Congratulations

Australian Institute of Energy Postgraduate Student Awards

Two outstanding Engineering postgraduate students were recognised for their achievements at the Australian Institute of Energy Post-Graduate Student Awards presented on 4 September 2008.

Trent Harkin, a Chemical Engineering Masters student won the award for the "Best Carbon Capture and Storage Project", while Timothy Khoo, a Masters student in Materials Engineering won the award for the "Best Energy Systems and Efficiency Project".

Trent is working with Dr Andrew Hoadley and the CO2CRC on the integration of carbon capture and storage into brown coal fired power plants. He is using process integration techniques, in particular pinch analysis, to minimise the loss in efficiency of adding CCS plant to a coal fired power stations.

Timothy began his Masters on the 31st March 2008 working in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science with Professor Maria Forsyth. His project is on Advance Metal Batteries. He also completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials at Monash.

The postgraduate awards were organised by the Australian Institute of Energy Melbourne Branch and held at the Royal Society of Victoria. They were open to postgraduate students in Victoria working in the energy field. This year marked the 25th consecutive year of the Awards which were sponsored by leading organisations in the energy & resources sector and AIE Melbourne also offered all participants 1 year free student membership to the Australian Institute of Energy. The Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, Peter Batchelor MP attended and presented the awards in three different categories - Renewable Energy & Hydrogen, Energy Systems & Efficiency, and Carbon Capture & Storage. The winners have been invited to attend the AIE National Awards in Sydney on 18th November.