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Composition, structure, properties and reactions of everything

Scenario-based evaluation of renewable hydrogen utilization strategies

Abstract online at Academia Green Energy:

Renewable strategies evaluation

AI Podcast available at the same link.

About Nice Chemistry

 
NiceChemistry is an independent research enterprise dedicated to pursuing independent communication, education and consulting in science and technology topics including catalysis, renewable chemistry, controlled release and specially additives.  Founder and Principal Scientist, James D. Burrington has 43 years of scientific and technical experience in R&D at major chemical companies, including Lubrizol, BP and Sohio. 
 
Specific areas of commercialization and expertise include:
1) sustainable chemistry
    - renewable energies / net zero emissions
    - renewables valorization
    - catalytic conversion / functionalization
2) performance chemistry
    - lubricant additives
    - base oils
    - controlled release
3) industrial catalysis
    - selective oxidation
    - heteropolyacid catalysts
    - chemistry and mechanism
 

More detailed background and a listing of selected patents and publications can be found under the CV and Scientific Publications Tabs

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Email: ChemDr4@gmail.com

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Gates Mills, Ohio 44040

Clean Energy Technologies Credentials

Featured Publication

Renewable Energy Alternatives toward New Zero Emissions 

(pdf to full paper)

Sorting the factors contributing to climate change and the renewable technology options for mitigating GHG emissions can be difficult even for environmental professionals, but even more so for concerned scientists interested leveraging their specialities to greatest effect. This work quantifies global factors for CO2 emissions, cost, and land use minimization, and efficiency improvement for renewable energies in the IEA’s 2050 Net Zero Energy scenario compared to actual 2021 utilization and for optimized pathways to NZE based on current and technical potential performance. The resulting data base allows manipulation of the distribution of energy alternatives and the findings are presented to clearly identify the impact future NZE pathways.  Educators will appreciate the paper as a guide to calibrate students with the relative strengths and weaknesses of renewable energy sources and their potential for impacting future pathways to NZE. 

 

From the August, 2021 issue of c&en:

Turning Plastic Garbage Into Valuable Lube Oil: "Propylene is a big part of the plastics waste problem," said James D. Burrington, a catalysis and lubricant specialist who has spent more than 40 years in industry. This discovery along with the elucidation of the mechanism should interest the catalysis community and those engaged in furthering sustainable technologies for plastic recycling, he said.

https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs-meeting-news/Turning-plastic-garbage-valuable-lube/99/web/2021/08