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 Location: Ravenhurst |
| 1:00pm - 4:30pm |
Pre-Conference Workshop II: Best Practices for Sharing Data and Models Location: Westminster Best practices for sharing data and models |
| 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Social Event: Meet-and-Greet Location: Explorer's Lounge Join us for an introduction to your fellow ISSST community members. This social event is open to all attendees, and food and drinks will be available for purchase. |
| Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024 | |||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area Kindly proceed to the registration table outside the Whitehall Ballroom to collect your name tag and additional conference materials. |
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| 9:00am - 10:10am |
Opening & Keynote Location: Whitehall Ballroom Dynamic Sustainability |
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| 10:10am - 10:20am |
Transition II |
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| 10:20am - 11:40am |
AIB1: Sust. Ag. & Environmental Impact Location: Westminster Chair: Christine Costello 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 Location: Hamptons Chair: I. Daniel Posen 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 Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant 11:10am - 11:15am Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure 11:15am - 11:20am Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining 11:20am - 11:25am CANSTOREnergy Project |
SRI1: Decarbonization Location: Guilford Chair: Ben Rachunok Chair: Alysha Helmrich A GIS-Based Process for En Masse Estimation of Commercial Building Energy Consumption 10:35am - 10:50am Opportunities in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Hydrogen Blending in Industrial Process Heating 10:50am - 11:05am Using greenhouse gas inventories to create emissions reduction targets for buildings to help reach our carbon neutrality goals at the University of Pittsburgh 11:05am - 11:20am APEX Green Cities: Leverage Data and Knowledge to Accelerate Climate Action in Cities |
| 11:40am - 12:40pm |
Lunch Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 12:40pm - 1:20pm |
Panel: Energy & Agricultural Systems Modeling Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 1:20pm - 1:30pm |
Transition III |
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| 1:30pm - 2:50pm |
AIB2: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources Location: Westminster Chair: Kiara Winans 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 |
STA1: LCA Tool Location: Hamptons Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell A decision-making tool to simplify data requirement for life cycle assessment of timber-based structural materials 1:45pm - 2:00pm Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining 2:00pm - 2:15pm Mapping the path towards sustainable polymers: a holistic Life Cycle Assessment tool for sustainable polymer design |
SRE4: Tools Overview - Energy system models Location: Guilford Chair: Elizabeth Moore From Data to Decisions: Assessing Committed Energy Supplies for Informed Climate Policy in the US 1:45pm - 2:00pm A Model Intercomparison Study of Open-Source Power System Models 2:00pm - 2:20pm GCAM, The Global Change Analysis Model 2:20pm - 2:35pm The Canadian Open Energy Model (CANOE) |
| 2:50pm - 3:20pm |
Break I Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area |
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| 3:20pm - 4:40pm |
AIB3: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources Location: Westminster Chair: Obste Therasme Environmental and Economic Analysis of Value-added Products from Integrated Biorefineries in the Pulp and Paper Industry 3:35pm - 3:50pm A Framework for Analyzing Wood Dynamics in Construction Sector within an Emerging Forest-Based Bioeconomy 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 |
SRE3: Macro Energy Models Location: Hamptons Chair: I. Daniel Posen The role of hydrogen in decarbonizing US iron and steel production 3:35pm - 3:50pm Carbon neutral pathways for Thailand and Bangkok: Integrated assessment modeling to inform energy system transitions 3:50pm - 4:05pm State-level Industrial Energy and Emissions Modeling with GCAM-USA 4:05pm - 4:20pm Tools for Tractability of Datacenter NetZero Carbon Targets |
STA2: Sust. Perf. & Assessment Location: Guilford Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell 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 Enabling Anticipatory LCA for non-LCA experts |
| 4:40pm - 5:00pm |
Transition IV: + Poster Session setup |
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| 5:00pm - 6:45pm |
