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Products

EatSmart – nutrition guide leaflets

ECCI (Eucalypt Canopy Condition Index) – forest health indicator

Echidna™ – a prototype forest biomass measurement device using the lidar based system – See also Towards more efficient forest assessment, 2005 (Media Release)

Eco-Car – hybrid-electric car for 21st century – See Low emission vehicles

Ecotech Microvol 1000 Particulate Sampler – portable sampler instrument for indoor and outdoor fine particles; licensed to Ecotech P/L – See Aussie instruments in battle to clean up the air, 2000 (Media Release)

Ecotech Model 200 – portable rainwater sampler – See Aussie instruments in battle to clean up the air, 2000 (Media Release)

EDN – ethanedinitrile, an environmentally safe fumigant for treating soil, insect pests, weeds and diseases; commercialised by BOC Group – See New fumigant to replace gas that damages ozone layer, 2004 (Media Release)

Elast-Eon™ biocompatible polyurethane – for use in a variety of medical implants; commercialised by Elastomedic (name changed to AorTech Biomaterials in 2008)

Electrolyser – a device that extracts enough hydrogen per day from water to power a family car for up to 150 kilometres – See Hydrogen transportation: stepping on the gas (Solution)

Electron micro-diffraction camera – designed and constructed in the 1940s – See Willis JB, 1987, ‘The CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics 1944-1986′, Historical Records of Australian Science, 7: 153-177

Electron multiplier – new type with easily replaceable electron-emitting surfaces thus avoiding the need to dispose of the entire instrument when the efficiency of these surfaces had deteriorated through use; developed by DL Swigler at Chemical Physics; licensed in 1981 to Sydney firm ETP Pty Ltd – See Willis JB, 1987, ‘The CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics 1944-1986′, Historical Records of Australian Science, 7: 153-177

Electrostatic Wool Filters – Wool has a natural advantage as an electrostatic filter for very fine particles. This property was used to develop a new wool-based non-woven filter; commercialised by Michel Pty Ltd and on sale in Bunnings hardware outlets.

Energel – sealed silica gel electrolyte lead acid Battery; 2 models distributed by Battery Energy South Pacific

Energy Express – a modeling program that evaluates energy efficiency of a commercial building; distributed by Hearne Scientific Software

EntomoLogic – software, cost system to allow users to enter data on dollars spent on each field operations or chemical operation

EUCLID – software, comprehensive guide to the identification of eucalypts

Evapotron – instrument that automatically measures evaporation and sensible heat flux over natural surfaces

eWeather forecasts for energy industry – a website that predicts temperature, rainfall, humidity and wind direction; published by EWN Publishing

Expert Search – a search engine, built on the Panoptic search engine that works as a directory of experts

Extender 100 – anthelmintic product for control of internal sheep parasites; manufactured by Captec Ltd and marketed jointly by Smith Kline Beecham Animal Health and Nufarm Animal Health

Extender Junior – anthelmintic product for control of internal sheep parasites; manufactured by Captec Ltd and marketed jointly by Smith Kline Beecham Animal Health and Nufarm Animal Health

Eyre – a linseed cultivar

Processes

Easy Care wool – process based on Synthapret BAP/Silicone and garment setting technology; produces shrink-resistant and felt-resistant woollen garments which hold their shape during machine washing and tumble drying; used for pure wool or wool/blend trousers, slacks and skirts

EDW (Electro Dewatering technology)

Electronic Ears – microseismic electronic listening post which tracks and controls a drill operating more than 300 metres below the earth’s surface

E-Nose – a set of sensors that detects flystruck sheep by using a complex of compounds making up an odour; developed in the Australian Sheep Industry CRC

EnviroMag – produces magnesium hydroxide slurry for treating acidic effluents

Evolver – technology that selects micro-organisms which thrive on and degrade a contaminant of interest

Exelgram – visible security image technology employing microtexturing: the controlled production of surface features on various materials, and down to microscopic levels – See also World’s leading anti-counterfeiting technology for Europe, 2003 (Media Release)

Systems

ECHIDNA™ – a ground-based laser scanning system that measures plot-based forest structure with unprecedented detail and provides a permanent record of a forest’s three-dimensional structure at a given growth stage; scans a full hemisphere above the setup point, providing data that can be used for estimates of wood volume, stem form, biomass and canopy architecture

EchoNet – a mobile broadband telemedicine system designed to virtually bring a remote specialist to the point of care where he or she can participate in image-based diagnostic procedures such as echocardiography – See Delivering specialist healthcare to the patient’s bedside (Achievement) and A specialist at your beside – via broadband, 2008 (Audio) and CeNTIE (2007) (video).

EcoGraze – program aimed at recovery of deteriorated lands – See Combatting catchment erosion (CSIRO Land and Water)

Ecologically sustainable fisheries and marine industries

Elvin – a high performance, secure, publish-subscribe, distributed information notification software system for hardware vendors and system managers

E-Sheep – a walk-through weighing system enabling the natural behaviour of sheep is harnessed to automatically capture information about a sheep’s weight, nutritional supplementation, feeding or drinking frequency and whereabouts