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Use Of Fly Ash As A Proppant In Fracking Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells, Tom Robl, Anne Oberlink, Robert Jewell, Tristana Duvallet

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Bulk Storage (10,000+ Tons) Of Fly Ash, Fgd Gypsum, Limestone And Coal At Power Stations In Concrete Domes, Benjamin Davis, Zachary Fillmore, Michael Hunter

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Soil Mixing And Slurry Trench Cutoff Walls For Coal Combustion Residue Sites, Jeffrey C. Evans, Daniel Ruffing

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Cost-Effective, Environmentally-Friendly Ash Beneficiation Technology, Scott Ziegler

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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The Utilization Of Dry Scrubber Material For The Production Of Calcium Sulfoaluminate Clinkers And Cements, Tristana Y. Duvallet, Robert B. Jewell, Anne E. Oberlink, Thomas L. Robl

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (Neba) For Ccr Pond Closure Decisions -- A Pathway To Meaningful Citizen Engagement And Reducing The Potential For Unnecessary Litigation, Chris Hardin, Ric Traver

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Challenges Met In Using Bottom Ash As A Landfill Drainage Media, William M. Strachan

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Two Bottom Ash Management/Handling System Enhancement Case Studies – From Technology Evaluation And Design Through Construction And Performance Verification, George Mckenzie, Aaron Davis, Chris Pickelmann, Jason Obermeyer

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Slurry-Trench Cutoff Walls For The Containment Of The Coal Combustion Residuals (Ccr) Impacted Groundwater: Evaluation Of Hydraulic Conductivity And Consolidation Properties Of Soil-Bentonite Backfills, Y.L. Yang, Krishna Reddy, Y.J. Du, R.D. Fan

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Ccp Beneficial Use Risk Assessment: Case Studies For Three Different Applications, Andrew Bittner, Ari Lewis

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Corrective Measures/Corrective Action (Cm/Ca) Strategies That Effectively Integrate Engineered Pond Closures And Short/Long-Term Groundwater Management With Case Study Examples, Steve Putrich

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Managing Landfill Leachate In A World Without Ash Basins: Lessons Learned And Practical Considerations, Evan Andrews, Michael Lazar

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Developing Enhanced Monitored Natural Attenuation Strategies Using Reactive Transport Models, Pj Nolan, Hugh Davies, Greg Hebeler, Rens Verburg

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Enhancing Coal Ash Impoundment Closure Using Value Engineering, Holt Wheeler, Trey Mangers, Paul Lear

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Experimental Test Method To Determine The Reactivity Of Fly Ash For Use In Concrete Mixture Proportioning, Antara Choudry, Deborah Glosser, O. Burkan Isgor, W. Jason Weiss

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Overview Of Epri Research On Environmental Issues And Beneficial Use Of Coal Combustion Products, Bruce Hensel, Ken Ladwig

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Is My Site A Candidate For A Groundwater Natural Attenuation Remedy? A Geochemist’S Perspective, Bob Glazier

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Impoundment Closure Enhancement Measures To Support Groundwater Compliance, John Hesemann, Wayne Weber, Eric Dulle

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Panel On Liquefaction Of Ponded Fly Ash: From Laboratory To Practice, Tarunjit S. Butalia

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Spring 2019, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …

Geospatial Energy Potential And Life Cycle Assessment Of Nearshore Oscillating Water Column Systems, Aleks Siemenn, Marie-Odile Fortier

CURCE Annual Undergraduate Conference

Oscillating Water Column (OWC) systems are an iteration of terminator ocean energy technology which generate electrical energy from turbine torque induced by the compression of air in a chamber from changing water level height. OWCs are a well-established technology, however, there have been no studies to date which quantify the life cycle environmental impacts of these systems in a geographic context. The goal of this study is to optimally size an OWC system for selected New England coastline sites and then assess the environmental impacts of the varying system sizes.

An OWC system is optimally sized when the volume of …

Design Of A Portable Biogas Purification And Storage System, Anikumar Kosna, Bade Shrestha

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA)

The objective of this study is to propose and design a commercial portable purification and storage system to commercialize biogas (which mainly consists of 45 - 75 % of methane and 15 - 16% of carbon dioxide), produced from household/non-commercial biogas plants. The selection of purification process is based on the portability of the purification system.

Surface And Interface Properties In Thin-Film Solar Cells: Using Soft X-Rays And Electrons To Unravel The Electronic And Chemical Structure, Lothar Weinhardt, Dirk Hauschild, Clemens Heske

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Research

Thin‐film solar cells have great potential to overtake the currently dominant silicon‐based solar cell technologies in a strongly growing market. Such thin‐film devices consist of a multilayer structure, for which charge‐carrier transport across interfaces plays a crucial role in minimizing the associated recombination losses and achieving high solar conversion efficiencies. Further development can strongly profit from a high‐level characterization that gives a local, electronic, and chemical picture of the interface properties, which allows for an insight‐driven optimization. Herein, the authors' recent progress of applying a “toolbox” of high‐level laboratory‐ and synchrotron‐based electron and soft X‐ray spectroscopies to characterize the chemical …

