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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#002E7A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">***** Seminar *****</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 46, 122); ">Center for Integrated Bio and Nano Systems</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 46, 122); "> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> Tuesday</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121); ">,</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">
May 23</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121); ">, 201</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">7</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">12:30 p.m. (Refreshments and pizza served at 12:00 pm)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: red; ">Room: 106 CCB </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-transform: uppercase; ">H2@Scale: Saving the Planet for Future Generations</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Bryan Pivovar, Fuel Cell Group Manager</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Chemistry and Nanosciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Abstract</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Supplying
all of society’s growing energy demands is hard and has been limited to date to the fossil fuel based energy system in place since the start of the industrial age. Hydrogen, as a flexible, clean energy carrying intermediate, has the potential to be a centerpiece
of a future energy system where aggressive market penetration of renewables (wind and solar) are coupled with renewable hydrogen production to meet society’s energy demands using clean, renewable resources and processes.
</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">A number of key recent changes are bringing hydrogen back into the spotlight: 1) Renewable energy is getting cheaper, and penetration levels are increasing at an exponential
pace; 2) the costs of GHG emissions (climate change) and criteria pollutants (health concerns) are being acknowledged and are reaching a point where society is demanding change (renewable portfolio and zero emission vehicle standards); and 3) commercial viability
of fuel cell vehicle technology has been demonstrated (commercial vehicles being sold). Hydrogen, as an area of R&D interest (from either the federal or private sectors) has had its ups and downs over the past few decades. Hydrogen has suffered at times
from being over-hyped or misunderstood. Claims of fuel cell commercialization, in particular, were in the past (early 2000’s) overly optimistic to be polite. The safety concerns of hydrogen have also often been poorly understood or overblown. These situations
have arisen, in part, due to a lack of appreciation for the science and data of hydrogen and hydrogen systems.
</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">This presentation will focus on the role of hydrogen at (grid-)scale and the efforts of a large, national lab team assembled to evaluate the potential of hydrogen
to play a critical role in our energy future. Facts about hydrogen will be shared, as will the vision of how it will fit into our future energy system.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Bio</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#002E7A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Bryan
Pivovar is Fuel Cell Group Manager in the Chemistry and Nanosciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO where he oversees NREL’s electrolysis and fuel cell R&D. He has been a pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development
for vehicle applications, taking on leadership roles and organizing workshops for the Department of Energy in the areas of sub-freezing effects, alkaline membranes, and extended surface electrocatalysis. Since June of 2015, he has been leading a multi-National
Laboratory team pursuing ‘Hydrogen at Scale’ as a pathway for deeply decarbonizing our energy system that explores the importance of Hydrogen in transportation and the other energy sectors. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University
of Minnesota and led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) prior to joining NREL. He received the 2012 Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society and has co-authored over 100 papers in the general area of fuel cells and
electrolysis. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#002E7A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Contact Prof.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> Stanko Brankovic (</span><a href="mailto:srbranko@Central.UH.EDU"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">srbranko@Central.UH.EDU</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">)
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