Royal Society of Chemistry Convenes a Public Talk on Renewable Fuels

The Royal Society of Chemistry (Kent Section) as a division of its 2011 International Year of Chemistry celebrations has arranged for a public talk on renewable fuels.

The talk titled, ‘Can we really run our cars on waste, water and vodka?’ will be held on 8th September at Dover located Duke of York Royal Military School.

The talk arranged to benefit the schools and larger public proposes to underscore some of the problems such as over dependence on fossil fuels especially for transportation. The talk will be given by Dr Bruce Alexander, a Physical Chemistry lecturer at the School of Science, Greenwich. Dr Sam Booth and Raj Hanarasinghe fellow researchers of Dr Alexander at the University and dynamic committee members of the local section of the RSC in Kent have completed the arrangements for the public talk.

Dr Alelxander questions the green energy attributes of the currently utilized renewable energy fuels such as bio ethanol and biodiesel and the actual meaning of sustainable and green. He suggests for probing into the usage of the other options such as hydrogen and electricity and find out more unique and atypical instances that can only be provided by chemical innovations. He cited the case of utilizing chemical component urea to sanitize exhaust pollution.

The research of Dr Alexander includes formulating new materials for applications in renewable energy such as solar energy conversion and production of hydrogen.