Research Focus
Working to meet Singapore’s and society’s growing needs for stable supplies of energy and essential products while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions in support of a lower-emission future, will require unprecedented innovation and collaboration at scale.
The research programmes identified by the Corporate Lab can contribute to Singapore’s energy security, unlock new socio-economic potential, and help support its progress towards a net-zero future.
Over the next five years, ExxonMobil-NTU-A*Star Corporate Lab will work on industry-focused projects in 5 research areas:
To develop cost-effective and scalable technologies to convert abundant biomass wastes to low emission marine and jet fuels, and olefin for sustainable plastics.
To achieve CO2 mineralization using industrial brine sources of calcium and magnesium; and utilize carbonates generated as an alternative construction materials.
To create a new generation of carbon incorporated concrete, for the use in large-scale building, construction, and infrastructure applications; and provide permanent carbon storage at the same time.
To use industry by-products to permanently capture CO2 in the form of stable carbonates and upcycled aggregate for application in building and infrastructure such as concrete, land reclamation and coastal protection.
To establish fundamentals in high temperature chemistry for the development of a novel process technology to produce hydrogen from natural gas, while identifying potential and new applications for carbon.
