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Ford Alliance: Evaluating the Sustainability and Environmental Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles
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Background:
Prognosticators point to an array of benefits from autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, including improved safety, additional convenience, greater accessibility, efficient navigation...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Roadmap to Water Security
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Goals & Objectives
A great, on-going injustice exists – Michigan, like most states, lacks a public safety net for those unable to afford water and sanitation service. From families sacrificing ...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Assessing the Prospects for Renewable Energy (RE)-enabling Technologies
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Goals & Objectives:
This project will review and establish the market outlook (i.e. the policy and regulatory environment, and the economic case) for a technology that enables more efficien...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Meijer Renewable Energy Evaluation and Strategy
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Meijer, Inc. is a growing multi-billion dollar retailer with over 200 stores, five distribution centers, and six food manufacturing plants in six states. With support from a 2015-16 SNRE Master’s Proj...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Integrating Renewables in a Micro-Grid in Congo
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Goals & Objectives:
This masters project represents the first step in establishing a long term relationship between Kivu Green Energy and SWB at SNRE. The two organizations have iden...
Unlocking Widespread Solar Adoption: Understanding Preferences of Low- to Moderate-Income Households to Create Scalable, Sustainable Models
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The U.S. Energy Department is investing $1.35M in a 3-year collaboration between National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, GRID Alternatives, University of Michiga...
U.S.-China: Integrated Systems Modeling of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus for Urban Sustainability
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This project will advance the science and engineering of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus modeling by developing and applying an integrated systems modeling framework. The modeling framework will enable ...
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...
Life Cycle Analysis of Different Fuel Options for United Airlines: Baggage Tractors and Belt Loaders
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United Airlines funded the Center for Sustainable Systems, through Principle Investigator Dr. Gregory Keoleian, to conduct a life cycle analysis of different fuel options used in the operation of b...
M-Cubed Diamond: Using Industrial Symbiosis Concepts to Reduce Flexible Packaging Flow to Landfill in Developing Countries
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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...
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...
CAREER: Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database
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ABSTRACT
This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The rese...
Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database Development
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This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The research will...
Pricing Policies for the Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Utility Systems
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Distributed energy resources – most prominently solar PV, but also other forms of small-scale localized generation – have been growing as a share of U.S. electric generation. In the last several ye...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Valuing Natural Capital & Assessing Waste Recovery: A Study of Amcor's Flexible Packaging
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Goals & Objectives:
This project has two components for the student team to research:
First, students will assess the post-consumer waste and potential recovery of Amcor's flexible pac...
Solar Microgrids in Rural India: Policy and Market Analysis
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This research represents the practicum requirement for the MS degree, and is being done for a client, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India. The objective of this research is to explor...
Comparing toxic emissions of shale gas and coal for electricity
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Fifteen faculty project teams were awarded support through a water research capacity building initiative from the University of Michigan Water Center. Each team received up to $20,000 to enhance wa...
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...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Renewable Energy Program Plan and Pilot Project
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The State of Michigan passed Act 270 in 2010 allowing local units of government to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. On November 17, the Leelanau County commission voted to...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Assessment of Alternative Source Water at Bell’s Brewery, Inc.
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Master's Project
Goals & Objectives: This project aims to determine the environmental and fiscal consequences of sourcing the required volumes of water for brewing beer in the event that wa...