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July 14, 2016
UWA SPE Awarded Outstanding Student Chapter
The UWA Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has been selected to receive the 2016 Outstanding Student Chapter Award. This prestigious award recognizes SPE student chapters with exceptional programs and is presented to less than 10% of chapters worldwide. The award reflects ongoing efforts of the SPE UWA committee to continue to develop its activities in…
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July 5, 2016
World’s Most Northern LNG Plant
Dr. Kevin Li recently braved the cold at the world’s most northern LNG Facility in Norway. The tour of Snohvit LNG Plant was a field trip arranged as part of Natural Gas Conversion Symposium in Tromso, Norway (NGCS11). Warm Hi-Vis clothing was provided as part of the tour and although currently summer in the northern…
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July 4, 2016
Ruhr University Collaboration
Professor Eric May, Dr. Paul Stanwix and Dr. Darren Rowland of UWA are currently spending time at Ruhr University in Bochum Germany. They are collaborating with Professor Roland Span and Professor Markus Richter in the area of Thermophysics specifically on microwave measurements of dew points. Also taking part in the collaboration and currently joining the researchers…
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June 30, 2016
ATSE Award for Kevin Li
Kevin Li, Chief Investigator for the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures received an ATSE Global Connections award to further his work in gas separations. The award of $7,000 is to enable further collaboration with DKT Consulting in China to further develop a new family of methane adsorbents namely ionic liquidic zeolites (ILZ) developed by Kevin…
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June 13, 2016
PhD Student Industry Placements
This month two Training Centre PhD students start the first of their industrial placements with Woodside Energy Ltd as part of the of the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures. Temi Kuteyi and Fernando Perez will spend the next six months part-time in the Woodside Energy Perth office modeling the fluid and heat transfer characteristics in…
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June 9, 2016
Alginates Research
Professor Eric May (pictured right), Dr. Zachary Aman (left), Dr Brendan Graham (centre) and their research feature in this recent news article. It canvases their research on using alginates for scale prevention in oil & gas pipelines.
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June 7, 2016
Flow Assurance Workshop
Last week the Fluids Science Resources Flow Assurance Group held their 6th Flow Assurance Workshop at the Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC). Now in its third year the twice yearly workshop was the best yet. Flow assurance is a key research theme for the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures which launched in April 2016. Researchers presented a selection…
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June 6, 2016
Fundamentals of Adsorption 12 Conference
Researchers from the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures recently attended and presented at the 12th Fundamentals of Adsorption Conference (FOA12) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The ITTC team comprised of 7 researchers (pictured) from the University of Western Australian and the University of Queensland. ITTC Director Professor Eric May attended the conference and described the event as…
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June 2, 2016
Upcoming Practical Distillation & Gas Processing & LNG Workshops
The UWA School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering has two upcoming workshops which offer great opportunities to increase your knowledge in the Gas Processing and LNG space. Dr Henry Kister, a globally renown distillation expert will be at UWA to present his three day course, Practical Distillation Technology from 20-22 July. The following week the…
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June 1, 2016
ARC ITTC for LNG in the Media
http://www.emi.uwa.edu.au/news/uwa-phd-student-working-forefront-technology http://www.emi.uwa.edu.au/news/new-arc-training-centre-gas-process-engineering http://www.arc.gov.au/research-highlights http://www.energynewsbulletin.net/storyview.asp?storyID=826962609§ion=General+News§ionsource=s63&aspdsc=yes http://www.emi.uwa.edu.au/news/specialised-facilities-attract-international-attention
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