Projects

Water budgets are of particular interest in the Los Angeles water/energy system. Despite large water imports, much rainfall currently goes to waste as surface runoff through extensive flood control...

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...

Purpose            The principal purpose of this project is to advance the body of knowledge that will allow successful offshore commercial wind ...

Urban areas are complex, adaptive, emergent systems composed of sub-systems—built environment, metabolic flows, governance networks, and social dynamics—that themselves are multi-scalar, networked,...

Michigan Green Communities (MGC) is the largest statewide network within the Midwest Regional Sustainability Network (MRSN). MGC currently has the support of over 80 local governments and universit...

The goal of this project is to quantify the benefits and impacts of the Swedish Biogas International LLC facility in Flint, MI by applying dynamic life cycle modeling techniques. The project focuse...

In developing a plan for improving sustainability at the Huron-Clinton Metroparks, the group investigated numerous potential strategies for reducing environmental impacts at the parks. This project...

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 (...

VARIOUS INDUSTRIAL SPONSORS OF CERC-CVC Develop a comparative analysis of existing electricity allocation models/tools to better understand their effects on emissions estimates for products and...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...