ARPAE Update BESAC Meeting Eric Toone July 26
ARPA-E Update – BESAC Meeting Eric Toone July 26, 2012
ARPA-E’s creation and launching Innovation based on science and engineering will be primary driver of our future prosperity & security 2012 FY 2012 Budget ($275 Appropriated) 2011 FY 2011 Budget ($180 M Appropriated) 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ($400 M Appropriated) 2007 America COMPETES Act President Obama launches ARPA-E at National Academies on April 27, 2009 2006 Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Academies) 2
ARPA-E’s mission is to overcome the high-risk technological barriers facing energy technologies Reduce Energy Imports To enhance the economic and energy security of the U. S. To ensure U. S. technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies Reduce Energy. Related Emissions Improve Energy Efficiency (A) promoting revolutionary advances in fundamental sciences (B) translating scientific discoveries into technological innovations (C) accelerating transformational technological advances in areas that industry by itself is not likely to undertake 3
ARPA-E seeks to identify and support technologies that will be both transformational and disruptive New energy technologies matter only to the extent that they are: – – Both transformational and disruptive Adopted and deployed by private industry Meaningful way to consumers Able to hit a key price tipping point Steam-powered Cugnot (1769) Benz Motorwagen (1885) Ford Model T (1914) 4
ARPA-E’s program development process is streamlined and ARPA-E does active program management Program Development Cycle Program Management Tools Program Technology to Market Handoff Transition Ongoing Technical Review Establish Contract Negotiation & Awards Program Conception (Idea / Vision) Envision Workshop Program Development Execute Engage Project Selection Proposal Rebuttal Merit Review of Proposals Program Approval FOA Development & Issuance 5
To date ARPA-E has made 181 awards to a wide variety of organizations 6
ARPA-E’s first open FOA resulted 37 projects across a wide variety technology areas 7
Conditionally activated enzymes expressed in cellulosic energy crops Lignocellulose breakdown is costly 8
Low-contact drilling technology to enable economical geothermal wells 9
ARPA-E created 11 focused programs during the last two years Transportation Electrofuels BEEST IMPACCT ADEPT PETRO Stationary Power GRIDS Solar ADEPT End-Use Efficiency BEETIT HEATS GENI REACT 10
Electrofuels 1. Assimilate Reducing Equivalents 2. Fix CO 2 for Biosynthesis 3. Generate Energy Dense Liquid Fuel Electro-Autotrophic Synthesis of Higher Alcohols 11
BEEST The Semi Solid Flow Cell (SSFC): Flow Batteries meet Solid Batteries
IMPACCT Low-Cost Biological Catalyst to Enable Efficient CO 2 Capture HCO 3 - + H 3 O+ CO 2 + 2 H 2 O Residual Activity (%) Carbonic Anhydrase (CA) Thermostability 100 80 60 40 20 0 - Human CAII Parent CA Round 1 CA Round 2 CA 45 55 65 75 85 95 Temperature (Celsius) 13
BEETIT Humidity Ratio High-Efficiency, on. Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates Temperature Refrigeration unit 14
GRIDS Transformative Electrochemical Flow Storage System 15
ADEPT Magnetics Hard Magnets High Flux Soft Magnets Chip-scale LED Driver for Commercial Lighting Switches Integrated WBG Unipolar Si. C >13 k. V WBG 25 Watt LED Electronics Si Integrated Circuits for Power Systems • On-chip inductors and transformers 300 x reduction in power stage volume • High-voltage transistors • High-energy capacitors 16
Solar ADEPT Dual Bi-Directional IGBTs Modules Enables Breakthrough PV Inverter Using Current Modulation Topology 17
GENI Resilient Multi-Terminal HVDC Networks with High. Voltage High-Frequency Electronics 18
HEATS High-Efficiency Solar. Electric Conversion Power Tower 19
REACT Transformation Enabled Nitride Magnets Absent Rare Earths (TEN Mare) 20
PETRO Pine trees engineered to produce liquid fuel and paper pulp 21
ARPA-E has recently announced awards for Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy (MOVE) • • • Objectives 5 -yr payback for light duty natural gas vehicles Conformable tanks with energy density = CNG Convenient, low-cost at-home refueling • • • Motivation Price of NG $1. 50/gge, gasoline $3. 50/gallon No natural gas infrastructure Natural gas in 60 M homes Current heavy duty vehicle payback ~ 3 years Oil consumption for light duty ~60%, heavy ~20% Vehicle Storage + Home Refueling < $2000 Program director: Dane Boysen Release date: Feb 2012 Award date: Sep 2012 No. projects: 7 -10 Investment: $30 M Approach 1: Low pressure storage (< 500 psi) • Sorbent materials with energy density = CNG Approach 2: High pressure storage (3, 600 psi) • High strength, conformable tanks + low cost compression
MOVE Program Portfolio Overview Sorbents • • • Metal organic frameworks ► System focus ► Synthesis focus ► Computation focus Compressors • • Liquid piston Multi-stage, single piston Crycool-sorbent On-board Permeability modulated Mechanical-chemical tank Tanks • • Internal struts Foam core Cellular module Small tube diameter 23
Advanced Management and Protection of Energy-storage Devices (AMPED) is currently under review Objectives • Increase battery utilization through adaptive management, sensing, modeling and power electronics • Enable hybrid and secondary use applications Motivation • Current batteries often have 50% overbuild • Current battery management is crude and limited beyond voltage, current and temperature • Improve lifetime and valuation of packs • Increase utilization of battery systems without changes to fundamental cell chemistry • Allow safe, rapid charging of batteries Redefine paradigm of energy management Program director: Ilan Gur Release date: Feb 2012 Award date: Sep 2012 No. projects: 10 -14 Investment: $30 M Approaches • Radical sensor integration to allow real-time characterization • Novel diagnostic and state determination through non-electronic signals • Adaptive model and power electronic architecture approaches 24
The 2012 Open FOA is reviewing a wide variety of full applications in anticipation of a September selection Distribution of Encouraged Concept Papers Key Dates FOA Launched Concept Papers Due CP Announcements Full Applications due Review panels – Applicant feedback due – Projects announced – March 2 April 12 June 13 July 13 August 8 -10 August 22 late September 25
Thank you. Questions, comments. Eric. Toone@hq. doe. gov Eric Toone 26
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