31st International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2024
June 17 - 20, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Monday, 17/June/2024 | |
9:00am - 5:00pm |
Pre-Conference Workshop 1: LCA of Emerging Technologies - Working Group, people are welcome to attend the meeting |
1:00pm - 4:30pm |
Pre-Conference Workshop II Best practices for sharing data and models |
5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Social Event |
Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024 | |||
8:00am - 9:00am |
Pre-conference Workshop III Exploring climate adaptation education in civil engineering programs with a skill-survey |
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9:00am - 9:15am |
Transition I |
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9:15am - 10:10am |
Opening & Keynote |
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10:10am - 10:20am |
Transition II |
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10:20am - 11:40am |
AIB1: Sust. Ag. & Environmental Impact Life cycle impacts of fertilized and harvested winter rye to inform cover crop market initiatives in the US Midwest 10:35am - 10:50am Life Cycle Assessment of a Meat Alternative containing Heme Protein 10:50am - 11:05am Digital Atlas of Food and Agricultural Byproducts in California 11:05am - 11:20am Air quality-related benefits of ammonia abatement in US livestock management 11:20am - 11:35am Grass 2 Gas: How nitrogen inputs to the Chesapeake Bay watershed can change by perennial grasses and winter biomass crops to produce biogas |
SRE9: Lightning Talk GCAM, The Global Change Analysis Model 10:25am - 10:30am Electric Utility Vulnerability to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow in California 10:30am - 10:35am Implications of Zoning Ordinances for Rural Utility-Scale Solar Deployment and Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region 10:35am - 10:40am Carbon neutral pathways for Thailand and Bangkok: Integrated assessment modeling to inform energy system transitions 10:40am - 10:45am Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains 10:45am - 10:50am Leveraging Prospective Life Cycle Inventory Databases for Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels 10:50am - 10:55am From Data to Decisions: Assessing Committed Energy Supplies for Informed Climate Policy in the US 10:55am - 11:00am Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective 11:00am - 11:05am Integrating Solar PV Projects into Traditional Energy Efficiency Programs 11:05am - 11:10am Municipal Case Study Application of LCA to Reach Net-Zero Energy Sector Goals 11:10am - 11:15am Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant 11:15am - 11:20am Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure 11:20am - 11:25am Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining 11:25am - 11:30am Assessing the potential of exergy as a thermodynamic material and energy efficiency indicator to guide the optimisation of industrial symbiosis projects 11:30am - 11:35am Low-carbon manufacturing increases climate benefit of renewables, by up to 175% points for photovoltaics 11:35am - 11:40am The Role of Policy and Module Manufacturing Learning in Industrial Decarbonization by Small Modular Reactors 11:40am - 11:45am Strategic Charging: An Environmental Impact Analysis of Charging Schedules for Sustainable Utility-Scale Energy Storage 11:45am - 11:50am Understanding and addressing variability in wind and solar energy resources for decarbonization strategies |
SRI1: Decarbonization A GIS-Based Process for En Masse Estimation of Commercial Building Energy Consumption Opportunities in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Hydrogen Blending in Industrial Process Heating Using greenhouse gas inventories to create emissions reduction targets for buildings to help reach our carbon neutrality goals at the University of Pittsburgh APEX Green Cities: Leverage Data and Knowledge to Accelerate Climate Action in Cities Allocating the limited battery capacity across light-duty vehicles market segments to increase GHG mitigation – A scenario-based analysis of the U.S. fleet |
11:40am - 12:40pm |
Lunch |
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12:40pm - 1:20pm |
Panel: Energy & Agro Modeling |
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1:20pm - 1:30pm |
Transition III |
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1:30pm - 2:50pm |
AIB2: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Potential from Adopting Anaerobic Digestion on Large-Scale Dairy Farms in the United States 1:45pm - 2:00pm Feasibility of Purpose Grown Bioenergy Feedstocks and Power-to-Liquid Technologies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the Contiguous United States 2:00pm - 2:15pm Life Cycle GHG Emissions and Carbon Intensity of U.S. Fuel Use and Projection for the Next 10 Years 2:15pm - 2:30pm The Influence of Farm Design on Manure Biosolid Availability, Biogas Potential, and GHG Emissions 2:30pm - 2:45pm Life cycle Assessment of Biogas Production from Hemp Crop Residue using Process Modeling |
SRE4: Tools Overview Prospective Impact Analysis Combining Integrated Assessment Modeling and Life Cycle Assessment 1:45pm - 2:00pm GCAM, The Global Change Analysis Model 2:00pm - 2:15pm From Data to Decisions: Assessing Committed Energy Supplies for Informed Climate Policy in the US |
