Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Chris Evans, has announced $48.4 million from the Education Investment Fund to build the National Geosequestration Laboratory (NGL).<\/p>\n
The facility is a collaboration between Curtin University, CSIRO and UWA to support critical research into the long-term geological storage of CO2.<\/p>\n
The NGL, centred at the Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC) at Bentley\u2019s Technology Park, will be a national facility investigating technologies that capture CO2 from industrial processes and safely store it underground in stable geological formations.<\/p>\n
Professor Graeme Wright, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Development, said Curtin researchers now have access to valuable new research facilities worth $12.94 million, with the first of these, a micro computer tomography (Micro CT) scanner, already installed at ARRC.<\/p>\n
The Micro CT Scanner will be used to investigate the movement of supercritical CO2 fluids through the pores of rocks to determine if they can be used for CO2 storage.<\/p>\n
\u201cFunding research towards effective carbon capture storage technologies is a key part of securing a clean energy future for everyone,\u201d Professor Wright said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an exciting achievement for Curtin and I look forward to seeing innovative solutions developed by our researchers that help Australia reduce its carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NGL will support the scientific research needs of the Collie-South West Hub Geosequestration demonstration project and will be one of the most significant international centres for research, training and technology development for the global resources sector.<\/p>\n
Contact: Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Chris Evans, has announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17985","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"experts":false},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Megan Meates, Public Relations, Curtin University
\nTel: 08 9266 4241, Mobile: 0401 103 755, Email: megan.meates@curtin.edu.au<\/a>
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