CAREER: INTEGRATED WATER, ENERGY, AND EMISSIONS DECISION MAKING FOR A LOW CARBON FUTURE WITH COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS

职业：通过燃煤电厂实现水资源、能源和排放的综合决策，实现低碳未来

• 批准号: 1554117
• 负责人: Meagan Mauter
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1554117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; INTEGRATED; WATER; ENERGY; EMISSIONS

1554117MauterCost-effectively reducing the human health and environmental externalities of electricity generation is a defining sustainability challenge of the 21st century. Solutions to this complex problem will necessarily span multiple spatial scales, time scales, and disciplines. Integrated decision models can aid researchers, engineering practitioners, and policy makers in moving away from short-term fixes toward holistic sustainability solutions. The proposed research develops an integrated decision model for coal-fired power plants that investigates the effects of market conditions, regulatory policy, power plant emission control processes, and materials performance on the cost of sustainable electricity generation.The most significant barriers to performing integrated assessment of coal-fired power plants are uncertainties in: 1) the cost and efficacy of wastewater treatment technologies for compliance with proposed effluent limitation guidelines issued by the EPA; 2) the interaction effects between air and water emission control technologies during phased implementation of emission regulations at coal-fired power plants; 3) the viability of alternative wastewater treatment processes that circumvent auxiliary power consumption by using waste heat from coal-fired power plants processes; and, 4) the role that new membrane materials might play in enabling these alternative water treatment processes in the future. The proposed work will fill these fundamental knowledge gaps and integrate the findings into an aqueous emissions control decision model that guides policy, directs compliance pathways, motivates technology development, and enables the reliable prediction of future emissions. The most significant barrier to stakeholders using integrated decision-making tools to inform compliance pathways at coal-fired power plants is that these academically-derived tools rarely evolve with stakeholder needs. The proposed stakeholder engagement process, beginning with a research prioritization workshop, continuing through yearly meetings, and culminating in a simple and adaptive decision tool, will increase the probability that this model is widely adopted. Additional outreach and educational tasks are integrated into the model development process and span the K-12, undergraduate, and doctoral research communities. The principal investigator (PI) will engage high-school students in documenting aqueous emissions from Ohio River Valley coal-fired power plants. The PI will also develop a formal mentorship program for undergraduate researchers and doctoral student mentors in the PI's laboratory that will promote targeted goal setting, improve skill development, and enhance retention of undergraduate researchers in STEM fields.

1554117MauterCost有效地减少发电的人类健康和环境外部性是21世纪的可持续性挑战。解决这个复杂问题的解决方案必然跨越多个空间量表，时间尺度和学科。综合决策模型可以帮助研究人员，工程从业人员和政策制定者从短期修复方向转向整体可持续性解决方案。 The proposed research develops an integrated decision model for coal-fired power plants that investigates the effects of market conditions, regulatory policy, power plant emission control processes, and materials performance on the cost of sustainable electricity generation.The most significant barriers to performing integrated assessment of coal-fired power plants are uncertainties in: 1) the cost and efficacy of wastewater treatment technologies for compliance with proposed effluent limitation guidelines issued by the EPA; 2）在燃煤电厂的排放法规实施过程中，空气和水排放控制技术之间的相互作用效果； 3）替代废水处理过程的生存能力通过使用燃煤发电厂工艺的废热来规避辅助功耗； 4）新膜材料将来可以在实现这些替代水处理过程中起作用的作用。拟议的工作将填补这些基本知识差距，并将发现纳入水性排放控制决策模型，该决策模型指导政策，指导合规途径，激励技术发展并实现对未来排放的可靠预测。利益相关者使用综合决策工具为燃煤发电厂提供合规途径的最重要障碍是，这些学术衍生的工具很少随利益相关者的需求而发展。拟议的利益相关者参与过程从研究优先研讨会开始，通过年度会议继续进行，并以简单和适应性的决策工具达到顶峰，将增加该模型被广泛采用的可能性。其他外展和教育任务融入了模型开发过程中，并跨越K-12，本科和博士研究社区。首席研究员（PI）将吸引高中生记录俄亥俄河谷燃煤发电厂的水排放。 PI还将为PI实验室中的本科研究人员和博士学位导师制定正式的指导计划，该计划将促进目标的目标设定，改善技能发展并增强本科研究人员在STEM领域的保留。