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{"title":"CO2 Capture Project – Phase 4 Advancing CCS Knowledge and Technology Deployment for the Oil and Gas Industry","authors":"Ishraq Ali, P. Prunzel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3821747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3821747","url":null,"abstract":"The CO2 Capture Project (CCP) is a unique collaborative technology development program initiated in 2000 with participants from corporations, academia, governments, research institutions, policy makers and individual contractors who have come together to advance development of new approaches to capture and store CO2 and improve efficiencies of existing technologies. The overall objectives are to deliver major cost reductions for carbon capture and demonstrate that geological storage is safe, measurable, and verifiable. The 3rd phase of CCP, CCP3, has been recognized with a CSLF Global Achievement Award, reflecting CCP’s role as an exemplary model of science-based research, development, and demonstration. Phase 4 of CCP, CCP4, began in 2015 and is supporting R&D work for capture and storage technologies at multiple levels of development, spanning exploratory research to demonstration. CCP4 will be the final phase of CCP and will conclude at the end of 2021. The technical teams within CCP are looking at two key areas impacting Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The Capture program is developing CO2 capture scenarios addressed in previous phases (refinery, heavy oil, and natural gas power generation), together with a new scenario (CO2 separation from natural gas production). The Storage, Monitoring and Verification program is focusing on demonstrating the viability of monitoring tools in the field and developing robust leakage detection, characterization, and intervention protocols. These programs are supplemented by the Policy and Incentives (P&I) and Communications programs. The P&I program is committed to providing technical, economic and social insights to inform the development of legal and policy frameworks and to help improve public understanding. The Communications program is contributing to the technical understanding of CCUS within the oil & gas industry, as well as sharing research results and insights from the Capture, Storage and P&I Teams’ work with the wider CCUS industry and academia. This paper will detail the objectives of the CCP4 Capture program and provide a summary of recently completed and ongoing technical projects.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126935523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blockchain Technology for the Mutual Fund Industry","authors":"Vijaya Kittu Manda, S. Rao","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3276492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3276492","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain and other business disruption technologies have created a buzz in the last few years and have become an inevitable discussions topic in the financial circles. It will have game-changing impact on businesses, particularly on the banking and financial services. Consortium or Enterprise Blockchain is the latest technological evolution allowing us to build hybrid blockchains (public and private) using features such as permission restriction and multiple controlling authorities. These hybrid features allow easy yet controlled information sharing between various stakeholders. After getting acceptance in areas such as remittance & supply chain financing, blockchain is now making inroads into sub-sectors such as asset and wealth management. \u0000 \u0000This article demystifies blockchain concepts and demonstrates an implementation for the mutual fund (MF) industry. MF industry is plagued by slow processing. For example, it takes days together to onboarding a new investor, transactions take a date to appear on statements while NAV computations takes hours to compute and show up for registrars to process transactions. We explore how smart contracts can help cut the transaction processing but will blockchain provide high speed and latency necessary? Can investor statements be accessed dynamically? Will distributed information sharing and decentralization system save costs and time for the stakeholders, particularly in client onboarding, NAV dissemination? How can blockchain help in KYC and other compliance related activities? Can MF scheme portfolios and factsheets get constructed automatically and available with real time updates? How can regulators and auditors have easy access to information as and when they want? Finally, we will examine some of the challenges or hurdles that come in way towards the implementation.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134552003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IoT Based Home Automation","authors":"Keyur Pawaskar, Priyanka Prajapati, Dharmil Shah, Vaishali Gaikwad (Mohite)","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3274486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3274486","url":null,"abstract":"The IoT based Home Automation implies on automating lights of any lab where implemented. The problem of finding and monitoring the switches for lights if there are many in a room can be a troublesome task for a new client who is not much acquainted with the switches. Moreover it is too much time consuming to switch on the lights manually every time twice a day. If at all the switches can be monitored and controlled using a mobile application it can create a lot of ease among the users or controllers of switches without troubling one physically as well as mentally. A mobile application using a wifi module or Bluetooth module to control the monitoring of switches online can cause a great impact and symmetry in the functioning of an organization, as a close check can be kept on the lights of the organization helping us in maintenance aspects as well. In manual switches the reason of poor maintenance is poor check on the lights of the organization, which can be removed by the IoT based Home Automation.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126390246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Decline of Crude Oil Price Influence on the RON/EUR Exchange Rate","authors":"Ramona Dumitriu, R. Stefanescu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3281887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3281887","url":null,"abstract":"This paper approaches the sensitivity to the external turbulences of the crude oil price influence on the exchanges rates from Romania. This country has a particular situation being an importer of the crude oil and an exporter of refined petroleum products. In the last decades, in Romania it was applied a managed float exchange rate regime. We employ a TS-GARCH model to study the relationship between daily values of the crude oil price and the exchange rate of Romanian currency against the euro for four periods: two relative quiet (January 2000 – December 2006 and January 2013 – April 2018) and two turbulent (January 2007 – December 2010 and January 2011 – December 2012). For the two quiet periods we found no impact of the crude oil price on the exchange rate. In the case of period January 2007 – December 2010, in the circumstances of global crisis, the results indicate that an increase of the crude oil price led to the appreciation of the Romanian currency against the euro. For the period January 2011 – December 2012, when the financial markets were affected by the European sovereign debt crisis, we found a significant impact of the crude oil price on the volatility of the exchange rates. The decline of the crude oil price influence on the exchange rates could be explained by the attenuation of the external turbulences but also by the transformations that occurred in the oil industry of Romania.