32nd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2025
June 16 - 18, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 8:30am - 9:20am |
Plenary 1: Tools of the Trade - Overview of Technical Workshops for Sustainability, LCA, and Industrial Ecology Analysis Location: Campus Club - West Wing This plenary session will feature brief presentations from the organizers of the Technical Workshops occuring Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Speakers include Lise Laurin of EarthShift Global, Catherine Birney of Easter Research Group, Ben Young of Eastern Research Group, and Brandon Kuczenski of University of California-Santa Barbara |
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| 9:20am - 9:35am |
Transition 2-I |
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| 9:35am - 10:55am |
SRE2: Meeting Minerals and Materials Demands for Sustainable and Resilient Energy Systems Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: I. Daniel Posen Regional photovoltaics circularity under various socio-economic conditions 9:47am - 9:59am Assessing the future of lithium production in the US through the lenses water consumption and scarcity 9:59am - 10:11am Effects of natural versus situational lime carbonation dynamics on the carbon footprint of a hemp-biochar-lime insulation material 10:11am - 10:23am Is the Design for Circularity strategy environmentally beneficial? A case study of the U.S Photovoltaics Industry shifting from Aluminum to Steel Frames 10:23am - 10:35am Whole-process water consumption of direct lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region |
AIB1: Towards Negative-Carbon Bioproducts Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Poulami Karan TOWARDS NEGATIVE CARBON: INSIGHTS FROM MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRAZIL 9:47am - 9:59am Scalability of Hemp-based Thermal Insulation in the United States – A Monte Carlo-based Techno-economic Approach 9:59am - 10:11am Cradle-to-Gate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ethylene Produced via Corn Ethanol 10:11am - 10:23am Life-Cycle Assessment of Corn Wet Mills in the United States: Ethanol, Dextrose, and Feed Products 10:23am - 10:35am Life Cycle Assessment of poly(3-hydroxybuyrate) Production from Forest Residue and Shrub Willow Mix |
SRI1: General Infrastructures and Transportation Systems Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Md. Uzzal Hossain Is the best available climate model data sufficient to plan for climate adaptation? 9:47am - 9:59am Operationalizing safe-to-fail design for climate adaptation through social, ecological, and technological capabilities of infrastructures 9:59am - 10:11am Assessing roadway vulnerability to post-fire debris flows in Arizona in current and future climate scenarios 10:11am - 10:23am Advancing Sustainability in Construction: An AI-Driven Framework for Efficient EPD Analysis and Data Enrichment 10:23am - 10:35am Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure with Equity Considerations 10:35am - 10:47am Time Series Analysis of Changes in Agricultural Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: The First Step Toward Climate Impact Assessment |
| 10:55am - 11:15am |
Transition 2-II |
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| 11:15am - 12:35pm |
CST1: Sustainable Innovation, Materials and Assessment Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Experience Nduagu ADHERENCE OF BRAZILIAN EXTERNAL CONTROL BODIES, THROUGH A PUBLIC GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FOCUSED ON THE 2030 AGENDA GOALS 11:27am - 11:39am Development of a Green Composite Using Cement Paste Waste, Hemicellulose, Chitosan, and Natural Fibers 11:39am - 11:51am Comparative Analysis of Voluntary Programs and Mandatory Regulations for Effective Bulky Materials Management 11:51am - 12:03pm Towards a MMRV Protocol for Carbon-Curing and Mineralization in the Concrete Sector: Gap Analysis of Existing LCA and MMRV Standards using AI 12:03pm - 12:15pm Impact of Decarbonizing One Industrial Sector on the Resilience and Decarbonization of Other Industrial Sectors |
ITM1: Tools and Methods for LCA Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Oksana Makarova Algorithmic Approaches to Scale Life Cycle Assessments 11:27am - 11:39am Including Supply Chain Vulnerability in Social Life Cycle Assessments of Critical Minerals 11:39am - 11:51am Holistic Evaluation of Environmental Effects Using Consequential Life Cycle Analysis for Critical Mineral Production 11:51am - 12:03pm Ojibwe Gikendaasowin (Ojibwe Knowledge) life cycle assessment of critical minerals mining 12:03pm - 12:15pm Federal LCA Commons: Dataset Updates and Contribution Opportunities 12:15pm - 12:27pm Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno Economic Analysis (TEA) of Sorbent-Based Direct Air Capture (DAC) Case Studies |
SRE3: Sustainable Uses of Fossil Fuels in the Energy Transition Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Jenna Trost Geospatial life cycle climate change impacts of coal power in the US 11:27am - 11:39am Life Cycle Emissions-from Canadian residual forest biomass to electricity enhanced synthesis of bioLNG 11:39am - 11:51am Refinery Flexibility and Decarbonization Pathways in Canada’s Evolving Transportation Landscape 11:51am - 12:03pm Preparing for the Energy Transition: Projecting the Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on the U.S. Gasoline Supply Chain Through 2050 12:03pm - 12:15pm NAVIGATING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE BIOECONOMY 12:15pm - 12:27pm Life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of CLT from mixed softwood from California forests |
