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| | Sol-Lux Alpha | John Sarter | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| Sol-Lux Alpha and project partners are developing building scale microgrids for integration into community microgrid systems. Our system of development includes 100% renewable energy and energy storage for all building occupant energy plus energy for onsite fully integrated electric vehicle infrastructure. Area of expertise is listed as "Building Efficiency" due to technologies that result in 80 to 90 percent reductions in heat/cooling energy for the structures, allowing cost effective excess energy generation, storage in advanced electrochemical systems, and electric vehicles.
The main Project Goal is a replicable, positive ROI system of development for a 100% onsite renewable energy microgrid power system for all living, operational, and transportation needs. |
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| | DNV GL | Davion Hill | |
Large Business
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High Energy Density Electrical Energy Storage For Transportation
| DNV GL is an international third party testing and consulting organization with facilities for high power electrical equipment testing, battery testing (cycling, abusive, and destructive). DNV GL has a long history in the topic of both chemical and electrochemical energy storage. Davion Hill is Group Leader for Energy & Materials and is presidentof NAATBatt for 2015. |
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| | Lehigh University | Prof. Nicholas Strandwitz | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Photoelectrochemistry, Electrochemistry, Atomic Layer Deposition, Surface Analysis, Semiconductors, Inorganic Solids and Thin Films |
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| | Electro Standards Laboratories | Dr. Raymond B. Sepe | |
Small Business
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Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage Technologies
| Electro Standards Laboratories experience includes: hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) combining rechargeable batteries and Lithium Ion Capacitors as smart energy charging systems; high speed data collection, electromagnetic aircraft launch systems (EMALS), hybrid electric vehicles, embedded controls, multi-level inverters, controls modeling and simulation for motor drive systems, energy storage and energy harvesting. |
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| | Presco, Inc. | Jeffrey Gates | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Expert at high-performance electronics for an array of applications, we help clients innovate and bring breakthrough products to market. From front-end innovation to the delivery of products that meet the highest standards of performance, our multi-disciplinary team of electronics engineers, software developers, mechanical and industrial designers provide our clientele complete, seamless solutions to their most challenging of projects. |
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| | University of Louisville | Sam Park | |
Academic
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Technologies that enable active cell-level balancing and control
| Sam Park is currently assistant professor at the University of Louisville (UofL, Mechanical Engineering, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research). His research interests are charge transfer reaction kinetics and development of intermediate temperature fuel cell, understanding and control of surface reactivity of the oxygen-electrode materials, syngas/hydrogen production, reaction engineering, energy storage systems, and flow batteries. Before joining UofL, he worked at NexTech Materials (FuelCell Materials), and Arbin Instruments from 2005 ~ 2010 where directed and made technical contributions to projects involving catalysts, solid oxide fuel cells, reformer, sensor, and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. |
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| | Electrosep, Inc. | Ricardo F. Caro | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Electrosep, Inc in Corvallis, Oregon wishes to partner other companies to design and install pilot plants for low cost advanced fuels and hydrogen production. We have experience in design of electrolytic caustic recovery for alkaline pretreatment and advanced fuels production from lignocellulosic biomass. The system offers fermentable glucose, xylose, sugars at low cost with valued coproducts as hydrogen for energy storage on solar, wind power. Prelim enzymatic research showed fermentable sugars can be produced from wood at $0.12 lb and nonwood $0.07. The sugars can be used for sustainable renewable fuels at low costs via fermentation. The process contains a unique nonfouling membrane technology developed by Electrosep that is been pilot tested for low cost production of advanced fuels, hydrogen, xylitol, and lignin from alkaline liquors generated during pretreatment of wood, corn stover, wheat straw, bagasse and others. The process has been pilot tested at pulp mills around the world. |
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| | The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) | Jivan Thakare | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is a research, development, demonstration, and commercialization facility for energy and environment technology development. The center is a nonprofit division of the University of North Dakota.
The experience in electrolytic system at EERC includes, but not limited to directing a U.S. Department of Defense sponsored project that resulted in the development of the patented technology for the production of high-pressure, high-purity hydrogen from methanol, and other technologies, including a high-temperature (100°–200°C) direct methanol fuel cell and processes for methanol electrolysis and high-pressure electrolytic purification of hydrogen.
EERC developed a patented electrolytic technology for production of ammonia. EERC also invented the PIH electrolytic membrane which has high potential for application intermediate temperature electrolytic technologies. |
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| | Cornerstone Research Group | Brian Henslee | |
Small Business
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High Energy Density Electrical Energy Storage For Transportation
| CRG conducts R&D in an array of markets. Our core competencies are systems design, non‐metallic advanced materials, and manufacturing process development. Our success stems from the way we couple our technological development with aggressive entrepreneurial business practices. We provide solutions, driving new technologies from early research through final production. We have the proven ability to commercialize products in a number of ways, including spinning off independent divisions and companies focused on promising technologies with viable market potential. CRG has experience in developing unique materials that have the ability to enhance a broad array of electrochemical systems from electrodes to electrolytes. |
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| | Mountain States Heat & Power | Douglas Freier | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| 20 years of experience with ethanol engine conversions.
