Person

Duffy, Gregory

Occupation
Chemist and Earth Sciences

Summary

Chemist Gregory Duffy is an expert in energy technology. He has done extensive research and development on greenhouse gas mitigation and renewable, oil and coal technologies.

He is known for his role in the development of Hydrodec, a chemical used to cleanse renew, and remove pollutants from, transformer oil in electricity plants. This product was commercialised in 2004.

Duffy was appointed to the role of Senior Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO Energy Technology and has worked there since 2004.

Skip to

Details

In 2008 Duffy (Team Leader, Hydrotec Process Team) was awarded the CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement for the development of the Hydrodec process that simultaneously regenerates the electrical properties of degraded transformer oils and destroys any organochlorine contaminants.

Chronology

1971
Education - Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (Honours and the University Medal), University of Sydney
1976
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney
1976 - 1984
Career position - Research Officer CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels
1984 - 1986
Career position - Project scientist at the Joint Coal Board
1986 - 2004
Career position - Senior Research Scientist, then Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels
2004 -
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Energy Technology
2008
Award - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with colleagues)

Related Awards

Published resources

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Rebecca Rigby

Created: 24 February 2012, Last modified: 11 April 2024

EOAS ID: biogs/P004977b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 May (Gwangal moronn - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/gariwerd/gwangal_moronn.shtml
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004977b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260