Toshiba Corporation today announced that it
has set up the Aqua Research Center in Singapore, its first water treatment
R&D center located outside of Japan.
Toshiba
Corporation today announced that it has set up the Aqua Research Center in
Singapore, its first water treatment R&D center located outside of Japan.
The new
center is located at the WaterHub in Singapore, and was officially opened in a
ceremony officiated by Mr. Chew Men Leong, Chief Executive of PUB.
At the
ceremony, Toshiba also inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PUB to
explore a collaboration to develop and test the application of a newly
developed adsorbent to remove toxic elements in the used water treatment
process for semiconductor plants.
The
Singapore Government has identified water as a strategic growth sector in
Singapore with a SGD$470million investment from Singapore’s National Research
Foundation in water R&D.
“We appreciate
the Singapore government’s foresight and initiative in making the country a
global hydrohub, and we look forward to making progress in our research at the
Aqua Research Center and our collaboration with PUB,” said Mr. Toshio Masaki,
Corporate Senior Vice President of Toshiba.
In
2008, Toshiba invented a new adsorbent named “Functional Powder” which not only
absorbs toxic elements from used water, but also extracts valuable elements for
recycling, including rare metals. The powder can replace the chemicals used in
conventional industrial used water treatment processes for the removal of such
toxic compounds and is more cost efficient as it can be reused. Toshiba intends
to verify this basic technology through field testing and demonstrations under real-life
site conditions.
Under
the MOU, Aqua Research Center and PUB will explore developing and testing a
treatment process technology under which high concentrations of fluoride ions
discharged from the semiconductor manufacturing process are removed using the
functional powder.
WaterHub
is also home to Global Water Intelligence, International Water Association,
Singapore Water Association, and Singapore Society for Trenchless Technology.
Other R&D centers at WaterHub include Siemens, Nitto Denko, Optiqua
Technologies, Memsys Clearwater and Xylem Water Solutions.
Source: PUB.
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