Sustainable Energy Solutions via Systems-Based Research: Modernizing the Sustainable Energy Research Infrastructure in Durland Hall

通过基于系统的研究实现可持续能源解决方案：杜兰厅可持续能源研究基础设施的现代化

• 批准号: 0963448
• 负责人: Mary Rezac
• 金额: $ 159.9万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainable; Energy; Solutions; via; Systems

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports the renovation and reconfiguration of approximately 5,237 square feet of research laboratories at Kansas State University's Durland Hall into collaborative research suites for bioenergy and energy efficiency research. The renovation will create research laboratory space that is designed around an open concept for research by multiple researchers and graduate students working on multiple projects. More specifically, the renovation will consist of demolishing or renovating: walls, doors and hardware, floor and ceiling finishes, ventilation duct work, exhaust and supply units, power distribution systems, lighting, plumbing, and fire protection. Overall, the proposed renovation will construct two flexible Chemical Engineering laboratories for chemical preparation, research, and computation. All new systems and space being constructed will be energy efficient and flexible for future expansion and research.Intellectual Merit: The development of sustainable and economically viable energy sources is one of the key technological challenges currently facing science and engineering. New technologies historically have been advanced through focused research on numerous components in academic and industrial "silos" and the subsequent integration of these discoveries into an efficient system. Because each component was independently developed, integration can take years and require significant refinement of the individual technologies. For example, significant resources may be focused in one facility member's lab to produce ethanol from cellulosic feedstock, but the very significant energy need of ethanol/water separation is not addressed. Another researcher may try to address the ethanol/water separation in another lab. The synergy of connecting these issues may naturally arise if two doctoral students worked side by side in the same space, not in laboratory "silos." Using the new laboratory suites, researchers will have the tools to develop solutions to one of the grand challenges facing engineers in the 21st century: Sustainable Energy Production. Research activities that will use the renovated facility include an NSF-supported IGERT award on Integrating the Social, Technological, and Agricultural Aspects of Sustainable and Renewable Biorefining, an NSF-supported REU site on Earth, Wind, and Fire that relates to alternative fuels, and the Kansas Center of Innovation in BioRefining and BioEnergy.Broader Impacts: These laboratories will allow for the refinement of a new research and research training model with a systems-based focus that thoroughly integrates students from various disciplines in collaborative research spaces. The institution plans on documenting its findings in this area, publishing them in journal articles, and presenting them at national conferences.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111 - 5）资助的。该奖项支持在堪萨斯州立大学的杜兰大厅约5,237平方英尺的研究实验室改造和重新配置为生物能源和能源效率研究的合作研究套件。改造将创造研究实验室空间，围绕开放的概念设计，供多名研究人员和研究生在多个项目上进行研究。 更具体地说，翻修将包括拆除或翻修：墙壁、门和五金、地板和天花板饰面、通风管道、排气和供电装置、配电系统、照明、管道和消防。 总的来说，拟议的改造将建造两个灵活的化学工程实验室，用于化学制备，研究和计算。 所有新的系统和空间正在建设将是能源效率和灵活的未来扩展和研究。智力优点：可持续和经济上可行的能源的发展是目前面临的科学和工程的关键技术挑战之一。 历史上，新技术是通过对学术和工业"筒仓"中的许多组件进行重点研究，并随后将这些发现整合到一个有效的系统中来推进的。由于每个组件都是独立开发的，因此集成可能需要数年时间，并需要对各个技术进行重大改进。 例如，重要的资源可能集中在一个设施成员的实验室中，以从纤维素原料生产乙醇，但乙醇/水分离的非常重要的能量需求没有得到解决。 另一位研究人员可能会尝试在另一个实验室解决乙醇/水分离问题。 如果两个博士生在同一个空间里并肩工作，而不是在实验室的"孤岛"里，那么将这些问题联系起来的协同效应可能会自然产生。"使用新的实验室套件，研究人员将有工具来开发解决方案，以应对工程师在21世纪世纪面临的重大挑战之一：可持续能源生产。 将使用翻新后的设施进行的研究活动包括NSF支持的IGERT奖，该奖项旨在整合可持续和可再生生物精炼的社会，技术和农业方面，NSF支持的REU网站关于地球，风和火，与替代燃料有关，以及堪萨斯生物精炼和生物能源创新中心。这些实验室将允许完善一个新的研究和研究培训模式，以系统为基础的重点，彻底整合来自不同学科的学生在合作研究空间。 该机构计划将其在这一领域的调查结果记录在案，在期刊文章中发表，并在全国会议上介绍。