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The Faculty of Science wishes to congratulate and applaud Professor Doug MacFarlane and his colleagues on an outstanding achievement!
Professor MacFarlane of the School of Chemistry is part of a team that, at an award ceremony presided over by Minister Peter McGuaran on Friday 14 May, won the DuPont Australia and New Zealand 2004 Innovation Award in the field of Agricultural Production and Marketing.
The DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Awards, the first of their kind, were created to celebrate and reward excellence and innovation in science and industry.
The company Ioteq Australia Ltd heads the team to which Professor MacFarlane belongs and is developing biocidal technologies for agricultural produce and waste water treatment. Ioteq's approach involves the controlled release of iodine as the active biocide. The iodine and the products of its biocidal action are subsequently reabsorbed onto resins for complete recycling. The technology is designed to replace increasingly unacceptable chlorine as a biocide; recent developments have shown that the process also has the potential to purify and thereby allow the recycling of large amounts of agricultural wash waters and thereby assist in water use issues in regions such as the Murray River .
Professor MacFarlane and his group in the School of Chemistry , including Dr Peter Newman, have acted as consultants to Ioteq Ltd for some time and have been involved in a variety of research projects in the last 4 years, which have contributed to this success.
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