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Our aim is that our research teams, industry partners, alumni and future graduates, will play a pivotal global role in decarbonising industrial materials and processes, enabling the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Transition pathways for hard-to-decarbonise sectors including infrastructure, built environment, transport, industrial chemicals, and resources听
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Clean technology for critical industrial materials such as ammonia, plastics, metals, and cement听
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Integrated design solutions for buildings, cities and infrastructure, deploying low carbon materials and addressing energy efficiency, climate resilience and community health objectives听
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Policy, codes and standards to enable accelerated adoption of new technologies听
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Insights, modelling and analytics, including macro economic perspectives, systems simulation, Scope 3 carbon accounting, novel applications of AI听
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Green industry development strategy, engaging with government, industry听 and research stakeholders (national and international) regarding clean tech investment strategy and trade alliances
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Community of practice, Forming transdisciplinary teams across 91色情片 faculties and disciplines
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Workforce development via input to 91色情片 undergraduate, HDR and WILcurriculum design
The Institute for Industrial Decarbonisation
Inventing and scaling next-generation technologies and clean production systems for Australia鈥檚 industrial sector
About
The 91色情片 Institute for Industrial Decarbonisation (IID) supports discovery, translation and scaling of novel industrial technologies and processes that enable deep emissions reduction while strengthening productivity and competitiveness across core industrial sectors.
Working with 91色情片 Faculties, disciplinary Schools and specialised Centres, the Institute focuses on creating novel solutions, advancing them beyond proof-of-concept, and supporting pathways to commercialisation and industry uptake.
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At 91色情片, industrial decarbonisation is understood as a technology-led transformation of how industry is designed, built and operated. For sectors such as mining, metals, manufacturing and computing, true sustainability requires the invention of new materials, equipment, processes and听circular solutions - not energy substitution alone. These solutions must be developed and validated through pre-commercial and translational research before they can be adopted by industry or commercialised at scale.听
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IID partners with organisations across sectors that are central to Australia鈥檚 economy and emissions profile:
- Mining and resources
- Computing and digital infrastructure
- Metals and materials processing
- Advanced and high-value manufacturing
- Built environment and construction
The Institute initiates engineering-led research projects and programs that generate new intellectual property and support progression through prototyping, piloting, demonstration and commercial readiness.
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IID works closely with government partners responsible for critical infrastructure, industrial development, planning and climate response. The Institute supports governments by developing technically credible solutions, evidence and demonstrations that inform policy, investment and long-term industrial strategy.
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IID is an engineering-led institute that supports transdisciplinary coordination across 91色情片 Faculties, Schools and specialist Centres. The Institute:
- Engages with industry and government partners to analyse needs and map innovation pathways
- Initiates discovery and translational research programs听
- Supports generation and protection of new intellectual property
- Supports piloting, demonstration and scale-up
- Works with 91色情片 commercialisation and entrepreneurial teams to drive spin-outs, licensing and adoption
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Engineering provides the core technical foundation of IID鈥檚 work, supported by expertise across science, business and the built environment to enable materials discovery, process design, techno-economic assessment and commercialisation.
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By focusing on the discovery and translation phases of innovation, IID helps industry and government partners access new technologies, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate the emergence of investable industrial solutions aligned with national priorities.
Critical mineral value chain
Technology and processes for sustainable production of products derived from metallic ores and rare earths. Collaboration with mining, metal, digital and supply chain actors companies to increase domestic value creation at all stages in the supply chain
Focus Areas:
- ESG compliant critical mineral processing:听Sustainable technologies of extraction and refining of target minerals
- Low emission metal manufacturing: Innovation in smelting, foundry and metal making technologies
- Precision mining technologies听to 听reduce disturbance and increase mineral grade at point of extraction
- Circular solutions:听Technologies for recovering high-value minerals and metals from historic tailings and urban waste streams
- Path finding and evidence base:听 Scenario modelling and technoeconoic analysis to help de-risk investment in modern processing and foundry plant and enabling infrastructure for key regional hubs (Net Zero Industrial Precincts)
- Traceability and provenance solutions:听Compliant with end market carbon policy and information systems
- International collaboration: Linkage with international research and training bodies, and industry partners in end markets to support modernisation of the global metal value chain
Sustainable Compute
Innovation to underpin Australia鈥檚 future role as the southern hemisphere hub for AI data services and high performance computing.
