2010 Summit
2010 Session Presentations
Tuesday, September 29
Plenary Session: Future Directions
Converting Lignocellulose into Chemicals that Replace Petroleum
Lonnie Ingram, Director, Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
What’s Driving the Smart Grid?
CD Hobbs, Senior Fellow, Public Utility Research Center, Warrington School of Business, University of Florida
Diversifying Florida’s Economy: The Cleantech Cluster
Sena Black, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Florida
Economic Opportunities & Solutions for the 21st Century
Jeremy Susac, Director of Exploration, PCUE at USF; Executive Director, Florida BioEnergy Association, Inc.; President and CEO, Real Energy Strategies Group
Keynote Address: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: The 2020 Vision
John Lushetsky – Program Manager, Solar Energy Technology Program (coming soon)
U.S. Department of Energy
Overview of FESC Strategies and Programs
Tim Anderson, Director, FESC
Oral Presentations: Session I
Energy Efficiency & Conservation; Education & Outreach, Policy
Chair: Ted Kury; Co-Chair: Ramona Madhosingh-Hector
The Future Florida Grid: Ensuring Reliable and Resilient Electrical Energy Systems in a Changing Environment – Rick Meeker, Steinar Dale, Mischal Steurer, Tom Baldwin, Peter McLaren, Karl Schoder, Omar Faruque, James Langston
UFTR Digital Control System Upgrade for Education and Training of engineers and operators – Alireza Haghighat and Gabriel Ghita
How Sustainable Are Florida Cities? Results from a Survey of Energy Sustainability in Florida Cities – Richard Fieock, Jungah Bae and Ivonne Audirac, IESES, Florida State University
PEEP! Energy Programming for County Residents & Part 2 – Ramona Madhosingh-Hector
Implications of Carbon Cap-and-Trade for Electricity Rate Design, with Examples from Florida – Hethie Parmesano and Ted Kury
Biomass Resources; Carbon Capture
Chair: John Wolan; Co-Chair: Ali T-Raissi
Screening and Identification of Everglades algal isolates for Biodiesel production – Priyanka Narendar, Miroslav Gantar, and Krishnaswamy Jayachandran
Growth of Microalgae for Biofuel Production on High Strength Wastewater – Sarina Ergas, Xin Yuan, Ashish Sahu, and Trina Halfhide
International Biofuel Trends: A Brazilian Perspective – Donato Aranda
Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Fuels – John Wolan, Ali Gardezi, Joseph Babu
Ocean Resources
Chair: Howard Hanson; Co-Chair: Clifford Merz
Marine Renewable Energy: A Blue Chip in the Portfolio – Howard Hanson
Recent Developments in Salinity Gradient Power – Clifford Merz
Buoy Array for Ocean Wave Power Generation – Steven Helkin, Carlos Velez, and Shiyuan Jin
Drop-in Hydropower with Hydrovolts Flipwing Turbine – Burton Hammer and C. Hampton McRae
Energy Storage and Delivery, Energy Systems, Smart Grid
Chair: Debra Reinhart
Development and Implementation of a “Smart Grid Network” – Len Polizzotto
Regional prediction of landfill gas to energy potential: Florida case-study – Hamid Amini and Debra Reinhart
Commercial Pathways to Immediate Deployment of Scalable Low Carbon Motor Fuels – David Bruderly
Conservation, Alternative Energy and Smart Grid Strategies for Babcock Ranch – Southwest Florida’s City of Tomorrow – Ernie Cox
Wednesday, September 29
Oral Presentations: Session II
Energy Storage & Delivery; Smart Grid; Systems
Chair: Sukumar Kamalasadan
Small Wind Systems – Applicability in Florida – Matt Laffey
Fundamental Oxidation Reaction Kinetics for the Steam-Iron Process in a Solar Thermal Reactor – Richard Stehle, Michael Bobek, and David Hahn
Very High Energy Density Ultracapacitors – Ezzat Bakhoum
Energy Efficiency & Conservation; Education & Outreach, Policy
Chair: William Lear; Co-Chair: Svetlana Pevnitskaya
Renewable Energy Policy in the US and Florida’s Opportunity to Lead the Southeast – Michael Dobson
Behavior in a Dynamic Environment with Costs of Climate Change and Heterogeneous Technologies: an Experiment – Svetlana Pevnitskaya and Dmitri Ryvkin
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Research and Development – James Fletcher, William Lear
Combined Cooling, Heat, Power, and Biofuel from Biomass and Solid Waste Part 1 & Part 2 – William Lear, Jacob Chung, Elango Balu, Minki Kim, Sada Sekar
Energy Cost Optimization Potential in a Petroleum Refinery – Ven Venkatesan
Biomass Resources, Carbon Capture
Chair: Jeff Cunningham
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in Florida – Jeffrey Cunningham, Yogi Goswami, Mark Stewart, Maya Trotz
Pore-Scale Modeling of Reactive-Multiphase Flow in Large-Scale Aquifers for Carbon Capture and Storage – Shadab Anwar, Jeffrey Cunningham, Maya Trotz, Mark Thomas, and Mark Stewart
Evaluation of Deep Saline Aquifers of South-Central and Southern Florida for Geologic Carbon Sequestration Part 1 and Evaluation of Deep Saline Aquifers of South-Central and Southern Florida for Geologic Carbon Sequestration Part 2– Tina Roberts-Ashby and Mark Stewart
