2009 U.S. DOE HYDROGEN PROGRAM and VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES PROGAM

2009 U.S. DOE HYDROGEN PROGRAM and VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES PROGAM ANNUAL MERIT REVIEW and PEER EVALUATION MEETING May 18-22, 2009 DOE Hydrogen Program Presentation Instructions and Examples 1 Presentation Due Dates and Delivery Information • Your presentation is due to Alliance Technical Services at H22009AMR@alliance-technicalservices.com by March 20, 2009! Please put your Project ID in the Subject Line of your email. • If your presentation is too large to email, contact Melissa Laffen at (301) 252-3809 for alternative delivery options. • Reviewers will be receiving your presentation prior to the meeting to supply adequate time to review your material before the meeting. 2 Delivery Information (con’t) • Please name your electronic PowerPoint presentation file as follows: Project ID#_lastname (Your project ID# will be supplied to you by Alliance Technical Services) Example: st_14_smith (all lower case) • Remember your presentation is due to Alliance Technical Services at H22009AMR@alliance-technicalservices.com by March 20, 2009! 3 Questions? • Contact: Melissa Laffen at (301) 252-3809 mjlaffen@alliance-technicalservices.com • or Rich Bechtold at (443) 812-3921 rlbechtold@alliance-technicalservices.com 4 General Instructions 5 VERY IMPORTANT! • Your presentation is public and will be posted to the DOE Hydrogen Program website. You must include the phrase “This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information” on at least the first slide (you may put on all slides if you wish). • Do not include any proprietary, copyrighted, or confidential information. Do not mark any slide with “Official Use Only” or any similar restriction used by your organization. • Your presentation may not include any slide that has “Official Use Only” or “Sensitive” or any similar wording, or information which your organization might construe as being in such categories. 6 Preparation Instructions • Avoid using copyrighted information – if you use copyrighted information you will have to provide written permission along with your submitted file for it to be accepted by the DOE for the purposes of the Review. • Please do not use dark backgrounds as this causes difficulties when printing hardcopies for review purposes. • PowerPoint animations and slide transitions will convert to the PDF file. • If you have movie clips to show as part of your oral presentation, contact Melissa Laffen to arrange. 7 Preparation Instructions (cont.) • Poster presentations should use these instructions so that the Reviewers have a common basis of comparison to the oral presentations – just bring print-outs of your slides to put on poster boards (except for the Supplemental slides for reviewers only). • While Oral presentations are time limited, poster presentations are space limited. The poster areas will be approximately 4 feet vertical by 8 feet horizontal. 8 Guidelines for number of slides • Oral presenters will be allowed 30 minutes – 20 minutes for the prepared presentation and 10 minutes for questions – time limits will be strictly enforced. Thus, presentations should contain a maximum of 15 to 20 presented slides. • Except for the time and number of slides requirements, these instructions and examples apply to Poster presentations as well as Oral presentations. • Evaluation and weighting criteria should be considered when planning and organizing your presentation! 9 Evaluation Criteria • • • • • Relevance Approach Technical Accomplishments and Progress Collaborations Proposed Future Work 20% 20% 40% 10% 10% This criteria and weighting should be considered when planning and putting together your presentation! 10 Slide Titles Except for the mandatory Title, Overview and Summary slides, all slide titles/headings should relate directly to the evaluation criteria! (i.e. Project Objectives - Relevance) 11 Specific Instructions • The following guidelines provide specific information on mandatory slides and the type of information expected within the criteria guidelines. • Your presentation should include: – the mandatory title slide; – mandatory overview slide; – one or more slides as appropriate for each of the review criteria; – mandatory summary slide – supplemental slides (supplemental slides will not be presented but will be supplied to reviewers – these are to be submitted along with your original presentation). 12 Mandatory Title Slide • Please format your title slide per the following slide, appropriately inserting your project title, name and organization and project ID# (which will be provided to you by Alliance Technical Services) 13 2009 DOE Hydrogen Program Review Presentation Template (replace with your title) Name Organization Date Project ID # (this will be provided to you) This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information Mandatory Overview Slide • Please prepare an overview slide formatted and containing the information per the following slide: – Timeline (please confirm dates with your DOE HQ/GO manager(s)) – Budget (please confirm values with your DOE HQ/GO manager(s)) – Barriers (please use the barrier lists in the H2 Program’s MYPP - http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/mypp/index.html ) – Partners 15 Overview Timeline • Project start date • Project end date • Percent complete Barriers • Barriers addressed – (List up to 3 technical barriers and technical targets from the HFCIT Program Multi-Year Program Plan addressed by your project (If you do not have them, go to www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandf uelcells/mypp to obtain them)) Budget • Total project funding – DOE share – Contractor share Partners • Interactions/ collaborations • Project lead • Funding received in FY08 • Funding for FY09 (see notes for details) (View the PowerPoint “Notes” page for additional instructions) 16 Relevance • Relevance counts for 20% of your total project score. • The title of these slides should make it clear that they count toward your project’s relevance! • Information to include: – Objectives: Describe the objective of your project and what you were to achieve in the work covered by your presentation, i.e., the objective of your work over the past year (June 08 - May 09); – Your objectives should make it clear what the relevance of your project is to the Hydrogen Program (more information on the DOE H2 Program can be found through this website and it’s contained links: http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/mission.html); – The impact your project has on addressing the barriers identified in the Overview slide and other specific targets and milestones. (View the PowerPoint “Notes” page for additional instructions) 17 Approach • Approach counts for 20% of your total project score. • The title of these slides should make it clear that they count toward your project’s approach! • Describe overall technical approach: – Emphasize unique aspects of your approach and de-emphasize discussion of equipment used; – How your research addresses the Program’s technical barriers; – How your project is integrated with other research within the Hydrogen Program; – Use simple statements so that scientists and engineers, not experts in your area, can readily understand the explanation of your approach. • Include the planned milestones and go/no-go decisions for FY08 and FY09 and current status towards them. (View the PowerPoint “Notes” page for additional instructions) 18 Technical Accomplishments and Progress • Technical Accomplishments and Progress counts for 40% of your total project score. • The title of these slides should make it clear that they count toward your project’s technical accomplishments and progress! • Each slide should include a summary (“Take-home”) message, especially those that contain data. • Describe the most important technical accomplishments achieved during this reporting period and their significance (from last year’s review to date for existing projects, or progress to date for new projects). • Include relevant data to support your accomplishments. • Relate the accomplishments to project milestones, barriers, objectives and technical targets! • Benchmark the progress versus FY08 results, if applicable. (View the PowerPoint “Notes” page for additional instructions) 19 Technical Accomplishments and Progress (cont.) • Include no more than 1 slide on previous accomplishments and CLEARLY indicate work previously presented versus new work! • To assist the reviewers evaluating your work, please include bullet comments of the key points on each slide. • Include sufficient slides to explain what was done leading to the technical accomplishments. • However please limit your slides to the time you have available – the 20 minute presentation time will be STRICTLY enforced! • Though your presentation will be in color, it is best to choose colors and data symbols that can be easily distinguished in black and white for those reviewers with hardcopies 20 Collaborations • Collaborations counts for 10% of your total project score. • The title of these slides should make it clear that they count toward your collaborations! • List your project collaborators, indicating: – – – – Relationship (i.e. prime, sub, etc.); Industry, University, Federal laboratory; Within or without of the DOE H2 Program; How extensive is the collaboration. 21 Proposed Future Work • Proposed future work counts for 10% of your total project score. • The title of these slides should make it clear that they count toward your proposed future work! • Explain what it is you plan to do during the rest of this year (FY09) and next year (FY10). • Be as specific as possible; avoid blanket statements. • Highlight upcoming key milestones. • Address how you will deal with any decision points during that time and any remaining issues, including any alternative development pathways under consideration to mitigate risk of not achieving milestones. (View the PowerPoint “Notes” page for additional instructions) 22 Mandatory Summary Slide • Summarize the key points you wish the audience and reviewers to take away from your presentation. • For those projects that are working towards specific technical targets, include a Summary Table summarizing key FY09 technical results compared to FY08 results, and the technical targets (see example slides in following section). 23 Supplemental Slides (Note: please include a “separator” slide between those to be presented and the “Supplemental” slides. 24 Instructions for Supplemental Slides (Not a template slide – for information purposes only) • The following slides are to be included in your submission for Peer Evaluation purposes, but will not be part of your Oral presentation – they will be provided to reviewers. • You may refer to them during the Q&A period if they are helpful to you in explaining certain points. • If you have a poster presentation, submit the supplemental slides with your presentation to Alliance Technical Services but do not include them in your presented Poster. 25 Responses to Previous Year Reviewers’ Comments • If yours is an on-going project that was reviewed last year, address one to three significant questions/ criticisms/recommendations from the previous year’s reviewers’ comments, available at: http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/annual_review08_report.html Note: This slide is for the use of the Peer Reviewers only – it is not to be presented as part of your oral or poster presentation. These Supplemental Slides will be included in the copy of your presentation that will be made available to the Reviewers. 