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1955 – Nanyang University ü
1980 – Merger with University of Singapore
1981 – Nanyang Technological Institute ü
1991 – Nanyang Technological University ü
2003 – Mandate to expand and build 3 new schools
2005 – 50th Anniversary Celebrations
2006 – Autonomous University
2007 – Provost and Four Colleges structure
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v College of Engineering
§ Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering
§ Civil and Environmental Engineering
§ Computer Engineering
§ Electrical and Electronic Engineering
§ Materials Science and Engineering
§ Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
v College of Business
§ Nanyang Business School
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vCollege of Science
§ Biological Sciences
§ Physical and Mathematical
Sciences
vCollege of Humanities,
Arts, & Social Sciences
§ Art, Design and Media
§ Wee Kim Wee Communication
and Information
§ Humanities and Social
Sciences
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Autonomous Institutes
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S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
National Institute of Education
Earth Observatory of Singapore
Key Institutes/Centres
ü§ Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute
§ Institute for Media Innovation
ü§ Energy Research Institute @ NTU
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Institute of Sustainable Nanoelectronics
Institute of Advanced Studies
Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre
Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management
Confucius Institute
Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
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§ From Rio to Cancun
§ Singapore’s Stance and Approaches
§ Sustainability Research in NTU - Energy
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Rio Summit to Cancun
Agreements
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§ Depletion of Fossil Resources ü
§ Surging of Energy Demand ü
§ Environment/Climate Change ü
§ Continue growth of world population (7.9 – 8.3B by 2030), with 4.75.0B will live in urban areas, about 53% increase from today
§ Climate change (too hot or too cold) incurs more energy use for cooling
and heating
§ Harvesting energy from renewable sources remains costly and
inefficient and also slow progress in deployment
§ Solving one problem entails another
§ Most pressing energy issue will be those related to off-grid applications
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From Rio Earth Summit to Cancun Agreement (I)
1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rio Earth Summit, 1992), government officials
from 178 countries discussed solutions for global problems: poverty, war,
growing gap between industrialised & developing countries. In the centre
was also the question of how to mitigate the global environmental system
through introduction to the concept of sustainable development.
2. Kyoto Protocol, Japan (1997), is a protocol to United Nations Framework
Convention on CC (UNFCCC), aims at fighting global warming with goal of
achieving the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere at a level of 450 ppm that would prevent dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate system. It is a legally binding,
whereby all the 37 participating countries had to commit themselves to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6), with an average
reduction of 5.2% from 1990 levels by the year 2012.
3. Bali Action Plan, Indonesia (United Nations CC Conference, 2007) is a 2year process Road Map to finalize a binding agreement in 2009 in
Copenhagen. It includes an action plan for Mitigation, Adaptation, Financing
and Technology Development and Transfer.
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From Rio Earth Summit to Cancun Agreement (II)
4. Copenhagen Accord, Denmark (2009)
Goals
• To establish a global emission reduction pathway after 2012
• Developed countries to take commitments on deep emission cuts
• Developing countries to provide actions on the emission reductions
• Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) mechanism for emission
reduction commitments and actions
• Financial support from developed countries
Proposed emission cuts by scientists
– To limit the global temperature rise to 2oC by 2020
– Industrialized countries and economies in transition: 25-40% below the 1990
level in 2020
– Developing countries: 15-30% deviation from baseline in 2020
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From Rio Earth Summit to Cancun Agreement (III)
5. Cancun Agreements, Mexico (2010)
The Agreements
• represent key steps to reduce GHG and to help developing nations protect
themselves from climate impacts and build their own sustainable futures.
• form the basis for the largest collective effort to reduce emissions, in a mutually
accountable way, with national plans captured formally at international level
under the banner of the UNFCCC.
• include the most comprehensive package ever agreed by Governments to help
developing nations deal with climate change (such as finance, technology and
capacity-building support) and to speed up their plans to adopt sustainable
paths to low emission economies.
• include a timely schedule for nations to review the progress they made towards
their expressed objective and to review whether the objective needs to be
strengthened in future.
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Singapore’s energy and climate change
policies are influenced mainly by
economic
considerations.
The
government will take pragmatic and
cost-effective actions to reduce
emissions and adopt clean energy, as
long as the actions DOES NOT affect our
economic growth or add to costs
greatly.
