Members Council Meeting March 27, 2017
Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment
Members Council Agenda
9:30 Welcome, introductions Lamese / Karen
DOE Announcement Mark Johnson, DOE
9:50 RAPID update Karen
10:20 Focus Areas Jim
10:50 Plans for Roadmapping Darlene
11:10 Membership Agreement and IP Plan Lamese / Matt
12:00 Break for lunch buffet & networking All
12:15 Open Networking All
1:15 Adjourn
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RAPID Leadership Team
Karen Fletcher
CEO
Jim Bielenberg
CTO
Kevin Chin
COO
Lamese Bader
Director
Membership & Outreach
Ashley Smith-Schoettker
Director
Education & WFD
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DOE Guests Here Today
Mark Johnson
Director - AMO
Kelly Visconti
Technology Manager
Valri Lightner
Director – Project Mgmt
Melissa Klembara
Technology Manager
John Winkel
Project Officer
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Antitrust Guidance from AIChE
• No AIChE member (“Member”) nor any participant in any AIChE Division, Forum, Local Section, Industry
Technology Alliance, Technical Entity, Committee or other entity (“Participant”) shall attempt to bring about any
anticompetitive or illegal understanding or agreement, of any kind, with regard to prices, terms or conditions of
sale, distribution, volume of production, sales territories or customer or suppliers.
• No Member or Participant in connection with AIChE activities shall discuss, communicate, or engage in any other
information exchange with regard to prices or pricing methods.
• No Member or Participant in connection with AIChE activities shall discuss, or exchange information about
restrictions on production or sales, or sales territories or customers or suppliers unless such action is strictly
necessary to respond to an emergency and narrowly limited in duration and scope to the emergency
circumstances, and every effort should be made to have counsel present.
• No Member or Participant in connection with AIChE activities shall participate in any discussion of costs, or any
exchange of cost information, unless counsel is present.
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Antitrust Guidance from AIChE (cont’d)
• No Member or Participant in connection with AIChE activities shall engage in any discussion to prevent
any person or business entity from gaining access to any market or customer for goods or services, or to
prevent any business entity from obtaining a supply of goods or otherwise purchasing goods or services
freely in the market.
• Neither AIChE nor any of its entities shall make any effort to bring about the standardization of any
product to prevent the manufacture or sale of any product not conforming to a specified standard.
• Neither AIChE nor any of its entities shall require as a condition for participation that a Participant shall
not associate or do business with a non-member.
• All AIChE members and participants have an obligation to comply with the antitrust laws in connection
with their activity, and will advise an appropriate AIChE official of any known or suspected violation of
these Guidelines.
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DOE Announcement
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Mark Johnson, Director
Advanced Manufacturing Office
RAPID’s Industry-Led Vision
A dynamic network of partners who collectively build a
sustainable ecosystem that:
… researches, develops and broadly commercializes new
technology in modular chemical process intensification
… delivers dramatic reductions in energy, greenhouse gas, capital
and operating cost
… makes U.S. Manufacturing and our workforce more competitive.
RAPID’s Ecosystem
Industry leaders, researchers, educators,
engineers, operators & facilities
An “Industry-Centric” Value-Proposition:
• Access to new process intensification technology and tools with the potential for: – Lower capital cost
– Lower operating cost
– Improved process efficiency
– Improved energy efficiency
– Reduced waste
– Reduced environmental footprint
• Roadmapping workshops with access to finished products
• Leveraged investment in R&D projects that directly address industry challenges
• Access to tools, models, and educational materials
• Networking and collaboration with academia, national labs, supply chain partners
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Our Mandate
• Lead a national effort to research, develop and demonstrate high-impact modular chemical
process intensification solutions for U.S. Manufacturing.
• Actively build RAPID membership through an inclusive and attractive value proposition.
“The goal for these
Institutes is to revitalize
American manufacturing
and support domestic
manufacturing
competitiveness.”
— U.S. DOE
• Leverage $70 million of federal funding with cost share from members.
• Operate the Institute to benefit a wide range of stakeholders.
• Establish an infrastructure that enables access to process
intensification resources, tools, expertise, and facilities.
