Assessment Informed Design: Innovative Examples from Water, Energy, and Material Systems
F&ES SEMINAR SERIES
Assessment Informed Design: Innovative Examples from Water, Energy, and Material Systems
Julie Zimmerman
Associate Professor of Green Engineering
Assistant Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
The design of sustainable products, processes and systems must be informed by rigorous assessments in order to minimize unintended consequences. By focusing on how to structure assessments to provide the necessary input, the resulting designs can achieve significant and measurable improvements in sustainability performance. Three case studies will be presented demonstrating the feedback between assessment and design including novel sorbents for removal of inorganic contaminants from aqueous systems; an improved process for the extraction, fractionation, and transformation of biobased feedstocks; and establishing dominant physiochemical properties leading to carbon nanotube toxicity. Each of these case studies will illustrate an integrative and iterative approach for sustainable design of engineered systems informed by systematic assessments.
FREE EVENT
12:00-‐1:00
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall
Lunch will be provided – first come, first served