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2013 Kentucky Statewide Workshop: Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency

 

March 24-26
Kentucky International Convention Center
Louisville, KY

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Top researchers from federal agencies and labs, universities and industry gathered in beautiful downtown Louisville to discuss the latest developments and challenges in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. The workshop featured research from across the state and discussions focused on a technological road map for commercialization of various renewable energy innovations in Kentucky.

 

Program - download (pdf) | download poster

 

Presentations

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SHORT COURSES

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Course 1: “Tools for Materials Genome Research” 
Course Description: The White House’s materials genome initiative states, “Advanced materials are essential to economic security and human well being, with applications in industries aimed at addressing challenges in clean energy, national security, and human welfare, yet it can take 20 or more years to move a material after initial discovery to the market. Accelerating the pace of discovery and deployment of advanced material systems will therefore be crucial to achieving global competitiveness in the 21st century.” The group led by Conn Center at UofL (Sunkara, Datta, Jasinski) with UK (Menon, Sheetz) and Iowa State (Rajan) and funded through NSF’s SOLAR initiative has been developing various statistical modeling, materials informatics, first principles computations, and materials synthesis approaches to accelerate the pace of discovery. PIs of this effort will provide pedagogical discussion of various techniques being developed and the status of this effort. 
Video one (53:47)
Video two (26:03)
Video three (21:55)
Video four (13:08)

Course 2: “Standard Research Practices in Materials R&D for Renewables”
Course Description: Learn about various research methodologies for understanding structure-property-performance relationships of advanced materials toward use in energy conversion and storage technologies. This short course will cover the following topics: 1) advanced microscopy, diffraction and spectroscopy techniques; 2) electrochemical techniques; and 3) photoelectrochemical techniques. The goal is to show the standard research practices to enable new materials development efforts toward dye sensitized solar cells, lithium ion batteries and solar fuels.
Video one (54:49)
Video two (36:22)
Video three (33:14)

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Course 3: “Manufacturing R&D in the Energy Sector”
Course Description: Learn how cutting edge research evolves from the lab to the marketplace at universities and industries in the renewable energy sector. Focus is on emerging technologies defining the future of energy production and consumption, including 1) photovoltaics, 2)passive solar, 3) energy storage, and 4) materials.
Video one (27:31)
Video two (28:03)
Video three (29:19)
Video four (30:39)

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PLENARY SESSION

• Dr. Mahendra Sunkara, Workshop Chair, Dr. Neville Pinto, Dean, J.B. Speed School of Engineering, Dr. James Ramsey, President, University of Louisville (29:42)

• Dr. James Fenton, Director, Florida Solar Energy Center, UCF (31:14)

• Dr. Ali Shakouri, Director, Birck Nanotech Center, Purdue Univ. (34:01)

 

SOLAR ENERGY

• Chairs Intro Dr. Thad Druffel, Dr. John Anthony (8:41)

• Dr. Gregory Wilson, Director, Center for Photovoltaics, NREL (44:02)

• Dr. Rakesh Agrawal, Distinguished Professor, Chemical Eng., Purdue Univ. (33:05)

• Dr. Zeev Valy Vardeny, Distinguished Professor, Univ. of Utah (27:07)
   

ENERGY MATERIALS DISCOVERY

• Dr. Krishna Rajan, Director, Institute for Combinatorial Discovery, Iowa State Univ. (30:05)

• Dr. Wladek Walukiewicz, Sr. Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (30:06)

• Dr. John Gregoire, Staff Scientist, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), CalTech (37:24)

   

DISTINGUISHED PANEL - FRONTIERS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH & THE LEIGH ANN CONN PRIZE

• Panel: J. Fenton; A. Shakouri; G. Wilson; E. Miller; J. Lemmon; R. Savinell; L. Groom (1:24:46)

 

PLENARY SESSION

• Dr. John Walz, Dean, School of Engineering, University of Kentucky (3:39)

• Dr. Eric Miller, Fuel Cell Technologies Program, DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

• Dr. John Lemmon, Program Director, DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

• Mr. Jon Wagner, VP Sales and Marketing, Clariant Corporation (23:28)

 

BIOFUELS

• Chairs Intro Dr. Jagannadh Satyavolu, Mr. Tim Hughes (16:28)

• Dr. Les Groom, Director, USDA Forest Service, Utilization of Southern Forest Resources Unit (24:03)

• Mr. Steve Csonka, Exec. Director, Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) (24:36)

• Mr. Pete Nelson, Director, New Business Development, Biodimensions, Inc. (16:02)

• Mr. Marty Siebert, VP and Managing Director, Nixon Energy Solutions (27:11)

 

ENERGY STORAGE

• Chairs Intro Dr. Gamini Sumanasekera, Dr. Helge Toufar (2:50)

• Dr. Robert Savinell, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve Univ. (38:09)

• Dr. Chongmin Wang, Sr. Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (29:01)

• Dr. Claus Daniel, Deputy Director, Sustainable Transportation Program and Head, Battery Manufacturing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (51:50)
   

ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS

• Chairs Intro Dr. Mark McGinley, Mr. David Huff, Dr. Patrick Phelan (33:14)

• Dr. James Katsaros, R&D Team Leader, DuPont Bldg Innovations (27:09)

• Dr. Gregor Fieg, Director for Business Development Sortech AG. (50:05)
   

COMMERCIALIZATION PANEL

• Panel: R. Hickman (APIQ Semiconductors); B. Butler (Blue-Sky Foundation); J. Wagner (Clariant); G. Feig (Sortech); J. Katsaros (DuPont), T. Hancock (KY/ANL BRDC); L. Combs (Brown-Forman) V. Sunkara (AdEM), Moderator: Phoebe Wood (48:52)