June 24, 2022
Project Announcement: Avoiding sulphur compound freeze-out in liquefied natural gas production
During the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG), impurities within the gas stream can freeze-out and block the cryogenic heat exchangers that are critical to liquefaction. Although sulphur compounds are ubiquitous contaminants of natural gas, there is very little existing experimental data that can be used to accurately characterise the freeze-out of these compounds. This…
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May 6, 2022
Project Announcement: Avoiding and remediating heavy hydrocarbon freeze-out in liquefied natural gas production
Despite the ubiquity of heavy hydrocarbons in natural gas process streams, there are few studies of freeze-out in industrial natural gas mixtures that contain multiple heavy hydrocarbon species. This leads to uncertainties around the optimal methods for blockage avoidance and remediation. This project will generate new freeze-out and melting data for heavy hydrocarbons in industrial gas samples using state-of-the-art…
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April 7, 2022
Project Announcement: Bridging blue and green hydrogen
In this project researchers will establish a base case scenario in which hydrogen is generated with an electrolyser and is co-located with a combined cycle power plant (CCPP) running off natural gas and which acts in a firming capacity – oxygen is emitted in this case. This arrangement will be tested against different levels of…
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March 30, 2022
Project Announcement: Thermophysical Properties of Hydrogen Enriched Natural Gas
This project will focus on the blending hydrogen into natural gas pipeline networks as a means of delivering hydrogen to markets. Mixing hydrogen into natural gas pipelines requires several considerations regarding the compression of this mixture, the use of the mixture as a fuel (for example, in gas turbines), and the impact of pipeline capacity…
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March 26, 2022
Project Announcement: Paths to a sustainable hydrogen supply chain
This project will develop a web-based tool which is convenient and intuitive to use. It will be adaptable to variable user inputs and supply chain component preferences and will output a detailed overview of the dispensed hydrogen total (and component) costs as well as collective technological readiness. Currently such cost estimate forecasting is largely done…
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March 24, 2022
Project Announcement: Using big data and strategic communication to support the hydrogen industry’s evolution in Australia
Strategic communication to support Australia’s transition to a hydrogen economy and the many steps on this journey, is needed to achieve a sustained social license, build, and assure trust, and avoid misinformation. This project intersects research methodologies to create an evidence base for strategic communication to navigate ongoing challenges and opportunities around hydrogen industry’s evolution…
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March 21, 2022
Project Announcement: Enabling large scale hydrogen underground storage in porous media
This project aims to enable the hydrogen underground storage capacity in Australia by developing a framework (a screening tool) for hydrogen underground storage. This screening tool will relate hydrogen-brine-rock interactions, microbial reactions, geology and petrophysical properties and exiting number of wells and materials to caprock sealing and integrity, wellbore integrity, cycling process of hydrogen, hydrogen…
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March 18, 2022
Publications begin to emerge as projects advance
Congratulations to Dr Saif Al Ghafri and his colleagues for producing two of our first publications – to read these, head to our Publications page.
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January 18, 2022
Project Announcement: Hydrogen 4.0: Design and Development of Cyber-Physical Systems for an Interoperable Renewable Hydrogen Plant
Hydrogen is expected to be the energy of the future. However, like all large integrated systems there are complex challenges utilising hydrogen production plants. This project aims to explore and find solutions to these using advanced innovative technologies, smart sensing, analytics, and actuation techniques to improve the efficiency of production and safety, as well as…
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December 13, 2021
Project Announcement: Fully DC Microgrid for Green Hydrogen Production
This project aims to fill a research gap in the production of hydrogen from renewable energy (RE) sources, by focusing on the transition from AC to fully DC microgrids for green hydrogen production. The existing limitations with the current RE AC microgrids such as low efficiency, high cost and size as well as the current…
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