RESEARCH
Future Research Topics
- Life cycle analysis of nano-materials for solar cell applications.
- Energy and emission assessments in the life cycles of metal production (i.e., mining, transporting, smelting, refinining, recycling).
- Develop electronic data-bases of environmental inventories in North American metal production.
- Assess the attribution of life cycle emissions in metals production among the various countries involved.
- LCA of specific installed PV systems.
- Development of data-bases and LCA for new organic photovoltaic systems.
- Development of a risk-based system for evaluating life-cycle externalities of conventional and new sources of energy.
- Development of technology for recovering indium from electronic products.
- Feasibility of recovering Te and other metals from ocean manganese modules.
- Life-cycle energy and environmental impacts of extracting uranium from sea-water.
- Life-cycle energy and environmental impacts of various carbon management options.