25 years of experience with solar space heating and industrial process integration.
My interest ( long-term) is community centered cHp generation from renewable sources. |
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| | Atlanta Metropolitan State College | Thomas A Searles | |
Academic
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Technologies that facilitate low-cost, high-performance, and/or plug-and-play hybridization and integration of disparate devices
| The Atlanta Metropolitan Nanotechnology Lab specializes in projects that engineer nanomaterials for energy applications. Current work includes electrochemical anodization, hydrothermal synthesis and liquid chemical exfoliation. Through access to facilities at GT's IEN, AMNL members have capabilities such as nanolithography, electron microscopy and XRD. All nanomaterials are investigated for integration into electrochemical devices such as sensors, fuel cells and supercapacitors.
We are always willing to build collaboration and partnerships with other MSIs, larger research institutions and industry. |
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| | University of South Carolina | Fanglin (Frank) Chen | |
Academic
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Technologies that facilitate low-cost, high-performance, and/or plug-and-play hybridization and integration of disparate devices
| The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) SmartState Center at the University of South Carolina is a world leader in SOFC and energy systems research. The Center focuses on how materials function in SOFCs—their durability, damage tolerance, and performance over time. By designing the component parts and understanding how they interact with each other, we can predict behavior and promote the use of SOFCs in high performance and low-cost clean energy systems. Since its inception in 2008, the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell SmartState Center has added $31.2 million in extramural research support and over 271 jobs to the state of South Carolina.
Technical areas of the SOFC Center research include:
• Functional materials design
• Synthesis and manufacturing
• Characterization
• Applications and systems
• Modeling and simulation |
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| | Corvus Energy | Darron Craig | |
Small Business
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High Energy Density Electrical Energy Storage For Transportation
| Corvus Energy develops high power lithium ion battery systems for heavy industrial applications specializing in marine propulsion, renewable power integration and grid support for world markets.
Corvus utilizes advanced lithium ion polymer cells in multi-cell module configurations monitored by a proprietary battery management system (BMS). Multi-module arrays can produce mega watt power sources.
The Corvus (BMS) starts at the module level monitoring voltage, temperature and actively balancing cells. Multi-module packs are managed by pack controllers up to one thousand and fifty volts and module packs are managed by array controllers without energy limits.
Corvus battery systems can support solar arrays, wind farms and hydro installations for frequency regulation and peak power shaving. |
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| | Patriot Associates, LLC | J.Gordon James | |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Patriot Associates, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), brings clean, renewable, waste-to-energy elements to bear on environmental problems and fossil fuel dependence for the private sector and government.
Our solutions include:
• Anaerobic Digestion (AD)
• Gasification
•Thermal Hydrolisis
A dry AD system, having dry feedstock content of 15%-30%, is often used to process MSW or wastewater treatment sludge. Both dry and wet ADs capture significant quantities of methane and CO2. Selected feedstocks can be routed directly to a gasifier to yield syngas, which can contain as much as 30% hydrogen and 60% carbon monoxide. Syngas may be processed to isolate ethanol and nitrogen. In a purified state, the hydrogen component of syngas can be used to directly power hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity or power vehicles. |
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| | Nanoptek Corp. | John M. Guerra | |
Small Business
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Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage Technologies
| With prior funding from NASA and DOE, we have developed a robust and more sunlight-efficient photocatalytic anode for water electrolysis, as well as multiple hardware platforms incorporating this photo-anode. The primary use is to produce onsite hydrogen for mobility (FCVs), electrical energy storage, micro-grids, and power at wellpads and telecom towers. However with other electrolytes and/or added gaseous reactants, the photoelectrolysis platform has many electrochemical synthesis possibilities that, together with the hydrogen production, directly address many topics in this ARPA-E REBELS FOA. We look forward to partnering to bring these possibilities to fruition. |
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| | EVAmerica | Al Curtis | |
Small Business
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High Energy Density Electrical Energy Storage For Transportation
| EVAmerica has experience in electric, hybrid electric and Fuel Cell electric vehicle design and manufacturing. We have worked with reformate fueled fuel cells and gaseous hydrogen fuel cells along with several battery chemistrys including Lithium Titanate and LiFePO4. |
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| | Colorado School of Mines | Neal Sullivan | |
Academic
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None of the above
| Fabrication and characterization of intermediate-temperature, proton-conducting ceramic electrochemical devices at the button-cell, stack, and system-levels. Experimentation with ceramic electrochemical devices and microchannel reactors. Internal and external natural-gas reforming for fuel-cell applications. Education in fuel-cell and electrochemical systems. Director of the Colorado Fuel Cell Center. |
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| | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Liyuan Liang | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory has key expertise in the development and commercialization of materials, components, and subsystems for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) for transportation applications and solid-oxide fuel cells for stationary power applications. ORNL’s hydrogen and fuel cell research spans the entire spectrum from hydrogen infrastructure development and fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) on-board storage technology to novel PEFC electrocatalyst development and macroeconomic modeling of FCEV commercialization. Fuel cell research at ORNL utilizes multidisciplinary science and is paving the way for commercial adoption of zero-emission vehicles and the next generation of decentralized, environmentally-friendly power plants. Advanced microscopic characterization of the PEFC electrocatalytic “triple-phase interface” allows for designing composite electrode layers with maximum Pt utilization and electrochemical surface area for the cathode Oxygen Reduction Reaction. |
Website: www.ornl.gov
Email: liangl@ornl.gov
Phone: 865-241-3933
Address: one Bethel Valley Road, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6250
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| | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Dr. Martha Symko-Davies | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) on the campus of DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. ESIF is the nation’s first facility that can conduct integrated megawatt-scale research and development of the components and strategies needed to safely move clean energy technologies onto our existing energy system at the speed and scale required to meet national goals. This state-of-the-art facility enables the research community and commercial partners to develop and evaluate their individual technologies on a controlled integrated energy system platform. Participation from utilities, equipment manufacturers, renewable systems integrators, universities, and other national labs and related industries that fully utilize the ESIF’s capabilities will dramatically accelerate the research required to transform the energy system to one that is cleaner, more secure, and more reliable. |
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| | Helicon Thin Film Systems | Don Hilliard | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| We operate vacuum thin film fabrication and testing facilities specializing in thin film phase-formation, multi-layers, and architectures related to high-temperature compounds and materials for renewable applications.
