Sridhar was the director of the Space Technologies Laboratory at the University of Arizona where he was also professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.[5]
Oxygen production on Marsedit
The Space Technologies Laboratory was asked by NASA to undertake research into how life could be made sustainable on Mars. The team built a device that could use solar power and water obtained from the planet to power a reactor cell that made oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to power vehicles.[6] Sridhar led a project that built a Mars oxygen production cell using a yttria-stabilized zirconia solid-electrolyte ionic conductor to electrolyze carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide. The oxygen production unit was to fly as part of the MIP ("Mars ISPP Precursor") experiment package[7] that was to be sent to Mars on the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander mission. This would have been the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization ("ISRU") for propellant production on another planet. However, the 2001 Surveyor Lander mission was cancelled after the failure of the Mars Polar Lander, which used an identical spacecraft.
Bloom Energyedit
After NASA cancelled the Mars-2001 Surveyor Lander mission, Sridhar started working on reversing the process, using oxygen and hydrogen to create power.[6]
In 2001, Sridhar was a co-founder of Ion America, later to become Bloom Energy, with a mission to "make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone on earth". Sridhar became the chief executive officer. In 2002, the company moved to the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
On 24 February 2010, Bloom Energy launched a new energy-efficient and environmentally friendly fuel cell known as the Bloom Box. As of 2010[update], natural gas and atmospheric oxygen are pumped through a stack of cells, producing electricity, but theoretically any other gaseous fuel could be used.[8] The energy is clean and inexpensive, but development and production of this fuel cell required a large initial investment of $100 million. Sridhar was able to obtain funding for the project from investors such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. Kleiner is represented on the Bloom Energy board of directors by John Doerr, an early investor in companies such as Amazon and Google as well.[9]
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This article uses bare URLs which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting such as reFill documentation and Citation bot documentation August 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message KR Sridhar 1 born c 1960 is an Indian American engineer professor and entrepreneur He is the founder chairman and chief executive officer CEO of Bloom Energy He was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory STL at the University of Arizona Sridhar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering 2 KR SridharBornக ஆர ஸ ர தர 1960Tamil Nadu India Contents 1 Education 2 Career 2 1 Oxygen production on Mars 2 2 Bloom Energy 3 ReferencesEducation editSridhar was awarded a bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu India in 1982 3 He moved to the United States and gained an M S in nuclear engineering and a Ph D in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1989 4 Career editSridhar was the director of the Space Technologies Laboratory at the University of Arizona where he was also professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 5 Oxygen production on Mars edit The Space Technologies Laboratory was asked by NASA to undertake research into how life could be made sustainable on Mars The team built a device that could use solar power and water obtained from the planet to power a reactor cell that made oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to power vehicles 6 Sridhar led a project that built a Mars oxygen production cell using a yttria stabilized zirconia solid electrolyte ionic conductor to electrolyze carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide The oxygen production unit was to fly as part of the MIP Mars ISPP Precursor experiment package 7 that was to be sent to Mars on the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander mission This would have been the first demonstration of in situ resource utilization ISRU for propellant production on another planet However the 2001 Surveyor Lander mission was cancelled after the failure of the Mars Polar Lander which used an identical spacecraft Bloom Energy edit After NASA cancelled the Mars 2001 Surveyor Lander mission Sridhar started working on reversing the process using oxygen and hydrogen to create power 6 In 2001 Sridhar was a co founder of Ion America later to become Bloom Energy with a mission to make clean reliable energy affordable for everyone on earth Sridhar became the chief executive officer In 2002 the company moved to the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley On 24 February 2010 Bloom Energy launched a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly fuel cell known as the Bloom Box As of 2010 update natural gas and atmospheric oxygen are pumped through a stack of cells producing electricity but theoretically any other gaseous fuel could be used 8 The energy is clean and inexpensive but development and production of this fuel cell required a large initial investment of 100 million Sridhar was able to obtain funding for the project from investors such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield amp Byers and New Enterprise Associates Kleiner is represented on the Bloom Energy board of directors by John Doerr an early investor in companies such as Amazon and Google as well 9 Companies such as Adobe Systems eBay Google FedEx Wal Mart and Yahoo have already leased larger sized boxes References edit https www bloomenergy com kr sridhar phd Stanford Global Energy Forum Retrieved 23 March 2020 NIT Trichy DAA Recipients for 2007 08 Rajghatta Chidanand 23 February 2010 NRI readies power plant in a box The Times of India Archived from the original on 11 August 2011 KR Sridhar Ph D Principal Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer a b Schenker Jennifer 7 December 2009 Bloom Energy Shifts Power via Fuel Cells Business Week Archived from the original on 13 December 2009 Kaplan David I Baird R Scott Ratliff James E Baraona Cosmo R Jenkins Phillip P Landis Geoffrey A Scheiman David A Brinza David E Johnson Kenneth R Karlmann Paul B Sridhar K R and Gottmann Matthias The 2001 MARS IN SITU PROPELLANT PRODUCTION PRECURSOR MIP Flight Demonstration Human Space Transportation and Exploration Workshop 28 Feb 1 Mar 2000 Galveston TX Jha Alok 24 February 2010 Launch of the Bloom box fuel cell generates a slice of Apple hype The Guardian London Box of Clean Cheap Energy Blooms in Calif CBS News 24 February 2010 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title K R Sridhar amp oldid 1181911128, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
