Time: Nov.13 2014. 9:00 AM
Location：2# meeting room, conference center of energy building
Lecturer：Bryan Pivovar (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
Abstract：
The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) is supported by the US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office (EERE). NREL has a broad effort to support the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies. NREL has grown significantly in the past 5 years in both the number of staff and the facilities available to contribute to the advancement of renewable energy technologies. A broad overview of NREL will be given with a focus on the hydrogen and fuel cell program and their role in energy systems integration (including an overview of NREL’s new Energy Systems Integration Facility where most of the fuel cell activities reside).
Both hydrogen and fuel cell related technologies have seen significant advancements in viability in the past few years. Fuel Cell vehicles are now reaching the point of limited commercialization with several automobile manufactures committing to manufacturing vehicles at 1000+ unit levels in the 2014-2017 timeframe. The hydrogen for these vehicles may initially come from steam reforming of natural gas as the most economically viable route, but as the planet trends towards more efficient and sustainable energy sources both hydrogen and fuel cells are well positioned technologically to play a major role. Different factors at play in the deployment of hydrogen and fuel cells will be presented.
Introduction：
Bryan Pivovar is Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Group Manager in the Chemical and Materials Sciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and worked as part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fuel Cell team. Since 2008, Bryan has led NREL’s fuel cell R&D efforts which include programs in advanced catalysis, system contaminants, and anion exchange membranes. His current research focus has a heavy emphasis in the area of novel extended surface electrocatalysts and alkaline membrane fuel cells. He received the 2012 Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society, he has chaired international workshops in the areas of Subfreezing Effects on Fuel Cells and Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells, he was Chair of the 2005 Gordon Research Conference – Fuel Cells, and has co-authored over 80 papers in the general area of fuel cells.
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