Federation University Australia said Tuesday it is the home of a new carbon capture and storage laboratory. The new laboratory, which will be a member of the Australian CCS Research Laboratories Network, is funded by a $2.3 million (AUD) partnership between the Australian government’s Education Infrastructure Fund and CO2CRC Limited.
“The new laboratory will conduct important research into a range of CCS technologies, with the aim of reducing the cost of implementation so as to make price-competitive carbon reduction options,” according to a press release.
“The new laboratory’s location at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland Campus is particularly fitting, given that nearly 90 per cent of Australia’s brown coal reserves are located here,” Vincent Verheyen, director of the Carbon Technology Research Center at Federation University Australia, said in the announcement. “The laboratory will make a significant contribution to the understanding and implementation of solvent-based post-combustion capture at Latrobe Valley Brown Coal power generation facilities.”
