EFRI-RESIN: 21st Century National Energy and Transportation Infrastructures: Balancing Sustainability, Costs, and Resiliency (NETSCORE-21)

项目负责人姓名：James mccalley机构：爱荷华州立大学提案号：0835989标题：EFRI-RESIN提案，21世纪国家能源和交通基础设施：平衡可持续性、成本和弹性（NETSCORE-21）该奖项是研究与创新新兴前沿（NSF 07-579）项目招标的结果，分主题为弹性和可持续基础设施（树脂）。美国的大部分能源用于电力生产和车辆运输，这是两个相互依存的、关键的国家基础设施。随着包括插电式混合动力汽车和混合动力列车在内的混合动力交通系统得到更广泛的应用，这些相互依赖的强度和数量将迅速增加。提出这项研究的动机是认识到缺乏工具、知识和观点来设计一个综合能源和运输基础设施的国家系统，同时考虑到它们之间的相互依赖性、新能源供应技术、可持续性和弹性。因此，本研究的目标是在未来发电技术、能源运输和储存以及混合动力运输系统方面制定最佳基础设施设计，在可持续性、成本和弹性方面取得平衡。该研究将描述能源组合和能源/车辆运输系统之间的相互依赖关系，并将考虑常规和非常规能源供应选择，包括风能、太阳能、水力、核能、煤炭、氢、地热、生物燃料、生物质和气化，以及混合动力电动汽车和火车系统。本研究所针对的国家能源系统和国家运输系统规模巨大，地域广阔，资本密集，由多种多样的技术组成，并与管理它们的复杂人类组织相结合。对这些系统进行建模和表征的智力努力，并了解资源组合与风、运输模式和路权之间的相互依赖关系；在气化、碳和运输方面；在石油、天然气和电力价格中，将加入电力系统工程、热设计、电力电子、交通运输工程、通信与计算、环境科学、社会学、运筹学和宏观经济学。潜在的需求是基于系统的：确定每种技术应该部署的程度、时间和地点，考虑相互依赖性，同时优化可持续性、成本和弹性。拟议的研究将对国家经济和安全产生长期影响，同时通过将经济学，社会学和人类行为的知识与系统工程相结合，与全频谱的能源技术相结合，彻底改变工程科学。研究成果有可能为国家蓝图做出贡献，连同建模过程，推动未来40年联邦和州的能源政策、研究和投资。这个时间框架的动机是希望超越目前大多数联邦和州监管机构要求的传统20-30年的规划范围。该项目涉及一个多学科联盟，包括爱荷华州立大学和爱荷华湖社区学院的教师和学生，包括爱荷华州立大学的几个项目和中心：信息基础设施研究所、生物可再生能源项目办公室、可持续环境技术中心、多机构电力系统工程研究中心、电力研究中心和交通研究与教育中心。这项研究将被整合到爱荷华州立大学的新工程教育项目中，该项目涉及能源和交通基础设施，并可作为其他大学和学院的示范课程。

PI name: James McCalleyInstitution: Iowa State UniversityProposal Number: 0835989Title: EFRI-RESIN Proposal, 21st Century National Energy and Transportation Infrastructures: Balancing Sustainability, Costs, and Resiliency (NETSCORE-21)This award is an outcome of the competition as part of the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (NSF 07-579) program solicitation under the subtopic Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN). Most U.S. energy usage is for electricity production and vehicle transportation, two interdependent, critical, national infrastructures. The strength and number of these interdependencies will increase rapidly as hybrid electric transportation systems, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and hybrid electric trains, become more widely used. The proposed research is motivated by a recognition that tools, knowledge, and perspective are lacking to design a national system integrating energy and transportation infrastructures while accounting for interdependencies between them, new energy supply technologies, sustainability, and resiliency. Hence, the goal of this research is to formulate optimal infrastructure designs in terms of future power generation technologies, energy transport and storage, and hybrid-electric transportation systems, with balance in sustainability, costs, and resiliency. The research will characterize interdependencies between energy resource portfolio and energy/vehicular transportation systems, and will consider both conventional and non-conventional energy supply options, including wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, coal, hydrogen, geothermal, biofuels, biomass, and gasification, together with hybrid electric vehicle and train systems. The national energy system and the national transportation system targeted in this research are uniquely large, geographically expansive, and capital intensive, consisting of multiple, diverse technologies interfaced with complex human organizations that manage them. The intellectual effort to model and characterize these systems and understand interdependencies among resource mix and wind, transportation patterns, and right-of-way; among gasification, carbon, and transportation; and among prices of petroleum, natural gas, and electricity, will join power system engineering, thermal design, power electronics, transportation engineering, communications and computing, environmental science, sociology, operations research, and macroeconomics. The underlying need is systems-based: identify the extent to which each technology should be deployed, when, and where, accounting for interdependencies while optimizing for sustainability, cost, and resiliency. The proposed research will have long-term impact on national economy and security, while revolutionizing engineering science via integrating knowledge of economics, sociology, and human behavior with systems engineering, interlaced with the full spectrum of energy technologies. The research outcomes have the potential to contribute to a national blueprint, together with a modeling process, that drive federal and state energy policy, research, and investment for the next four decades. This time frame is motivated by a desire to exceed the traditional 20-30 year planning horizon required by most federal and state regulatory bodies today. The project involves a multidisciplinary coalition that includes faculty and students from Iowa State University and Iowa Lakes Community College, including several Iowa State University programs and centers: Information Infrastructure Institute, Office of Biorenewables Programs, Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, multi-institutional Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Electric Power Research Center, and Center for Transportation Research and Education. The research will be integrated into new engineering education programs at Iowa State University that address the energy and transportation infrastructures and that can serve as model curricula for other universities and colleges.