Requirements for CO2-free hydrogen production at scale

Abstract

Amitava Sarkar is a corporate research scientist for North America at TotalEnergies and a resident visiting scientist at Stanford University working to develop disruptive, no/low-carbon sustainable technologies to decarbonize the chemical industry. He is active in TotalEnergies’ open innovation effort through research and development collaborations and strategic partnerships with various research institutions around the world.

Shaffiq Jaffer is the vice president of corporate science and technology projects in North America at TotalEnergies. He is engaged across the research ecosystem with relationships and investments in academia, startups, and private research companies for the purpose of bringing value to TotalEnergies and its partners.

Arun Majumdar is the inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the Jay Precourt provostial chair professor at Stanford University, a faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a senior fellow and former director of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy. He served in the Obama administration as the founding director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (2009–2012), the acting undersecretary for energy (2011–2012), and as the vice chair of the secretary of energy advisory board (2014–2017). Dr. Majumdar is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Eddie Sun, Marco Gigantino, Richard Randall, Jimmy Rojas, and Shang Zhai were PhD students/postdoctoral scholars at Stanford University at the time of writing. Jimmy Rojas is now the founder and chief executive officer at EvolOH, and Shang Zhai is now an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (with a joint appointment in the School of Earth Sciences) at Ohio State University.