Specifically, we have been directly involved for over 15 years in thin-film SOFC applications, used successfully in NASA missions and for others’ successful start-ups. We possess considerable published patents/applications/continuations and proprietary know-how in the specific approach of thin film electrolytes suspended over photo-chemically etched, flexible alloy sheet (we don’t use metal frits or silicon-supported films), with documented proof of successfully formed, large-area, hermetically sealed, suspended thin film electrolytes over rolled sheet metal substrates for planar thin film SOFC. |
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| | University of California, Irvine | Daniel R. Mumm | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| UCI has expertise in materials synthesis, fabrication of SOFC/SOEC multilayer systems, electrochemical testing, modeling, materials characterization and optimization, thermo-mechanical property assessment, and degradation mechanism studies through controlled environment testing. Recent research has focused on (1) microstructure optimization through correlating electrochemical performance to volumetric microstructure via 3D FIB reconstruction; (2) oxidation of interconnects under SOFC service environments; and (3) studies of interfacial dynamics and system evolution/degradation through high-resolution microscopy and surface science techniques. Capabilities available include high resolution microscopy and microanalysis, XPS, UPS and scanning Auger analysis, in situ XRD, thermo-mechanical testing, electrochemical testing, hot corrosion/oxidation testing, and HT materials processing. Affiliated with the UCI-based "National Fuel Cell Research Center" (see: http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu). |
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| | University of Alabama in Huntsville | George Nelson | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Expertise is in the analysis of transport phenomena (mass, charge, and heat) in electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices and the imaging and characterization of microstructure in energy materials. Research interests focus on understanding the influence of multi-scale transport on the performance and reliability of fuel cells, batteries, and other energy conversion devices. |
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| | Materials & Systems Research, Inc. | Joonho Koh | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Materials & Systems Research, Inc. (MSRI) has been working on advancing battery and fuel cell technologies for decades. MSRI has established several battery and fuel cell design platforms and related materials processing technologies. For example, MSRI recently assembled 1-3 kW solid oxide fuel cell stacks and delivered them for various application tests with our collaboration partners including a national lab and a federal testing facility. MSRI’s business focus is on bridging the gap between fundamental studies in academia and large-scale manufacturing industry by providing feasibility demonstration and prototype development of advanced energy technologies. MSRI has recently developed a cost-effective and reliable electrochemical cell design that can be used for intermediate-temperature fuel cells (ITFCs), and we are looking for an opportunity of working together with academic and/or industrial partners to transform our technology into ITFC-based DG systems. |
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| | Point Source Power Inc. | Craig Jacobson | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Point Source Power is commercializing metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells and has experience with a using a wide range of biomass as fuels. Metal-supported SOFCs utilize nanoparticulate electrodes that can tolerate a wide range of contaminants, can be assembled using conventional welding techniques, and have demonstrated remarkable thermal cycling ability. |
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| | Hawaiian Electric Company | Stephen Luckett | |
Large Business
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Grid
| Hawaiian Electric is experiencing high penetration of renewable intermittent/variable generation on the Oahu grid resulting in times of reverse power flow on distribution circuits and conversely times of quick load ramping or pick up required for baseloaded units when renewable power drops back from solar and wind resources variability. We are interested in exploring the deployment of Fuel Cells at distribution substations to smooth variability as well as "load bank" excess generation for H2 production and fuel reformation. We can offer some co- funding and facilities/infrastructure to demonstrate the performance characteristics of a Fuel Cell interconnected to a circuit with high penetration of renewable energy from diverse sources with a high degree of variability |
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