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NTU team finds way to convert waste residue into building materials
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The NTU team includes (clockwise from lower left) Assistant Professor Paul Liu from the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering; Professor Lim Teik Thye from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Assistant Professor Grzegorz Lisak, director of the Residues, Resource and Reclamation Centre at the Nanyang Environmental and Water Research Institute; and Professor Simon Redfern, dean of the College of Science.
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SINGAPORE - Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have found a way to turn trash into resources - using ash generated from its waste treatment facility to capture carbon emissions and convert them into, for example, construction materials.
The project was one of 12 awarded a combined $55 million in grants under the national Low-Carbon Energy Research Funding Initiative, which seeks to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. One way is to capture carbon - for storage underground or to convert it into useful products.
