2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

(4br) Sustainable Energy for the 21st Century and Beyond

Author

N.V.S.N. Murthy Konda - Presenter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory



Just over a decade into the 21st century and new millennium, it is becoming increasingly evident that energy security and climate change are two of the most defining challenges of our time and generations to come. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet and we need to nurture range of technologies to address these challenges. To accomplish this, motivated by my own diverse research experiences, several clean and green technologies need to be developed further. These include:

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  • Bioenergy (including advanced biofuels)
  • Carbon capture, transport and sequestration (technologies and infrastructure)
  • Hydrogen driven transportation (technologies and infrastructure)
  • Clean coal technologies based on gasification (including integrated gasification combined cycle)
  • Renewable energy sources (including solar and wind)
  • Energy systems of the future (e.g., urban energy systems, rural electrification, zero-carbon homes)
  • Water and healthcare (technologies and infrastructure)

Together, all these technologies have the potential to alleviate both the energy security and climate change concerns. This presentation will discuss effective use of various Systems Engineering tools (including process modeling, design, control, optimization and dynamic simulation) to foster scientific innovation and facilitate the acceleration of commercial development and deployment of these clean and green energy technologies. Special emphasis will be on large-scale real world energy systems.