QSEIF previous rounds
Field testing of hybrid beam
girders for the Rail Infrastructure
Corporation at Murwillumbah,
northern NSW.
Photo: Fibre Composites Design
and Development, University
of Southern Queensland.
Since 1999, QSEIF has committed around $8 million in funding to over 70 significant innovative energy and water saving projects in Queensland, a number of which have gone on to or are heading toward successful commercialisation.
A brief description of all projects that were announced in previous rounds are listed below. For more information about the status of projects, contact the department.
Previous rounds
- Thirteenth-round grants (Nov 2008)
- Twelth-round grants (June 2008)
- Eleventh-round grants (October 2007)
- Tenth-round grants (May 2007)
- Ninth-round grants (September 2006)
- Eighth-round grants announced (9 February 2006)
- Seventh-round grants announced (11 August 2005)
- Sixth-round grants announced (29 April 2004)
- Fifth-round grants announced (26 November 2002)
- Fourth-round grants announced (23 March 2002)
- Third-round grants announced (22 May 2001)
- Second-round grants announced (22 August 2000)
- First-round grants announced (26 November 1999)
QSEIF project summaries
- Hydrogen storage technology (August 2009)
- First commercial-scale Microbial Fuel Cell (August 2009)
- Composite building panel made with natural plant extracts (August 2009)
- Engine control technology to drive down fuel consumption (October 2008)
- Liquid desicant solar crop drying system (February 2008)
- Developing more efficient condensers for sugar mills (August 2007)
- Hybrid beams for sustainable replacement of hardwood timber (August 2007)
- Energy-efficient lighting for refrigerator cabinets (July 2007)
- Efficient motor controller for vehicles (May 2007)
- Increased cogeneration by sugar mills by modifying crystallisation pans (March 2007)
- Low-cost solar water heater (March 2007)
- New markets for sugar cane producers from energy efficient drying technology (September 2006)
- Reducing energy use in an industrial tea drier (August 2006)
- New battery technology enables greater use of renewable energy (April 2006)
- Anti-reflection coatings for solar collectors (February 2006)
- Making sewage treatment plants energy self-sufficient (June 2005)
- Solar-powered chlorination of swimming pools (August 2004)
- Diesohol for road transport (September 2003)
- High efficiency solar powered streetlights (June 2005)
- Birdsville geothermal power station (September 2007)
- "Green waste" to charcoal and energy (August 2002)
- High-efficiency reservoir mixer (September 2007)
- Stanwell solar concentrator (April 2002)
Solar panels generating electricity used to generate chlorine in salt-water pool. Photo Allchlor Pty Ltd.
Hybrid beam being ‘proof’ loaded prior to delivery. Photo: Fibre Composites Design and Development, University of Southern Queensland.
Last updated: 11 June 2009