On the afternoon of November 25, the Singapore-China (Shenzhen) Smart City Initiative 3rd Joint Implementation Committee Meeting was held in Shenzhen and Singapore via video conference. Weizhong Qin, mayor of Shenzhen, and Joseph Leong, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
This year, Shenzhen and Singapore have deepened their cooperation and selected 14 third-batch cooperation projects. A signing ceremony for 8 MOUs was held at the November 25 meeting, including one related to hydrate-based carbon dioxide capture and storage (HBCCS) in the offshore marine environment signed by Tsinghua SIGS and the National University of Singapore.
Tsinghua SIGS Associate Dean Lan Ma (first row, first on the right) attending the MOU signing ceremony
This project will be jointly undertaken by Assistant Professor Zhenyuan Yin from the Tsinghua SIGS Institute for Ocean Engineering and Professor Praveen Linga from the NUS Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The two teams will investigate both the fundamentals and the large-scale applications of hydrate-based carbon dioxide capture and storage (HBCCS) in the offshore marine environment. Compared with other CCS technologies, the hydrate-based method has the advantages of large storage potential, high stability, and less leakage of CO2. This joint project will conduct a full-cycle evaluation and optimization of the HBCCS technology from the perspectives of technical feasibility, environmental safety, and economic viability. The outcome of this project aims to help China and Singapore reduce carbon emissions in the near future.
Edited by Yin Zhenyuan, Alena Shish & Yuan Yang
