2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus

This session focuses on systems-level approaches for modeling and analysis of interconnected and interdependent food, energy, and water systems with a focus on understanding their environmental sustainability and resilience.

Chair

Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh

Co-Chairs

Yuan Yao, Yale University
Faruque Hasan, Texas A&M University

Presentations

12:30 PM

(361a) Spatial Optimization for Land Use Allocation Under Food-Energy-Water Nexus Conciderations
Yaling Nie, Styliani Avraamidou, Xin Xiao, Efstratios Pistikopoulos, Jie Li

12:55 PM

(361b) Managing Technological and Ecological Systems in a Watershed While Considering the FEW Nexus, Ecological Carrying Capacity, and the Effects of Climate Change
Kyuha Lee, Sami Khanal, Bhavik Bakshi

01:20 PM

(361c) Abfews: An Ammonia-Based System for Food-Energy-Water Sustainability
Matthew Palys, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Andrew Allman, Joel Tallaksen, Michael Reese, Prodromos Daoutidis

01:45 PM

(361d) Comparing the Environmental Implications of National Food Supplies Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Elysia Lucas, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Miao Guo, Carlos Pozo Fernández, Ángel Galán Martín

02:10 PM

(361e) Systematic Design and Optimization of Water-Energy Nexus for Sustainable Regional Planning
Spyridon D. Tsolas, M. Nazmul Karim, Faruque Hasan

02:35 PM

(361f) A Computational Platform for Assessing Organic Waste Management Strategies in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Yicheng Hu, Gerardo Ruiz-Mercado, Victor M. Zavala, Rebecca Larson