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Associate Professor Joe Coventry
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Associate Professor Coventry is an engineer experienced in development and commercialisation of solar technologies. He presently leads heliostat cost down and receiver performance improvement projects for the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI) and prior, he was the Principal Engineer at Wizard Power, and led the engineering team and development of the Big Dish CSP technology since the company was established in 2005. Dr Coventry holds a BE/BSc from the University of Melbourne (1997), and a PhD from the Australian National University (2004).
Research interests
My expertise is in the field of concentrating solar thermal (CST) and thermal energy storage (TES). Present research aims are to advance knowledge and develop technologies with high impact on the competitiveness of CST and TES, to drive uptake and rapid decarbonisation in both power and heavy industrial sectors. Current research projects span the following topics:
- Development of low-cost heliostat technologies
- Sodium receiver technologies
- Optical absorber coatings for CST
- High temperature thermal energy storage
- Hydrogen supply for industry
Groups
- Leader, Solar thermal
- Researcher, Energy storage and recovery
- Researcher, Renewable fuels
- Researcher, Hydrogen economy
- Researcher, Industrial decarbonisation
Projects
- ANU Research Team contributor, Hydrogen Fuels program
- ANU Research Team contributor, Renewable Metal Refining program