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Competitive advantage
- Newly developed catalyst-based materials with outstanding performance characteristics
- Capacity to tailor the properties of these materials for adsorption of heavy metals, catalytic reduction of heavy metal oxides, and/or catalytic decomposition of inorganics and organics
- Incorporation of these as core of individual modules for removal of specific individual or groups of species
- Capacity to combine modules for remediation of site-specific contaminants
- Capacity to incorporate other modules (e.g., filtration, UV irradiation, ultrasound) into system
- Capacity to design both portable and fixed-location modules
- Feasibility for temporary or permanent location in remote locations using solar power
- Capacity to design modules for different capacities, from domestic- to urban-scale
Impact
- These materials and the modules that can be constructed around them have the capacity to revolutionise environmental remediation because they provide the capacity to design multiscale systems for site-specific contamination types and levels. These technologies can be applied to both air and water purification and they are applicable to both inorganic and organic pollutants.
Successful outcomes
- These newly developed materials have demonstrated outstanding performance capabilities in the elimination of carbon monoxide
- A complete miniaturised air purification system for incorporation in a benchtop-size in vitro embryo incubator was designed and trialled successfully for a multinational biomedical company
Capabilities and facilities
- Capacity and facilities required to design, fabricate, characterise, and test materials with properties specific to the requirements for adsorption and catalysis
- Capacity to design complete multimodule systems
- Capacity in processing modelling to enable system scaleability
Our partners
- Vecor Australia
- Chase Mining Ltd