Doing More with Less: Opportunities for Increased Energy - ARPA-E

42 Pages·2014·3.99 MB·English

Doing More with Less: Opportunities
for Increased Energy Efficiency

Moderator: Dr. Tim Heidel, ARPA-E
Dr. James Klausner, ARPA-E
Dr. Amul Tevar, ARPA-E
Dr. Bradley Zamft, ARPA-E
Overview of this session
Tim Heidel, ARPA-E Program Director
ADEPT & SWITCHES Programs

James Klausner, ARPA-E Program Director
Metals Production Consumes Significant Energy:
ARPA-E Seeks Energy Efficiency

Bradley Zamft, ARPA-E Fellow
Microorganisms for Metals: Opportunities for
Biology in the Mining Industry

Amul Tevar, ARPA-E Fellow
The Far Future of the Energy & Water Nexus
February 24, 2014
ARPA-E Mission
2
Technology Acceleration Model
3
Focused Programs
Solar
BEEST ADEPT
BEETIT
PETRO
GRIDS
Transportation Stationary
Energy Energy
Electrofuels
Technologies Technologies
IMPACCT
MOVE
ADEPT
RANGE
GENI
HEATS AMPED REACT SBIR/STTR METALS SWITCHES
REMOTE FOCUS
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ARPA-E Investments in Power
Electronics
ADEPT & SWITCHES Programs
Dr. Tim Heidel, Program Director
Electricity is ~40% of U.S. Energy Consumption
U.S. Primary Energy U.S. Retail Sales of Electricity to
Consumption 2011 Ultimate Customers 2011
Sector
Transportation
7,672
(<1%)
Industrial
991,316
(27%)
Commercial
1,328,057
(35%)
• In 2005, 30% of electricity
in the U.S. flows through
power converters.

Residential
1,422,801
• By 2030, 80% of electricity
(38%)
could flow through power
converters.
Quadrillion Btu Million kWh
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Retail sales of electricity to ultimate customers, January 30, 2013.
EIA, Annual Energy Review DOE/EIA-0384(2011), September 2012 6
L.M. Tolbert, et al., “Power Electronics for Distributed Energy Systems and Transmission and Distribution Applications: Assessing the Technical
Needs for Utility Applications.“ (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005)
ADEPT
EFFICIENT POWER CONVERSION
Goals
• Improve the energy efficiency of electronic devices and power systems
• Enable high efficiency, high power density power electronics
• Contribute to the development of a smart grid
Dr. Tim Heidel Highlights
Program
(Dr. Rajeev
Director • Advanced charge storage devices
Ram)
• Magnetic materials
Kickoff Year 2010
• Advanced solid-state switch
Projects 13 technologies
• Advanced circuit topologies and
Total
$37.7 Million
converter architectures
Investment

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ADEPT Program Technical Targets
Category Voltage Efficiency Switching Power Applications
& Frequency Density
Power
Fully >100V >93% >5 MHz >300
Integrated, 10-50W W/in3
Chip-scale
power
converters
Package >600V >95% >1 MHz >150
integrated 3-10kW W/in3
power
converters
Lightweight, 13kV >98% >50 kHz N/A
solid-state, 1MW
medium
voltage
energy
conversion
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High Power Density Point of Load Converter
Power
density
2 phase
(W/in3)
module with
1000 1 phase IR GaN
module with 5 MHz
IR GaN
5 MHz
700
10x Power Density
High Efficiency (88%)
10X
500 Power Density
3D Integrated Converter
300
Power density
with 1.2V
out
1A 5A 10A 15A 20A 30A current
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