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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...
DOE CERC 2.0 Thrust Area: Systems Assessment Best Practices
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Thrust Area: Systems Assessment and Best Practices [CERC 2.0]
The CERC Clean Vehicles Consortium seeks to contribute to dramatic improvements in technologies with the potential to reduce the de...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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: 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...