Transcript Renewable & Alternative Fuels Research and Policy for a Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Contributors: Monica Mazurek, Michael Lawton, Raul Machado-Neto, Eric Lam, Patrick Szary, Eric Garfunkel, Michael.

Renewable & Alternative Fuels
Research and Policy for a Sustainable
Transportation Infrastructure
Contributors:
Monica Mazurek, Michael Lawton,
Raul Machado-Neto, Eric Lam, Patrick Szary,
Eric Garfunkel, Michael Klein
Renewable/Alternative Fuels in the
Transportation Sector: Brazil and USA
June 18, 2007
Web Conference Meeting
Question 1:
What is the extent of research in
renewable and alternative fuels?
Energy research at Rutgers
20 funded projects Rutgers-NB and Rutgers-Newark
http://www.ruei.rutgers.edu/research/
TOTAL = $7.6 M
Corn Storage Protein: A Molecular Genetic Model, DOE $1.48 million, J. Messing
Energy Storage Chemistries and Devices Enabled by Halide Nanocomposites, DOD,
$889,000, G. Amatucci
Nanoscale Phenomena in Surface Chemistry: Structure Reactivity and Electronic
Properties, DOE, $800,000, T. Madey
Linker for Semiconductor Nanoparticle Sensitization: Models for Electron Transfer and for
Solar Cell Applications, DOE $125,000, E. Galoppini
CRCD: Photovoltaic Device Processing - A Systemic Curriculum and Research Program,
NSF, $320,000, D. Birnie
Sustainable Energy Targets for New Jersey, NJBPU, $238,000 C. Andrews
New Material and Concepts for Next generation Metal/Air Batteries, ONR, $1.35 million
J.Xu
New Jersey Offshore and Coastal Wind Energy Analysis, NJPBU, $245,000, R. Dunk
Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Functionalization Catalyzed by Transition Metal Systems, DOE,
$391,000, A.Goldman
Energy research…
CAIT Renewable Energy Projects
Hybrid Electric Vehicle Projects
105 hp Motor
Battery
Packs
Condensate/Sodium
Borate Tank
Fuel Cell Stacks
Fuel Tank
Solar Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Renewable
Energy Systems
• Tour de Sol Engineering Excellence
Award for New Jersey Venturer
• White House Millennium
Council Endorsement
• Tour de Sol 1st Fuel Cell Vehicle in
the World to Compete in an Event
• Presidents Transportation
Award for the Environment
Pat Szary, Associate Director
Center for Advanced Infrastructure
& Transportation
•Installation, instrumentation
and integration of new and
existing technologies into an
effective, sustainable and
clean energy system usable
in a residential or small
commercial context.
•Demonstration of the
integrated technologies,
serving to research and
development toward
commercialization of these
energy systems,
particularly for use in
remote and isolated
locations.
Energy research…Solar Energy MSE
Photovoltaics Work
•
Yicheng Lu
– ZnO based Solar Cells – MOCVD “Nano-Tips”
•
Dunbar Birnie
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TiO2 based dye-sensitized solar
Hydrothermal oxides (TiO2, ZnO)
Novel Nano- and Micro-structures
Printing onto Flexible Substrates
Manish Chhowalla
– Carbon NanoTube based Organic Solar
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Aurelien Du Pasquier
– Organic Photovoltaics
www.solar.rutgers.edu
Energy research…Energy Storage
Specific Capacity (mAh/g)
3.5
Battery Work
0
50
100
150
200
250
Cell Potential (Volts)
3.0
• John Xu, Materials Science & Engg. Dept.
2.5
2.0
1.5
Microcrystalline -Fe2O3
Nano-Fe2O3
1.0
0.0
– Nanoparticle-based Rechargeable Li Batteries
– Advanced Metal-Air Batteries
– Rechargeable Silver-Zinc Batteries
0.5
1.0
x in LixFe2O3
1.5
• Glenn Amatucci, Materials Science & Engg. Dept.
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“Energy Storage Research Group” Director
MeF
Nanoparticle Li-rechargeable systems
Supercapacitors
Self-Assembled Battery Devices
MeF3
3LiF + Me
3
Discharge
Charge
• Aurelien Du Pasquier, Materials Science & Engg. Dept.
– Polymer Electrolytes in Batteries  applicable to printed, flexible
systems
“Refineries of the Future” for
transportation infrastructure
• Designed and optimized
for energy refineries of
smaller scale & changing
feedstocks
• Tailored for specific
transportation sectors
• Essential infrastructure
serving societal needs
• Optimization of refining
and production processes
for biofuel materials
Chemical & Biochemical Engg.
Klein Research Group
Chemical engineering approach
for construction, solution, and
optimization of detailed kinetic
models for biofuels processing
Modeling capability addresses
detailed kinetic modeling of
reactant structure and
composition
Building of reaction network &
organization of model parameters
Solution and optimization of
kinetic model
Biofuels research…Brazil & USA
Rutgers-USP Research and
Training in Biofuels
Adapt sugarcane to wider
cultivation in US
Enhance the efficiency of
utilizing cellulose as source
for bioenergy production
USP-Rutgers International
Graduate Program in Plant
Biology
Undergraduate research
exchange program in
Biotechnology by the US Dept
Education (FIPSE) and the
Brazilian Agency CAPES
Biofuels research…Brazil & USA
University of Sao Paulo Group
expertise:
• sugarcane genomics
• regulation of the sugarcane
transcriptome
• control of sucrose metabolism,
identification of stress
responsive transcription factors
and stress regulatory networks
• plant disease
• sugarcane transformation
• nuclear and plastid
transformation
• protein targeting to subcellular
compartments
ESALQ-USP
• Dr. Helaine Carrer Depto Ciências
Biológicas
• Dr. Marcio de Castro Silva Filho Depto
Genética
• Dr. Glaucia Souza Instituto de Química
& Departamento de Bioquímica
• Dr. Raul Machado-Neto Former ViceRector of Research for USP & Former
Vice-Director ESALQ-USP
Biofuels research…Brazil & USA
Rutgers University group expertise:
• molecular biology
• plant genetics and genomics
• plant cellular biology
• responses and adaptation of plants to
disease stress
• control of plant gene expression
• novel approaches to gene and trait
discovery
• plant transformation (including
methods for improving efficiency)
• expression of foreign genes in
transgenic plants
• characterization field performance of
genetically improved plant varieties
Center for Agricultural &
Environmental Biotechnology
School of Environmental &
Biological Sciences Rutgers
University
• Dr. Eric Lam
• Dr. Michael Lawton
• Dr. Nilgun Tumer
Question 2:
How has ethanol industry developed
and how has car manufacturing
adapted to new fuels?
BP LAX refueling station
Ford Motor Company
Credit: Valri Lightner,
US DOE Hydrogen
Program
Incorporating and adapting to alternative
fuels… the NJ Hydrogen Learning Center
experience
Credit:
Valri Lightner, Fuel
Cell Team Leader,
US DOE
“Powering the NJ Hydrogen Economy” Workshop , 9/15/2006, CEEEP,
Rutgers University, http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/ceeep/Symposium.html
Early investment in
policy and
implementation
strategies important
underpinning for
technical breakthroughs
End of
Presentation
Thank you
Rutgers Renewable/ Alternative Fuels for Transportation
Contact Information
Monica Mazurek, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Center for Advanced Infrastructure & Transportation (CAIT)
School of Engineering
100 Brett Road
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
tel: 732-445-0579 ext. 128
fax: 732-445-3325
email: [email protected]