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INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS NIER drives technology transfer and impact at scale to improve social, economic and environmental outcomes for sectors of global significance.
NEW METHODS TO CAPTURE EMISSIONS FROM INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES Dr Jessica Allen from the Priority Research Centre for Frontier Energy Technologies and Utilisation is uncovering solutions to significant energy challenges facing society. Supported through an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Research Award (DECRA) Fellowship, Jessica is developing a new method to effectively capture the carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as cement, ammonia and steelmaking, and using renewable solar thermal energy inputs to turn the CO² into a stable carbon product. The hard carbon by-product of this process is a major component in next generation batteries and is typically generated from coal-based materials. This innovative new system for drawing CO² down into a solid carbon product has the potential to turn emissions from heavy industry into a valuable export. Jessica intends to see this early stage technology under development at NIER through to a commercial outcome.
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