Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0561747

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0561747

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Low emission, Gas Turbine Air Compressor (GTAC) demonstrator. Compressed air production consumes a significant portion of electricity generated world-wide. The fragility of power infrastructure in many developed countries, and the growing Chinese economy, has created very large markets for compressed air plants that run off Diesel and natural gas fuels. Australia's reliance on coal introduces the added greenhouse incentive of reduced electricity use. This project will demonstrate a novel air compressor concept that features a natural gas fuelled micro-gas turbine. This device is expected to have comparable thermal efficiency to other air compressors, but with very significantly reduced greenhouse and overall emissions, much quieter operation, lower cost and increased device compactness.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2006

End Date: 31-12-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $258,845.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mechanical Engineering | Combustion And Fuel Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial machinery and equipment | Industry |

Other Keywords

Combustion And Fuel Engineering | Industrial machinery and equipment | Industry | Mechanical Engineering

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