RESEARCH IN SIMTECH

INTRODUCTION

The Sustainability and Life Cycle Management (SLCM) group strives to foster a sustainable future, where businesses make profits while making a positive impact on people and the planet. Our philosophy is to apply interdisciplinary science and life cycle thinking in solving sustainability challenges.

We focus our R&D efforts in two key areas:

1. Sustainable Design & Operations which looks at how resource consumption and waste can be minimised to improve resource efficiency in business operations; and
2. Sustainability Informatics & Strategy which looks at quantifying sustainability performance and how business models and practices can be transformed to decarbonise operations and recirculate resources within the economy.

Collaborating with partners across A*STAR, universities, and the industry, R&D outcomes are translated into capabilities and tools, enabling companies to improve their resource efficiency, and transit towards a sustainable and circular economy.

CORE COMPETENCIES

TECHNOLOGIES FOR LICENSING AND TRANSFER

• Life Cycle Assessment Platform
  • Validate ‘eco-friendliness’ of processes, products and services over entire life cycle
  • Identify sustainability hotspots and set science-based targets
  • Support eco-design, systematic planning and maximise financial ROI of sustainability initiatives
    
    
• Resource Efficiency Monitoring and Analysis Suite (REMAS)
  
  • Manage energy, water, waste
  • Reduce costs and related carbon footprints
  • Assist companies in applying data-driven methodologies for visualisation, prediction, and control of resource usage
    
    
• Collaboration Platform for Industrial Symbiosis
  
  • Identify waste-to-resource exchange opportunities
  • Matchmake companies to establish waste-to-resource exchanges with one another
  • Enable informed decisions to maximise ROI of waste-to-resource exchanges based on data-driven feedback

RESEARCH PARTNERS

• Institute of Chemical & Engineering Sciences (Singapore)
• Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore)
• Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (Singapore)
• National University of Singapore
• Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany)
• University of Cambridge (UK)
• University of Warwick (UK)

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