Richard g lugar center for renewable energy

1. Richard g lugar center for renewable energy

2. Challenges faced by renewable energy • Economical: Cost • Technical: Reliability • Social: Acceptance • Political: Government Policies

3. The Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (LCRE) is established to address the societal need for clean, affordable and renewable energy sources research education and outreach technology transfer sound public policy Mission Statement

4. IUPUI, IU Bloomington, IU South Bend School of Engineering & Technology (IUPUI) School of Science (IUPUI, IUB, IUSB) School of Public and Environmental Affairs (IUPUI, IUB) School of Medicine (IUPUI) Participating Campuses and Schools

5. Center Director: Dr. Andrew Hsu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Associate Director: Dr. Alan Jones, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Associate Director: Ken Richards, Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, IU Bloomington. Leadership

6. Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering Physics Chemistry and Chemical Biology Medicine, Yeast and Enzyme Polymer Combustion Computer modeling and multi-scale simulation Biology: energy generating plants Public and Environmental Affairs Disciplines Involved

7. Bio-fuel production and applications Environmentally benign usage of renewable/bio-fuels Renewable energy through fuel cell technology Renewable hydrogen (Solar, Reformers) Advanced battery technologies, HEV and PHEV Solar photovoltaic Policy and societal issues Areas of Current Research

8. In perspective

9. Plant biology and biofuels • Find the plants best suited for energy production • Study the differences in resource input and environmental impact • for different energy plants • Genetically change the plants so that they can be produced in harsh conditions • that will not compete for resources with food production

10. Biofuel Production

11. Renewable Hydrogen Generation - Ethanol Reformer Water Sun Light Energy Fuel Cell CO2 Reformer Corn Ethanol Hydrogen

12. Ethanol to Gasoline Conversion Water Sun Light Energy CO2 ETG Corn Ethanol Gasoline

13. Bio-Gasoline Compared with Oil Produce

14. Clean Combustion of Renewable/Synthetic Fuels Future hydrogen-rich renewable and synthetic fuels enable super-efficient combustion engines for power and transport. The Center conducts research on fuel conversion and utilization from non-petroleum sources, and novel clean combustion and pulsed compressor technologies for aircraft, automobile, and power-generation engines.

15. Sun Light Water Water Ethanol Energy CO2 Direct Methanol/Ethanol Fuel Cell • Renewable • Zero emission • High efficiency • Key technologies: • Catalyst • Membranes

16. Fundamental Research of Catalysts and Membranes Theoretical Modeling Catalysts and Membrane Synthesis Molecular Scale Characterization Electrochemical Characterizations Fuel Cell Fabrication and Testing Electrode and Membrane Fabrication Performance, Durability and Impendence Testing Applications Portable Electronics Commercial and Residential Regenerative Fuel Cell System (RFCS) Highlights in Fuel Cell Research

17. Fuel Cell ResearchPolymers for Fuel Cell Research

18. Self-Healing Polymer Technologyfor Fuel Cell Applications rest period White et al. Nature, 2001 Catalyst • Independent initiation of healing • Automatically continues to completion • Localized healing (only at damage) Microcapsule Issues • Compatible Chemistries • Retains conductivity • Resists • humidity • temperature Demonstrated life extension in model polymers

19. Solar Energy Thermovoltaic Effect Maher Rizkalla Matt Rubin Thermovoltaic cells use multiple thermal phonons (heat waves) with non-discrete energy levels to generate electric carriers from all phonons, allowing them to convert waste heat into energy. Calculations support power density of 0.6W/cm2 at 300K for bi-layer device (shown left). Could reach 60%-80% efficiency

20. Policy Integration • Integration of renewable energy in larger policy context • Economic and financial analysis • Lifecycle analysis of energy and environmental impacts • Forest and agricultural land use analysis

21. Vision for the Center • The Richard G. Lugar Center will be a premier research center in the US • World leader in selected research areas • Prominent influence in the nation attained through both research activities and out reach activities such as organizing and hosting public forums, workshops, and conferences

22. Distributed Power Generation

23. Hydrogen Generation and Bio-Gasoline Andrew Hsu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Zhiwei Yang, Visiting Professor, Instrumentation Lihong Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Catalysis Current Members

24. Photovotaic Solar Energy Maher Rizkala, Professor of Electrical Engineering Mathew Rubin, IURTC Current Members

25. Distributed Power Generation and Hybrid Vehicles Yaobin Chen, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Power grid coupling, HEV Steve Rovnyak, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Power grid coupling Sarah Koskie, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Power grid coupling Anwar Sohel, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. HEV and PHEV Current Members

26. Combustion Razi Nalim, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Clean combustion Siva Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Clean combustion Current Members

27. Biofuel Mark Goebl, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine. Enzyme and yeast for cellulosic ethanol production Stephen Randall, Professor Biology, Biofuel production Xianzhong Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology. Energy generating plants; Current Members

28. Policy and Economics David McSwane, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indianapolis. Policies Ken Richards, Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington. Policy and economics of energy and CO2 sequestration. Patricia Fox, Assistant Professor, Engineering and Technology, policy, economics, and Sustainability Current Members

29. Renewable Hydrogen Generation - Photovoltaic Sun Light Energy Hyrogen Fuel Cell Electrolyser

30. summary • Basic structure for the Center has been set up • Good faculty participation • Research activities show promising results • Outreach programs off to a good start • Work remains to be done to reach our goal but we are confident that we will realize our vision

31. Strategies for realizing the Vision • Increase activities in research and outreach • Increase manpower: • attract world’s leading researchers in selected research areas to the center • Establish a physical presence: • cluster of state of the art labs (near term) • new building (mid to long term)

32. Fuel Cell and Batteries Andrew Hsu, Professor of ME, Fuel Cell Systems (1999) Rongrong Chen, Associate Professor of MET. Electrochemistry, catalysis, fuel cells, batteries (2004) Guofeng Wang, Assistant Professor of ME, Materials (2007) Jian Xie, Assistant Professor of ME, electrochemistry, fuel cell and batteries (2007) Guigui Wang, Assistant Research Professor, polymer membrane synthesis (2007) Dong Xie, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Polymer synthesis Kelsey M. Forsythe, Director of Computational Molecular Science Facility; Quantum and molecular simulation of fuel cell catalysis Jeffery Zaleski, Professor of Chemistry. IUB. Macrocycle Catalysts synthesis Hasan Akay, Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Computer modeling Alan Jones, Assistant Professor of ME, Membrane Durability Current Members

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