Austeng-led project will demo onsite green hydrogen generation and use for high-heat purposes

Technology

Engineering business Austeng has been awarded $500,000 through the federal government’s Go Green Co-Innovation Program to support a project aiming to demonstrate safe, cost-effective green hydrogen generation and blending for high-heat industrial applications. According to a statement from Austeng last week, it will lead a project involving Singaporean electrolyser company SunGreenH2 (SGH2), Deakin University’s Hycel…

Monash breakthrough offers new hope for scaling up green hydrogen via PEM electrolysers

Technology

Monash University-led research has produced new understanding about how cobalt catalysts degrade, and might offer hope for green hydrogen production in multi-gigawatt applications. According to a statement from the university on Thursday, green hydrogen made through proton-exchange membrane water electrolysers has been held back by both the scarcity of iridium and the limited stability of…

Metal powder startup EntroMat gets $1 million investment from Swinburne University, Breakthrough Victoria

Manufacturing News, Technology

Breakthrough Victoria and Swinburne University of Technology are each investing $500,000 in EntroMat, a company specialising in High Entropy Materials (HEMs.) HEMs are made by combining five or more main elements and possess “unique chemical and microstructural complexity” and can have useful properties such as high strength and hardness, corrosion and wear resistance, and thermal…

HLTCRC maps out heavy industry net zero transition

Manufacturing News, Technology

The Heavy Industry Low-Carbon Transition Co-operative Research Centre (HILT CRC) has launched a flagship three-year project on energy infrastructure to help guide heavy industry decarbonisation. The project will provide clear, data-driven estimates of energy costs to inform government policy and enable heavy industry to plan its decarbonisation pathway. ‘Unlocking investment in energy infrastructure for net-zero…

Akula Tech progresses bushfire monitoring from space

Defence, Manufacturing News, Technology

Akula Tech which aims to design and build a constellation of satellites to detect natural disasters and conflicts and analyse the information in space has qualified to join the XPRIZE Wildfire competition’s Space-based Detection and Intelligence Track (Track A). XPRIZE is a four year international competition to develop and demonstrate fully-autonomous capabilities to detect and…

CSIRO and Swinburne launch Industry 4.0 Testlab

Manufacturing News, Technology

CSIRO and Swinburne are demonstrating the future of Australian manufacturing at a new Swinburne-CSIRO National Industry 4.0 Testlab which includes a world-first process for the additive manufacturing of carbon fibre composite materials. Today, the Testlab showcased its world-first fully automated industrial-scale production facility using a 3D-printing approach to composite component creation. Based at CSIRO’s Clayton…