26 Publications and Presentations • List any publications and presentations that have resulted from work on this project. Use at least 12 point font. Note: This slide is for the use of the Peer Reviewers only – it is not to be presented as part of your oral or poster presentation. These Supplemental Slides will be included in the copy of your presentation that will be made available to the Reviewers. 27 Critical Assumptions and Issues • Address 3-5 of the critical assumptions and/or problems affecting the outcome of your project. Briefly describe the problem as well as potential solutions, both within and beyond the scope of the project. • Exclude funding issues. Note: This slide is for the use of the Peer Reviewers only – it is not to be presented as part of your oral or poster presentation. These Supplemental Slides will be included in the copy of your presentation that will be made available to the Reviewers. 28 Example Slides 29 Example Overview Slide 30 Example Objectives/Relevance Slide - Relevance 31 Example Approach/Milestone Slide Month/Year Mar-08 Milestone or Go/No-Go Decision Go/No-Go decision: Complete correlation of conductivity with polymer structure and morphology. Estimate conductivity limit of tethered base materials. Determine conductivity of membrane at 0 to 25% RH and the full o range of temperature (-40 -120 C) and compare to target of 0.1 S/cm . Determine conductivity in absence of free solvents. (Status – met) May-08 Milestone: Complete initial round of MEA fabrication and testing with selected new polymers (1 minimum) completed and preliminary polymer composite characterization. This provides information on the catalyst behavior under low RH conditions. (Status – 80% complete) Milestone: Design targets defined and measured for conductivity (0.052 0.2S/cm) and gas permeability (< 2mA/cm measured with a catalyst coated membrane for both hydrogen and oxygen crossover) for hightemperature, low RH operation without external humidification through the combined cell- and system-level mathematical simulation. (Status – planned) Nov-09 32 Example Approach/Milestone Slide 33 Example 1 - Approach Slide 34 Example 2 - Approach Slide 35 Example 1 - Technical Accomplishments Slide Technical Accomplishments - 36 Example 2 - Technical Accomplishments Slide Technical Accomplishments - 2007: Proton Sponge Increases H2-Release from AB Solutions and Avoids the Formation of M+BH4 and NH3 NH3BH3 + 5 mol % PS at 85 oC in Ionic-Liquids or Tetraglyme (250 mg) (91 mg) (250 mg) 4.90 mat wt% H2 2007 results 5.60 mat wt% H Me2N 2 NMe2 H H Me2N NMe2 pKa = 11.1 2006 status Proton Sponge Reaction Mechanism H3BNH3 + PS H3BNH2 PSH   H H H3BNH2 + H B H N H H -H2 H3B NH2 BH2 NH2 H3B NH2 BH2 NH2 + H3BNH3 -H2 H3B NH2 BH2 NH2 BH2 NH2 16 37 Example 3 - Technical Accomplishments Slide Technical Accomplishments - 38 Example 4 - Technical Accomplishments Slide Technical Accomplishments - 39 Example - Collaboration Slide 40 Example 1 - Future Work Slide 41 Example 2 - Future Work Slide 42 Example 1 - Summary Slide 43 Example 2 - Summary Table Summary Table 44 Example 3 - Summary Table Result: Leading Regeneration Pathways Identified Goal: Define energy efficient and cost effective process to regenerate spent borate to NaBH4 to meet DOE targets Metal Reduction Carbothermal Schlesinger Echem Borane Option Criterion Weighting BCl3 Al Chemistry demonstrated Cost/per unit H2 (NaBH4) Energy consump (theor efficiency) Raw material consump - high conv / yields Low operating severity Few chemical reactions Few separation / processing steps Capital cost, $ per unit H2 (NaBH4) Low complexity Low technical risk EHS (environmental / health / safety) emissions, wastes, CO2 toxicity, safety, flammability, H2O-reactive other ecological components? Logistics (supply / distribution) abundant raw materials Pref Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 25 25 5 5 5 1 3 7 5 5 5 8 8 8 8 7 7 8 8 8 7 7 8 8 8 7 7 8 8 8 9 7 8 8 8 9 5 5 9 9 8 7 3 8 6 7 1 10 10 10 7 3 10 8 8 7 5 5 8 6 4 7 5 4 3 6 3 3 7 7 7 3 5 4 5 10 5 6 10 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 5 6 5 9 7 8 7 6 5 5 6 7 7 5 5 10 5 10 8 8 7 8 6 8 7 8 7 8 7 7 7 8 7 10 10 9 9 8 7 7 5 7 6 7 6 5 10 7 10 7 8 6 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 8 10 Total Score 485 710 745 735 740 780 725 700 675 680 645 560 565 535 560 * Elemental - B by carbo, 600 if B by Mg Rankings: Metal reduction #1 Carbo and Electrolytic #4 elemental (B via carbo) # 2 and 3 Borane, metathesis # 5 and 6 Metathesis Elemental M + B2O3 HT melts * 1-stop 2-step TMB Mg Zn Si Ti 3 7 7 5 5 5 7 6 6 25 45 Example 4 - Summary Table Summary Table 46 Example Supplemental Slides 47 Example Response to Reviewers’ Comments Slide 48 Example Publication List Publications 1. K. Sasaki, J. X. Wang, M. Balasubramanian, J. McBreen, F. Uribe, R. R. Adzic, Ultra-low platinum content fuel cell anode electrocatalyst with a long-term performance stability; Electrochim. Acta, 49, 3873 (2004). K. Sasaki, M. Vukmirovic, F. Uribe and R. Adzic, Ultra-low Pt Loadings Electrocatalysts forH2/Co and Metahanol Oxidation. 206th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society. Hawaii, Oct. 2004. Abstract No.1502. F. A. Uribe, T. Rockward, J. A. Valerio and R. R. Adzic, “Performance of PEMFC Electrodes Containing Low-Pt Loadings”. 206th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society. Hawaii, Oct. 2004. Abstract No. 1857. 2. 3. 49 Example Critical Assumptions and Issues 50 Questions? • Contact: Melissa Laffen at (301) 252-3809 mjlaffen@alliance-technicalservices.com • Or Rich Bechtold at (443) 812-3921 rlbechtold@alliance-technicalservices.com 51