Frontier Energy Technologies
Frontier Energy Technologies
Thematic Areas, Programs and Projects
1. LET Options for Mining and Process Industries | |
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VAM (Ventilation Air Methane) | * VAM Abatement Safety project ($25 M) |
* Chemical Looping VAM Abatement project ($5.5 M) | |
* Stone Dust project (ACARP) | |
* DDT project (ACARP / PhD) | |
* Scoping Study on VAM Abatement Technologies (ACARP) | |
* Catalytic Reduction of VAM by EK and MS (ACARP) | |
Waste Heat Recovery | * GRANEX / Solar project (Wallsend Public Pool) |
* GRANEX Koppers project (Koppers plant Newcastle) | |
* Heat pumps | |
Waste Minimisation | * Biochar |
* Chailing (char from coal tailing generated at coal mines) | |
* H2 products from MSW (Chemical Looping of MSW) | |
2. LET Options for Power Generation from Fossil Fuels | |
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Coal | * Oxy-Fuel |
* Chemical Looping (Air Separation, Combustion, Gasification, Reforming, etc) | |
* Underground coal gasification | |
* Ultra Low Ash Coal: * Direct Injection Carbon Engines (DICE) * Direct Carbon Fuel Cells | |
Gas | * Coal Seam Gas |
3. Renewable Energy Systems | |
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Renewables | * Biomass Utilisation (co-firing, Chemical Looping Gasification, etc) |
* Geothermal (Direct / In-direct) | |
* Solar Thermal | |
* Small Wind Systems | |
Hybrids | * Geothermal Assisted Power Generation (GAPG) |
* Solar Assisted Power Generation | |
* Geothermal / Solar | |
4. Energy Efficiency & Process Intensification | |
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Building Thermal Efficiency | * Currently an ARC-Linkage project (many ARC and industry projects in the past 10 years) |
Micro Energy Systems | * Various projects about micro H2 generators |
Energy Efficient Desalination | * GRANSAL projects |
Energy Efficient Wastewater Treatment Plants | * Aeration power reduction * Dewatering * Enhanced oxygen transfer efficiency |
Metallurgical Processing | * Slag granulation * Inclusion reduction |
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