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Future Fuels CRC holds its Perth Roadshow 2025 – 1 July
July 1, 2025
The Perth Roadshow got off to an exciting start with a Monday afternoon tour of ATCO’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub at Jandakot. Highlights were visiting their onsite display home featuring a range of 100% hydrogen appliances, seeing hydrogen production/blending and refuelling station equipment, and driving a hydrogen car. Jim Richardson kept the group thoroughly engaged with his passion for innovation and interesting facts (many thanks Jim!).
On Tuesday it was the FFCRC researchers turn to take centre stage at ATCO’s head office, delivering highly engaging presentations and lots of questions from Perth-based stakeholders from across industry and government.
After a warm welcome from ATCO and the CRC’s CEO David Norman presented on key achievements across the 7 year CRC program, while Stevan Green and Doug Proud gave an overview of the newly formed Gas Infrastructure Research Australia industry research body that will continue on from the CRC.
FFCRC research presentations commenced with Professor Holger Maier and Dr Sam Culley from University of Adelaide showcasing powerful techno-economic tools to support biomethane project and market development across Australia. The biomethane theme continued with Hamish McDonald sharing University of Queensland’s (UQ) assessment of biomethane policy settings in five key international jurisdictions, with insights for enabling policy pathways to scale up a successful biomethane market in Australia. Dr Kathy Witt from UQ, provided an overview and key learnings from the extensive social license research covering hydrogen and biogas.
In the afternoon we were treated to a technical masterclass in the tested performance of appliances and pipes for 100% hydrogen and blends. Dr Neil Smith shared insights from the extensive testing across domestic and industrial appliances showing their abilities to handle hydrogen. Dr Cheng Lu provided a summary of University of Wollongong’s (UoW) testing capabilities and learnings regarding assessing steel pipelines for hydrogen embrittlement. Jordan from Rosen provided the latest developments regarding the H2SAFE lab at UoW which has emerged from the FFCRC to establish a world class hydrogen embrittlement testing facility available for ongoing industry research needs. The finale of the day was delivered by Dr Guilaume Michal, also from UoW, who took us through the journey of their pipeline decompression studies which culminated in an enthralling pipeline burst test video!
Many thanks to all who attended and our researchers for their commitment to sharing their findings in such an engaging way. Much appreciation goes to ATCO for being such excellent hosts the Perth Roadshow too.