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)

•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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•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

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

• 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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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.

Clean Combustion of Clean Combustion of Renewable/Synthetic FuelsRenewable/Synthetic Fuels

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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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• Compatible Chemistries

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Issues

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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

Maher Rizkalla Matt Rubin

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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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• 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

• 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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Today’s Installation

Genset –made in Indiana

System Controller –

made in Colorado

Paralleling Switchgear –

made by several companies outside

IndianaGrid

Customer

Electricity

Hydrogen Generation and Bio-Gasoline

1. Andrew Hsu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

2. Zhiwei Yang, Visiting Professor, Instrumentation

3. Lihong Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Catalysis

Photovotaic Solar Energy1. Maher Rizkala, Professor of

Electrical Engineering2. Mathew Rubin, IURTC

Distributed Power Generation and Hybrid Vehicles1. Yaobin Chen, Professor of Electrical and Computer

Engineering. Power grid coupling, HEV2. Steve Rovnyak, Assistant Professor of Electrical and

Computer Engineering. Power grid coupling 3. Sarah Koskie, Assistant Professor of Electrical and

Computer Engineering. Power grid coupling 4. Anwar Sohel, Assistant Professor of Mechanical

Engineering. HEV and PHEV

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

Biofuel1. Mark Goebl, Professor of Biochemistry

and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine. Enzyme and yeast for cellulosic ethanol production

2. Stephen Randall, Professor Biology, Biofuel production

3. Xianzhong Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology. Energy generating plants;

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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• 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

• 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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• 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)

• 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)

Fuel Cell and Batteries1. Andrew Hsu, Professor of ME, Fuel Cell Systems (1999)2. Rongrong Chen, Associate Professor of MET. Electrochemistry,

catalysis, fuel cells, batteries (2004)3. Guofeng Wang, Assistant Professor of ME, Materials (2007)4. Jian Xie, Assistant Professor of ME, electrochemistry, fuel cell and

batteries (2007)5. Guigui Wang, Assistant Research Professor, polymer membrane

synthesis (2007)6. Dong Xie, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Polymer

synthesis 7. Kelsey M. Forsythe, Director of Computational Molecular Science

Facility; Quantum and molecular simulation of fuel cell catalysis8. Jeffery Zaleski, Professor of Chemistry. IUB. Macrocycle Catalysts

synthesis 9. Hasan Akay, Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Computer modeling10.Alan Jones, Assistant Professor of ME, Membrane Durability