Overview of the Andlinger Center for

Energy and the Environment

Emily A. Carter

Founding Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics

Associated Faculty in Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, PRISM, PEI, and PICSciE

Mission & Goals

TO DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO ENSURE OUR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE

• Foster a vibrant, intellectual community that engages people from many academic

disciplines.

• Accelerate innovative multidisciplinary research through funding, infrastructure,

and intellectual discourse.

• Train the next generation of leaders by educating students in their own disciplines

and in a broader context.

• Partner with industry, not-for-profit, and government to reach practical technology

and policy solutions.

• Become the Center that the U.S. government turns to for information and advice.

Interdisciplinary Research and Education

Organization

SEAS Dean

H. Vincent Poor

Director

Emily A. Carter

(MAE/PACM/ACEE)

Assoc. Dir. for

Admin.

Laura E. Strickler

Faculty Assistant

Nari Baughman (MAE)

Admin. Asst.

Moira Selinka

Bus./Comm. Manager

Brenda Mikeo

Prog./Fin. Asst.

Robert Eich

Asst. Dir. for

E-ffiliates

Robin Hauer

Assoc. Dir. for Education

Prof. Niraj Jha (ELE)

Assoc. Dir. for

External Affairs

Prof. Lynn Loo (CBE)

Assoc. Dir. for Research

Prof. Peter Jaffe (CEE)

Faculty (4)

Prof. Forrest Meggers

(ARC/ACEE)

Prof. Dan Steingart

(MAE/ACEE)

Prof. Barry Rand

(ELE/ACEE)

Prof. Claire White

(CEE/ACEE)

Advisory Council

Executive Committee

Advisory Council

A. Paul Alivisatos, Laboratory Director,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dwight W. Anderson ’89, Principal,

Ospraie Management, LLC

Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 P80 P91, Chairman of

the Board, Andlinger & Company, Inc.

Merrick G. Andlinger ’80, President,

Andlinger & Company, Inc.

Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera Professor of Ceramics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David W. Crane ’81 S86, President and Chief

Executive Officer, NRG Energy, Inc.

Francis J. DiSalvo, Director, David R. Atkinson

Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell

University

David Eaglesham, Chief Executive Officer,

Pellion Technologies

Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and CEO,

PSEG

Paul A. Maeder ’75, Managing General

Partner & Founder, Highland Capital

Partners

Gregory H. Olsen, President,

GHO Ventures, LLC

Mark F. Rockefeller ’89, Chief Executive

Officer and Founder, Rockefeller

Consulting/Insight Capitalists

Timothy Sands, EVP for Academic Affairs and

Provost, Purdue University

Executive Committee

Professor Rene Carmona

ORFE

Professor Emily A. Carter

MAE/PACM/ACEE

Professor Paul Chirik

CHM

Professor Christopher F. Chyba

AST/WWS

Professor Peter Jaffe

CEE

Professor Niraj Jha

ELE

Professor Forrest Meggers

ARC/ACEE

Professor Guy Nordenson

ARC

Professor Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo

CBE

Professor Stephen W. Pacala

EEB/PEI

Professor Stewart C. Prager

AST/PPPL

Professor Barry P. Rand

ELE/ACEE

Professor James A. Smith

CEE

Professor Daniel Steingart

MAE/ACEE

Professor Claire E. White

CEE/ACEE

Faculty Appointments

Junior Faculty (Assistant Professors)

• Forrest Meggers (began February 2014); energy efficient buildings; joint with SoA

• Barry Rand (began July 2013); solar cells; joint with ELE

• Dan Steingart (began February 2013); energy storage, joint with MAE

• Claire White (began August 2013); sustainable concrete and carbon storage; joint

with CEE

Visiting Faculty

• Dan Giammar, Kenan Visiting Professor (with CEE), 2012-2013

• Mike Schwartz, Andlinger Visiting Professor (with WWS), spring 2013 and 2013-

2014

Energy and Environment Solutions for the 21st CenturyEnergy Efficiency:

Buildings

Industry

IT

Vehicles

Cheap, fuel

flexible, durable

fuel cells

Waste heat

recovery

Clean hydro-fracking of

natural gas to

replace coal

Electric vehicles

(reduce oil use,

provide storage)

