Conference Day Two: January 30, 2008
7:00 Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:00 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:15 USMC Advancements In Tactical Alternative
Power Systems
- Renewable energy systems
- Distributed operations power initiatives
- Integrated power systems
Michael Gallagher
Program Manager, Expeditionary Power Systems
Marine Corps System Command
9:00 Hybrid Intelligent Power (HI-Power)
- Fuel savings through autonomous control of tactical grid, use of energy storage, and renewables
- Source & demand management
- Small, medium, and large battlefield tactical operation centers
Dr. H. Scott Coombe
Chief, Power Technology Branch, Army Power, Division
Research Development & Engineering Command (RDECOM)
9:45 Networking & Refreshment Break
10:30 Development And Implementation Of Advanced
Power Systems For Space And DOD Applications
- NASA mission power requirements
- Future NASA and DoD applications
- Development of advanced batteries and fuel cells
Dr. Rao Surampudi
Program Manager, Spacecraft Power Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA
11:10 Wearable Power Competition
- Qualification requirements
- Competition rules
- Technical details of the competition
Karen S. Burrows
Prize Program Manager, Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering
OSD
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John W. Hopkins
Wearable Power Prize Program Manager, U. S.
Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
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11:50 Lunch
1:15 Advanced Technologies For Mobile Power
Conditioning Systems
- Advanced power semiconductor devices and materials
- Size and weight reduction for mobile power converters
- Inverters and converters for hybrid electric vehicles
Dr. Allen Hefner
Project Leader, Semiconductor Electronics Division
National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST)
1:55 Microscale Nuclear Batteries: From
Heterojunctions To Fuel Cells
- Microscale nuclear-to-electronic conversion
- Solid-state conversion using organic semiconductors (piconjugated materials)
- Polymer radiolysis combined with a proton exchange membrane fuel cell
Dr. Jeffrey Crowell
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
2:35 Networking & Refreshment Break
3:20 High Power Fuel Cells And Batteries
- Intrinsic fuel cells
- Energy storage hybrid power sources
- Membranes for fuel cells and Lithium ion batteries
Dr. Chunsheng Wang
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland
4:00 Recent Developments In Biofuels Research
- Engineered biomass feedstock for future biofuels
- Development of biocoal for power generation
- Biorefinery research initiatives: Hydrogen production
Dr. Sudhagar Mani
Faculty of Engineering
University of Georgia
4:40 End Of Conference
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