Poster Session Location: Whitehall Ballroom 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 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 Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Rebar: Focus on Novel Thermoplastic Pultrusion Technology 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 Recycling Wind Turbine Blades for Large Format 3D Printing Understanding Carbon Capture Utilization, Storage (CCUS) Strategies for the Cement Industry Techno-economic life cycle analysis of low-carbon freight movement 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 Understanding the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Facility Construction in Biofuel LCAs 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 Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant 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 Applying Optimization Strategies in Material Flow Analysis - A Case Study of Copper Allocating the limited battery capacity across light-duty vehicles market segments to increase GHG mitigation – A scenario-based analysis of the U.S. fleet Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Direct CO2 Capture and Underground Energy Recovery Integration A Systematic Review on the True Environmental Impact of Shared Mobility Systems (preliminary results from Bike-Sharing Systems) Accounting for the carbon benefits of harvested wood products at the subnational level Assessing the Environmental Life Cycle Impacts of Lignin-Derived Polyurethane Foams for High-Performance Insulation TEA of fuels and products from using industrial carbon capture and metabolic engineering A global anthropogenic emissions inventory of reactive gases and aerosols (1750 – 2022): an update to the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) |
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| Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024 | |||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote II: Beyond the Lens: Shifting Power through Process and Action Location: Whitehall Ballroom K. Baja |
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| 9:30am - 9:40am |
Transition V |
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| 9:40am - 11:00am |
SRE7: Minerals Location: Westminster Chair: Jennifer Dunn Towards Consequential Life Cycle Analysis of Minerals Mining for Decarbonization 9:55am - 10:10am Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Rare Earth Element Recovery from Phosphogypsum 10:10am - 10:25am Modeling the Impact of Direct Lithium Extraction Technologies on Overall Water Use in the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area 10:25am - 10:40am Revealing Material Requirements and Environmental Impact for Canadian Wind Energy Development Based on Material Flow Analysis 10:40am - 10:55am Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains |
SRI2: Circular Economy and LCA Location: Hamptons Chair: Elizabeth Moore Chair: Qingshi Tu Sustainable Well Plugging: Evaluating Biochar’s Integration in Orphan Oil & Gas Wells 9:55am - 10:10am Life Cycle Assessment of Alfalfa in the Southwestern United States 10:10am - 10:25am The opportunity for utilizing end-of-life scrap to meet growing copper demand |
HDS1: Stakeholder Engagement Location: Guilford Chair: Opeoluwa Wonuola Olawale 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 |
| 11:00am - 11:20am |
Break III Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area |
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| 11:20am - 12:40pm |
HDS2: Energy Justice and Inequity Location: Westminster Chair: Kiara Winans Incorporating worker preferences to design sociotechnical solutions for decarbonized industries using discrete choice models 11:35am - 11:50am Revisiting Energy Inequity from a Climate Perspective Using Machine Learning 11:50am - 12:05pm Equity Considerations in U.S. Climate Action Planning 12:05pm - 12:20pm Disparities in Residential Proximity to Power Plants in the United States |
SRI4: Transportation Systems Location: Hamptons Chair: Samuel Markolf Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Vehicles and Charging Station Network during Evacuations 11:35am - 11:50am Electric Vehicles Limit Equitable Access To Essential Services 11:50am - 12:05pm Internalizing societal costs is unlikely to make most Chicago Uber and Lyft riders choose transit instead 12:05pm - 12:20pm Investigating ZEV Adoption Progress in California and Identifying Barriers to Advancing Adoption Rates 12:20pm - 12:35pm Trade, Extended Use, and End of Life in the Global South: An Expanded EV Life Cycle Assessment |
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| 12:40pm - 1:40pm |
Lunch II Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 1:25pm - 2:10pm |
Panel II: LCA of emerging technologies Location: Whitehall Ballroom LCA of emerging technologies: we can’t agree, so let’s stop trying |
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| 2:10pm - 2:20pm |
Transition VI |
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| 2:20pm - 3:40pm |
SRE5: Prospective LCA Location: Westminster Chair: Julie Chen Chair: Obste Therasme Life Cycle Analysis of Methanol Production via Photocatalytic Carbon Conversion 2:35pm - 2:50pm Leveraging Prospective Life Cycle Inventory Databases for Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels 2:50pm - 3:05pm Life Cycle Assessment of Polyethylene and Alternative Packaging Materials in the United States 3:05pm - 3:20pm Evaluating costs and potential of select bioenergy pathways for decarbonization of hard to decarbonize U.S. economic sectors |
SRI5: Urban Systems Location: Hamptons Chair: Alysha Helmrich Interdependency Classification and Modeling: A Framework for Infrastructure Resilience 2:35pm - 2:50pm Complexity of increasing knowledge flows: the 2022 Southwest Airlines Scheduling Crisis 2:50pm - 3:05pm Analyzing Redistribution of Federal Disaster Aid Through Machine Learning 3:05pm - 3:20pm Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene 3:20pm - 3:35pm Assessing the Impact of a Decentralized of Echocardiogram Scan System on Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
CSRT1: New Approaches, Models, and Frameworks Location: Guilford Chair: Kiara Winans 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 |
| 3:40pm - 4:10pm |
Break IV Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area |