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127993405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Incidence of Coarse Certification: Evidence from the Energy Star Program","authors":"S. Houde","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3186492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3186492","url":null,"abstract":"A coarse certification provides simple, but incomplete information about quality. Its main rationale is to help consumers trade off dimensions of quality that are complex and lack salience. In imperfectly competitive markets, it may induce excess bunching at the certification requirement, crowd out high quality, and facilitate price discrimination. Who will ultimately benefit from a coarse certification thus depends on the degree of market power firms can exercise as well as on consumers’ sophistication in responding to such information. This paper illustrates these insights using the ENERGY STAR certification program as a case study. I investigate the incidence of the program with a structural econometric model of the U.S. appliance market. I find that the certification can crowd out energy efficiency, make consumers worst off, and have small, but heterogenous impacts on firms’ profits. In this context, the certification tends to not be welfare-improving. This conclusion, however, crucially depends on the market environment and the design of the policy - in scenarios where energy prices are low, or the certification requirement is very stringent, the ES program can be welfare-improving.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132346251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blockchain-Based Settlement for Asset Trading","authors":"Jonathan Chiu, Thorsten V. Koeppl","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3203917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3203917","url":null,"abstract":"Can securities be settled on a blockchain, and, if so, what are the gains relative to existing settlement systems? The main benefit of a blockchain is faster and more flexible settlement, whereas settlement fails need to be ruled out where participants fork the chain to cancel trading losses. With a proof-of-work protocol, the blockchain needs to restrict settlement speed through block size and time in order to generate transaction fees, which finance costly mining. Despite mining being a deadweight cost, our estimates for the U.S. corporate debt market yield net gains from a blockchain in the range of 1–4 bps.Received May 31, 2017; editorial decision May 29, 2018 by Editor Itay Goldstein. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122273553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimized and Dynamic KYC System Based on Blockchain Technology","authors":"José Parra-Moyano, Tryggvi Thoroddsen, Omri Ross","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3248913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3248913","url":null,"abstract":"Systems that use blockchain technology to improve the know-your-customer (KYC) process have only been proposed at a conceptual level and all share certain attributes that make their adoption very difficult. We propose and program a blockchain-based system that reduces and shares out among the financial institutions (FIs) that work with a customer the costs of the KYC process and also makes it possible for FIs to dynamically update information related to customers and disseminates this information among participating FIs. Additionally, our system addresses some of the attributes that hinder the adoption of previously proposed solutions by FIs. The result is a stand-alone solution that reduces the cost of the KYC process without requiring any central instance to store the customer's data, and in which FIs share the initial costs of the KYC process as well as the running costs of keeping the information about customers up to date.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124747028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blockchain and the Extractive Industries: Cobalt Case Study","authors":"Usman W. Chohan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3138271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3138271","url":null,"abstract":"This discussion paper examines the possibilities of relationships between two seemingly disparate industries, blockchain and the extractive sectors, by considering the potential for blockchain solutions in the mining of Cobalt, a precious metal, looking in particular at the supply chain, oversight, and production efficiencies that are made possible through synergistic elements between the two sectors.","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124277544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La Rivoluzione Dello Shale Oil E I Mercati Finanziari (The Shale Oil Revolution and Financial Markets)","authors":"Alessandro Roncaglia","doi":"10.13133/2037-3651_70.278_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3651_70.278_4","url":null,"abstract":"L'olio di scisto presenta caratteristiche strutturali che lo distinguono dal petrolio \"tradizionale\", come il minor tempo necessario per costruire nuovi impianti, la minore durata dell'investimento e un rapporto inferiore tra costi fissi e costi variabili. Queste differenze implicano un livello piu basso di controllo oligopolistico del mercato, che a medio termine potrebbe portare a un'ulteriore pressione al ribasso sui prezzi. Tuttavia, l'elevato grado di finanziarizzazione di questi mercati rende necessaria, affinche tale cambiamento di regime si concretizzi, che gli operatori dei mercati finanziari interiorizzino nuove convenzioni comportamentali e procedurali, adattate al mutato scenario tecnologico. Shale oil exhibits structural characteristics that set it apart from ‘traditional’ oil, such as the shorter time required to build new plants, the shorter duration of the investment, and a lower ratio of fixed to variable costs. These differences imply a lower degree of oligopolistic control of the market, which in the medium term could lead to further downward pressure on prices. However, the high degree of financialization of these markets makes it a necessary condition, for such a regime change to materialize, that financial market operators internalize new behavioural and procedural conventions, adapted to the changed technological scenario. JEL codes : L13, L71, Q41","PeriodicalId":162971,"journal":{"name":"ChemRN: Other Energy (Topic)","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129587804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}