Energy Funding
Contracts
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Development of Suitable Matrices for Drying of Liquid/Semi Solid Products
- Contract Number
- N06914
- Contract Funding
- $40,000
- Number of years
- 1
- Lead Researcher
- Conrad Perera
- Organisation
- Plant and Food Research
- Currently most high value bioactive products are dried using freeze-drying. The lower energy and lower capital cost technology of heat pump drying (HPD) cannot be used because existing systems are no...
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Evolution of Deep Geothermal Resources
- Contract Number
- C05605
- Contract Funding
- $1,400,000
- Number of years
- 2
- Lead Researcher
- B W Christenson
- Organisation
- Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd - GNS
- The goal of this research is to develop a framework of understanding of the heat source regions of the Taupo Volcanic Zone geothermal fields so that suitable exploration and production strategies can ...
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Geothermal Utilisation and its Environmental Impact
- Contract Number
- C05606
- Contract Funding
- $240,000
- Number of years
- 2
- Lead Researcher
- Trevor M Hunt
- Organisation
- Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd - GNS
- A 20cm diameter water tunnel (the liquid equivalent of a wind tunnel) was constructed at Wairakei geothermal field to investigate the processes involved in the deposition of silica scale from geotherm...
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Implementing Novel End Uses of Low Grade Geothermal Energy
- Contract Number
- MWL603
- Contract Funding
- $450,000
- Number of years
- 3
- Lead Researcher
- Paul Heveldt
- Organisation
- MWH
- This research aims to optimise methane yields from anaerobic decomposition of certain organic wastes by mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria. The necessary conditions for maximum microbial activity a...
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