| 12:35pm - 12:45pm |
Transition 2-III |
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| 12:45pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 1:30pm - 2:15pm |
Plenary 2: Panel: Enhancing Assessment Quality in LCA for Emerging Technologies Location: Campus Club - West Wing Enhancing Assessment Quality in LCA for Emerging Technologies |
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm |
Transition 2-IV |
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| 2:30pm - 3:50pm |
SRE4: Industrial Energy Use and Hydrogen for Sustainable and Resilient Energy Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Renee Obringer Prospective impact analysis combining integrated assessment modeling and life cycle assessment for alternative industrial heat sources. 2:42pm - 2:54pm Energy and climate impacts of electrification of Indiana’s steel industry 2:54pm - 3:06pm High spatial resolution industrial hydrogen demand for hydrogen energy system modeling 3:06pm - 3:18pm Technical Evaluation and Life-Cycle Assessment of Si+ based Hydrogen Production Technology Integrated Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell System for Electricity Generation 3:18pm - 3:30pm Decarbonizing Renewables: Splitting Electricity, Heat, and Direct Emissions Flows to Address Embodied Emissions in Photovoltaics and Wind Manufacturing |
HDS2: Equity and Intersectional Approaches Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Eleanor M. Hennessy Advancing Energy Equity Metrics: Bridging Local Voices and Contextual Insights in Sub-Saharan Africa 2:42pm - 2:54pm Evaluating sustainability assessments via Indigenous Knowledge 2:54pm - 3:06pm Disparities in power plant-level air quality and health disparities in the United States 3:06pm - 3:18pm High-Resolution Fleet Turnover Model to Assess California's Electric Vehicle Transition |
Technical Workshop 1a: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1] Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling. Part 1: U.S. Facility and Sector Level Data and Modeling Tools |
| 3:50pm - 4:10pm |
Transition 2-V |
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| 4:10pm - 5:30pm |
SRI2: Circularity in Wastewater and Recycling Systems Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Margaret Busse A Tool to Assess the Nationwide Environmental Impact of Technological Innovation and Policy on Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure 4:22pm - 4:34pm Environmental and economic potential of AI-based plastic sorting systems 4:34pm - 4:46pm N2O as reactant rather than pollutant at wastewater treatment plants: Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of N2O-to-phenol 4:46pm - 4:58pm Infrastructure and Investment Analysis of Recycling Supply Chain Networks for Post-Consumer Plastics 4:58pm - 5:10pm Developing a Dynamic Framework to Optimize Polymer Recycling Systems in U.S. 5:10pm - 5:22pm Using supply chain modeling and hybrid input-output analysis to assess circular futures for the glass industry |
ITM2: Cross-sector Modeling Innovations for Life Cycle and Sustainability Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Qingshi Tu Systemic Decarbonization of the U.S. Aluminum Supply Chain: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis Approach 4:22pm - 4:34pm Bill of Materials Prediction of Solid State Drives with Large Language Models 4:34pm - 4:46pm ECO-STEPS: A Multi-Criteria Decision Support Tool for Evaluating the Sustainability of Engineered Climate Solutions 4:46pm - 4:58pm Comprehensive Manure Management Impacts Tool: A Life Cycle Assessment Model for Evaluating Regionally Specific Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies in Dairy Manure Management 4:58pm - 5:10pm Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) –Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) Harmonization Framework to Evaluate Emerging Carbon Conversion Technologies 5:10pm - 5:22pm GeoHydroSim: A Tool for Modeling Water Consumption from Geothermal Energy Production and Lithium Extraction 5:22pm - 5:34pm How to Enhance Your Data Visualization in 15 Minutes |
Technical Workshop 1b: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1 Continued] Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm |
Transition 2-VI |
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| 5:45pm - 9:00pm |
Professional Development: Speed Networking and Social Gathering hosted by ISSST Student Leaders Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Marie Buhl Chair: Alana Teresa Smith Session will begin in the Presidents Room, followed by dinner and networking at the Town Hall Brewery, located a short walk from the conference location. |
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| 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
Social Event: Multiple locations in Minneapolis |
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