institutes for sustainable research development & deployment - oak ridge national laboratory
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Sustainable RD&D at ORNL
ORNL’s 3rd Annual Southeast Sustainability Summit
Martin KellerAssociate Laboratory DirectorEnergy and Environmental Sciences Directorate
August 22, 2013Knoxville, Tennessee
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ORNL is DOE’s largest science and energy laboratory
$1.65B budget
World’s most intense
neutronsource
4,400employees
World-class research reactor
3,000researchguests annually
$500M modernization
investment
Nation’s largest
materials research portfolio
Most powerful open
scientific computing
facility
Nation’s most diverse
energy portfolio
Managing billion-dollar U.S. ITER
project
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Providing solutions to pressing energy challenges
Sustainable transportation
Energy efficiency in buildings
Advancedmanufacturing
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New technologies and processes for:• Safe, secure, and
affordable vehicles for passengers and freight
• Domestic production of transportation fuel
• Reducing environmental impacts of transportation
• Predictable, reliable transport schedules
Electrification
• Wireless power transfer
• Advanced power electronics, fuel cell, and battery technologies
• Electric motors without permanent magnets
Efficiency
• Engine and aftertreatment technologies
• Hybrid powertrains
• Lightweight and propulsion materials
Alternative fuels
• Drop-in biofuels for legacy cars
• Renewable fuels for advanced engines
• Natural gas
Intelligent systems
• Managing congestion
• Efficient operations in commercial vehicles
• Data for decision-making
• Communications
Sustainable transportation: Developing a diversity of technologies
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Scope Partners Impact at ORNL• Nationwide program
bringing >500 charging stations to Tennessee
• ORNL and partners have installed 144 solar and nonsolar EV charging stations
• City of Knoxville • University of Tennessee• State of Tennessee• Nissan• TVA• EPRI• Others
• 25 solar EV parking spaces
• 30 employees own EVs − 22 Nissan Leafs− 5 Chevy Volts− 1 Prius − 2 Ford C-Max
EV Project: ORNL is leading activitiesin Tennessee
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Battery manufacturing R&D facility at ORNL
Nation’s largest open access facility
• Assisting industry in meeting demand for safe, affordable, extended-range hybrid and electric vehicles– Chemical and materials suppliers– Battery manufacturers and their customers– System integrators– Original equipment manufacturers
• Focus areas:– Manufacturability– Scale-up– Integration of new materials– Processes for higher production yield,
lower cost, and more efficient assembly
• Supported by DOE Vehicle Technologies Program and Advanced Manufacturing Office
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Wireless power transferTransformational technology for vehicle electrification
• Amenable to existing highways
• PHEV/EV fast charge on the fly
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Building technologies RD&D at ORNL: Focus areas
Envelope Equipment System/building integrationDevelop component
technologies that are more resistant to heat flow, airtight,
and moisture-durable than existing technologies
Develop component technologies that deliver the same amenities while using
significantly less energy than existing technologies
Verify that advanced component technologies
deliver what they promise and are durable and reliable
in real buildings
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ZEBRAlliance Research Houses Collaboration with TVA and Schaad Companies
• 4 houses that demonstrate different strategies to achieve 50−60% energy savings
• Builder and industry partners invested ~ $2M for land, building materials, and labor
• After the project completion, Schaad Companies were able to reduce HERS indices of their average home by 30
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Flexible Research Platforms(FRPs)
Maximum Building Energy Efficiency Research Laboratory (MAXLAB)
• 1 story metal building: Working with Metal Building Manufacturing Association to evaluate energy efficiency improvements for older buildings
• 2 story light commercial building: Working with HVAC manufacturers to evaluate multizone systems
• HVAC environmental chambers• Apparatus for testing air and moisture
of wall assemblies• ORNL’s 6th LEED Gold facility• Innovative energy saving techniques:
− Rainwater harvesting system− Daylight sensors, motion sensors,
lighting relay panels
Commercial buildings: Research tools
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Product: GeoSpring™ Market transformation Consumer benefit• Realized 62% energy
savings compared to a conventional electric storage water heater
• Energy-efficient alternative with the same footprint and electrical connections as standard water heating technology
• An excellent retrofit candidate
• First hybrid electric Energy Star®–qualified water heater manufactured in the U.S.
• February 2012: Began production
• Currently being sold by major distributors
− Lowe’s− Sears− Ferguson
• Receive up to $300 in federal tax credit
• Realize annual energy savings up to $325
ORNL and General Electric: Heat pump water heater
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Product: GeoSpring™ Trilogy 40 Q-Mode Market transformation• First geothermal heat pump (GHP) certified
by Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute with Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) >40 at ground-loop conditions
• Heating, cooling, 100% of water heating (not just a desuperheater)
− Energy savings: ~65% vs minimum efficiency (SEER 13) equipment
− Energy savings: ~33% vs state-of-the-art 2-stage GHP with desuperheater
• Outcome of a 4-year collaboration
• Currently in limited production
ORNL and ClimateMaster: Trilogy™ 40 Q-Mode™
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Conducting manufacturing and materials R&D
Leveraging ORNL’s distinctive capabilities
Tackling 2 principal focus areas
• Reduce the energy intensity of U.S. industry
• Support development of new products
• Strengthen our nation’s vitality
• Neutron scattering• High-performance computing• Pilot-scale carbon fiber
production• Advanced characterization
• Carbon fiber and composites• Additive manufacturing
ORNL’s advanced manufacturing initiative
ORNL’s vision Provide industry with access to unique research facilities and expertise that reduce the risk and accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation materials and manufacturing technologies
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Carbon fiber and composites
• Working with industry to develop and deploy technology with significant impacts on U.S. and global energy security
• Enabling deployment of low-cost technologyin high-volume applications– Low-cost raw materials– Low-cost fiber manufacturing processes– High-rate, robust composites
manufacturing processes
• Demonstrating scalability at the Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
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ORNL is helping grow an economic development cluster around carbon fiber
ORNL research
Commer-cialization strategy
CarbonFiber
TechnologyFacility
Jobcreation
Workforcedevelopment
Industrycollaboration
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Integrating basic research and applied technology for clean energy
Lightweight materials
Cellulose
Lignin
Biofuels
High-value bioproducts for clean energy applications
Ultracapacitors
Chemical building blocks
Plastics, industrial additives, biomedical applications
Innovative processing
Hemicellulose
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Discussion
http://www.ornl.gov/connect-with-ornl/for-industry/partnerships