• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Bill Green

MIT

Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering

William Green, Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a world leader in quantitatively predicting chemical reactions, and in methods for computing molecular properties. In addition to his extensive fundamental research, he has addressed a variety of industrial engineering problems involving fuels, engines, catalysis, emissions, and production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and he has received several patents. Dr. Green is the Faculty Chair of MIT’s Mobility of the Future study. He was a Principal Investigator at Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratory from 1991 through 1997, when he joined the MIT faculty. He was the Executive Officer of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering from 2012 to 2015, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics from 2008 to 2013. Dr. Green was named an inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016, and he received the American Chemical Society’s Glenn Award in Fuel Chemistry in 2013. Dr. Green holds a BA in chemistry from Swarthmore College, a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral research at both Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Sessions With Bill Green

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 10:30am - 11:15am (CST) / -

    The Quiet ICE Revolution: New tech driving new directions

    Panel Transportation/Mobility Technology/Innovation

    Although batteries and electric motors are expected to play a major role in the future, there is a wide spectrum of views on how fast the transition from Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to EVs might be. New technological breakthroughs such as “homogeneous charge compression ignition” may improve ICE efficiency by 20-30%. How will these ICE improvements affect competitiveness with electric vehicles? Could cost parity be delayed by new technology and new business models? How will this impact the penetration of EV and the composition of the car fleet of the future?