University of Adelaide students win big on the grand chemical engineering stage
The hard yards have paid off for these Adelaide students who took out a top prize at Australia’s leading chemical engineering awards event for their project in carbon capture.
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Six Adelaide students have won an internationally recognised prize at Australia’s leading chemical engineering awards event.
The University of Adelaide students, and their mentor, took out the Australasian Design Prize at this year’s Chemeca awards, commissioned by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, which has 37,000 members in more than 100 countries around the globe.
The $5000 award recognises their project, called “Carbon capture and sequestration facilities for a gas processing plant”, as the best Final Year Design Project from New Zealand and Australian university chemical engineering departments.
One of the award-winning students Krystal Kennedy said the project included everything the group had learned throughout their degree and required plenty of extra hours.
“We spent a lot of hours as well as on the weekends and during holidays to ensure we did our best,” she told The Advertiser.
Ms Kennedy said their project is “highly relevant to the real world” due to rising CO2 emissions and global warming.
“One of the main learnings from the project was that it is not economically viable for companies to implement a carbon capture processing system within Australia as there is not large enough incentives from the government.”
Other members of the group are Rachael Xu, Mai Quynh Tran, Sandra Ha, Sam Shepherdson, Siyuan Gao and mentor Lynton Willcocks.
The ceremony took place on September 29 — October 2.