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Sustainability
Government has committed S$1B over 5 years for…
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Sustainability
To build w
• Green buildings
• Urban greenery
• Urban planning
• Green Transportation
• Intelligent Transport
Systems
Built
Env. &
City
Mgmt
Urban
Mobility
Clean
Energy
• Renewable energy
• Intelligent grid
management
• Energy efficiency
URBAN
Urban
Solutions
SOLUTIONS
• Telecommunications
• Green IT
• E-Government
Infocom
Tech
Env. &
Water
Security
• Public safety
• Homeland security
• Command and control systems
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• Waste and water
treatment
• Pollution control
• Carbon services
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§ Official opening: 15 June 2010
§ 65 participating professors
§ 17 commercial partnerships
§ 3 dedicated laboratories
totaling 2500 sq. m.
§ 6 joint, international
university partnerships
§ 17 joint research projects
§ 112 PHD & Masters
students
§ 65 research fellows/
associates
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Centre for
Sustainable Energy
Research (CSER)
§ Wind / Marine
Renewables
§ Energy Storage
§ Green & Smart
Buildings
§ Fuel Cells
v PhD-50,
MS-20,
RF/RA-40
Centre for Maritime
Energy Research
(CMER)
§ Green Ships
§ Green Ports
v PhD-10,
MS-7,
RF/RA-10
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Solar Energy &
Solar Fuels Centre
(SEFC)
§ Photovoltaics
§ Solar Thermal
§ Photocatalysis,
Photoelectrochem
conversions
v PhD-15,
MS-10,
RF/RA-15
Centre for
Electromobility
w/ TUM
§ Energy Storage
Systems
§ Embedded systems
§ E-Car Technology/
Infrastructure
v PhD-50,
MS-27,
RF/RA-23
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High Performance Computing
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| Areas of Study
Supercapacitors
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Performance-Ragone Plot
Batteries
Zn-MnO2
Vanadium redox
Battery
Range
Lithium ion
Metal-Air
Zn-air
Li-air
Acceleration
Applications
Low Research
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Energy
High power
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Flywheel
| PEMFC – Areas of Study
Reduction of
methanol
cross-over
(DAFC)
Bipolar plates
based on polymer
nano-composites
with conductive
fillers
Self hydrating
of MEA with
hygroscopic
nano-silica
Overcome
flooding of
cathode with
silicone oil
Non-Pt base
catalyst for
anode and
cathode
(HT-PEMFC)
High performance
inorganic proton
exchange
membranes
(HT-PEMFC)
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Ultra-low Pt
loading for anode
and cathode by
electro-deposition
Multi-Physics
modeling
Embedded
capacitor in
cathode
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| SOFC – Areas of Study
Solid oxide electrolyser
cell for CO2 capture &
conversion to fuels
Direct
hydrocarbon
fueled SOFC cell
and stack
Sulphur
tolerant anode
High performance
SOFC cell and
stack
Environmentally
friendly aqueous
based tape casting
for large cell
component
fabrication
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Multi-Physics
modeling
| Areas of Study
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Power Supply
Renewable Resources
SP Services
Solar PV
Solar Thermal
Power Supplier A
Wind Turbines
Power Supplier B
Fuel Cells
Main Research Areas:
• Building-to-Grid
Infrastructure
Air Cooling
• Green Building
Management for
the Tropics
Heaters/Solar
Heating Systems
• Renewable Energy
Harvesting for the
Built Environment
• Energy Efficient
Cooling and
Lighting
Lights
Building Management
System
Other Electrical
Appliances
Intelligent buildings
Load
Distributed Sensing,
monitoring &
control
Thermal storage
Computational
techniques
People-aware
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Adaptive
Energy
Storage
Flywheels
Battery Banks
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| Green Building Components
Greenery
Facade
High
Performance
Glazing
Cool Roofs
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| Testing Bedding Project
Energy Market Authority (EMA),
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Q4/11:
installation of
~1248 smart
meters
Q2/12:
installation of
data
concentrator
Q2-2012:
Application
software
Test range of
smart grid
technologies to
enhance the
capabilities of
Singapore’s
power grid
infrastructure.
with Accenture:
Intelligent Energy Distribution
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| Areas of Study
Maritime Energy Research
The Maritime
Energy Research
Program will:
§ Focus on
research
platforms that
promote green,
carbon-neutral,
energy
management
solutions
§ Leverage
activities within
ERI@N and focus
on system level
solutions in the
green shipping
and green ports
domain.
