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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Carbon efficient"”.
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Stimulating carbon efficient supply chains : carbon labels and voluntary public private partnerships
… as a bottom-up, complementary alternative to carbon cap and trade systems. By improving the transparency of product carbon footprint information, a market for low carbon intensity products can be created. The conduct of such product life cycle assessments often allows companies to uncover cost …
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Carbon-efficient Wastewater Treatment Through Resource Recovery, Process Intensification, and Partial Denitrification Anammox
… dissertation provided an array of innovative carbon-efficient wastewater treatment technologies for resource recovery, process intensification, and anammox featured next generation biological nutrient removal (BNR) technologies. These technologies aim to supplant traditional carbon-intensive …
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Development of a Reusable Thin-Shell Concrete Flooring System
… and population growth. Coupled with the high carbon intensity of the construction industry, immediate action must be taken in order to reduce and limit the impact of our buildings and structures on global carbon emissions and the environment. Circularity and component reuse offer an …
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Optimizing Multi-Dimensional Efficiency of Foundation Models: From Fine-Tuning to Inference
… consumption and time- and location-varying carbon intensity under real-world constraints. This dissertation proposes an end-to-end methodology for sustainable AI that integrates measurement, multi-dimensional evaluation, and decision-making from fine-tuning to deployment scheduling. First, …
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Towards Artificial Photosynthesis: Yeast-Inorganic Hybrid System
… aim to store solar energy and chemically reduce carbon dioxide. These systems have been developed to use light to drive processes for carbon fixation into biomass and/or liquid fuels. We have developed a hybridbiological system that manages both genetically controlled generation of products along …
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Agricultural Waste Utilization: Life Cycle Assessment for Selecting Carbon-Management Best Practices on a Global Scale
… biofertilizers, animal feed, biofuels, and for carbon sequestration. However, in many parts of the world, large quantities of these residues are still burned in the field, releasing significant amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants to the atmosphere. This study aims to evaluate …
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Rational design and synthesis of zeolite acid catalysts for applications in biomass conversion
The development of carbon efficient and economically viable biomass conversion technologies is crucial for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. Catalytic upgrading processes must remove oxygen and add hydrogen while targeting oxygen-containing functional groups. Catalysts must be …