Chemistry in Motion246th American Chemical Society National Meeting

September 8-12, 2013Indianapolis, IN

Transportation

Energy

Environment

The problem …….and the solution

Petroleum35.3

Natural Gas23.4

Renewable Energy

7.7

Transportation

27.0

72

3

394

12

3

% of source

% of transportation

Energy Use in Transportion2009, Quadrillion Btu

1 quad = 172 million barrels of oil (8 to 9 days of U.S. oil use)50 million tons of coal (2% of annual U.S. electricity use)1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (~4% of annual U.S. natural gas use).

Total U.S. Energy Use (2009) = 95 quads

Transportation Accounted for 28%

Petroleum Accounts for 94% of Energy Used for Transportation

Energy and Transportation: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century

National Research Council Report, 2003

Transportation Challenges

Vehicle mass reduction: use of new materials to improve fuel efficiency PMSE, POLY, CATL, INOR, TOXI

Reduced material cost of proton exchange fuel cells PMSE, POLY, CATL, INOR, ORGN, FLUO

Hydrogen generation, transportation and storage infrastructure ANAL, COLL, FUEL, INOR, ORGN, PHYS, CHAS, ENVR

New, less expensive and more selective chemical catalysts CATL, INOR, ORGN, ANAL,

Energy Challenges Significant increases in energy efficiency of fossil fuels and

chemical specificity of fossil fuel utilization (reduce CO2 and other harmful exhaust. FUEL, CATL, ORGN, INOR, ANAL, TOXI, PHYS

Develop infrastructure for conversion of natural gas to H2 and environmentally clean liquid fuels. CATL, INOR, ORGN, PHYS, ANAL, PMSE, POLY, COLL

Management of atmospheric CO2 levels: requires capture and sequestration GEOC, PHYS, POLY, PMSE, ORGN

Large increase in field efficiency (ratio of field capacity and theoretical field capacity) is needed to realize potential of biomass BIOL, BIOT, ACRO, FUEL,

Development of cost-effective photovoltaics for direct production of H2 and electricity. PHYS, PMSE, POLY, ORGN, INOR, ANAL,

Breakthroughs in energy storage technologies. PMSE, POLY, PHYS, INOR, ORGN, COLL, CHAS, TOXI