Purdue University, USA
Presentation Title: The Role of Green Hydrogen in the Race to Zero
Abstract
Today, the oil & gas industry is faced with the real challenge of reducing their emissions as part of the race to zero. In today’s framework, these challenges can turn into opportunities for the oil & gas sector’s competitive advantages: their energy resources, geographic locations, access to abundant renewable energy and highly developed infrastructure to develop and produce clean hydrogen. This presentation will provide insights into the role of green hydrogen in the race to zero from a global perspective of the oil & gas industry.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Sheffield joined Purdue University in January 2015 as a Professor of Engineering Technology. He also holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Sheffield has a broad base of experience in energy technologies. He served as one of the founding associate directors at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization – International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (UNIDO-ICHET) in Istanbul during the first two years of operation in 2005-2006. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. In August 2014, he completed a two-year assignment as a principal consultant at DNV focused on energy efficiency programs. Upon the retirement of Professor T. Nejat Veziroğlu, Dr. Sheffield was elected as the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the “H2 JRP – Hydrogen Joint Research Platform” for the three-year period 2022-2024. In April 2022, he was selected for the 2022 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award from Purdue University. In 2023, he was appointed as a 2023 Energy Scholar at the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at Oklahoma University. He is married to Çiğdem Sheffield, who served as Prof. Veziroğlu’s executive assistant at UNIDO-ICHET from 2004-2007.