Fields Trips 2024

AHRC 2024 is offering a number of field trips to add to your Conference program to enhance your experience.

Please see below field trips you may wish to attend, and you can add these into your Conference registration.

Hazer Group Water treatment plant in Henderson followed by Mork Water site visit

Date: Tuesday 3 September 2024
Time:12:30pm-3:30pm
Pick-up Location: Ritz Carlton Hotel, Perth
Cost: SOLD OUT
Inclusions: Bus transfers between venues. No catering provided
Requirements: No PPE required.

Hosted by:

Hazer Group
Hazer Group is an ASX-listed (ASX:HZR) technology company undertaking the commercialisation of the Hazer Process: a low-emission hydrogen and graphite production process. The Hazer Process enables the effective conversion of methane feedstocks, such as natural gas or biogas, into hydrogen and graphite by using iron ore as a process catalyst. The carbon in the gas feedstock is captured as a saleable graphite product rather than a waste CO2. The technology originated at the University of Western Australia. In January 2024 the company announced the first production from its Commercial Demonstration Plant.

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and Mork Water
Moerk Water is a leader in innovative water treatment solutions, dedicated to ensuring clean and sustainable water access internationally across multiple sectors. Founded on over a century of engineering excellence, we specialise in creating custom solutions that merge advanced technology with sustainable practices. Our expertise extends to water treatment for diverse industries, including power generation, mining, enhancing agricultural productivity, and supporting healthcare facilities with critical sterilisation needs. We are also focused on addressing water scarcity in remote communities. Committed to innovation, robustness, and reliability, our solutions are designed to be sustainable, ensuring you have “Clean Water Where You Need It.”

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ATCO clean energy hub

Date: Tuesday 3 September 2024
Time:12:30pm-3:30pm
Pick-up Location: Ritz Carlton Hotel, Perth
Cost: SOLD OUT
Inclusions: Bus transfers between venues. No catering provided
Requirements: PPE required – Hi-vis vest and closed in shoes must be worn.
Numbers: Strictly limited

Hosted by:

ATCO
ATCO’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub is an operational model of solar, battery and renewable hydrogen production through electrolysis.  The renewable hydrogen is produced utilising the vast array of solar panels on site to generate electricity which powers an electrolyser to create the renewable hydrogen. Through this ATCO is demonstrating that hydrogen can be blended into the gas distribution network to reduce emissions; generate electricity from stored hydrogen through an on-site fuel cell; and refuelling zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that are part of ATCO’s fleet. 

Project description
The Clean Energy Innovation Hub, which has been in operation since mid-2019 at ATCO’s Jandakot Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia, operates along the following lines:

  1. electricity generated through 1,003 solar panels provides the energy required to power the Jandakot Operations Centre;
  2. excess energy generated from the 300Kw of rooftop solar PV is used to charge the 500kWh (478kWh useable) of onsite battery storage;
  3. once the batteries are fully charged, the excess energy is used to power a 260kW Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyser which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, venting the oxygen;
  4. the hydrogen gas produced is stored in a 30-bar high-pressure vessel;
  5. thereafter, the hydrogen gas is distributed within the ‘microgrid’ in four ways:
    1. as a direct fuel for appliance testing in a residential hybrid display home. The Jandakot site is testing a wide range of appliances to inform how appliances operate under a range of hydrogen and gas blends.
    2. as fuel for a 5kW hydrogen fuel cell that provides back-up power to the depot.
    3. as a blended fuel with natural gas for use within local households. ATCO is blending hydrogen at 5 per cent with plans for 10 per cent in near future.
    4. As fuel for Hydrogen Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) being used as pool vehicles for the business.
Perth Basin and Darling Fault - hosted by CSIRO

Date: Tuesday 3 September 2024
Time: 7:30am-5:30pm
Pick-up Location: Ritz Carlton Hotel, Perth
Cost: $130
Inclusions: Bus transfers between venues. Morning tea, light lunch and afternoon tea.
Requirements: PPE required – Hi-vis vest and closed in shoes must be worn. Note: risk assessment must be signed before departure. This will be provided to all confirmed recipients closer to the event.

7.30: meet up at the hotel
8.00: All in the bus
8:00-10:00 Drive to Beermullah (Gingin potential seep) via stop at Borehole AM7A: CSIRO to give a demonstration of water sampling.
Refreshment stop at Granville Park with Public Toilet10:00-12:00: Gingin potential hydrogen seeps – demo of seep exploration and monitoring technics run bCSIRO
12:00 –13:30: drive back to Gingin Granville Park for provided lunch
13:30-14:45: Travel to John Forrest National Park
14:45-15:00: Toilet break at the park facilities
15:00-16.30: walk along Railway heritage trail and observe outcrops – need to confirm with GSWA if they can lead that part
16:30-17:30: Drive back to the hotel

Hosted by: CSIRO

https://www.csiro.au/en/