Catalysis and Chemical Engineering Global Conference

Catalysis is the innovator in the energy field-cleaning, efficient, and sustainable in their source of energy. Catalysis and Energy includes Revolutionizing Energy Production, Storage, and Conversion Technologies to Meet Global Demands with Minimal Environmental Footprint describes how catalysis is revolutionizing energy production, storage, and conversion technologies to meet global demands with minimal environmental footprint.

Catalysis is making a real difference in areas of renewable energy productions. Catalysts represent a critical component in the production of hydrogen: a clean fuel that is comparable to petrol. Catalysis of electrochemical and photochemical reactions splits water molecules into hydrogen fuel, allowing it then to be combusted in fuel cells for transportation and even power generation.

Applications that may promote the development of reduced carbon emissions and help bring sustainable energy closer to reality are potential advances apart from the actual production and storage of hydrogen itself. Fuel cells themselves are an application of catalysis in energy.

Since they allow for electrochemical reactions, catalysts facilitate with a very high degree of efficiency the electrochemical conversion of hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and result in minimal adverse environmental impact. Application of these processes can be seen not only in the automotive and industrial fields of power generation but also elsewhere, thereby propelling towards non-fossil fuel alternatives.

Catalysis is also critical to energy storage technologies including next-generation advanced batteries and supercapacitors. These technologies depend on catalysts in order to enhance the energy density, charging rates, and efficiency in general. A catalyst enhances the storage of energy, hence supporting the reliability and scalability of renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind, because for efficient distribution, they always have to be consistent in their storage.