STA1: LCA Tool Adaptive Building LCA Tools for Promoting Circular Economy: A comprehensive analysis 1:45pm - 2:00pm A decision-making tool to simplify data requirement for life cycle assessment of timber-based structural materials 2:00pm - 2:15pm Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining 2:15pm - 2:30pm Mapping the path towards sustainable polymers: a holistic Life Cycle Assessment tool for sustainable polymer design 2:30pm - 2:45pm Enabling Anticipatory LCA for non-LCA experts |
2:50pm - 3:20pm |
Break I |
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3:20pm - 4:50pm |
AIB3: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources Environmental and Economic Analysis of Value-added Products from Integrated Biorefineries in the Pulp and Paper Industry 3:35pm - 3:50pm A Framework to Discern Wood Dynamics and its Sustainability Impact in Emerging Forest-based Bioeconomy Scenarios 3:50pm - 4:05pm Life Cycle Assessment of Priority BioBased Chemicals: A Review and Meta-regression 4:05pm - 4:20pm Life cycle assessment of different pretreatment methods yielding sugar for value-added biomaterials and biofuels 4:20pm - 4:35pm LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF PELLETIZED DUCKWEED SOIL AMENDMENT DERIVED FROM FARM MANURE WASTEWATER. 4:35pm - 4:50pm Evaluating costs and potential of select bioenergy pathways for decarbonization of hard to decarbonize U.S. economic sectors |
SRE7: Minerals Towards Consequential Life Cycle Analysis of Minerals Mining for Decarbonization Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Rare Earth Element Recovery from Phosphogypsum Modeling the Impact of Direct Lithium Extraction Technologies on Overall Water Use in the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area Revealing Material Requirements and Environmental Impact for Canadian Wind Energy Development Based on Material Flow Analysis Beyond Borders: Collaborative Approaches to Critical Mineral Challenges in the Low Carbon Transition |
STA2: Sust. Perf. & Assessment A Tool to Incorporate Non-Energy Impacts in Energy Efficiency Investment Decision Making for Firms 3:35pm - 3:50pm Carbon footprint calculators: A review and development of an updated tool 3:50pm - 4:05pm A New Technology-Based Tool for Building Profitable Biodiversity-Conserving Offerings 4:05pm - 4:20pm Research on the influence and mechanisms of nudge tools on public participation in low-carbon behaviors within a carbon inclusion framework |
4:50pm - 5:20pm |
Break II |
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5:20pm - 6:30pm |
Poster Session The Canadian Open Energy Model (CANOE) Seamless 3D Heat Transfer Analysis in Early Architectural Design: A Case Study with OpenFOAM Assessing climate-informed engineering skills and concepts among civil engineering students Characterization of food waste and contaminants to determine appropriate valorization methods Cost, performance and Life cycle assessment of biosand filters and its modified derivatives for drinking water treatment. Sustainable Production of Xylo-Oligosaccharide A Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Study Predicting climate change impacts on Chinese pines biomass in Northern China using 3-PG model Impact of varying renewable capacity credit allocation on larger grid capacity expansion planning Life Cycle Assessment of Rubberized Pavement: An Integrated Approach for Sustainable Road Infrastructure Evaluation of the Position of Roller Compacted Concrete as a Green Material Based on Sustainable Development Criteria (Economic, Social and Environmental) The Impact of Green Infrastructure on Urban Surface Runoff and Its Enhancement: A Case Study of the Jialu River Basin in Zhengzhou City COMPARISON OF THE LIFE CYCLE IMPACTS OF MATERIALS FOR LARGE-FORMAT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Impacts of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: a Case Study of Isfahan, Iran Understanding Carbon Capture Utilization, Storage (CCUS) Strategies for the Cement Industry Techno-economic life cycle analysis of low-carbon freight movement Policy and Life Cycle Assessment: Textile Disposal Ban Has a Positive Impact on Climate at the University UC Merced Decarbonization Survey Quantifying the Impact of Synthetic Biology Technologies on Industrial Chemical Manufacturing Harnessing Process Simulation for Life Cycle Inventory Generation Holistic Sustainability Evaluation: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Analysis, Process Optimization, and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approaches Technological readiness of direct food waste to feed valorization pathways across the globe: a review of case studies Abstract for ISO 50001 Energy Management System for beginners The Role of Policy and Module Manufacturing Learning in Industrial Decarbonization by Small Modular Reactors Low-carbon manufacturing increases climate benefit of renewables, by up to 175% points for photovoltaics Understanding the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Facility Construction in Biofuel LCAs The Effect Methane Leakage Rates have on the Carbon Intensities of Renewable Natural Gas via Anaerobic Digestion Strategic Charging: An Environmental Impact Analysis of Charging Schedules for Sustainable Utility-Scale Energy Storage Assessing the Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles Through Carbon Footprint Analysis in California Understanding and addressing variability in wind and solar energy resources for decarbonization strategies Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant Municipal Case Study Application of LCA to Reach Net-Zero Energy Sector Goals Integrating Solar PV Projects into Traditional Energy Efficiency Programs Electrification of Buildings Cost Effectiveness in New Construction Lithium-Ion Battery Waste and Recycling Management: A New Proposal for Decentralized Waste and Recycling Locations Reducing Water Treatment System Emissions Using Predictive Process Control Assessing the potential of exergy as a thermodynamic material and energy efficiency indicator to guide the optimisation of industrial symbiosis projects |
Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024 | |||
8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
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8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 2 |
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9:30am - 9:40am |
Transition IV |
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9:40am - 11:00am |
HDS1: Stakeholder Engagement Just by Design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse 9:55am - 10:10am Comparing online and offline social capital as measures of community resilience 10:10am - 10:25am Advancing community scale transitions to circular economy in the construction and demolition sector using the Circularity Assessment Protocol 10:25am - 10:40am Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective 10:40am - 10:55am Transformative urban agriculture: applying food waste-derived fertilizers in Community Learning Gardens |
SRE3: Macro Energy Models The role of hydrogen in decarbonizing US iron and steel production 9:55am - 10:10am Carbon neutral pathways for Thailand and Bangkok: Integrated assessment modeling to inform energy system transitions 10:10am - 10:25am Tools for Tractability of Datacenter NetZero Carbon Targets 10:25am - 10:40am A Model Intercomparison Study of Open-Source Power System Models |
SRI2: Circular Economy and LCA Sustainable Well Plugging: Evaluating Biochar’s Integration in Orphan Oil & Gas Wells Wood-based Resources and Circular Economy for Sustainable Buildings: An Analytical Review Life Cycle Assessment of Alfalfa in the Southwestern United States The opportunity for utilizing end-of-life scrap to meet growing copper demand Life-cycle environmental and health impacts of a university green building |
11:00am - 11:20am |
Break III |
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11:20am - 12:40pm |
HDS2: Energy Justice and Inequity Evaluating Existing Model Suitability For Energy Justice Community Applications 11:35am - 11:50am Incorporating worker preferences to design sociotechnical solutions for decarbonized industries using discrete choice models 11:50am - 12:05pm Revisiting Energy Inequity from a Climate Perspective Using Machine Learning 12:05pm - 12:20pm Equity Considerations in U.S. Climate Action Planning 12:20pm - 12:35pm Disparities in Residential Proximity to Power Plants in the United States |
SRE2: Electric Vehicles Life Cycle Carbon Footprint of EV Batteries: The Impact of Battery Use Phase 11:35am - 11:50am Trade, Extended Use, and End of Life in the Global South: An Expanded EV Life Cycle Assessment 11:50am - 12:05pm Investigating ZEV Adoption Progress in California and Identifying Barriers to Advancing Adoption Rates 12:05pm - 12:20pm Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains |
SRI4: Transportation Systems Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Vehicles and Charging Station Network during Evacuations Electric Vehicles Limit Equitable Access To Essential Services Internalizing societal costs is unlikely to make most Chicago Uber and Lyft riders choose transit instead The Promise of Sustainable Transportation and Its Hidden Unintended Environmental Consequences |
12:40pm - 1:40pm |
Lunch II |
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1:40pm - 2:10pm |
Panel II LCA of emerging technologies: we can’t agree, so let’s stop trying |
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2:10pm - 2:20pm |
Transition V |
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2:20pm - 3:40pm |
CSRT1: TBD Digital Circular Environment: State-of-art approaches for enabling digital circularity in the building environment - An emerging framework 2:35pm - 2:50pm The Impact of State and Federal Decarbonization Policies on Technological Pathways 2:50pm - 3:05pm A proposed framework for quantifying and incorporating the water-energy-food nexus in life cycle assessment 3:05pm - 3:20pm A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable vs. Disposable Stethoscopes at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Emergency Department |
SRE5: Prospective LCA Exploring Electricity Generation Standard Scenarios through Prospective Life Cycle Assessment 2:35pm - 2:50pm Life Cycle Analysis of Methanol Production via Photocatalytic Carbon Conversion 2:50pm - 3:05pm Leveraging Prospective Life Cycle Inventory Databases for Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels 3:05pm - 3:20pm Life Cycle Assessment of Polyethylene and Alternative Packaging Materials in the United States |
SRI5: Urban Systems Interdependency Classification and Modeling: A Framework for Infrastructure Resilience Complexity of increasing knowledge flows: the 2022 Southwest Airlines Scheduling Crisis ANALYZING REDISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL DISASTER AID THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene Assessing the Impact of a Decentralized of Echocardiogram Scan System on Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
