Now she plans to spend her time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researching energy efficiency related topics.
Sustainable process design and energy efficiency evaluation are major topics for recent process engineering.
From politics, where energy is off the table as a likely issue in New York's election for governor, to environmentalism, where hot topics like energy efficiency have cooled, the transformation has been sudden.
So far more than 20 Bass Connections in Energy teams have worked on projects covering topics ranging from energy efficiency for low-income households to aerial image detection of rooftop solar panels.
The topic of energy efficiency applied to buildings represents one of the key aspects in today's international energy policies.
Professor Stavins responds to four panelists on the topic of energy efficiency and climate change at a panel discussion that is part of the 7th Annual Miller Upton Forum, for which Professor Stavins was the 2014 Miller Upton Scholar.
In this paper, the monitoring and analysis process performed within the topic of energy efficiency in the building sector is presented, referring to the program named Design and realization of interventions for energy retrofit in public buildings and realization of zero emissions buildings (i.e. buildings that have zero emissions of greenhouse gases related to their operation).
Topics include implementing energy efficiency measures, siting nuclear and alternative energy plants, promoting oil and gas development offshore and in wilderness, adapting to climate change, handling toxic waste, protecting endangered species, and conserving water.
Secondly, the example simulations addressed important topics such as energy efficiency of OSN compared to evaporation, use of pore flow or solution diffusion membrane transport models, and effect of thermodynamic non-ideality on the overall process performance.
In the area of energy efficiency in transportation, high-priority research topics include development of high-temperature high-performance ferrous alloys, systems design of protective coatings, fundamental understanding of surface texturing effects on friction and wear, and development of oxidatively stable bio-based lubricants.
