Projects

The Piramal Foundation, operating under the brand "Sarvajal", provides clean and affordable drinking water to over 64,000 people in rural India through locally leased and operated reverse-osmosis (...

1. Objectives The goal of this research is to create a framework for a predictive and dynamic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool. LCA quantifies the environmental impacts of a product or process...

Led by The University of Michigan, Center Director: Dr. Dennis Assanis Core Partnering Institutions: The Ohio State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sandia National Laboratorie...

Business leaders, including the University of Michigan leadership, are defining sustainability initiatives that reduce their electrical power consumption and CO2 emissions in an effort to not only ...

Aurora Organic Dairy is a leading national provider of organic milk with dairy farms in Colorado and Texas and over 50,000 acres of organic feed production in several states. Through its unique ver...

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production system in the world and shrimp is currently the most popular seafood in the USA. Like all food production systems, shrimp production needs to inte...

Context As part of its commitment to sustainability and environmental leadership, Dairy Management Inc. has decided to commission and conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA) of the dairy fluid milk...

Objectives The objective of this research is to examine policy options of likely interest to automakers and policy makers for linking the auto market to a carbon market. The research plan entails...

A 2004 study by the Hartman Group found that around two-thirds of Americans at least occasionally consume organic products. In many cases, consumers have been willing to pay significant price premiums...

Detroit Edison, a subsidiary of DTE Energy, considered introducing residential dynamic pricing rates, rather than the customary flat retail rate for residential customers, to incent customers to sh...

Global climate change, finite petroleum reserves, and geopolitical instability all point to the wisdom of developing transportation fuels from renewable sources. Bio-ethanol from corn and biodiesel...

Summer internship project to calculate the energy and carbon footprint of CMS facilities in order to evaluate options for reducing costs associated with facility operations and prepare for a national ...

ObjectivesAt the request of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the objectives of this research effort are to benchmark the wet weather protocols and practices of the several sta...

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 ...

United Solar Ovonic (USO) installed a photovoltaic (PV) module testing system in Auburn Hills, Michigan (Latitude 42.6978, Longitude -83.2419) in March of 2010 for the purpose of evaluating the impact...

The electricity consumed by central air conditioners (CACs) currently accounts for 14% of residential electrical use in the United States (DOE, 2001).  Population growth in the south (Census Bure...

The processing of raw materials and the manufacturing of components for the automotive supply chain results in significant lifecycle energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, au...

The primary aim of this proposal is to develop a fundamental system science for the design and control of dynamically coupled infrastructures, with the objective of influencing their collective per...

By providing a cost-effective, practical solution that substantially improves automotive fuel economy and emissions without the limited range of a pure electric vehicle, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Veh...

Develop LCI data for water and wastewater treatment systems, including municipal systems in Oregon. This task includes researching the environmental burdens associated with municipal drinking water...

Project overview The Household Travel Patterns Study is a research project sponsored by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and the Center for Sustainable Systems (CS...

The overall goal of this research is to provide the Aurora leadership team a framework and tools to measure and improve its sustainability performance.  To provide the leadership team with a road...

The Steelcase Wood Products Division is now looking to establish a consistent methodology and set of metrics for quantification of division environmental performance.  The measurement and char...