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Separation Technologies Applied Research and Translation (START) Centre

The Separation Technologies Applied Research and Translation (START) Centre is a National Facility hosted by NTUitive with funding from the Singapore Government. The centre’s mandate includes bridging the gap between promising innovations in separations, especially membrane-based inventions, at the laboratory scale, and industrial scale products and processes. Since its inception, the centre has built up broad capabilities in membrane (both flat-sheet and hollow-fiber) fabrication at industrial scale, the design, construction and testing of elements and modules, and the design of pilot systems for testing in real-life scenarios. Since the infrastructure was built, the START Centre has successfully completed several projects, both for the scale-up of inventions from academic institutions, as well as direct collaborations with industry.