American Chemical Society Energy Transition: Climate Action and Circularity

Book Overview This book brings together leading technical experts from government, academia, and industry to discuss some of the many ways in which industry is seeking to decarbonize. Climate and environmental stewardship are playing an increasingly prominent role in strategic investment. When managing their investment portfolios, many major institutional investors are engaging in risk management for climate change. These changes in the financial sector are driving innovation as companies strive to reduce their perceived risk associated with climate change. The need for low carbon energy, low carbon materials synthesis, and material recyclability is leading to major advances in the science and engineering of materials and energy. Exciting new technological advances are being made which are poised to transform many parts of the industry including energy storage, fuels and engine design, refining, and materials manufacturing. Fourth industrial revolution (4IR) drivers, such as additive manufacturing and nanoengineering, are being applied to achieving sustainable materials. This book addresses the topic of energy and materials sustainability through a sampling of the spectrum of technologies showing promise and practical value in the industry for optimizing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The chapters span numerous disciplines including synthetic chemistry, nanoengineering, materials science, chemical engineering, and regulatory policy. The chapter authors are internationally renowned and of diverse backgrounds from government, academia, and industry. Editor Peter J. Boul received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Rice University in 2002. From 2002-2004 he was a Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires in Strasbourg, France. Dr. Boul has held various positions at NASA and in oil and gas at Halliburton and Aramco. He is currently Director of Composites at Lyten, Inc. in San Jose, California where he leads a team developing sustainable next generation composites with 3D graphene. Dr. Boul’s research has been cited over 18,000 times and at this time he has an h-index of 33. Reviewer Quotes David Curry Former Fellow of Baker Hughes, Inc. “Dr Boul is well placed to edit this book. He has a very strong academic background in materials science, a well-established reputation in research and development in the oil and gas industry and is well connected with both the oil and the chemical industries' R&D communities.” “The key distinguishing features are that the authors are mainly from industry and provide a firsthand, up-to-date assessment of rapidly advancing technologies pertinent to sustainability in that it is not clear that there is any recent book with the same principal characteristics.” Yunlong Zhang ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Annandale, Hydrocarbon Sciences “This is a great and timely book. I would recommend to all interested in sustainability issues in the petroleum field.” “The future of petroleum is under huge uncertainty now due to concerns on climate changes caused by extraction of energy from oil by humankind for more than a century. Most researchers turned to renewables and stayed away from fossil fuels, largely due to lack of funding or interest. However, to address the grant challenge of a sustainable future, all possible approaches and resources need to be considered and people need to work together. In this book, a reputed industrial scientist, Dr. Peter Boul, has edited a timely and much needed book on energy and materials to meet the sustainability issue. Each chapter is written by well-established scholars with a nice blend of backgrounds from industry, academic, and national labs. Similar books have not been published, and I think this book will have a clear and immediate impact.”