Green Shipping
Green Ports
Alternate Energies,
Clean Fuels
Carbon capture,
Emission Mgt.
Energy Efficiency,
Electrification
Green
Technologies
Electric Propulsion
Energy Management
Systems
Cold Ironing
Port Energy
Management
MOU’s between:
MPA & NTU, NTU & 7
industry partners
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| Optimal Power
Management for CleanClean-Power Tugboat
Motivation
§ Tugboats using diesel engines that runs
intermittently results in poor efficiency and
substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emission.
Objective
§ To reduce GHG emission and the operating cost of
tugboat through the use of green power source
and optimization of power control
Research Approach
§ Profile power demand for the different operations
of a tugboat
§ Develop green power source solutions (Fuel cell,
Vanadium Redox Batteries) and power
optimization control solution.
§ Perform lab-test, followed by field test
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| Areas of Study
Materials & Coatings
•Multifunctional coatings
to mitigate surface
degradation mechanisms
• Enhance structural
strength/ stiffness to
weight through the use of
advanced materials
•Enhance adhesive
strength and /or
environmental resistance
through advanced
materials and surface
modification
Offshore Structure & Foundation
Maximize structural stability and
reliability while minimizing materials
and installation costs through hydroaero-structural analysis
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Turbine Blade
Optimize design of turbine blade while
minimizing material cost through
Computational & Structural Dynamics
Exp. Aerodynamic
and Fatigue
Analysis
Characterization
Maximize windMaximize fatigue
mechanical
life & predictability
energy conversion of rotor blades
Electrical Systems, Controls, &
Condition Monitoring
•Maximize power availability
through effective power
distribution scheme, networked
control system, condition
monitoring, fault diagnostic and
control .
•Maximize mechanical-electrical
energy conversion efficiency
through advanced power
electronics, generators, and
control schemes.
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Marine Renewable Device
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Development of marine energy harvesting device at the boardwalk
linking Singapore and Sentosa Inland
Challenges & Opportunity
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Low tidal stream speed
Development and demonstration of innovative harvesting device suitable for low
velocity flows – integrated current-wave device.
Main Land
Existing bridge
Sentosa
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| Electrifying Mobility
v The development of electric cars is
not done by just substituting the
engine
v All components of the car and its
infrastructure have to be
reconsidered and designed from
scratch
High-temperature Direct
Alcohol Fuel Cell for
powering air-conditioner
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TUM-CREATE Launch, MoU
TUMSigning (15 Oct 2010)
Industry
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Government
Agencies
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| Fuel Cell Bus, Diesel and Solar Cars
NTU-Tsinghua Univ
Fuel Cell Bus for YOG 2010
(Singapore): Hybrid Fuel Cell
(40kW) - Li Batteries power system;
continuous power: fuel cell; peak
power: fuel cell + battery
NTU Solar (Electric) Car :
Chassis, brakes, suspensions
design, Drive train using
Wheel-in-Hub motors, Carbon
fibre
composite,
Battery
System, Real-time telemetry,
car diagnostics, road-ready
wireless comms, CFD, finite
element and dynamic analyses
Nanyang Venture I
Shell Eco Marathon Germany (May 2009).
2nd Prize in Safety, 4th place in EE
Nanyang Venture II
World Solar Challenge in Australia (Oct
2009) Darwin to Adelaide 3000km
Nanyang Venture IV
Batmobile – diesel powered
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Nanyang Venture III
Grand Solar Prize in the Shell EcoEcomarathon Asia, Malaysia (Jul 2010)
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Sustainability
Semakau Eco Park
Semakau Island/landfill (70 ha) is located about 8km away from mainland Singapore.
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Test-bedding Site: Semakau Landfill
Solar Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar PV
Wind Turbine
Marine Turbine
Solar Still for
Freshwater generation
from Seawater
Smart Hybrid
Isolated Grid
Regenerative Fuel
Cell Power System
Cultivation of Sugar
Cane for Biofuel &
Rainwater Collection
Diesel Generator
(Biofuel Application)
Diesel Generator
(Improve Efficiency)
Fresh Water Generation
Biofuel Research
GHG Reduction (Diesel Generator)
Current Status: Active discussion with companies and NEA
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