News
November 16, 2017
Article nominated for award
The article “Microscale detection of hydrate blockage onset in high-pressure gas-water systems” by Eric May, Zach Aman, Masoumeh Akhfash, and collaborators at Colorado School of Mines has been nominated for Energy and Fuels Joint Award for Excellence in Publication in 2018. The article applies in-situ particle tracking probes to provide new insight into the evolution…
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November 14, 2017
Congratulations are in order!
Congratulations to PhD student Arman Siavashi who has been awarded UWA Postgraduate Students’ Association grant to present his PhD project at AIChE conference in Minneapolis, USA. Arman is in his second year of PhD and has actively participated in UWA Three Minute Thesis competition, Australian-French Entrepreneurship Challenge, and placed second in the JCEC Postgraduate Research…
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October 27, 2017
Next-generation thermophysical property sensors
Dr Paul Stanwix and Prof Eric May along with Ruhr University Professors Markus Richter and Roland Span have been awarded a collaboration grant from the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme for 2018. The grant will be used to develop the next generation of thermophysical sensors, designed to measure accurately multiple properties simultaneously.
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October 2, 2017
ICHEME Award Finalists
Spin off company Gas Capture Technologies is a finalist in this year’s “Energy Award 2017” as part of the IChemE Global Awards. The company was founded by LNG Futures Director Professor Eric May and Chief Investigator Dr. Kevin Li to commercialise their gas separation technology. Together with Perth company Oilfield Production Technologies and Chinese partner…
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October 2, 2017
Hyundai MOU
LNG Futures Director Professor Eric May recently travelled to Korea to sign a MOU with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). This follows on from meetings earlier this year when an HHI a delegation from visited LNG Futures facilities at UWA to discuss areas of collaboration. The MOU gives LNG Futures and HHI a platform to collaborate…
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September 11, 2017
Magnetic Resonance Engineering and Lobsters
Last month four members of LNG Futures and the Fluid Science and Resources group at UWA attended the 14th biannual International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. PhD Student Keelan O’Neill gave a presentation on Application of Earth’s Field NMR to Multiphase Flow Measurements and was a finalist for the Young…
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September 11, 2017
Three Minute Thesis
Could you describe your research (or your job) in just three minutes to the general public? Maybe? – It is actually a lot harder than it sounds. LNG Futures PhD students Arman Siahvashi and Vincent Lim have just taken part in the UWA 3MT Competition. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT)™ competition develops academic and research…
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August 3, 2017
Australian-French Entrepreneurship Challenge
PhD Student Arman Siahvashi recently represented UWA in the Australian-French Entrepreneurship Challenge in Adelaide earlier this month. You can read about his experience in the UWA Graduate Research School July Newsletter.
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August 3, 2017
Eric May awarded ICHEME Fellow
LNG Futures Director Professor Eric May was recently accepted as a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). The status of ICHEME Fellow is awarded to engineering professionals of distinction who make a significant contribution to the Chemical Engineering profession. Eric’s Fellow status is in recognition of his world leading, industry aligned research, leadership…
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July 18, 2017
Closed Carbon Cycle Economy – Public Lecture
Even though the climate change conference in Paris achieved meaningful results, society still has a long way to go to rid itself of CO2 emissions. How to accomplish this task? Professor Roland Span of Ruhr University, Germany will present a lecture on Closed Cycle Carbon Economy (C3eco). C3eco integrates the technical and social aspects of the…
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