Life Cycle Assessment of Light Duty Passenger Vehicles
Comparing environmental impacts of internal combustion enegine, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles throughout their whole lifecycle
Current Research Projects
Hybrid Solar PV Systems in Nigeria
Evaluating technical, economic, and environmental performance of hybrid systems in urban and remote locations in Nigeria
Marine debris
From blue-gray to blue-green: facilitating the transition to non-plastic natural material use within the coastal zone economy
Salt-tolerant agriculture
Controlled environment agriculture platform for hydroponic cultivation of salt-tolerant Crops with integrated saline water irrigation and salinity management
AIM for composites
Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Paradigm for Composites
Net negative carbon buildings
Development of an entirely wood floor system designed for biogenic carbon storage, adaptability, and end-of-life (de/re)construction
Low-cost tools
An inverse design methodology to fabricate low-cost agile tools for manufacturing lightweight automotive components
Climate resilient agriculture
Climate resilient, sustainable food production: controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment & reuse
LCA-risk
Coupling Life-Cycle Impact Assessment and Risk Assessment for Sustainability-Informed Decision Making
Carbon SIRGE
Shallow Geologic Storage of Carbon to Remove Atmospheric CO2 and Reduce Flood Risk
Impacts of US Coal Transport
This project explores the environmental impacts of the major modes of coal transportation for electricity generation: rail, barge, and truck.
Bottom-up Regional Energy Model
Building an hourly electricity use model for South Carolina and beyond
Completed Research Projects
Potential for Rooftop PV in South Carolina
Using Remote sensing to evaluate the potential for rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) electric capacity across the state.
EROI harmonization
Meta-analysis and harmonization of energy return on invesment for major energy products at point-of-use
Wind technology assessment
Exploring the trade-offs among turbine power rating, embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions for a variety of wind technologies.
MYSTERIO
Rapid generation of multi-region, environmentally-extended, input-output (MR-EEIO) models for the US states.
Impacts from human spacetravel
Do we need to send humans into space? What are the environmental impacts from that?
BaSKET: Building a Strategy for Key Energy Transitions
Can humans successfully coordinate a transition from non-renewable to renewable resources in a timely manner?
Carolina Coastal Resilance
Applying geospatial analysis to explore infrastructure resilience in South Carolina.
Impact Assessment of US Toxic Releases
Applying the tools of life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) to understand and communicate toxic releases from US industrial facilities.
Integrating Life Cycle Assessment with Techno-Economic Analysis
Building tools to simultaneously evalutate the economic and environmental performance of products and systems.
Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies
Expanding the domain of life cycle assessment (LCA) beyond already commercialized products to low technology readiness levels (TRL)
Energize!
A Serious Game for Energy Learning. Take on the role of CEO of an electric utility.
US Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Exploring the interaction of food, energy, and water of US industries and urban areas
Solar PV Potential for South Carolina
Assessing the suitability of South Carolina for utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) deployment.
Solar PV technology assessment
Exploring the trade-offs among efficiency, embodied energy and energy return on investment for a variety of photovoltaic (PV) technologies.
Human-Powered Gym
Can human power be used to generated electricity renewably?
Service
Clemson Industrial Assessment Center
Training the next generation of energy savvy students to provide no-cost energy assessments for small- to medium-sized manufacturers within South Carolina
South Carolina Energy-Economy-Environment (SCE3)
A coordinated federal and local technical assistance initiative that helps communities work with their manufacturing base to adapt and thrive in a new business era focused on sustainability
Clemson Sustainable Energy Fund
An innovative way to fund “green” projects on campus
Clemson Academic Building Utility Use
A tool to analysze electric, gas, water, chilled water, sewer and steam utility on Clemson campus
Clemson Carbon Footprint
Assessing the climate impact of Clemson's operational activities