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| 4:10pm - 5:30pm |
SRE1: Climate impacts and resilience for energy systems Location: Westminster Chair: Derrick R. Carlson Electric Utility Vulnerability to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow in California 4:25pm - 4:40pm Leveraging machine learning to investigate the predictability of solar power generation under climate change 4:40pm - 4:55pm Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure 4:55pm - 5:10pm Understanding and addressing variability in wind and solar energy resources for decarbonization strategies |
SRI3: Stormwater and Water Systems Location: Hamptons Chair: Alysha Helmrich Assessing the integration of social media information as a potential data source for improved urban flood infrastructure 4:25pm - 4:40pm Balancing Water, Energy, and Cost: Analysis of Zero/Minimal Liquid Discharge Desalination Technologies 4:40pm - 4:55pm Nature-Based Design Solutions to Enhance Urban Resilience in Underserved Coastal Communities: A Case Study on Campostella and Campostella Heights, Norfolk, VA 4:55pm - 5:10pm Synthetic Water Distribution Network Models: Challenges and Opportunities 5:10pm - 5:25pm Building Climate Resilience in East Africa: Time-Series Building Footprint Analysis for Urban Flood Hazard Assessment |
STA3: Sustainability Education Location: Guilford Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell Assessing sustainability content in an undergraduate engineering curriculum in Canada 4:25pm - 4:40pm Exploring the correlation between students’ sustainability knowledge (literacy) and actions (carbon footprints, estimated from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective) 4:40pm - 4:55pm Can Reflective Practice Change Engineering Students’ Sustainability Perceptions? 4:55pm - 5:10pm Sustainable Project Management: Barriers and Enabling Factors 5:10pm - 5:25pm Sharing ethical perspectives in agricultural sustainability research |
| 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
Social Event 2: Explore the Baltimore Inner Harbor area in small groups. |
Early-Career Panel: Early-Career Researcher & Professional: Panel Discussion Location: Whitehall Ballroom Chair: Kiara Winans Chair: Qingshi Tu Join us for an engaging panel session! Panelists will introduce themselves before moving to separate tables for small group discussions. Afterwards, enjoy a social dinner at designated restaurants. Don't miss this chance to connect, learn, and share ideas! A big thank you to our student leaders who will be moderating the sessions with the panelists! |
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| Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024 | ||
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST Planning Meeting Location: Hamptons All are welcome! Come join us to discuss what you like about the conference, what you'd change, and whether you'd like to get involved in helping us plan future events! |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast II Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote III Location: Whitehall Ballroom The Cooperative Research Model of the Coordinating Research Council and Sustainable Mobility Committee |
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| 9:30am - 9:40am |
Transition VII |
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| 9:40am - 10:45am |
CSRT2: Climate Futures Location: Westminster Chair: Adam John Smerigan Chair: Obste Therasme 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 |
SRE6: Commercial & Industrial Energy Use & Emissions Location: Hamptons Chair: Ben Rachunok Chair: Alysha Helmrich Implications of Zoning Ordinances for Rural Utility-Scale Solar Deployment and Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region 9:55am - 10:10am Digital Twin For Urban Metabolism. A Pilot Model For A Campus Building. 10:10am - 10:25am Data-driven Characterization Of Cooling Needs In A Portfolio Of Co-located Commercial Buildings 10:25am - 10:40am Impacts of teleworking on US office building space |
| 10:45am - 11:15am |
Break V Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area |
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| 11:15am - 12:00pm |
SRE8: Land & Air for Legacy Systems Location: Westminster Chair: Marie-Odile Fortier Direct land use change impacts of natural gas well pads in New Mexico determined through geospatial analysis and machine learning 11:30am - 11:45am Carbon sequestration in Deep-Saline Aquifers (CS): A Regional Study Case in Northern South America 11:45am - 12:00pm Evaluating the environmental impacts of historical oil spill incidents in North America from the life cycle perspective |
SRI6: Wastewater Systems Location: Hamptons Chair: Samuel Markolf 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 11:30am - 11:45am Addressing outstanding obstacles to the adoption of anaerobic membrane bioreactors for sustainable wastewater treatment infrastructure through techno-economic analysis and lifecycle assessment 11:45am - 12:00pm Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Algal Turf Scrubber Wastewater Treatment Plant for Nutrient Removal |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Closing Remarks: (Light lunch will be served) Location: Whitehall Ballroom |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
ISSST 2025 Planning Meeting Location: Hamptons If you are able to join us to get started on planning for ISSST 2025, please meet us here for a relatively informal discussion. |
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