Application of tuneable nanofluids in regenerative supercritical power generation

该项目将GRANEXTM循环的简单性、灵活性、稳健性和热力学有效性与纳米技术的最新进展相结合。如果在澳大利亚各地部署，即使回收每年11,000千兆瓦时生物能源潜力的50%，每年也将产生约5.5亿美元的收入流，同时减少1400万吨温室气体排放，约占全国年排放量的2.5%。拟议的研究将使澳大利亚处于低品位热回收领域研究和开发活动的前沿，并将明确为澳大利亚政府的国家研究优先事项做出贡献，使澳大利亚成为环境可持续发展的国家。

The proposed project combines the simplicity, flexibility, robustness and thermodynamic effectiveness of GRANEXTM cycle with the advances recently made in nanotechnology. If deployed across Australia to recover even 50 per cent of the 11,000 Gigawatt hour annual bioenergy potential, it will generate a revenue stream of approximately $550 million per annum while reducing greenhouse emissions by 14 mega tonne, which is about 2.5 per cent of the annual national emissions. The proposed research will place Australia within the forefront of the research and development activities in the field of low grade heat recovery and will clearly contribute the Australian Government's National Research Priority an environmentally sustainable Australia.