Low-grade storage. Utilization

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1 Low-grade storage Recovery Concentrated Storage Utilization

2 » FEW umbrella context» NSF solicitation» Example of integrating diverse topics under FEW umbrella» FEW concept exercise» Brain storm cross-discipline project concepts» Form teams around project concepts Identify additional faculty to recruit to teams 2/10

3 Build storage into renewable energy generation using the natural food, water, and energy cycles Oceans Recovery (recovery) Atmospheric Low-grade storage Water Water Cycle Concentrated Surface / Groundwater Storage Energy Utilization Extraction» Storing Energy: finding synergies that allow food/energy/water extraction from the cycles at the time of demand» Concentrating the resource through artificial pathways for more efficient extraction» Accelerating the slowest part of the natural system to increase the resource capacity Enhance positive feedback Increase transport pathways Extract negative feedback components 3/10

4 » Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS) $50M in funding split between Cat1 ($1M $3M) and Cat2 (<$1M) Track 1: FEW System Modeling + Must define/quantify spatially heterogeneous FEW systems responses to various internal and external driving factors that occur on both short and long timescales. + Must be generalizable to multiple sites or time scales Track 2: Visualization and Decision Support for Cyber-Human-Physical Systems at the FEW Nexus + New analytic algorithms that will (a) support real-time management, near-real time decision making, and longer term planning; and (b) provide a science basis to aid in policy generation for decision making on week to decadal timescales and across multiple closely integrated systems 4/10

5 » Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS) Track 3: Research to Enable Innovative System Solutions + Efficient Use of Resources: address production, consumption and waste Devices, sensors, catalysts, nanomaterials, smart filters, and processes for detecting, removing, destroying or converting compounds of concern from waste streams Or conversion into valuable primary or secondary products Reveal uses for waste that do not require complete reversion back to pristine conditions. + Research on innovative strategies for appropriate management of natural and physical systems Track 4: Education and Workforce Development + Develop a cadre of citizens, scientists and engineers capable of thinking across Food-Energy-Water disciplines and systems + could be aligned with an INFEWS Track (1, 2, or 3) I believe a Track 4 project should be coupled with Track 1, 2, or 3 for an extra $500K-$1M addressing the outreach/education portion of any NSF project 5/10

6 1. Replace natural processes with engineered (accelerated) pathway Controlled Environment Agriculture Fertilizer Bio-fuel Reversible Fuel Cell 6/10

7 2a. Identify energy extraction goals Controlled Environment Agriculture Fertilizer Bio-fuel Hydrogen Liquefaction Reversible Fuel Cell 7/10

8 2b. Identify additional inputs Air Separation N 2 Fertilizer O 2 Controlled Environment Agriculture Bio-fuel Reversible Fuel Cell CH 4 Fossil/Renewable energy sources 8/10

9 3. Identify feedback pathways & synergies Fertilizer Controlled Environment Agriculture CO 2 + O 2 H 2 O + e - Activated Charcoal Bio-fuel Reversible Fuel Cell 9/10

10 » Track 3: Research to Enable Innovative System Solutions Address production, consumption and waste Air Separation N 2 Hydrogen Liquefaction + Conversion into valuable primary or secondary products Fertilizer Controlled Environment Agriculture O 2 Reversible Fuel Cell CO 2 + H 2 O + e - CH 4 Activated Charcoal Bio-fuel + Use of waste without reversion back to pristine conditions. + Devices, sensors, catalysts, nanomaterials, smart filters, and processes for detecting, removing, destroying or converting compounds of concern from waste streams 10/10