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Washington State University Innovation for Sustainable Energy

Meeting Notes 2016-09-22

Further meeting times are inconclusive, so far.

Not officially set yet: Most popular meeting option times: Tuesday 7-8pm, Monday 4-5pm (should only be 15 minutes or so, discuss what you got done, what might be improvable). May be too late, especially for a standup meeting.

Note: We will continue meeting on Thursdays 3-4. We will add additional meeting times as needed.

Everybody needs to make sure they get on slack if they aren’t already (wsuise.slack.com)

Introductions, why they are here, what they want to get out of this, what they want to do.
Several CE, ChemE, BioChem, ME’s, others. A good mix! Most are interested in gaining real-life experience and in helping the environment. If we get enough CE’s we have some major projects that could be useful in designing larger refueling stations and facilities.

Japan is going towards hydrogen in vehicle fuel (as a long-term view).

Several possible groups:
• Purification and feedstock (mostly chemical)
• High pressure storage and fluids
• Structural, code, sitings (mostly civil)
• Liquefaction and testing?

Separated into preferred groups and performed tasks:
1. Reintroduced ourselves
2. Discussed skills we have (anything that might be relevant)
3. Came up with key questions about project we wanted answered
4. Possible group accomplishments
(Post these to slack, feel free to meet outside of lab anytime)

Meeting Notes 2016-09-15

INTRODUCTIONS

  • Jimmy is interested in renewable energy, has engineering experience with Toyota.
  • Nathan interested in renewable energy. Here to learn more about the fueling station.
  • Conrad interested in working with renewable energy.
  • Samantha worked on algae bio diesel, interested in learning about H2 bio fuel.
  • Casey H2 fuel is the reason she switched to CHEM E
  • Logan wishes to work with renewable energy such as hydrogen. “It’s the direction of the future”.
  • Dylan interested in working with Hydrogen in the future
  • Brandon Very interested in renewable energy and Hydrogen. Family is in that business.
  • Kyle Interested in green infrastructure.
  • Stephen Likes energy and looks forward to creating new methods for efficient energy use.
  • Crowdfunding will go live by October 15th

*Video Plays*

– Eli begins by answering the question: “What are you guys doing? And what has been done so far?”, thus giving the group an idea of what we are doing.

– Demonstration of the vortex tube concept at the core of the liquefier.

– Walkthrough of ISE website. We directed them to the design tab so that they may familiarize themselves with each individual project

– Tour of the fueling station, including current progress.

– Introduction to Slack

– Standup meetings will be conducted twice a week. Doodle schedule to be released soon through email.

BY NEXT MEETING:

  • Sign up for Slack
  • Fill out the Doodle poll for the second standup meeting
  • Look at the website and try to come up with a project, experience, or design you would like to work on to help complete the station. Send this to Eli through email or Slack, and we’ll form teams next meeting.

NEXT MEETING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 at 3 PM