January 20 - 22, 2010, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA
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With single junction achieving over 20% efficiency and multijunction cells achieving over 30% (>40% under concentration!), solar cell R&D stands at the edge of a new age. This session will discuss current research poised to bring about completely new paradigms in solar cell performance. What will be covered:
Session Leaders:
Dr. Ryne P. Raffaelle Director, National Center for Photovoltaics National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Dr. Robert J. Walters Head, Solid State Devices Branch U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Steven Ringel Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director, OSU Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University
Solar cell technologies combining high efficiency, light weight, and flexibility are enabling portable power with energy density sufficient to significantly decrease a soldier’s battery requirement. This session will highlight these technologies which are seeing rapid deployment for solider use and discuss how they can form building blocks of power stations for forward bases.
What will be covered:
Dr. Alex Howard Research Materials Engineer Advanced Space Power Group, Air Force Research Laboratory
Phillip Jenkins Head, Imagers & Detectors Section U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
David M. Wilt Tech Lead Advanced Space Power Generation Air Force Research Laboratory
The DoD is developing a common power architecture so that any power source on the battlefield can be interconnected and intelligently managed with other power sources to efficiently meet demands for electric power on the tactical battlefield. This session will discuss the primary benefit that will establish an architecture that will allow for interoperability between various sources of power on the battlefield and the systems that need power.
Session Leader:
Clifford W. Anderson Logistics S&T Thrust Manager Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department, ONR
The U.S. military is not just setting standards in the areas of advanced weaponry. It's also leading the renewable energy charge. It’s involved in solar, geothermal and wind projects and its stake in the field will continue to grow. This session will cover how the DoD is tailoring its installation energy strategy to address efficiency improvements to existing buildings, constructing highly efficient and sustainable new facilities.
Dr. Nancy Crews President Custom Manufacturing & Engineering
With the very high true cost of JP-8 delivered to the battlefield (> $10/gal), distributed production of biomass-derived fuels is an attractive technology. Biomass material can be converted to liquid biofuels that can potentially be drop-in replacements to petroleum-derived fuels. Several feedstocks (e.g., algae, food waste, garbage, energy crops) and conversion platforms (e.g., fast pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, lipid esterification, fermentation) are being actively explored. This session will discuss finding biofuels that work with the demanding requirements for military propulsion, transportation, and power generation.
Dr. Paul E. Yelvington Group Leader, Energy Conversion Technology Focus Mainstream Engineering Corporation
With fuel prices soaring, the U.S. military, the country’s largest single consumer of oil, is turning into an alternative-fuels pioneer. The military is increasingly concerned that its dependence on oil represents a strategic threat. U.S. forces in Iraq alone consume 40,000 barrels of oil a day trucked in from neighboring countries. This session will cover the opportunities to provide more agile forces, reduce the fuel to the front line, the logistics footprint, the risk to personnel and achieve significant savings.
Dr. Rick Roby CEO LPP Combustion
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