Integrated Aquaculture & Bioenergy Processing – Jason Masters
Photovoltaics
Chair: Wei Wu
Thin-film Solar Panel Pilot Line – Don Morel, Chris Ferekides, and Elias Stefanakos
Nanoplasmonics in Carbon Nanoring Metamaterials for Thin-Film Energy Storage and Photovoltaic Applications. – Mark Jack, Leon Durivage, Boyan Hristov, and Mario Encinosa
IR Experiment of DC/AC Inverter Stages – Wei Wu
Photovoltaic Effect in Narrow Gap Mott Insulators – Efstratios Manousakis
Oral Presentations: Session III
Energy Efficiency & Conservation; Education & Outreach, Policy
Chair: Hal Knowles
Energy and Climate Outreach in Florida: FESC Now and Into the Future – Hal Knowles
Quantifying Household Energy Performance Using Annual Community Baselines – Nicholas Taylor, Pierce Jones, Jennison Kipp
Energy Efficiency through Occupancy Detection – Mark Mortellaro
SAVE: Steps in Achieving Viable Energy – A Youth Education Outreach Program – Joy Jordan, Georgene Bender, Heather Kent, Suzanne Wilson, Jessica Cochert, Kathleen Ruppert, and Tracy Tesdall
Biomass Resources
Chair: James Preston; Co-Chair: Daniel Yeh
Tissue Chemistry of Potential Bioenergy Crops – Jeffrey Fedenko, John Erickson, Lynn Sollenberger, Kenneth Woodward, Robert Gilbert, and Joao Vendramini
Bacterial Conversion of Hemicellulosic Xylans to Biofuels and Chemicals – James Preston, Guang Nong, Virginia Chow, and John Rice
Post-Processing of Cellulosic-Ethanol Stillage for Fuel Production and Recovery of Plant Nutrients – Pratap Pullammanappallil, Zhouli Tian, Gayathri Ram Mohan, and Sampson Agyn-Birikorang
Feasibility Assessment of Integrated Microalgae Biofuel Production and Wastewater Treatment for Energy Conservation and Resource Recovery from Sewage – Ana Preito, Robert Blair, Ivy Cormier, Timothy Ware, and Daniel Yeh
Photovoltaics (Key West C)
Chair: Nassar Kutkut; Co-Chair: Bob Reedy
Analysis and Control of PV Inverters Operating in VAR Mode at Night – Ali Maknouninejad, Nassar Kutkut, and Issa Batarseh
Advanced Thermal Management Techniques for Increasing the Efficiency and Longevity of PV Cells – Nicoleta Hickman and Bob Reedy
A Global Maximum Power Point Tracking System for Regional Photovoltaic Systems – Sukumar Kamalasadan, Nicolas Johnson
Large-area Graphene on Polymer Film for Transparent and Flexible Electrode – Ved Verma, Santanu Das, Indril Lahiri, Wonbong Choi
Energy Systems; Smart Grid; Storage (Key West D)
Chair: Surendra Saxena; Co-Chair: Charles Weatherford
Thermodynamics of Hydrogen Production and Environment – Surendra Saxena, Sushant Kumar, and Vadym Drozd
Structure of Iron Oxides FeO_n with High Oxygen Content – Charles Weatherford and Gennady Gutsev
Low Cost Solar Driven Desalination – Fadi Alnaimat, James Klausner
Carbon Revenue Redistribution Strategies for Electric Power Markets – Patricio Rocha, Tapas K. Das, Ehsan Salimi
Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes Firectly Grown on Copper Current Collector as Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries – Indranil Lahiri, Sung-Woo Oh, Yan-Koos Sun, and Wonbong Choi
Oral Presentations: Session IV
Energy Efficiency & Conservation; Education & Outreach, Policy
Chair: Ted Kury
Florida’s Energy Future – Josh Kellam
Deep Energy Retrofits for Hot Humid Climates – Rob Vieira and Janet McIlvaine
When Public Goods Go Bad: An Introduction to Experimental Research on Heterogeneous Demands for Public Goods – Mark Isaac, Douglas Norton, and Svetlana Pevnitskaya
Biomass Resources; Carbon Capture
Chair: Pratap Pullammanappallil
Production of Drop-in Transportation Fuels via Combined Biomass Gasification – Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis – Ali T-Raissi, Nazim Muradov, Amit Gujar, Jong Baik, and Nathaniel Garceau
Estimation of Hydrologic Environmental Impacts of Nitrate Contamination from Energy Biomass Resources Development – Fernando Rios, Ming Ye, Paul Lee
Post-Processing of Cellulosic-Ethanol Stillage for Fuel Production and Recovery of Plant Nutrients – Pratap Pullammanappallil, Zhouli Tian, Gayathri Ram Mohan, and Sampson Agyn-Birikorang
Thermophilic Bacterial Biocatalysts for the Conversion of Cellulosic Substrates to Fuels and Chemicals – K.T. Shanmugam, Mun Su Rhee, Mark Ou
Energy Storage and Delivery, Energy Systems, Smart Grid
Technological innovations for recovery of embodied energy from wastewater – Daniel Yeh and Ana Prieto
High Performance PEMFCs using Ultra-Low Platinum Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly Based on Gradient Carbon Nanotube/Nanofiber Supported Electrodes – Jim Zheng, Wei Zhu, and Richard Liang
An Intelligent, Grid Connected, PV Charging Station for Plug-in Electric Vehicles – Gustavo Gamboa, Christopher Hamilton, Ross Kerley, Andres Arias, John Shen, Issa Batarseh, and John Elmes
