Waste-to-Energy Systems
We develop and enable strategies for diverting a wide range of waste streams from landfills for the production of electricity, heat, liquid fuels, and products.
Ongoing Projects / Areas of Research
Market and Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities
- Air pollutant and odorous emissions management strategies for dry anaerobic digestion, including emissions during biogas flaring
- Market analysis of carbon dioxide utilization from carbon dioxide capture and sequestration project
Logistics and Power and Resource Generation Options Analysis
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Technoeconomic Analysis (TEA) of scaling up of food waste, yard waste, and manure utilization for anaerobic digestion and electricity generation
- Geospatially and temporally resolved organic waste inventories for California
- Identification of appropriate densification, storage, and conversion technologies for organic waste types available in California
- Feasibility of utilizing biogas and organic residue for distributed generation, and district energy systems, across California
- Brine and wastewater utilization management pathways from oil and gas industry and carbon dioxide sequestration projects
Circular Economy and end-of- life optimization:
- Valorizing waste streams and by-products of energy technologies and developing cost-competitive, sustainable management pathways
- Supporting smarter design and resource recovery through design and business model evaluation
Related Publications
Shah, Nihar, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vol. 3, Decision XXXIII/5."
3 (2022).
Jeong, Seongeun, Marc L. Fischer, Hanna Breunig, Alison R. Marklein, Francesca M. Hopkins, and Sebastien C. Biraud."Artificial Intelligence Approach for Estimating Dairy Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology
56.8 (2022) 4849 - 4858. DOI