Scope of Expertise
Ultra-Systems Technology (UST) was established to provide expert technical consulting services to the industry and Government.

UST provides strategic, technology and commercial consulting services on energy systems for renewables as well as fossil fuels. We can evaluate and promote renewable energy products and put renewable energy technologies into perspective with traditional fossil fuel energy technologies. We understand the commercial implications of greenhouse issues and distributed generation and can undertake planning and competitor studies.

• Feasibility of power projects, including biomass and waste, resource and utilisation studies, energy transport studies and small power systems.

• Identification of market opportunities for renewable energy.

• Evaluation of renewable energy resources conversion technologies for biomass, waste, wind, solar, geothermal and hydro. Also for solid and gaseous resources including biogas and landfill gas.

• Development and implementation of detailed testing programs for biomass and waste. Detailed fuel evaluation, including laboratory and pilot scale testing and evaluation programs.

• Evaluation of equipment for handling and utilising different feedstocks. Performance testing of plant and process investigations.

• Integration of renewable energy technologies into conventional power systems, including supplementary energy inputs to steam cycles (solar or geothermal) and co-firing of coal with biomass or gas.

• Tea-tree Oil Processing Plant Study. Preliminary feasibility investigations and costing of a co-generation project to utilise tea-tree residue for power generation and steam raising. Government Corporation.

• Landfill Gas for Power and Heating. Study into the feasibility and the cost of recovering landfill gas and utilising it in a co-generation project to generate green energy and to use waste heat for heating a greenhouse. Private Company

• Biomass Resources and their Use for Power Generation in Queensland. Identification of the biomass resources in Queensland that could be used as a fuel for power generation. Investigations included the properties of the biomass, technologies for power generation costs. Government Corporation.

• Renewable Energy Project: Additional Sources of Biomass. Locate and identify the costs of biomass to supplement bagasse for co-generation at sugar mills during the off season. The study covered availability of the biomass, collection, transport, preparation and storage, properties and utilisation characteristics and cost. Sugar Milling Company.

• Large Solar Thermal Energy Project. Development of project plan and scope for a large solar energy project and application for funding under the Renewable Energy Showcase Program. Implementation of the project after funding was granted. Government Corporation.

• Energy Audit of Major Infrastructure. Management of an energy audit of the water and wastewater assets of a major local government authority.  This audit identified energy savings and opportunities for generating green energy. Government Corporation.