Richard g lugar center for renewable energy

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Richard g lugar center for renewable energy
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Challenges faced by renewable energy

• Economical Cost
• Technical Reliability
• Social Acceptance
• Political Government Policies

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Mission Statement

• 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

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Participating Campuses and Schools

• 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)

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Leadership

• 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.

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Disciplines Involved

• 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

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Areas of Current Research

• 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

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In perspective
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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

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Biofuel Production
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Renewable Hydrogen Generation - Ethanol Reformer
Water
Sun Light
Energy
Fuel Cell
CO2
Reformer
Corn Ethanol
Hydrogen
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Ethanol to Gasoline Conversion
Water
Sun Light
Energy
CO2
ETG
Corn Ethanol
Gasoline
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Bio-Gasoline Compared with Oil Produce
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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.
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Direct Methanol/Ethanol Fuel Cell

• Renewable
• Zero emission
• High efficiency

• Key technologies
• Catalyst
• Membranes

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Highlights in Fuel Cell Research

• 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)

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Fuel Cell Research Polymers for Fuel Cell
Research
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Self-Healing Polymer Technologyfor Fuel Cell
Applications
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
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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
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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

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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

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Distributed Power Generation
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Current Members

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

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Current Members

• Photovotaic Solar Energy
• Maher Rizkala, Professor of Electrical
  Engineering
• Mathew Rubin, IURTC

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Current Members

• 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

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Current Members

• Combustion
• Razi Nalim, Associate Professor of Mechanical
  Engineering. Clean combustion
• Siva Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical
  Engineering. Clean combustion

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Current Members

• 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

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Current Members

• 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

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Renewable Hydrogen Generation - Photovoltaic


Sun Light

Energy
Hyrogen
Fuel Cell
Electrolyser

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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

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Strategies for realizing the Vision

• Increase activities in research and outreach
• Increase manpower
• attract worlds 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)

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Current Members

• 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, Chancellors Professor of Mechanical
  Engineering. Computer modeling
• Alan Jones, Assistant Professor of ME, Membrane
  Durability

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