Publications

2023

Fitzgerald, Patrick, Peter L. Therkelsen, Paul Sheaffer, and Prakash Rao."Deeper and persistent energy savings and carbon dioxide reductions achieved through ISO 50001 in the manufacturing sector."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 57 (2023) 103280. DOI
Das, Sujit, Heidi Fuchs, Ritu Philip, and Prakash Rao."A review of water valuation metrics: Supporting sustainable water use in manufacturing."Water Resources and Industry 29 (2023) 100199. DOI

2021

Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Survey of Available Information on U.S. Manufacturing Wastewater and Energy Requirements for Reuse." (2021). DOI
Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing wastewater in the United States for the purpose of analyzing energy requirements for reuse."Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021). DOI

2019

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, and Peter L. Therkelsen."Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid."Journal of Cleaner Production 220 (2019) 827 - 835. DOI
Rao, Prakash, Darren Sholes, and Joe Cresko."Evaluation of U.S. Manufacturing Subsectors at Risk of Physical Water Shortages."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

2018

Rao, Prakash, William R. Morrow III, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Caroline Dollinger, Sabine Brueske, and Joe Cresko."Energy considerations associated with increased adoption of seawater desalination in the United States."Desalination 445 (2018) 213 - 224. DOI
Therkelsen, Peter L., Jingjing Liu, Holly Grell-Lawe, and Randy Green."Implementation of ISO 50001 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort." (2018).
Liu, Jingjing, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Peter L. Therkelsen, and Nathaniel Allen."Accelerating the Uptake of ISO 50001 in Commercial Buildings: Two Early Adopters Utilizing an “Enterprise-wide” Approach to Save Energy and Beyond."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).
Fischer, Marc L., Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Seongeun Jeong, Vi H. Rapp, and Zhimin Zhu."An Estimate of Natural Gas Methane Emissions from California Homes."Environmental Science & Technology (2018). DOI

2017

Wilson, Daniel L., Vi H. Rapp, Julien J. Caubel, Sharon S. Chen, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Verifying mixing in dilution tunnels: How to ensure cookstove emissions samples are unbiased." (2017).
Rao, Prakash, Robert Kostecki, Larry L. Dale, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Technology and Engineering of the Water-Energy Nexus."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 42.1 (2017) 407 - 437. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Prakash Rao, Peter L. Therkelsen, Paul Sheaffer, Paul Scheihing, and Yannick Tamm."ISO 50001 and SEP Faster and Cheaper - Exploring the Enterprise-Wide Approach." (2017).
Liu, Jingjing, and Aimee T. McKane."Guide for Determining Energy Savings from Changes in Operations, Behavior, and Maintenance Procedures." (2017).
Rapp, Vi H., Robert K. Cheng, and Peter L. Therkelsen."A high turndown, ultra low emission low-swirl burner for natural gas, on-demand water heaters." (2017).

2016

Rao, Prakash, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, William R. Morrow III, Sabine Brueske, Caroline Dollinger, Kevin Price, Prateeti Sarker, Nicholas Ward, and Joe Cresko."Volume 1: Survey of Available Information in Support of the Energy-Water Bandwidth Study of Desalination Systems." (2016).
Therkelsen, Peter L., Robert K. Cheng, and Darren Sholes."Research and Development of Natural Draft Ultra-Low Emissions Burners for Gas Appliances." (2016).
Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Peter L. Therkelsen, Prakash Rao, and Aimee T. McKane."Global Impact Estimation of ISO 50001 Energy Management System for Industrial and Service Sectors." (2016).
Therkelsen, Peter L., Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."The ISO 50001 Impact Estimator Tool (IET 50001 V1.1.4) - User Guide and Introduction to the ISO 50001 Impacts Methodology." (2016).
Rapp, Vi H., Julien J. Caubel, Daniel L. Wilson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Reducing Ultrafine Particle Emissions Using Air Injection in Wood-Burning Cookstoves."Environmental Science & Technology 50 (2016) 8368-8374. DOI
Herrlin, Magnus, and Randall C. Cole."Air Management in Small Data Centers." (2016).

2015

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Aimee T. McKane, Craig P. Wray, and Peter L. Therkelsen."2006-2015 Research Summary of Demand Response Potential in California Industry, Agriculture and Water Sectors." (2015).
McKane, Aimee T., Paul Sheihing, Tracy Evans, Sandy Glatt, and William Meffert."The Business Value of Superior Energy Performance."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).
Therkelsen, Peter L., Prakash Rao, Aimee T. McKane, Ridah Sabouni, Yannick Tamm, and Paul Scheihing."Development of an Enhanced Payback Function for the Superior Energy Performance Program."2015 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).
Rao, Prakash, Aimee T. McKane, and Andre de Fontaine."Energy Savings from Industrial Water Reductions."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).