July 28, 2022
Congratulations to Dr Roman Weh on his PhD completion
The FEnEx CRC would like to congratulate Dr Roman Weh on the completion of his PhD. A Graduate from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany, with a master’s degree in chemical engineering, Roman joined The University of Western Australia in 2018 and was a Future Energy Exports CRC PhD Scholar until his completion this…
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July 26, 2022
Project Announcement: Using big data and strategic communication to support the hydrogen industry’s evolution in Australia
This project addresses, with academic rigour, a national priority for continuous community learning and engagement alongside State Government narratives as the hydrogen industry evolves. Read more here.
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July 25, 2022
Welcome to new PhD scholar Thilini Thathsara
The FEnEx CRC is pleased to welcome PhD scholar Thilini Thathsara into our Future Energy Exports CRC community. Thilini, who is completing her PhD at Swinburne University of Technology has recently published a paper on “Photoactive Semiconducting Metal Oxides: Hydrogen Gas Sensing Mechanisms”. The paper provides an overview of hydrogen gas sensing mechanisms employing different…
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July 20, 2022
Project Announcement: Enabling large scale hydrogen storage
Hydrogen will play an important role in the energy transition as an energy carrier for Australia and globally. Moreover, Australia also has great opportunities to export hydrogen given its geographical and natural resources’ strengths. In this context, large-scale hydrogen storage in the subsurface has been proposed in existing salt caverns, depleted oil and gas reservoirs…
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July 19, 2022
Metal-Hydrides Conference, Perth – Calls for Abstracts Deadline 31 July 2022
A Call for Abstracts for the 17th International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems is now open. Hydrogen is currently heralded as a future major energy carrier in Australia. The National Hydrogen Strategy of Australia sets a vision for a clean, innovative, safe and competitive hydrogen industry with expectations to become a major player in the hydrogen…
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July 18, 2022
New findings from FEnEx CRC and UWA research show an 8% higher recovery rate of helium using non-cryogenic methods
FEnEx CRC and The University of Western Australia researchers Roman Weh, Gongkui Xiao, Ehsan Sadeghi Pouya and Eric May have found there is an 8% higher recovery rate of helium using non-cryogenic methods. Low-cost helium recovery processes optimised for unconventional sources e.g. small-scale natural gas (NG) reservoirs offer a new approach to meeting growing demand….
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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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June 20, 2022
Future-proofing Australia’s energy exports
Future Energy Exports CRC CEO Eric May summarises his takeaways from the 2022 FEnEx CRC annual conference: I recently spent two days with some of our nation’s leading researchers and industry experts asking the big questions about future-proofing Australia’s energy exports through LNG decarbonisation and hydrogen cost-reduction. “Stimulating” and “like drinking from a fire-hose” were some of…
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June 13, 2022
3 Minute Thesis Competition creates a Buzz at the FEnEx CRC Conference
The 3 Minute Thesis competition is the opportunity for PhD scholars to translate often complex concepts into easy-to-understand sound bites for the general population. The Future Energy Exports CRC PhD scholars were invited to take part in the competition prior to the inaugural conference in Fremantle with the promise of an international travel voucher to…
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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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