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: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |||
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST Planning Meeting I Location: Campus Club - Room AB |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 8:30am - 9:20am |
Keynote II: Creating a value chain for new industrial product: The Minnesota Sustainable Aviation Fuel Hub Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 9:20am - 9:35am |
Transition 3-I |
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| 9:35am - 10:55am |
SRE5: Sustainable and Resilient Transportation Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Thiago Augusto Rodrigues Evaluating Use-phase Carbon Footprint of EV Batteries: A Physics-Based Approach 9:47am - 9:59am A Two-Echelon Bidirectional Energy Supply Problem with Uncrewed Electric Aerial and Ground Vehicles for Emergency Response Logistics 9:59am - 10:11am Creating electrical load profiles for heavy-duty vehicle charging in Ontario, Canada using real-world GPS data 10:11am - 10:41am The Coordinating Research Council’s Sustainable Mobility Committee: Current and Future Research 10:41am - 10:53am Driving Toward Net-Zero: Unlocking Circular Economy Strategies to Decarbonize U.S. Automotive Sheet Metal Production |
ITM3: LCA for Materials and Methods Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Experience Nduagu Chair: Oksana Makarova Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method for Biodegradable Microplastics 9:47am - 9:59am Addressing challenges in the lifecycle assessment (LCA) of circular economy for the US beverage industry: A case study of single use versus reusable cups 9:59am - 10:11am Environmental impacts of future cotton production in the United States 10:11am - 10:23am Unintended consequences of plastic substitution: Life cycle assessments of polyethylene packaging vs. alternatives in US based on ten indicators 10:23am - 10:35am Modeling consumer choices of disposition of End-of-First-Use electronics 10:35am - 10:47am Circular economy for N, P and K from human urine to crops: Maximizing environmental benefits through geospatial optimization of nutrient recovery facilities |
AIB2: Climate-Smart Bioeconomy: From Forests to Fields Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Obste Therasme Exploring Economic and Environmental Impacts of Emerging Incentives for Winter Rye Cover Crops in the U.S. Midwest 9:59am - 10:11am Elucidating the Value Chain of a Potential Biobased Alternative to Traditional Plastic Precursors 10:11am - 10:23am The Impacts of System Boundary and Biogenic Carbon Accounting in an Attributional Life Cycle Analysis of U.S. Renewable Natural Gas Production Pathways 10:23am - 10:35am Soil amendments as value-added products from Integrated Pulp and Paper Biorefinery: An Environmental and Economic Analysis 10:35am - 10:47am Comparing Environmental Impacts of Beef Production Systems: A Meta-Analysis of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices Using Life Cycle Assessment |
| 10:55am - 11:15am |
Transition 3-II |
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| 11:15am - 12:30pm |
Keynote III: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Workshop Report] Location: Campus Club - West Wing Chair: Shelie Miller |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch III & Student Awards Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
ISSST Planning Meeting II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
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| 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
Technical Workshop 1c: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 2] 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 2: USEEIO Model Assembly, Calculation and Analysis |
Technical Workshop 2: Using Antelope Location: Bruinicks Hall Room 512A Using Antelope - open source toolset for LCA benchmarking and analysis |
Technical Workshop 3: How to assess the return on investments into sustainability Location: Bruinicks Hall Room 512B How to assess the return on investments into sustainability |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Post-Conference: Social Event 3 Location: Graduate Hotel: The Beacon Restaurant |
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