Committees
SOFC Benefits and Barriers Committee
Objectives:- Quickly summarize past SOFC efforts and identify the lessons learned from these past endeavors.
- Summarize the current state-of-the-art in the SOFC field.
- Describe the current challenges (technical, economic, political, etc.) limiting SOFC development
- Identify how the unique benefits of SOFC’s can advance the goals of different SOFC stakeholders (environmentalists, the oil and gas industry, utility companies, the military, the electronics industry, the smart-grid constituency, etc.) by producing whitepapers speaking to the needs of each of these stakeholders.
- Chair: Scott Barnett (Northwestern University)
- Secretary: Cortney Kreller (Sandia National Laboratory)
- Stuart Adler (University of Washington)
- Daniel Lewis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- Rodger McKain (LG Fuel Cell Systems U.S., Inc.)
- Nguyen Minh (The University of California at San Diego)
- Elizabeth Opila (University of Virginia)
- Prabhakar Singh (University of Connecticut)
- Subhash Singhal (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- S.K. Sundaram (Alfred University)
SOFC Emerging Research Areas Committee
- Identify the most promising emerging SOFC technologies.
- Discuss how each emerging technology will enable SOFC deployment, state a likely development timetable, and comment on the risk-reward profile for each emerging SOFC technology.
- Describe how technological advances in SOFC’s would impact other fields, and vice-versa
- Identify likely development paths for these emerging technologies.
- Chair: Jeff Fergus (Auburn University)
- Secretary: Eranda Nikolla (Wayne State)
- Zhe Cheng (Florida International University)
- Deryn Chu (Army Research Laboratory)
- William Chueh (Stanford University)
- Raymond Gorte (University of Pennsylvania)
- Kevin Huang (University of South Carolina)
- Michael Hill (Trans-Tech Inc.)
- Mohan Misra (ITN Energy Systems, Inc.)
- Daniel Mumm (University of California, Irvine)
- Nina Orlovskaya (University of Central Florida)
- Anil Virkar (University of Utah)
- Mark Williams (URS Corp.)
- Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SOFC Manufacturing, Market, and Military Needs Committee
- Summarize the different types of SOFC markets
- Describe the current challenges (technical, economic, political, etc.) limiting SOFC development in each of these markets
- Quantify the targets that need to be met to make SOFC’s commercially viable in each of these markets
- Identify which basic research activities would best facilitate SOFC commercialization efforts
- Chair: Masaru Tsuchiya (Si Energy Systems, LLC)
- Secretary: Sean Bishop (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Whitney Colella (Strategic Analysis, Inc.)
- Singaravelu Elangovan (Ceramatec, Inc.)
- Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh (Fuel Cell Energy, Inc.)
- Masaki Kawai (NGK Insulators)
- Yeshwanth Narendar (Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics, Inc.)
- Joshua Persky (Protonex Technology Corporation)
- Jon Rice (Ultra Electronics AMI, Inc.)
- Scott Swartz (NexTech Materials)
SOFC Funding Assessment Committee
- Summarize the current worldwide SOFC funding situation
- Comment on the strengths/weaknesses/effectiveness of current SOFC funding arrangements
- Match the various aspects of SOFC technological development to the expertise of the various SOFC funding agencies
- Identify ways in which the activities between various agencies can synergize with one another
- Identify improved SOFC Funding Mechanisms/Initiatives
- Chair: Eric Wachsman (University of Maryland)
- Secretary: Justin Scott (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society)
- Noriko Behling (Freelance Author)
- Viola Birss (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Sossina Haile (Caltech)
- Meilin Liu (Georgia Tech)
- Mogens Mogensen (Technical University of Denmark, Riso)
- Jason Nicholas (Michigan State University)
- Randy Petri (Versa Power, Inc.)
- Kazunari Sasaki (Kyushu University, Japan)
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