Low-Carbon Energy Research (LCER) Phase 2
The Low-Carbon Energy Research (LCER) Programme is an initiative funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and hosted by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) to support research, development and demonstration projects to advance low-carbon technologies, and enable decarbonisation of the power and industry sectors.
Under Phase 2 of the LCER Programme, a further SGD$55 million was awarded to support six projects for the Directed Hydrogen Programme (DHP), and ten projects for the Emerging Technology Grant Call (ETGC). LCER is a multi-institutional project involving various research institutions in Singapore and industry partners.
CARES and LCER
CARES is contributing to two LCER projects under DHP. The first is “Development of an integrated system of ammonia partially cracking and gas turbine combustion with cascade waste heat utilisation” sub-awarded by NUS. The research at CARES is currently focusing on developing a reduced order model, referred to as the Incompletely Stirred Reactor Network (ISRN), to explore the design space of an ammonia gas turbine under varying conditions. The second project is “Development of on-site, on-demand ammonia-to-hydrogen e-cracking bench-top chemical mini-factory” sub-awarded by NTU.
This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its LCER Phase 2 programme.