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A Dynamic and Streamlined Stakeholder Engagement Tool for Evaluating Carbon Mitigation Options from Existing Power Plants in Michigan
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The objective of this project is to develop a novel methodology to evaluate alternative designs for a State Implementation Plan to comply with Clean Air Act Section 111(d) greenhouse gas emissions ...
Evaluation of Alternative Design Considerations for Renewable Portfolio Standards
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Project Objective:
This research project will employ and advance state of the art power systems modeling to evaluate an updated Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) for Michigan. In addition to met...
Dow Distinguished Awards: Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the City of Detroit - Institutionalization and Spatial Analysis
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Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability
The Graham Sustainability Institute administers the Dow Sustainability Fellows on behalf of the university. To foster high-im...
Nutritional benefits and environmental performance of dairy products
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New approaches are needed to assess in parallel the benefits and impacts of changes in the amount of dairy products in the US diet. Thus, we propose a framework to compare both nutritional/health b...
REFRESCH: Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource-Constrained Environments
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Background of U-M Third Century Initiative
As the University prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2017, the President and Provost have established the Third Century Initiative (TCI), a $50...
Sustainable Transportation for a 3rd Century: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Addressing the Last Mile Problem for Enhanced Accessibility
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Background of U-M Third Century Initiative
As the University prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2017, the President and Provost have established the Third Century Initiative (TCI), a $50...
Natural Fibers and Lightweight Materials: Life Cycle Aspects
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This project works to characterize the life cycle aspects of natural fibers such as hemp and kenaf and to develop a tool for evaluating the sustainability of lightweighting materials to better unde...
Integrated resource planning (IRP) as a framework to guide electric utility decision in Michigan
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Michigan's existing renewable energy standard will plateau at 10% in 2015. The recent ballot initiative to expand this standard failed and there is currently no mandate to increase it...
Detroit Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Climate Action Plan
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Overview- Detroit Climate Action Collaborative:
In 2011, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ), the oldest urban environmental justice organization in Michigan, convened ...
Value of Wind Diversity for Increased Integration of Wind Power into the Grid
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One of the largest challenges in integrating large quantities of wind power into the grid is the variability in its power output. The fast ramping up or down of its power output can have negative c...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Public Transport Systems and Infrastructure Solutions to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence on Hawaii Island
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The Kohala Center, an independent, community-based institute for research, education, and conservation based on Hawaii Island, has just completed a plan for the County of Hawaii Energy Sustainabili...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Environmental Trade-Offs in Commodity Production
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The World Wildlife Fund's Market Transformation Initiative aims to reduce the environmental impact of global commodity production through partnership with major companies and their supply networks....
Sustainable Materials Selection Tool: Life Cycle Assessment of Natural Fibers for Auto Applications
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Natural fibers such as coconut, hemp, and kenaf, are being researched as a replacement for glass fibers and mineral fillers in polymer composites due to potential environmental, cost, and weight-sa...
Geothermal Heat Pump Potentials in the U.S. Residential Houses
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The residential buildings account for 22% of the U.S. primary energy consumption and 17% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in 2011. Individual housing units are becoming more energy efficient in per...
Climate Change on Global Food System: Strategy to Feed 9 Billion People
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Increasing population, modernized diet, and climate change will impose various pressures on global food systems - from agricultural production to nutrition consumption - for the next decades. On th...
SEP: Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Battery Chemistries for Sustainable Energy
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Intellectual Merit
Electricity accounts for ~40% the energy consumed in the U.S. and most is derived from non-renewable resources including fossil and nuclear fuels.&nb...
Advancing Offshore Wind Power Siting through Multi-criteria Assessment Integration
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There are two major goals for this project. The first is to advance offshore wind siting methods by utilizing multi-criteria assessment that includes concepts and methods from life cycle assessment...
M-CUBED: Sustainable Pathways to Fuels and Chemicals
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Learning how to make liquid fuels from algae oil under water
This project aims to develop a better understanding of the chemistry of hydrothermal catalytic deoxygenation of fatty acids over early t...
M-CUBED: Hydraulic Fracturing of Shales: Water Contamination Risks, Treatment Options, and Fate of Fracking Fluids
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Recent advances in directional drilling have made extraction of natural gas and oil from shale formations economically viable via high-volume hydraulic fracturing, a process by which a mixture of w...
M-CUBED: Innovatively Planning for Technological Innovation: Water, Infrastructure, and Sustainability
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This project seeks to understand the broad, complex and potentially unanticipated impacts on humans and the environment that could emerge from the deployment of emerging innovative technologies cur...
M-CUBED: Influence of global trade on the human health impacts of particulate matter
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Particulate Matter (PM) is related to cardiopulmonary mortality, leading to a high annual burden of disease of around one million premature deaths, 65% in Asia. Identifying causes and remedies need...
Integrated Energy-Economy-Environment (3E) Modeling for Clean Vehicle Development in China
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Renewable energy development involves not only the energy system but also the economy, the environment, policy, and the society. Clean vehicle development in China, for example, has tremendous impa...