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1. Accelerating the Fusion Workforce

Author

Paz-Soldan, Carlos, Belonohy, Eva, Carter, Troy, Cote, Laleh E., Kostadinova, Evdokiya, Lowe, Calvin, Sharma, Subash L., de Clark, Sybil, Deshpande, Jaydeep, Kelly, Kate, Kruse, Veronika, Makani, Bobbi, Schaffner, David A., and Thome, Kathreen E.

Subjects
Physics - Physics and Society, Physics - Physics Education, Physics - Plasma Physics
Abstract

The fusion energy research and development landscape has seen significant advances in recent years, with important scientific and technological breakthroughs and a rapid rise of investment in the private sector. The workforce needs of the nascent fusion industry are growing at a rate that academic workforce development programs are not currently able to match. This paper presents the findings of the Workforce Accelerator for Fusion Energy Development Conference held in Hampton, Virginia, United States of America (USA), on May 29-30 2024, which was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). A major goal of the conference was to focus on bringing public and private stakeholders together to identify opportunities for partnership in fusion research and education with the goal of meeting the needs for a talented and diverse workforce. Representatives from industry, academia, and national laboratories participated in the conference through the preparation of white papers, presentations, and group discussions, and the production of recommendations to address the challenges facing the US fusion workforce.

Published
2025

6. Study of PEM Fuel Cell End Plate Design by Structural Analysis Based on Contact Pressure

Author

Mechanical Engineering, Dey, Tapobrata, Deshpande, Jaydeep, Singdeo, Debanand, Ghosh, Prakash C., Mechanical Engineering, Dey, Tapobrata, Deshpande, Jaydeep, Singdeo, Debanand, and Ghosh, Prakash C.

Abstract

A fuel cell stack is configured to power any load ranging from watts to megawatt by varying cells connected in series. During stack assembly, major emphasis must be placed on application of adequate external pressure for reducing the ohmic losses, the purpose of which is to achieve proper contact between the cell components and minimize the contact resistance. Present work aims to study the influence of geometry of the cell, bolt configuration, gasket thickness mismatch, and material properties of different components of average and distribution contact pressure. The geometries are evaluated for end plate designs with a view to understand the pressure distribution and contact resistance in each case. Among different designs, extruded hexagon is found to perform well with an average contact pressure of 0.13 MPa and contact resistance of 28 Ω-cm2. Greater gasket thickness requires higher forces to be applied before the GDL makes contact with BPP. The effect of gasket thickness mismatch is evaluated for different values to identify its appropriate value. The pressure is applied using bolts and position and number of bolts is determined for homogeneous contact pressure on the active area. This study provides a framework for future end plate design of fuel cells.

Published
2019

8. Investigations on Solar Powered Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

Author

Deshpande, Jaydeep Sanjeev, Mechanical Engineering, Pitchumani, Ranga, Huxtable, Scott T., and Mahajan, Roop L.

Subjects
Optimization, direct contact membrane distillation, seawater desalination, membrane distillation, waveguide, levelized cost, exergy analysis, recovery ratio, solar desalination
Abstract

Desalination is one of the proposed methods to meet the ever increasing water demands. It can be subdivided into two broad categories, thermal based desalination and electricity based desalination. Multi-effect Distillation (MED), Multi-Stage Flashing (MSF), Membrane Distillation (MD) fall under former and Reverse Osmosis (RO), Electro-Dialysis (ED) fall under later. MD offers an attractive solution for seawater as well as brackish water distillation. It shows highly pure yields, theoretically 100% pure. The overall construction of a MD unit is way simpler than any other desalination systems. MD is a thermally driven diffusion process where desalination takes places in the form of water vapor transport across the membrane. It has low second law efficiency due to parasitic heat losses. The objective of the first part of the investigation is to thoroughly analyze a Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) system from the view point of yield and exergy. The insights from exergy analysis are used in a design study, which is used for performance optimization. The first part concludes with a design procedure and design windows for large scale DCMD construction. In the second part of the investigation, focus is moved to waveguide solar energy collector. The idea behind an ideal waveguide is to reduce the complexity of modeling solar energy collection. The mathematical model provided in this analysis can be extended to a family of non-imaging optics in solar energy and serves as a benchmarking analysis tool. A waveguide is suitable for low temperature operations due to limitations on maximum continuous temperature of operation. Thus, it becomes an ideal solution for DCMD applications. A levelized cost analysis is presented for a waveguide powered DCMD plant of a 30,000 capacity. A combination of waveguide and DCMD shows levelized cost of water at $1.80/m³, which is found to be lower than previously reported solar desalination water costs. Master of Science

Published
2016

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