THE CSIRO has announced that one of its scientists has received a Victorian Fellowship award and an Australian French Association for Science and Technology (AFAS) FEAST-France Fellowship for his work on carbon dioxide storage technologies.
Dr Leahy is helping CSIRO develop a computer model which aims to assess the safety of geological storage sites.
The geological storage of carbon dioxide could assist in reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and may help save the coal mining industry from extinction. The Federal Government recently released acreage to locate possible storage sites.
Dr Leahy says his computer model incorporates mathematical equations which calculate the position of the injected carbon dioxide plume and he is looking forward to improving its capability.
Dr Leahy will use the Fellowship to travel to three leading research institutes in the UK and the US.
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