Marc W. Melaina Ph.D. (2005), University of Michigan M.S.E. (2002), University of Michigan Project Scientist Institute of Transportation Studies University of California Davis, CA 95616 Email: melaina@ucdavis.edu Phone (cell): (530) 848-9080

Research Interests

My research interests concern technology innovation and policy alternatives associated with alternative fuels and infrastructure development.  My recent research has examined hydrogen refueling station networks and infrastructure development dynamics. Examples of this research are listed below. More recently, I contributed to the UC study of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (www.lcfs.ucdavis.edu).

Key Publications

Melaina, M.W., 2007. Turn of the century refueling: A review of innovations in early gasoline refueling methods and analogies for hydrogen. Energy Policy (in press).

Melaina, M.W., 2003. Initiating hydrogen infrastructures: preliminary estimates of a sufficient number of initial hydrogen stations in the U.S. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 28(7):743-755. This paper was originally presented at the following conference: U.S. Market Challenges of Fuel Cell Commercialisation. Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research Center, GEE, Berlin, Germany. September 12-13, 2002 (download)

Melaina, M.W., and M.H. Ross. The ultimate challenge: building a hydrogen infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles. Environment. September 2000, pp. 10-22.

Background

I completed my PhD in 2005 through the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. My dissertation examined technological innovation, stakeholder coordination and transition strategies related to early hydrogen infrastructure development. It is available as an online publication through the Center for Sustainable Systems. I also completed an M.S.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, and my B.S. is in Physics from the University of Utah. For more information see my CV.

My work experience has included consulting for Argonne National Laboratory, an internship through Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the National Transportation Research Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, teaching a course on energy and environment at the University of Michigan Residential College, and an extended internship with the City of Ann Arbor Energy Office. I began working within the Hydrogen Pathways Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies in the fall of 2005, and then within the STEPS program in 2007.

Additional Publications

Melaina, M.W., 2007. Turn of the century refueling: A review of innovations in early gasoline refueling methods and anologies for hydrogen. Energy Policy (in press).

Melaina, M.W., Ogden, J.M., Miller, M., Nicholas, M., 2007. Simulating a Hydrogen Infrastructure Rollout in Los Angeles, California. 18^th Annual Meeting of the National Hydrogen Association. March 19-22. San Antonio, Texas.

Melaina, M.W., Yang, C., 2007. Review of the book The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Planet, by Joseph J. Romm, Island Press, Washington D.C., Journal of Ecological Economics, 63(1): 244-245.

Zhao, J., Melaina, M.W., 2006. Transition to hydrogen-based transportation in China: Lessons learning from alternative fuel vehicle programs in the United States and China. Energy Policy 34(11): 1299-1309.

Melaina, M.W., Bremson, J., 2006. Regularities in early hydrogen station size distributions. Energy in a World of Changing Costs and Technologies, 26th North American Conference, International Association of Energy Economics. Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 24-27.

Melaina, M.W., 2005. Estimating relative station sizes in early hydrogen station networks. 16th Annual Conference of the National Hydrogen Association Annual. Washington, D.C., March 29 - April 1.

Melaina, M.W., 2004. Addressing the chicken and egg problem: modeling network-level transitions between modes of hydrogen delivery. The International Hydrogen Energy Forum. Beijing, China, May 25-28.

Melaina, M.W., 2004. Turn of the century refueling: lessons from the past for introducing hydrogen fuel for 21st century vehicles. 15^th Annual U.S. Hydrogen Conference and Exposition of the National Hydrogen Association. Hollywood, CA, April 26-30.

Melaina, M. W., 2003. Initiating hydrogen infrastructures: preliminary estimates of a sufficient number of initial hydrogen stations in the U.S. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 28(7):743-755.

Melaina, M.W., 2003. Initiating hydrogen infrastructures: the role of the chicken and egg problem in increasing energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. 14th Annual U.S. Hydrogen Conference and Exposition of the National Hydrogen Association. Washington, D.C, March 4-6.

Björklund, A., Melaina, M.W., Keoleian, G., 2001. Hydrogen as a transportation fuel produced from thermal gasification of municipal solid waste: an examination of two integrated technologies. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 26, 1209-1221.

Melaina, M.W., Keoleian, G., 2001. Urban energy metabolism: framework and case study. Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for Industrial Ecology: The Science & Culture of Industrial Ecology. Leiden, The Netherlands, November 12-14.

Melaina, M.W., Ross, M.H., 2000. The ultimate challenge: developing an infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles. Environment 42: 10-22.