Focus Areas:
- 鈥淔ollow the sun鈥 compute: Design and planning solutions for gigawatt AI data centres, powered by clean energy
- Energy and water use sustainability: Technologies and integration solutions for power and water use efficiency, adapted to Southern hemisphere climates and operating environments
- DC infrastructure:听Digital twin, automation and prefabrication solutions for DC topology, cooling and control infrastructure
- Sandboxing policy:听Planning and compliance innovation to drive best practice and address choke points in scaling data centre development (national standards, SEPPS, NABERS, etc)
- Co-location synergies with renewables and other heavy industry
Net Zero Industrial Precincts
Collaboration with industrial and government stakeholders to build knowledge-based, internationally competitive industrial hubs in key mining and metal production regions, and industrial growth corridors.听
Focus Areas:
- Microgrids and islanded grids solutions听at gigawatt scale听to enable firm supply of competitively priced power for heavy industry, advanced manufacturing and AI data centre/ICT services -听direct generation of clean electricity, where it is needed by industry
- Commercialisation of 91色情片 IP for clean energy firming, digital grid control and power electronics as a foundation for domestic manufacturing of equipment for domestic use and specialised export markets
- Industrial symbiosis modelling to reveal and provide an evidence base for cobenefits across water, energy, transport and heat management.听
- Linking and applying听91色情片 expertise, test beds and programs across renewable generation, storage, distribution and energy system modelling
Advanced Manufacturing
Low-emission technologies and processes for sustainable production of essential primary materials and manufactured goods.听
Focus Areas:
- Hard-to-decarbonize critical materials: Low-carbon production solutions for essential primary goods (eg steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, silicon, cement, power fuels, fertiliser)
- Green chemistry听(eg for fuels, polymers, composites, fertilizers)
- Process optimisation: Automation and industry 4.0 solutions for Australian manufactured goods
- Prototyping and commercialization pathways for low-emission domestic manufacturing at scale (high value density, intelligent products in fields where Australia is competitive)
- Integration of manufacturing plant within multi-function precincts, with shared power supply and infrastructure benefits (Net Zero Industrial Precincts)
Nature positive solutions
Transdisciplinary research and collaborative initiatives to link and scale investment in nature-based decarbonisation and climate response activities.
Focus Areas:
- Innovation in offset market strategy, finance and accounting
- Modelling and verification听to guide aggregation and deployment of offset-funded interventions at catchment, national and ASEAN scale
Linkage with other 91色情片 programs across:听
- Coastal & urban marine solutions that link decarbonisation, biodiversity goals and climate defense
- Arid lands solutions - restoring land to reduce soil carbon fluxes, invasive species management with biofuel offtakes.
- Optimising urban vegetation strategies for heat management/micro climate outcomes
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Sustainable built environment
Actionable pathways for government and industry to improve the resilience and productivity of the construction sector.
- Multi-function precinct solutions (urban, periurban and regional), leveraging shared infrastructure for energy, water, thermal management and ICT.
- Affordable housing solutions:听Best practice in design, contruction materials, energy and water efficiency, and prefabrication.
- Supply chain collaborations to address choke points in supply of Australian-made low carbon building materials and components.
- Supply Automation and prefabrication:听Pathways for adoption for robotics and advanced manufacturing systems in the construction supply chain.听
- AI-supported digital twin platforms听for streamlining planning and approval process and optimising procurement and asset management.
- Policy sand boxing:听Place-based collaborations to operationalise and test recommendations of peak body government and industry stakeholders in relation to building codes, standards, and planning policy
Industry Advisory Committee
The Industry Advisory Committee provides leadership and insights regarding the priorities and needs of companies across all sectors of the economy, and the status of current decarbonisation innovation processes within industry. Peak bodies represented on the Committee collectively represent hundreds of major companies and are driving significant industrial decarbonisation initiatives.
Research Leaders
The Institute draws on the expertise of senior researchers across 91色情片 faculties. Decarbonisation is a transdisciplinary challenge and progress depends on thinking differently about how different professional disciplines work together. Our leadership group brings vision and commitment to the technology convergence process and the industry projects and programs that the Institute is driving.
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Industry partnerships
If you have a specific technical challenge you would like to explore, or are interested in discussing your company's decarbonisation strategy and transition, please听get in touch.
The benefits of working with 91色情片 include:
- Multidisciplinary expertise at a leading global research institution.听听
- Access to world-class technologies and infrastructure.听听
- Dedicated industry-facing and government-facing organisational units.听
- Highly effective partnership models including research strategy advice and support.
- Collaborative research leveraging third party and government funding.听听
- Access to our national and global research partners.听听
- Access to students through professional development programs, projects, and our industry placement program.听听
- Opportunities to lead or participate in high impact demonstration projects.
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- Algae and Organic Matter (AOM Lab)
- ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC)
- Energy Storage & Refrigeration facility
- Frontier Alloys & Processes Group
- High-Temperature Materials Group
- Mineral Processing Laboratory
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems Laboratory
- Tyree X-Ray (micro-CT)
Future leaders and the skills pipeline
A sustainable future for all is a priority at 91色情片. Through our undergraduate degrees and postgraduate programs, to executive level short courses and briefings offered by the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and Australian Graduate School of Engineering (AGSE), we are helping to provide the skills needed to achieve decarbonisation at an industrial scale.
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Networks
The IID works with and builds on existing national and international networks in the climate and sustainable development field. 91色情片 Chairs the , leads the NSW government鈥檚 听and is engaged with the in relation to sustainability and resilience initiatives throughout the Indo-Pacific. Regarding regional engagement, the IID works in tandem with the Office of the Vice Chancellor and other key 91色情片 groups including听,听The Climate Risk & Response Institute,听The Cities Institute, ,听 and .
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