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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 and Nanyang Technological University. 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. Over the past three years, this 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 up, 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.