Cheap solar

and

wind

Safer

nuclear

power

Biofuels

from algae,

biomass, or

microbiology

CO2 capture

and

sequestration

Grid scale

storage

Solar

fuels

Superconducting

transmission

Fusio

n

power

TimeNear-term Medium-term Long-term

Economics, Policy, Behavior

Climate Adaptation and Environmental Pollutant Detection and Remediation

Smart grid

Efficient water desalination

Research

Energy Efficiency – Buildings

– Industrial Processes

– Information Technology

– Transportation

Renewable Energy – Biofuels

– Fuel cells

– Solar

– Wind

Nuclear Energy – Fission

– Fusion

Energy Storage – Batteries

– Fuels

– Supercapacitors

Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion

Carbon Capture and Storage

Waste Heat Recovery – Thermoelectrics

– Water Desalination

Electricity Transmission – Smart Grid

– Superconducting Materials

Energy Systems Analysis

Pollutant Detection and Remediation

Impact of Energy and Land Use– Climate Change and Adaptation

– Hydrology

Green Manufacturing

Social Science of Energy & Environment – Behavior

– Economics

– Policy

http: //acee.princeton.edu/research/

110 faculty represented and growing

ACEE Catalyzes New Research Directions & Teams

Renewable Energy

• Paul Chirik (CHM) “Modern alchemy for carbon neutrality”

• Bruce Koel (CBE) “Photochemistry at hematite surfaces for production of renewable

hydrogen”

• Luigi Martinelli (MAE), Alexander Smits (MAE) and Elie Bou-Zeid (CEE) “Development of

optimal aerodynamic shapes for stall delay and mitigation in wind turbine applications”

• Denise Mauzerall (CEE/WWS) and Eric Larson (PEI), “Air quality and climate benefits of

current and potential future wind energy penetration in China”

• Michael McAlpine (MAE) and Naveen Verma (EE), “Thermal energy harvesting for recovery

of waste heat, and direct conversion of waste heat to usable electricity”

Biofuels

• Meytal Higgins (GEO) and Joshua Rabinowitz (CHEM), “Metabolomics as a tool for

optimization of algal biofuel production”

• Yiguang Ju (MAE) and Gerard Wysocki (ELE), “New multispecies diagnostics and

elementary rate constant measurements in biofuel combustion”

ACEE Catalyzes New Research Directions & Teams

Energy Storage

• Craig Arnold (MAE/PRISM), “Metal-organic framework composite electrodes: an avenue

toward realizing Mg-ion battery systems”

• Jay Benziger (CBE) “Flow battery energy storage for solar and wind power”

• Jean Prevost (ELE) and Craig Arnold (MAE), “Microstructural modeling of the mechanical

evolution of Li-ion batteries”

• Dan Steingart (MAE/ACEE) and Bruce Koel (CBE), “In situ high resolution studies of the

solid electrolyte interphase layer”

Carbon Capture and Storage

• Lynn Loo (CBE), Eric Larson (PEI) and Michael Celia (CEE), “Design and cost analysis of

low-carbon transportation fuel and electricity: coproduction that includes carbon capture

and storage in shale gas formations”

ACEE Catalyzes New Research Directions & Teams

Energy Efficiency

• Sigrid Adriaenssens (CEE) and Axel Kilian (ARC), “Elastic structures for energy efficient

architecture”

• Elie Bou-Zeid (CEE) and Howard Stone (MAE), “Global impacts of the wet-wall approach on

urban microclimates”

• Margaret Martonosi (CS) and Warren Powell (ORFE), “Improvement of the power efficiency

and use of green energy for data centers”

Environmental Engineering

• Bruce Koel (CBE) and Peter Jaffe (CEE), “Iron nanoparticles applications for the

remediation of contaminated groundwater “

• Francois Morel (GEO), Peter Jaffe (CEE) and Anne Morel-Kraepiel (CHM), “A new method

for assessing the role of metals as fertilizers for nitrogen fixation in terrestrial

ecosystems”

Climate Adaptation

• Ning Lin (CEE), Michael Oppenheimer (WWS) and Jianqing Fan (ORFE), “Tropical cyclone

risk assessment with application to reliable and sustainable energy future”

Joint Faculty Recruiting (2013-2014)

Senior Faculty Searches

• Candidates TBD

Junior Faculty Searches

• Chemical and Biological Engineering: membranes/separations,

biofuels, etc.

