Penn State Institute for Natural Gas
Research (INGaR)
Natural Gas Utilization Conference
10-15-2014
Monty Alger
Director
101 Hosler
[email protected]
Estimated US Energy Use 2013
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US Shale Gas Production
US Shale Gas Production
Production quadrupled 2 years
Ref: http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/marcellus.pdf
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US Energy Sources … Fossil Fuels ~82%
Coal
Oil
Gas
Opportunity
Nuclear
Hydro
% US
$/ MM BTU*
CO2/BTU
19%
36%
27%
2.4
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4.3
100%
70%
50%
Biomass
Solar
Wind
Geothermal
11%
7%
~0%
~0%
*Cost of fossil fuels at electricity generating plant 2013, U.S. Energy Information Administration / Monthly Energy Review September 2014 page 129
Natural Gas Growth
Technology
• Projects that have direct financial return
• Power generation, chemicals
• Residential and industrial conversion
Network
•
•
•
•
•
Risk, Unknown
• Long term price of natural gas
• Sustainability – regulation, emissions, water
• High capital – risk
Novel supply chain investments
Transportation fuels - infrastructure
H2, CNG, LNG, DME
GTL
Exports
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Sustainability
Source: Professor Roland Clift, Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES), University of Surrey; www.surrey.ac.uk
Life Cycle Assessment
Source: EPA, http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/images/flow_chart_life_cycle_big.jpg
System Level – Sustainability and Profit
Sustainability
Emissions
A
Waste
Profitability
Emissions
Inputs
A
Emissions
Inputs
Waste
• System Level Benefits
• Local profitability
• Reinvestment
Total
A
Waste
$’s
Summary – Push to the “A” Box
Sustainability
Performance
Improve
Base
C
A
D
B
Green but
“Poor”
Bad
Short term
“Rich”
Base
Improve
Profit, ROI
• “Shale Gas - new major investments, environmental improvement
• Sustainability – an evolving change to boundary conditions for solution
• Innovation – push for the A box ; technology (solution) <-> Need (market)
Natural Gas Value Chain
Discovery and
Exploration
Extraction and
Stimulation
Water and
Infrastructure
Needs
Technologies
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Growth
Low cost production
Sustainable development
Trained workforce
Utilization
Geology, Seismology
Fluid flow
Advanced sensors and measurements
Polymer matrix composites
Additive manufacturing
Intelligent systems
Autonomous devices
“Big Data”, analytics
Life cycle assessment
System analysis, financial evaluations
Social networking …
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Penn State – Institute for Natural Gas Research
Functional Excellence
Penn State Institute for Natural
Gas Research
Stakeholders
Geosciences
Energy and Mineral Engineering
….
Nuclear Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Smeal College of Business
Other Colleges, Science, etc….
Penn State
Projects
Discovery and
Exploration
External
• Business
• Public
• NGO’s
•…
Extraction and
Stimulation
Infrastructure
and Water
Internal
• Students
• Faculty
• Penn State
Utilization and
Conversion
Supply Chain
Needs
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Discovery and Exploration
Extraction and Stimulation
Infrastructure and Water
Utilization and Conversion
INGaR General
Total
4,159 696
3,636 2,073
3,446
27
268
1,182 678
12,423 3,742
1,000
92
1,194 127
77
82 2,933
1,019 129
3,371 3,281
438
118
195
135
887
171
73
485
174
870
659
481
481
133
377
Total
150
195
870
524
524
Other
Supply Chain and Information Systems
School of Forest Resources
Ben Franklin Technology Center
Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Materials Science & Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Energy Institute
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Application Space
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Geosciences
Baseline: INGaR Related Awards 2011-2013*
269
269
6,706
7,782
3,842
4,348
100 4,650
445 27,329
• >70 faculty have projects related to INGaR
• Faculty affiliates self select Application Space(s) to join
• 12 new faculty positions for INGaR
• On-going update of faculty baseline and interest
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Affiliate Faculty by Application Space 9/30
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Engagement and Planning Process
Sponsor goals,
target $’s
Sponsor
Commitment
Sponsor(s)
--- Established --Idea
Development,
Iteration
Sponsor
Goals
Pre-Proposal
List
Project
Proposals
Project
Execution
Next Steps
Penn State
Design Projects
Project Execution
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Penn State’s New Approach to IP Management
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Penn State will not seek to retain ownership of IP
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Penn State will assign IP to sponsor upon request
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Penn State has right to publish research results
•
Penn State has right to practice IP for research and educational purposes
•
If Penn State research results lead to exceptional commercial success, sponsor agrees to
share proportionally with Penn State
•
Exceptions considered on a case-by-case basis
•
Penn State Researchers must agree and acknowledge IP terms in writing
•
Background IP and its availability to license is identified upfront in research proposal
•
Background IP can be optioned or licensed by sponsor
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Master Research Agreement, Sponsored Research projects
Use Technology to Enable New Connections
K-12
University
Rethinking Education
• MOOC’s
• Flipped classroom
• Global and on-line
“Business”
Competitiveness
• Innovation / Execution
• “War for Talent”
• Critical skills - Retirements
• Knowledge capture, training
• Find, Hire, Develop Talent
Proposed Next Steps
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Sponsor(s) share interests and goals for potential INGaR collaboration
•
Review of priorities with Penn State research teams, faculty
•
Meeting(s) at Penn State (conf call) / Sponsor – review needs and opportunities
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Sponsor provide brief summary of business and interests
Selected faculty updates
Break-out sessions to develop collaboration projects, follow up discussions
Develop list of collaboration projects and topics
•
Joint prioritization of possible projects, target support $ per project
•
Sponsor(s) decision on level and type of support
•
Finalize proposal and INGaR collaboration plan
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Thank You!
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