RESEARCH IN SIMTECH

Sustainability & Life Cycle Management (SLCM) Group

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:

Sustainable Design & Operations which looks at how resource consumption and waste can be minimised to improve resource efficiency in business operations; and
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

Managing environment and economic performance through life cycle analytical tools
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
- Carbon footprint assessment and reduction
- Resource flow modelling and simulation
Mitigating resource depletion through improving resource efficiency, minimising waste and closing the resource loop
- Resource management for root cause analysis and efficiency improvement
- Waste-value stream mapping and waste reduction planning
- Evaluation for water-energy nexus
- Eco-efficiency assessment for products, manufacturing processes, systems and services
- Advanced urban farming systems
- Sustainable eco-design
Transforming business models for sustainability
- Green Compass
- Collaboration platform for Industrial Symbiosis
- Industrial network modelling and simulation
- Waste-to-resource knowledge discovery
- Resource knowledge base
- Circular economy assessment

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)