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Australian Engineering Week Field TripSociety for Sustainability
& Environmental Engineering
Natural Energy Sources
Date: Tuesday 2 August 2011Time: All DayCost: $25.00 per person
(includes bus and morning tea) need to bring your own lunch or
purchase it at Bungendore
This 2011 field trip Natural Energy Sourcespromises to be very
interesting and the program is asfollows:
8.00am Grand Touring Coach picks up Southside passengers behind
Cooleman Court Weston Creek(there is car parking at the back of
Cooleman Court behind the garage or near the tenniscourts).
8.30am Grand Touring Coach picks up Northside passengers at
Southwell Park Netball CourtsLyneham Northbourne Avenue.
9.00am Paraboloidal Dish Solar Concentrators at the ANU - The
SG4" 500 m2Big Dish prototype
is the largest paraboloidal dish concentrator in the world. It
concentrates the sun's radiationover 2000 times and can drive
high-temperature processes such as steam for powergeneration and
chemical reactions for fuel production.Visitors will see the "SG4"
500 m
2Big Dish prototype, with associated steam engine and
generator, data acquisition and the prototype Ammonia
thermochemical energy storagesystem. Other features of the ANU
Solar Thermal Facilities include a test array of solar airheaters
and a parabolic trough thermal concentrator test bed.The new
approach to solar-concentrator systems offers a cost-effective,
sustainable andviable solution for the world's large-scale energy
needs, and is set to be part of the rapidly-growing global
renewable energy industry.
9.45am Morning Tea at ANU
10.15am Travel by Coach to the Woodlawn Bioreactor
11.30am Woodlawn Bioreactor - Previously a copper, lead and zinc
open-cut mine, the void is nowused as an in-situ bioreactor, since
200 4. Over this time, the bioreactor has taken in over2.5 million
tonnes of waste from the Sydney metropolitan area; as well as
producing up to3MWh of green electricity using the methane created
by the resultant waste.Putrescible waste is transported to Woodlawn
by rail from Sydney after being containerised inClyde NSW. The
Clyde transfer terminal is a state-of-the-art waste transport
inter-modal link,incorporating dust suppression systems, three-tier
odour management safeguards and noisebarriers; here the waste is
unloaded by waste collection vehicles and compacted into
shippingcontainers for transport by rail down to the Woodlawn
Bioreactor, a most advanced facility.
12.30pm Travel to Bungendore
1.00pm Lunch in Bungendore (bring your own or buy)
2.00pm Travel to Capital Wind Farm
2.15pm Capital Wind Farm -Wind turbines of hub height 80m and
maximum blade tip height of 124m,convert the energy in wind into
electrical energy with installed capacity of 140.7MW and anannual
production of 450,000MWh/yr reducing greenhouse gas emissions by
over 400,000tonnes per year equivalent to removing more than 85,000
cars from the road each year.
The green energy produced by Capital Wind Farm will be put into
the Sydney supply grid, withthe Sydney Water desalination plant to
draw its power from the grid
3.00pm Travel back to Canberra and drop off at Southwell Park
Netball Courts Lyneham(approx. 4.00pm) and then Cooleman Court
(approx. 4.30pm)
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Places are limited so please register and pay by Monday 25 July
2011
Fax to:(02) 6273 2051 or
email to:[email protected]
Contact: Colleen Mays (02) 6270 6519 for further information
Cost: per person is $25.00 (Bring a packed lunch or buy in
Bungendore)
Bookings are essential as places are limited
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