3:40pm - 4:10pm |
Break IV |
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4:10pm - 5:30pm |
SRE1: Resilience and Climate Impacts in Electricity Systems Leveraging electric vehicles as a resiliency solution for residential backup power during outages 4:25pm - 4:40pm Leveraging machine learning to investigate the predictability of solar power generation under climate change 4:40pm - 4:55pm Increased High-Temperature Risks for Global Rooftop PV due to Climate Change 4:55pm - 5:10pm Electric Utility Vulnerability to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow in California |
SRI3: Stormwater and Water Systems Synthetic Water Distribution Network Models: Challenges and Opportunities Balancing Water, Energy, and Cost: Analysis of Zero/Minimal Liquid Discharge Desalination Technologies Nature-Based Design Solutions to Enhance Urban Resilience in Underserved Coastal Communities: A Case Study on Campostella and Campostella Heights, Norfolk, VA Assessing the integration of social media information as a potential data source for improved urban flood infrastructure Building Climate Resilience in East Africa: Time-Series Building Footprint Analysis for Urban Flood Hazard Assessment |
STA3: Sustainability Education Assessing sustainability content in an undergraduate engineering curriculum in Canada Can Reflective Practice Change Engineering Students’ Sustainability Perceptions? Exploring the correlation between students’ sustainability knowledge (literacy) and actions (carbon footprints, estimated from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective) Sustainable Project Management: Barriers and Enabling Factors Sharing ethical perspectives in agricultural sustainability research |
6:00pm - 9:00pm |
Social Event 2 |
Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024 | |||
7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST Planning Meeting |
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8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast II |
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8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote III |
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9:30am - 9:40am |
Transition VI |
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9:40am - 11:00am |
CSRT 3: TBD: TBD |
CSRT2: TBD Sustainability-oriented labs in Brazilian cities 9:55am - 10:10am Implications of wide-ranging socioeconomic and climate futures on crop production in the United States 10:10am - 10:25am Automatic detection of macroplastics in bodies of water using Deep Learning approach: case study, Rímac river, Peru. 10:25am - 10:40am Quantifying Plug-in Electric Vehicle Mileage and Resale Value 10:40am - 10:55am The environmental mitigation of circular economy strategies by consumers for food and beverage containers (FaBCs) packaging by life-cycle assessment in Guangzhou, China |
SRE6: Commercial & Industrial Energy Use & Emissions State-level Industrial Energy and Emissions Modeling with GCAM-USA 9:55am - 10:10am Industrial decarbonization through the deployment of low-carbon nuclear-powered hydrogen 10:10am - 10:25am Implications of Zoning Ordinances for Rural Utility-Scale Solar Deployment and Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region 10:25am - 10:40am Digital Twin For Urban Metabolism. A Pilot Model For A Campus Building. 10:40am - 10:55am Data-driven Characterization Of Cooling Needs In A Portfolio Of Co-located Commercial Buildings |
11:00am - 11:20am |
Break V |
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11:20am - 12:40pm |
SRE8: Land & Air for Legacy Systems A global anthropogenic emissions inventory of reactive gases and aerosols (1750 – 2022): an update to the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) 11:35am - 11:50am Direct land use change impacts of natural gas well pads in New Mexico determined through geospatial analysis and machine learning 11:50am - 12:05pm Carbon sequestration in Deep-Saline Aquifers (CS): A Regional Study Case in Northern South America 12:05pm - 12:20pm Evaluating U.S. Natural Gas Decarbonization Opportunities and Recent Methane Emissions Regulations 12:20pm - 12:35pm Evaluating the environmental impacts of historical oil spill incidents in North America from the life cycle perspective |
SRI6: Wastewater Systems Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Utilizing Waste Nitrogen to Develop Microbial Protein from Cyanophycin Accumulating Organisms Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Utilizing Waste Nitrogen to Develop Microbial Protein from Cyanophycin Accumulating Organisms Addressing outstanding obstacles to the adoption of anaerobic membrane bioreactors for sustainable wastewater treatment infrastructure through techno-economic analysis and lifecycle assessment Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Algal Turf Scrubber Wastewater Treatment Plant for Nutrient Removal |
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12:40pm - 1:40pm |
Lunch, & Closing Remarks |
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1:40pm - 2:40pm |
ECR Panel |
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2:40pm - 7:00pm |
ISSST 2025 Planning Meeting |
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