• Bring together private and public entities to co-invest in R&D,
commercialization, and deployment of innovative technologies.
• Establish a technical education and workforce development program.
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DOE Performance Metrics
• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Productivity improvement
• Intensification in Individual Process Modules
• Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Modules
• Cost Effective Deployment
• Enabling R&D Portfolio
• Industrial Partnerships
• Pathway to Self-Sustainment
• Train the Trainers
• Educate Students
• Annual Planning Process
• Industrial Roadmap
• Emerging Supply Chain
• Diversity of Firms and Individuals in the Eco-System 11
Organization
CEO
CTO COO DIRECTOR OF
EDUCATION & WFD
DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP
& OUTREACH
Program Manager 1
Chemical & Commodity
Processing
Program Manager 2
Natural Gas
Upgrading
Renewable
Bioproducts
Intensified Process
Fundamentals
Modeling &
Simulation
Module
Manufacturing
COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNICAL EDUCATION & WFD LEADER
Focus Areas
GOVERNING BOARD
TECHNICAL
ADVISORY BOARD
MEMBERS
COUNCIL
Governing Board
• Establishes, disseminates and maintains RAPID mission
• Participates in strategy development, approving the plan and monitoring progress
• Oversees the CEO on operational management
• Approves RAPID Operating Plan, Strategic Plan and Statement of Project Objectives
• Meets 4x per year
• 4 Sub-Committees: – Executive
– Strategic Planning
– Finance
– Government Advisory
• Chair and Vice-Chair will be members from industry, elected by members of the Board
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Technical Advisory Board
• Chaired by CTO
• Oversees roadmapping
• Recommends future initiatives based on Focus Area roadmaps and input from the sub-committees
• Participates in regular program reviews and provides guidance to CTO
• Meets 4x per year; Monthly telecons as needed
• 7 Sub-Committees:
– 1 for each Focus Area
– Education & Workforce Development
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Members Council
• Chaired by Director of Membership & Outreach
• Primary forum for communication & networking
• Acts as sounding board for the Director of Membership & Outreach
• Reviews project status; Creates opportunities to collaborate on future projects
• Suggests additional members to join RAPID
• Meets 4x per year
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Education & Workforce Development
• Vision
• Education & WFD Committee
• Reports to Technical Advisory Board
• Committee Members
• Process Intensification Workforce Development Roadmap
• Body of Knowledge (BOK) will establish curricula for
target audiences:
• Professionals
• Undergraduate and graduate students
• Faculty
• High school students
• Start with survey to assess current state
Priorities for Budget Period 1 (Now – Sept 30)
• Sign up members
• Establish Boards, Councils, sub-committees
• Work processes, communications, operations, …
• One roadmap for each Focus Area + Education + RAPID overall
• Establish teams, workshop design, current state
• Roadmapping leads to RFPs and project selection/funding
• 4 proposed to DOE to start work in Budget Period 1
• If approved, one project in 4 different Focus Areas
• Helps stand up the Institute; Puts early wins on the board
1. Start up the
Institute
2. Roadmapping
3. Jump Start
Projects
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Focus Areas
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Chemical & Commodity
Processing
Natural Gas
Upgrading
Renewable Bioproducts Intensified Process
Fundamentals
Modeling & Simulation
Module Manufacturing
Focus Areas – Transformational Potential
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Industry Advisors will be identified for each Focus Area.
Chemical & Commodity
Processing
Natural Gas
Upgrading Renewable Bioproducts
Thomas Edgar
Univ. of Texas
Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Univ. of Houston Robert Brown
Iowa State Univ.
Shri Ramaswamy
Univ. of Minnesota Michael Matuszewski
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Levi Thompson
Univ. of Michigan
• Develop guidelines for integration
of novel reaction and separation
modules
• Validate design tools for process
intensification
• Prototype and scale novel bio-
conversion processes
• Improve energy and capital
efficiency of existing and
emerging processes
• Maximize impact through
transfer of technologies and
learnings across industries
• Mature and demonstrate
transformational and enabling
technologies for gas utilization
Industry Advisors will be identified for each Focus Area. 21
David Sholl
Georgia Tech
Stratos Pistikopoulos
Texas A&M
Dion G. Vlachos
Univ. of Delaware
James A. Ritter
Univ. of South Carolina Brian Paul
Oregon State Univ.
