-to-Energy Research Facility will enable our scientists to scale up promising ideas from lab prototypes into practical engineering solutions for sustainable waste management, contributing to NTU’s aspiration to become a zero-waste campus and Singapore’s vision of a zero-waste economy where waste is upcycled into valuable resources.”