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SUMMARY:EESS Seminar talk on "Agile benchmarking frameworks to prioritize 
 technology development pathways for sustainable resource recovery"
DTSTART:20261110T121500
DTEND:20261110T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jeremy Guest\, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\nAb
 stract\nSocieties have prospered under a linear “take-make-use-dispose
 ” paradigm\, extracting natural resources to make products\, using them\
 , and ultimately discarding them or their residues. This model has driven 
 economic growth but at the cost of resource depletion\, pervasive pollutio
 n\, biodiversity loss\, and an escalating climate crisis. In response\, in
 dustries and governments are seeking technologies that can meet societal n
 eeds while advancing broader sustainability goals – closing resource cyc
 les\, carbon neutrality\, and equity among them. This pursuit has become a
  catalyst for research and development to support a transition toward a ci
 rcular economy\, but a critical challenge has been the vast landscape of p
 ossible technology development pathways and the lack of transparent\, cons
 istent frameworks to target research and investment.\nThis presentation wi
 ll introduce our approach to prioritize research\, development\, and deplo
 yment (RD&D) pathways for emerging technologies to achieve a more sustaina
 ble and more circular economy. Using a structured methodology – quantita
 tive sustainable design (QSD) – we integrate process design\, simulation
 \, techno-economic analysis (TEA)\, and life cycle assessment (LCA) under 
 uncertainty to elucidate key drivers of system sustainability\, to charact
 erize performance gaps\, and to optimize technology and system design. By 
 simulating the deployment of new resource recovery technologies across man
 y contexts\, we identify combinations of locality-specific factors (i.e.\,
  typologies) that cause potential deployment scenarios to cluster together
  in terms of technology sustainability. Leveraging examples from our work 
 in wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery\, I will demonstrate how we 
 simulate the scale-up of early-stage resource recovery technologies to gui
 de their development and to identify contexts in which they have the great
 est potential for impact. Finally\, I will share lessons we have learned i
 n making our computational tools open-source as we work to support an ecos
 ystem of innovation in sustainable technology development.\n\nBio\nDr. Jer
 emy Guest is the Department Head and David C. Crawford Faculty Scholar in 
 the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of I
 llinois Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an appointment (by courtesy) as a 
 Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\nThe
  core goal of Professor Guest’s research group is to advance circular bi
 oeconomies for a more sustainable and just future. His team supports this 
 vision by developing computational models to prioritize research\, develop
 ment\, and deployment pathways for new technologies that achieve resource 
 recovery from wastewaters and the conversion of plants to products\, food\
 , and fuels. Professor Guest’s formal training includes a B.S. and M.S. 
 in civil engineering from Bucknell University and Virginia Tech\, respecti
 vely\, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Mic
 higan.
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