Life Cycle Assessment & Technoeconomic Modeling

2020

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Baral, Blake A Simmons, Jenny C Mortimer, Patrick M Shih, and Corinne Scown. "Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.15 (2020) 8639 - 8648.
Huntington, Tyler, Xinguang Cui, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne Scown. "Machine learning to predict biomass sorghum yields under future climate scenarios." Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 14.3 (2020) 566 - 577.
Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Jonathan G Koomey. "Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates." Science 367.6481 (2020) 984 - 986.

2019

Baral, Nawa, Eric R Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny C Mortimer, Steven W Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne Scown. "Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.10 (2019) 9062 - 9079.
Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown. "Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel." ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2019) 15434–15444.
Breunig, Hanna, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Corinne Scown. "Role of Digestate and Biochar in Carbon-Negative Bioenergy." Environmental Science & Technology (2019).
Baral, Nawa, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne Scown. "Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet fuel blendstocks." Energy & Environmental Science 12.3 (2019) 807 - 824.
Martinez‐Hernandez, Elias, Xinguang Cui, Corinne Scown, Myriam A Amezcua‐Allieri, Jorge Aburto, and Blake A Simmons. "Techno‐economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries." Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (2019).

2018

Taptich, Michael, Corinne Scown, Kate Piscopo, and Arpad Horvath. "Drop-in biofuels offer strategies for meeting California’s 2030 climate mandate." Environmental Research Letters (2018).
Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne Scown. "Dynamic Geospatial Modeling of the Building Stock To Project Urban Energy Demand." Environmental Science & Technology 52.14 (2018) 7604 - 7613.
Ruffini, Eleanora, and Max Wei. "Future costs of fuel cell electric vehicles in California using a learning rate approach." Energy 150 (2018) 329 - 341.
Wu, Lipeng, Amit A Gokhale, Konstantinos Goulas, John E Myers, F. Dean Toste, and Corinne Scown. "Hybrid Biological–Chemical Approach Offers Flexibility and Reduces the Carbon Footprint of Biobased Plastics, Rubbers, and Fuels." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6.11 (2018) 14523 - 14532.
Wang, Dai, Matteo Muratori, Joshua Eichman, Max Wei, Samveg Saxena, and Cong Zhang. "Quantifying the flexibility of hydrogen production systems to support large-scale renewable energy integration." Journal of Power Sources 399 (2018) 383 - 391.
Cui, Xinguang, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne Scown. "Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the U.S." Environmental Research Letters (2018).
Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Ling Jin. Technoeconomic Analysis of an Artificial Photosynthesis Fuel Plant Supplied by Raw Biogas. 2018.

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Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne Scown. "Temporal and geographic drivers of biomass residues in California." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 139 (2018) 287 - 297.

2017

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron. "A comparative energy analysis of three electrochromic glazing technologies in commercial and residential buildings." Applied Energy 192 (2017) 95 - 109.
Breunig, Hanna, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne Scown. "Bioenergy Potential from Food Waste in California." Environmental Science & Technology (2017). LBNL-1007105.
Wei, Max, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Michael D Sohn. "Experience curve development and cost reduction disaggregation for fuel cell markets in Japan and the US." Applied Energy 191 (2017) 346 - 357.
Neupane, Binod, N. VSNM Konda, Seema Singh, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne Scown. "Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas and Water Intensity of Cellulosic Biofuel Production Using Cholinium Lysinate Ionic Liquid Pretreatment." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5.11 (2017) 10176-10185.
Raghavan, Shuba V, Max Wei, and Daniel M Kammen. "Scenarios to decarbonize residential water heating in California." Energy Policy 109 (2017) 441 - 451.

2016

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D Sohn. "A retrospective analysis of compact fluorescent lamp experience curves and their correlations to deployment programs." Energy Policy 98 (2016) 505 - 512.
Sun, Jian, NVSN M Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Feng Xu, Corinne Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Seema Singh. "CO2 enabled process integration for the production of cellulosic ethanol using bionic liquids." Energy & Environmental Science 9 (2016) 2822-2834. LBNL-1007248.
Morrow, III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith. Lifecycle Industry GreenHouse gas, Technology and Energy through the Use Phase (LIGHTEnUP) – Analysis Tool User’s Guide. 2016. LBNL-1005777.

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Sathre, Roger, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Karl Walczak, Ian D Sharp, John C Stevens, Joel W Ager, III, and Frances A Houle. "Opportunities to improve the net energy performance of photoelectrochemical water-splitting technology." Energy & Environmental Science (2016). LBNL-1006311.

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