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# ORNL’s JUMP Challenge: JUMP in to Advance Tech Innovation! November 17, 2015 Melissa Voss Lapsa Group Leader, Whole - Building and Community Integration2 

# Why use Crowdsourcing for Innovation?

“ While only a fraction of Americans are formally trained as professional scientists and engineers, everyone can contribute to science, engineering, and technology through open science and innovation approaches, such as citizen science and crowdsourcing projects.”
– White

House blog on Sep 30,2015 “..The Smartest People don’t all work for you!”
– Dr. David Danielson, U.S. DOE Assistant Secretary
“ Co-create a new world of home appliances ”

– firstbuild by General Electric

“ Make your mark on history and help build the world's first road -ready 3D-

printed car.” Local Motors3 

## The Beginning: ORNL’s ‘15 Buildings Crowdsourcing Efforts

Taking it Forward: Launch v2.0 “JUMP” 

# J oin in discussion 

# U nveil innovation 

# M otivate transformation 

# P romote technology to market 5 Create a community that links ORNL researchers

to industry partners, small businesses, innovators and end - users to hasten the market transformation curve of energy efficient technologies.



### Vision

4 Rapid Innovation  Opportunity to participate in SBV  One of the winners is discussing a potential CRADA with ORNL Campaigns & Stats  3 Campaigns: Envelope , Equipment , Sensors & Control  5,000+ Unique visitors  70+ Valid ideas 1 Award Recognition  Each of the winners presented their ideas and explore partnership opportunities with 300 participants  One idea 3 - d printed 3 Community Engagement to Advance Best Ideas

* Subject to funding availability Judging  9 Independent Judges. Ideas evaluated based on their technical feasibility, potential for energy savings, and novelty 24 

# Crowdsourcing v2.0 - JUMP Designed to engage industry partners in co-developing campaigns relevant to the most pressing industry challenges, to accelerate Tech2Market
 JUMP was launched end of September in partnership with GE, UTRC, A.O. Smith, and Honeywell at web.ornl.gov/JUMP  General Electric is providing $3 K cash award for winners  Potential in - kind technical support from ORNL for validation , testing, and prototyping of winning ideas ($10- 15 K)  Linkage to the SBV pilot , with in - kind technical support of up to $300K (if approved)  Opportunity to discuss future collaboration with ORNL and/or industry partners  DOE leadership is excited that JUMP is targeting subtle problems that are truly relevant to Industry Partners!5 

# How JUMP works? Phase One – Idea Generation and Exchange

Phase One Duration: 8 to 10 weeks ORNL Review Funnel of Feasibility: • Technical • Economic • Market ready • Customer interest or need Innovator(s) send in ideas ORNL review,

ideas are posted to JUMP JUMP Community • Votes • Discuss and comments 1.
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# Phase Two – Identifying the Best of the Best

ORNL, DOE, and Industry Partners convene Judging Panels around Campaign topics to identify the Best Ideas Best Ideas Channel to SBV Application Process Facilitate matchmaking with Industry Partners Recognition at Demonstration Events Advancing Best Ideas and Rewards Duration: 4 weeks

Duration: 6 to 8 weeks 5. 6.7 

# Negotiating Intellectual Property

Innovator owns and protects their IP Potential point for negotiation of IP with ORNL and/or Industry Partners 

### Innovators will own their contributions to IP solely or jointly when: • ORNL adds to the idea through technical support or the SBV process • Industry Partner adds to the idea through co - design, co - build, and/or co - development8 

# Get Involved in Current Campaigns Join us for JUMP 

### Webinars
• Tuesday, Nov. 17, 3 -4pm EST – Topic: lowtemperature and low- cost refrigerator defrost system
• Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2 - 3pm EST – Topic: Lowcost btu sensor for building HVAC control systems
• Wednesday

, Nov. 18, 3-4 pm EST – Topic : Improving thermal energy storage for water heaters challenge 

### Register: web.ornl.gov/jumpImagination at work 

# GE JUMP Challenge Webinar 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM November 17, 2015See tutorial regarding confidentiality disclosures. Delete if not needed. 

