ISER awards new prizes at Ingenuity

The Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) sponsored five new prizes at Ingenuity 2024, which was held on October 30, 2024 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Ingenuity is an annual exhibition that showcases the projects of final year students in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology at the University of Adelaide. Featuring a range of interactive STEM focused activities, Ingenuity provides an insight into career opportunities available across architecture and the built environment, science, engineering, technology and mathematics for school students, teachers, industry members and the general public.

In 2024, the student projects covered a range of cross-disciplinary theme areas including: future energy and resources; healthy society; built and natural environment; securing our future; space; and transforming technologies.

The ISER sponsored prizes focussed on projects devoted to following categories: hydrogen and alternative fuels; storing renewable heat for industry; critical minerals; net zero electricity; and carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

Congratulations to all of the inaugural winners of the ISER Ingenuity Prizes, as follows:

• Luciano Mercorella, Rino Mercorella, Joseph Tripodi, Nathan Valentini and Tomas Walker , who won the ISER Prize for Hydrogen and Alternative Fuels, for their project entitled ‘Green Steel: Can Hydrogen Lead the Way?
• Amy Liew, Clifford Tan and Andy Yew, winners of the ISER Prize for Green Metals, for their project ‘Storing Renewable Heat for Industry’.
• Chrisie Lironis, Samuel Osborn, Miles Reschke, Timothy Sanders and Emily Unewisse, winners of the ISER Prize for Critical Minerals, for their project ‘Moondust to Metals’.
• Harry Bennett, Francesco Ciampa, Angus Higgins and Daniel McArthur, winners of the ISER prize for Net Zero Electricity, for their project ‘Coastal Defence Powered By Waves’.
• Allana Sagubo winner of the ISER Prize for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, for her project ‘Injection Decline in CCS: CO₂ vs N₂’.

The prizes were presented by Professor Gus Nathan, Interim Director of ISER, who said that the quality of the prize recipients work was very high.

“ISER are excited to encourage our students, who are working on energy solutions for the future”, Professor Nathan said.