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/PPPL: fusion energy

• Molecular Biology: biofuels

Visiting Faculty

• WWS: energy policy (interim position until senior search restarts)

Highlight Seminar Series (2011-2014)

Renewable Energy

• David Eaglesham, First Solar, Inc. (photovoltaics)

• Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida (new and emerging developments in

solar energy)

• Jim Miller, Sandia National Laboratory (solar thermochemical conversion to

fuels)

• Willett Kempton, University of Delaware (offshore wind and vehicle to grid

power)

• Pratima Rangarajan *95, Vestas (wind turbine energy)

Biofuels

• David Berry, Joule Unlimited (biocatalytic conversion of CO2 to liquid fuels)

• Maureen McCann, Purdue University (biofuels)

• Markus Pauly, University of California, Berkeley (plant biotechnology)

• Richard Sayre, New Mexico Consortium (biofuels feedstocks)

• Jerald Schnoor, The University of Iowa (biofuels and water)

Highlight Seminar Series (2011-2014)

Energy Storage

• Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas, Austin (electrical energy storage

technology)

• Debra Rolison, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (energy storage science and

technology)

• Jean-Marie Tarascon, University de Picardie Jules Verne (green Li-ion batteries)

• Mark Verbrugge, General Motors (energy storage, batteries)

Electricity Grid

• Benjamin Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University (environmental and energy systems

analysis)

• David Perreault, MIT (power circuits and control)

Waste Heat Recovery

• Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University (nanostructured thermoelectric

materials)

• Ali Shakouri, Purdue University (thermoelectric devices)

Highlight Seminar Series (2011-2014)

Energy-Water Nexus

• Menachem Elimelech, Yale University (membrane-based processes at the water-

energy nexus)

• Bruce Logan, Penn State University (microbial electrochemical technologies)

Energy Policy/Economics

• James Hamilton, UC San Diego (energy economics)

• Richard Kaufman, U.S. Department of Energy (energy policy)

• Arun Majumdar, former Acting Undersecretary of Energy (energy policy)

• Frank Wolak, Stanford University (energy economics)

Environmental Remediation

• Christine Shoemaker, Cornell University (mathematical modeling of groundwater

remediation)

Education

Summer Undergraduate Internships 2011-2013

Energy Storage

• Benjamin Foulon ’13 (MAE) Metal-organic framework materials for energy storage

• Emmeline Kao ’12 (MAE) Development of new intercalation materials for magnesium ion batteries

• Ziwei (Collen) Leng ‘14 (MAE) Mechanical behavior of lithium-ion batteries

Renewable Energy

• Alexander Beebe ’13 (MAE) An investigation into aerodynamics and efficiency of vertical axis wind

turbines

• James Martino ’13 (MAE) Thermal energy harvesting via size-enhanced pyroelectricity in PZT NWs

• David Perlman ‘16 (CHM) Reduction of carbon dioxide into methanol

• Androniki Tsakiridou ’12 (MAE) Studies of organic electronic materials used for solar energy cells

• Anna Wuttig ’13 (CHEM) Novel metal oxide-based electrodes for photochemical CO2 reduction

Fuel Cells

• Kavya Desai ’13 (CBE) Novel multimetallic electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction in fuel cells

Fusion Energy

• Paul Ohno ‘14 (CHM) Graphite-gas interactions in nuclear fusion reactors

Education

Summer Undergraduate Internships (2011-2013)

Energy Efficiency

• Denisa Buzatu ‘15 (CEE) Adaptive shading for building energy optimization

• Marcus Lee ‘15 (MAE) Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces

• Mariam Wahed ’14 (CEE) Validation of structural and environmental performance optimization tool in

plant building design

• Bowen Zhou ’12 (CBE) Pathway regulation of biofilm formation

Environmental Monitoring & Remediation

• Christina M. Chang ’12 (CHM) Greener alternative to existing chlorine dioxide preparation techniques