# What a defrost heater does

10 When moist air enters a refrigerator and is cooled, it becomes saturated and the moisture condenses and forms water droplets or frost. Because the evaporator is the coldest component inside a frost free refrigerator, much of the water collects on the surface of this heat exchanger. The frost insulates the evaporator and blocks airflow. Periodically this frost needs to be removed. The typical method to remove frost involves shutting off the cooling system and airflow and operating a heater. This heater melts the frost, the water is then collected in a drain pan. From the drain pan the water flows out of the compartment through a drain tube. Fig 1: Front View with Evap Cover in place Fig 2: Front View with Evap Cover Removed Fig 3: Radiant HeaterSee tutorial regarding confidentiality disclosures. Delete if not needed. 

# Where a defrost heater is located

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### Heaters are often at the bottom of the evaporator because this is where much of the frost accumulates. This location also provides some heat to the drain pan to prevent the drain tube from freezing GE top mount Spine fin evaporator, Heater is between the bottom passes Plate and tube evaporator, typical of many frost free 

### refrigeratorsSee tutorial regarding confidentiality disclosures. Delete if not needed. 

# Types of defrost heaters

12 Aluminum sheathed electric heater
Steel sheathed electric heater

These heaters have a nickel chromium wire, ceramic insulation and metal sheath. This heater has a thin heater wire in a silicone rubber sheath that is then placed in an aluminum tube. These heaters have a low watt density to avoid overheating the silicone. For this reason it is usually longer than other heater types. But the low surface temperature allow these heaters to comply with surface temperature requirements .

Radiant heater in a quartz tube Radiant heater installed in an evaporator 

### Silicone Wire

Radiant Ceramic insulatedSee tutorial regarding confidentiality disclosures. Delete if not needed. 

# Summary of U.L 250 Flammable Refrigerants Supplement with Respect to Heaters The surface temperature of any component that could be exposed to a flammable refrigerant leak must be cooler than the ignition temperature minus 100 C 

# R600a has an ignition temperature of 460C, so a defrost heater used in and R600a system where it could be exposed to refrigerant must have a surface 

# temperature of 360C or less. If it is not possible for the defrost heater to be exposed to refrigerant, then a heater with a higher surface temperature could still be compliant
13See tutorial regarding confidentiality disclosures. Delete if not needed. 

# Develop a low-cost system to remove frost from a household refrigerator evaporator while conforming to UL 250 Flammable Refrigerants Addendum. 

# Help facilitate the adoption R - 600a 1) significantly lower global warming potential (GWP), 

# 2 ) typically lower sound level, 3 ) lower energy usage (approximately 4%).

14ORNL is managed by UT - Battelle for the US Department of Energy 

# ORNL’s JUMP Challenge: JUMP in to Advance Tech Innovation! November 17, 2015 DR. Brian Fricke R&D Staff member in the Building Equipment Research Group at ORNL16 TITLE 

# ORNL & Next Generation Appliances

• ORNL supports the DOE Building Technologies Office (BTO) mission to:

– Promote efficiency

– Promote affordability



### – Promote environmentally friendliness

– Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

– Conduct R&D to advance innovative technologies for appliances



### – Accelerate adoption of new products on the market

– Increase private sector collaboration in developing new technologies


## • Utilize ORNL’s strengths in appliance and HVAC&R product 

## R&D to develop next- generation, energy- efficient and environmentally-friendly refrigerators17 TITLE 

# Refrigerator Energy Consumption
• With encouragement from DOE and BTO, today’s refrigerators use only about 25% of the energy required to power models built in 197518 TITLE 

# Next Generation Refrigerators

• Work with industry to continue to enhance refrigerator/freezer performance • Utilize isobutane (R - 600a) as a refrigerant:

– Increased energy efficiency compared to units using R - 134a (estimated to be up to 4%)

– Significantly reduced Global Warming Potential (GWP) 

## and environmental impact: • GWP of R - 134a: 1430 • GWP of R - 600a: 3



## – Challenge: R - 600a is flammable19 TITLE 

# Benefits

• Assuming full adoption, benefits of increased energy efficiency and lower GWP:

– Reduce source energy consumption by an estimated 

## 38 TBtu/year

– Reduce annual consumer energy costs by $338 million

– Reduce direct (refrigerant) and indirect (energy) 

## greenhouse gas emissions by over 2.7 million tons per year20 TITLE 

# JUMP in to Advance Tech Innovation! Idea Submission Deadline Wednesday, January 15, 2016 For more information: Melissa Voss Lapsa, lapsamv@ornl.gov Brent Junge , Brent.Junge@ge.com Brian Fricke, frickeba@ornl.gov

Let’s Put Our Ideas to Work at: web.ornl.gov/jump