Process Sustainability Evaluation For Manufacturing Of A Component With The 6r Application, Ana E. Bonilla Hernández, Tao Lu, Tomas Beno, Claes Fredriksson, Ibrahim S. Jawahir

Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing Faculty Publications

Sustainability in manufacturing can be evaluated at product, process and system levels. The 6R methodology for sustainability enhancement in manufacturing processes includes: reduced use of materials, energy, water and other resources; reusing of products/components; recovery and recycling of materials/components; remanufacturing of products; and redesigning of products to utilize recovered materials/resources. Although manufacturing processes can be evaluated by their productivity, quality and cost, process sustainability assessment makes it a complete evaluation. This paper presents a 6R-based evaluation method for sustainable manufacturing in terms of specific metrics within six major metrics clusters: environmental impact, energy consumption, waste management, cost, resource utilization and …

A Total Life Cycle Approach For Developing Predictive Design Methodologies To Optimize Product Performance, Buddhika M. Hapuwatte, Ibrahim S. Jawahir

Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing Faculty Publications

Sustainable products must be designed by considering how design decisions impact their total life cycle (TLC) sustainability content. Even more so important when designing products to incorporate the technological elements of sustainable manufacturing, the 6Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Redesign and Remanufacture), to achieve Circular Economy (CE). This paper presents the preliminary work of an ongoing research project on developing a novel framework incorporating predictive models with TLC considerations. This unique approach develops and integrates models with associated risks, and optimizes for maximizing the sustainability benefits due to design decisions. Such predictive capability is extremely useful for process planning, where …

Sustainable Production Through Balancing Trade-Offs Among Three Metrics In Flow Shop Scheduling, Amin Abedini, Wei Li, Fazleena Badurdeen, Ibrahim S. Jawahir

Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing Faculty Publications

In sustainable manufacturing, inconsistencies exist among objectives defined in triple-bottom-lines (TBL) of economy, society, and environment. Analogously, inconsistencies exist in flow shop scheduling among three objectives of minimizing total completion time (TCT), maximum completion time (MCT), and completion time variance (CTV), respectively. For continuous functions, the probability is zero to achieve the objectives at their optimal values, so is it at their worst values. Therefore, with inconsistencies among individual objectives of discrete functions, it is more meaningful and feasible to seek a solution with high probabilities that system performance varies within the …

Designing And Redesigning Products, Processes, And Systems For A Helical Economy, Ryan Bradley, Ibrahim S. Jawahir

Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing Faculty Publications

The Circular Economy (CE) concept has promised to unlock trillions of dollars in business value while driving a significant reduction in the world’s resource consumption and anthropogenic emissions. However, CE mainly lives in ambiguity in the manufacturing domain because CE does not address the changes needed across all of the fundamental elements of manufacturing: products, processes, and systems. Conceptually, CE is grounded in the concept of closed-loop material flows that fit within ecological limits. This grounding translates into a steady state economy, a result that is not an option for the significant portion of the world living in poverty. Therefore, …

Transforming A Circular Economy Into A Helical Economy For Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing, Ryan T. Bradley

Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

The U.N. projects the world population to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050, which will cause demand for manufactured goods to reach unforeseen levels. In order for us to produce the goods to support an equitable future, the methods in which we manufacture those goods must radically change. The emerging Circular Economy (CE) concept for production systems has promised to drastically increase economic/business value by significantly reducing the world’s resource consumption and negative environmental impacts. However, CE is inherently limited because of its emphasis on recycling and reuse of materials. CE does not address the holistic changes needed across …

Towards Sustainable Production Of Chemicals And Fuels From The Fast Pyrolysis Of Waste Polyolefin Plastics, Ulises Gracida Alvarez

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The increasing amount of plastic waste (PW) generation has become an important concern due to the leveled-off recycling rates. Therefore, governmental agencies around the world, including state governments in the United States, have proposed initiatives to minimize the amount of PW that is landfilled and encourage recycling or energy recovery. Circular economy is a strategy that attempts on reusing PW to produce new polymers while avoiding its disposal and the use of virgin material. Chemical recycling raises an interesting technology prospect due to the potential reduction of pollutant emissions and the establishment of a circular economy through the production of …

Coordinated Unmanned Aircraft System (Uas) And Ground-Based Weather Measurements To Predict Lagrangian Coherent Structures (Lcss), Peter J. Nolan, James Pinto, Javier González-Rocha, Anders Jensen, Christina N. Vezzi, Sean C. C. Bailey, Gijs De Boer, Constantin Diehl, Roger Laurence Iii, Craig W. Powers, Hosein Foroutan, Shane D. Ross, David G. Schmale Iii

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Concentrations of airborne chemical and biological agents from a hazardous release are not spread uniformly. Instead, there are regions of higher concentration, in part due to local atmospheric flow conditions which can attract agents. We equipped a ground station and two rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) with ultrasonic anemometers. Flights reported here were conducted 10 to 15 m above ground level (AGL) at the Leach Airfield in the San Luis Valley, Colorado as part of the Lower Atmospheric Process Studies at Elevation—a Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE) campaign in 2018. The ultrasonic anemometers were used to collect simultaneous measurements of …