• Jingkang Gao ’13 (CEE) Establishing wireless sensor network over campus with integrated trace-gas

sensors

Green Chemistry

• Andrew Mayfield ’13 (CHM) New catalytic methods for the β-functionalization of aldehydes

Education

Maeder Graduate Fellowship

2012-2013

• Josephine Elia (CBE): Supply chains for transportation fuels

2013-2014

• Warren Rieutort-Louis (ELE): Solar-powered, mechanically-flexible

electronic skins based on thin films of semiconducting materials that can

cover large surfaces

Education

Certificate in Energy Technology and Society (with Keller Center)

• Educate humanities/social science/policy students about energy technologies

• Provide engineering/science students understanding of societal implications of energy

technology

• 6 courses: 1 core, 2 energy technology, 2 society, 1 breadth

• One-semester independent research project and presentation of project at an annual

symposium

• Current students enrolled: 11

ENE: Energy Studies

• Number of courses with ENE code: 27 (23 Undergraduate, 4 Graduate)

• Number of courses pending approval: 10

ENE Courses

New Courses 2012-2013

• CEE 304/ENE 304/ENV 304: Environmental Implications of Energy Technologies

79 students (Dan Giammar, Kenan Visiting Professor)

• ENE 586/WWS 586H: Greening the U.S. Energy Economy: Meeting the Technology, Policy &

Investment Challenge

17 students (Michael Schwartz, Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Professor)

• MAE 424/ENE 424: Energy Storage Systems

8 students (Dan Steingart, Asst Prof of MAE/ACEE)

New Courses 2013-2014

• ENE 558/CBE 558/CEE 585: U.S. Shale Gas and Tight Oil: Implications and Opportunities

Fall ’13 (Michael Schwartz)

• ENE 587/WWS 586H: Managing the Transition to a Clean Energy Economy: Renewable Power in

the U.S.

Spring ’14 (Michael Schwartz)

• ENE 202/ARC 208/EGR 208/ENV 206: Designing Sustainable Systems

Spring ’14 (Forrest Meggers, Asst Prof of ARC/ACEE)

• ENE 557/ELE 557: Solar Cells: Physics, Materials, and Technology

Spring ’14 (Barry Rand, Asst Prof of ELE/ACEE)

Building the Andlinger Center Facility

• 129,000 gross square feet

• Designed to LEED silver standards

• Cleanroom and imaging & analysis: micro-nano fabrication,

packaging, organics, industrial collaboration, instructional

• Research Labs: photonics, solar cells, energy storage and

conversion, ecohydrology, flux tower, wet and dry teaching

labs, industrial collaboration, others TBD upon hires

• 200 seat lecture hall, meeting rooms, classrooms

• Faculty, visitor, postdoc, and student space

• Administrative office and facilities support

Andlinger Center Building Milestones

• Construction began (February 2012)

• Tower construction began (February 2013)

• Foundations completed (September 2013)

• Structural steel completed (October 2013)

• Exterior envelope completion (June 2014)

• Occupancy (Spring 2015)

Building and Equipment

• NJ Grant for fit-out of shelled spaces

• New equipment purchases

• UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer

• Spectroscopic ellipsometer

• Tunable laser system

• Plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition system

• Metal oxide sputtering system

• Dimatix and Pixdro printers

• LabRAM ARAMIS Confocal Raman Microscope system

• Nanosecond OPO laser

• Solid-State Picosecond laser

• Leica DCM 3D confocal microscope

• Solar energy conversion lab kits

Building and Equipment

• New equipment prioritization and funding committee

• Planning to purchase $16M+ more in central facility equipment

• PRISM Micro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory

http://www.princeton.edu/prism/mnfl/the-tool-list/

• PRISM Imaging and Analysis Center

http://www.princeton.edu/~iac/equipment.shtml

Strategy – Forward Plans

• Accelerate innovative multidisciplinary research through

funding, infrastructure, and intellectual discourse.

• Hire the best and brightest.

• Train the next generation of energy and environment

leaders by educating students in their own disciplines and in

a broader context.

• Increase activities at the intersection of policy and

technology