32nd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2025
June 16 - 18, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Campus Club - Room AB |
| Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Workshop 2: Science Communication Workshop Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Amy Aines From Assessment to Action:How to Clearly Communicate Your Ideas and Insights |
| 12:40pm - 1:25pm |
Lightning 1: AIB & HDS Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell From Waste to Resource: Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Food Waste Treatment in Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities Versus Landfilling 12:45pm - 12:50pm Upcycling grocery wastes as a feed input for climate friendly egg production in the United States 12:50pm - 12:55pm Decarbonization pathways for U.S. Automotive Steel Consumption 12:55pm - 1:00pm Addressing data availability concerns in Social Life Cycle Assessment through a critical review on the United States manufacturing sector 1:00pm - 1:05pm Evaluating the adoption risks of early-stage research 1:05pm - 1:10pm Local Energy Justice Impacts of Global Carbon Market Design |
| 1:45pm - 3:05pm |
SRE1: Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Macro-scale Electricity Systems Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Margaret Grace O'Connell Chair: Chayse Monroe Lavallais Evaluation of Policies to Support Robust Planning of Electricity Systems Exposed to High Uncertainty 1:57pm - 2:09pm Projecting US State-Level Renewable Energy Generation Under Climate Change 2:09pm - 2:21pm Assessing the Local Economic Impacts of Rural Utility-Scale PV Deployment for Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region. 2:21pm - 2:33pm Integrated Energy-Water flows in the United States over the 21st century 2:33pm - 2:45pm Significance of Integrating Supply-side and Demand-side solutions in Electricity System Transition Planning – A model-based evaluation 2:45pm - 2:57pm The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S. |
| 3:25pm - 4:45pm |
Workshop 1b: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 2] Location: Campus Club - Room AB Chair: Shelie Miller |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST Planning Meeting I Location: Campus Club - Room AB |
| 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 |