Ward TeGrotenhuis
Pacific Northwest
National Lab
• Develop methods & tools for
design, optimization, and
intensification across multiple length
and time scales
• Establish methods for intensification
of dynamic/periodic operations
• Advance inherently energy
efficient separation processes
and reaction platforms
• Develop fundamentals for
multifunctional modules such as
hybrid separation/reaction
schemes
• Standardize modules and
components to drive demand
and capital investment within
the supply chain
• Lower the cost of PI equipment
using advanced manufacturing
technology
Intensified Process
Fundamentals Modeling & Simulation Module Manufacturing
Roadmapping
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Roadmapping: Selection of Projects
• Roadmap areas
• Cross cutting technologies roadmap
• One rolled up road map
• Correlated to Educational Body of Knowledge
• How
• Review of existing industry roadmaps
• Update with eye on Modular Process Intensification
• Mapped to Metrics and TRL levels
• Virtual meetings and face to face
• Yearly updates
• Who
• CTO lead
• FA Leaders / sub-committees
• Premier and Choice members
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Roadmapping Timeline
April 1 Identification of Industry members begins
May 1 Review of existing roadmaps completed
May 15 Content and format finalization of roadmaps
June 1 Meetings (virtual and workshop) to be scheduled
June 23 Tentative date for Face-to-Face workshop
Sept 1 Draft ready for review
**Timeline with input from Focus Area leads
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RAPID Membership
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Membership Agreement & Application
• What is a RAPID Member?
• How do we become a member?
– Membership Application
– Membership Agreement
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Membership Benefits
• Members Council
• Networking
• Program updates
• Opportunities to engage in projects (cost share)
• Discounts on AIChE and RAPID Conferences
• Education & Work Force Development
– Educate and train your current and future workforce
• Additional Benefits depending on membership level, e.g.
– Seat on Governing Board or Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
– TAB subcommittees
– IP privileges 27
Highlights of Membership Agreement
• Membership
– Sub-Awardees
– Membership Categories
• U.S. Manufacturing Plan
• IP Plan
• DOE Requirements
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Industrial Membership
* 1 or 2 seats to represent the entire group at this membership level
Industrial Members Premier Choice Enabling
Annual Membership Fee $50K $20K $5K
Cost Share Contributions/year $1M $500K Encouraged
BENEFITS
Technical Advisory Board Sub-committees Full Participation By Invitation Only
Roadmaps, Database & Toolbox Access Full Access
Networking Full Access
Project Funding Eligible
IP License All All Per IP Plan
Member Services & Discounts Yes
Education & Workforce Development Yes
GOVERNANCE
Governing Board Yes Minimal 2 seat * Minimal 1 seat *
Technical Advisory Board Yes Minimal 2 seat * Minimal 1 seat * 29
Academic / Gov’t Lab / Non-Profit / State & Local Membership
* 1 or 2 seats to represent the entire group at this membership level
Premier Choice Enabling Observer
Annual Membership Fee $7K $3K
Cost Share Contributions/year $2M $750K $100K Encouraged
BENEFITS
Technical Advisory Board Sub-committees Full Participation By Invitation By Invitation
Roadmaps, Database & Toolbox Access Full Access No
Networking Full Access Members Council
Project Funding Eligible Ineligible
IP License Per IP Plan Ineligible
Member Services & Discounts Yes Yes Limited Limited
Education & Workforce Development Full Participation Full Participation
GOVERNANCE
Governing Board Yes Minimal 2 seat* None None
Technical Advisory Board Yes Minimal 2 seat* None None
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Why Join NOW?
• Participate in Roadmapping – Starting in April!
• Take advantage of Membership benefits
– Participate on the Governing Board, Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
– TAB sub-committees: one on each Focus Area
• IP benefits – get in on projects on the ground floor
– Joining later requires IP buy-in
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Note: We are waiving cost share requirements to achieve Member Level in 2017!
Projects are just getting started; Project cost sharing is highly encouraged.
IP Plan Summary
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See 1-Page
Summary Handout
Questions?
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