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Material and Vehicle design for High‐Value Recycling of Aluminum and Steel Automotive Sheet
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Problem Statement: The embodied energy of vehicles is growing as energy-intensive materials such as aluminum auto body sheet (ABS) are used to deliver improved performance. This presents an opportu...
Creating rapid, transparent, and updateable material flow analyses
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The goal of this project is to improve the speed at which material flow analysis (MFA) is performed and to transparently communicate and reduce the uncertainty in the results, thus enabling a routi...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Santiago, Chile
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Cities account for over 70% of greenhouse gas emissions and consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy. With the continued rise of urbanization, 68% by 2050 as projected by the UN, cities ...
Analysis for the Supply Chain of Major Automotive Materials
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Aluminum and steel represent the two most dominant metals in light duty vehicles (LDVs), yet the flows of these materials into the American automotive industry have not been closely evaluated. This...
The Global CO2 Initiative: Transforming a liability into an opportunity
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Blue Sky
Michigan Engineering has set its sights on enhancing its culture of creativity, innovation and daring through its Blue Sky Initiative funding model.
Introduced in late 2017, the Blue Sk...
LIFT Core Life-Cycle Assessment
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LIGHTWEIGHT INNOVATIONS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT)
LIFT is an industry-led, government funded consortium. By re-imagining processes and procedures, our highly linked and leveraged network is facilitat...
M-Cubed Diamond: Defining Innovative Sustainable Solutions for Film-Based Packages
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The M-Cubed Diamond Program enables donors, companies, and foundations to invest in research projects that align exactly with their interests. Funders set the parameters for each project, int...
MASTER'S PROJECT: An Analysis of Waste Management and Zero Waste in Detroit, Michigan
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Goals & Objectives:
This project will accomplish an analysis of waste management and zero waste options for the city of Detroit, Michigan including:
Case study of successful zero wa...
Dow Fellow Research Support- Shen Qu
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Made possible by The Dow Chemical Company, the University of Michigan’s Dow Sustainability Fellows Program supports full-time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to findin...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Stone Paper LCA
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Project Location: Tainan, Taiwan.
Goals & Objectives:
To compare the LCA, by ISO standards, of our Stone Paper material to that of paper and plastics.
Justification, Benefit, or Sign...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Creating a Plan to Convert Streetlights in Southeast Michigan to Energy Efficient LEDs by 2025
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Goals & Objectives:
The goal of the Southeast Michigan Municipal Street Lighting Consortium (hereinafter, Consortium) is to convert streetlights throughout the metropolitan Detroit region to ...
Update Material Production Modules in the GREET 2 Model
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Background/Objective:
The Systems Assessment Group of Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory is in the process of upgrading its GREET 2 model for vehicle cycle analys...
Global Lithium Supply for an Electric Car Future
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Demand for lithium to use in batteries is expected to grow as wireless devices and electric vehicles proliferate, and there might not be enough lithium to meet the demand. This project answers the ...
Collaborative Research: Implications of Greenhouse Gas Policy Instruments on Material Flows - A Life Cycle Approach Integrating Engineering, Public Policy and Market Behavior
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MUSES II
Major industrialized countries around the world and several U.S. states are currently designing, or considering designing, policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ...
MUSES: Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure Materials and Systems: Developing an integrated life cycle design framework
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Global production of concrete drives huge flows of material between natural and human systems.The shear magnitude of this material flow, which exceeds 12 billion tons each year, causes significant ...
MUSES: Sustainable Infrastructure Materials and Systems: Integration of Microstructure Tailoring and Life Cycle Analysis of Engineered Cementitious Compounds (ECC)
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Concrete use in infrastructures such as roadways, bridges and pipes causes huge material flows between natural and human systems. Global concrete construction exceeds 6 billion tons/yr and contribu...
CSS Factsheets
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Development and maintenance of factsheets that illustrate current unsustainable patterns of providing various services to society in the United States (e.g., food, personal transportation, housing)...