Professor W.W.S (Bill) Charters
University Of Melbourne Faculty Of Engineering

The Quantum Link Energy Systems Solar Heat Pump stemmed from initial research and development carried out at the University of Melbourne in conjunction with Siddons Industries. The product can be produced in various forms including domestic water heating, space heating, drying systems and swimming pool heating systems and is the most efficient Solar Heat Pump System in the world.

The principle of the solar boosted heat pump used in these systems allows the units to operate highly efficiently in a range of climate zones and to generate substantial electricity savings as compared with conventional units. The solar units are effectively twice as efficient as any other conventional heat pump system and almost twice as efficient as any other conventional solar water heating system.

Professor W.W.S (Bill) Charters
Dean Of Engineering
University Of Melbourne Faculty Of Engineering

 

 


Professor WWS (Bill) Charters has had over forty five years experience as a mechanical engineer and over thirty five years in academic research and development in the field of solar thermal systems and energy conservation and efficiency. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Melbourne in August 1965 and retired in December 2000.

He has acted as a senior energy consultant to state and federal governments in Australia and international United Nations and other energy agencies worldwide for almost thirty years. Specific posts held include Foundation Chairman of the Victorian Solar Energy Council from 1980 to 1988, five years as a NERDDC Committee Member, and Foundation Director of ERDC from1990 to 1999. Professor Charters was Chief Technical Advisor to UNDP (New York) on the formation of the regional solar test facility near New Delhi, India from 1989 to 1993.

He is a recipient of the CSIRO Research Medal in 1988 for solar heat pump research, the Achievement Through Action Award in 1991 and the Farrington Daniels Award in 1993 from the International Solar Energy Society and was a gold medal award winner from WREC in Florence 1998. Prof Charters is currently an independent director on the board of Colonial Venture Capital Reef Ltd.