Hydrogen storage, artificial intelligence and waste reduction are among the 23 projects to share in $55 million of funding through the the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres project grants program.
Industry and Science minister Ed Husic announced the 16th round of the CRC-P grants program on Tuesday, unlocking a further $90 million in cash and in kind contributions from the local manufacturing and research consortiums.
A project to further develop advanced nanoporous materials patented by Sydney-based Hydrogen storage startup Rux Energy and the University of Sydney is one of nine projects to receive the maximum grant of $3 million.
The project will include pilot manufacturing and industrial validation trials for porous nanomaterials that enable new hydrogen storage techniques suitable for bulk static storage and for export delivering cost, efficiency, and safety improvements.
The other partners involved in the project worth more than $8.8 million with private financing are Vireo Energy, CST Composites, ANL Container Line, and South Australian Hydrogen Hubs.
CPC Engineering at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, which hosted Mr Husic on Tuesday, received just maximum grant amount of $3 million for a project that aims to increase the purity of HPA by separating iron, aluminium and other metals.
CPC Engineering will build a pilot plant that integrates Edith Cowan University’s membrane selective technologies, offering cost reductions to minerals processors, and Impact Minerals’ high purity alumina (HPA) production process.
“CPC Engineering’s pioneering work filtering critical minerals has the potential to cut costs for business and also significantly reduce environmental waste,” Mr Husic said announcing the 23 CRC-P grants.
A consortium led by clean energy tech company entX has also received $2.9 million to create a sovereign supply chain for a critical medical isotope used to treat advanced metastatic cancers.
The full list of CRC-P projects and lead recipients awarded grants under round 16 are:
- Aqua Metro: Upcycling Biosolids to Functionalised Biochar for Cleaner Environments
- AdraCard: Life-saver in your wallet: AdraCard delivers portable emergency healthcare
- AIBUILD: AI-driven multi-warehouse model for optimised enterprise resource planning
- Australian Vanilla Plantations: Superior growth, production, end-product protocols and methodologies for vanilla
- NanoCube Health: Nanorobotics for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma diagnosis and treatment
- Tessara Therapeutics: Next generation technology enabling drug discovery for mental health
- ATTIA: Securing and differentiating markets for Australian tea tree oil
- Miniprobes: AI-enabled fibre-optic sensor to measure meat quality for the beef industry
- CPC Engineering: A HPA production process which address environmental and operational cost challenges of standard methods
- Margin-Clear: Design and manufacture of absorbable polymer brachytherapy patches at scale
- entX: Mines to Medicines – Sovereign Nuclear Medicine Supply Chains from Waste
- Kali Healthcare: A wearable AI-enabled device for better access to pregnancy monitoring
- ZiP Diagnostics: Rapid point-of-care molecular diagnostic for scabies and co-infections
- 4DMedical Limited: CT VQ – A better pulmonary perfusion test
- Emesent: Integrated Mining Digitalisation and Automation Platform
- Cyclotek (Aust): Delivering a Nanobody-Based Nuclear Medicine Platform to Australia
- Atomo Diagnostics: Active Syphilis Rapid Test
- Rux Energy: Green nanoporous materials manufacturing for bulk hydrogen storage & export
- Next Harbour: Holistic Economical Offshore Wind Turbine Solution for Australia
- Hart Bioenergy: Hart Bioenergy BioMax APBR – Algae Photobioreactor System
- Colan Products: Manufacturing Novel FR Materials for the Future – Australian for the World
- Archistar: Urban Copilot – AI accelerating where we build Australia’s future
- Roc Technologies: Novel shared anchor to scale up offshore renewables – demonstration project
Do you know more? Contact James Riley via Email.