Publications: Waste-to-Energy Systems
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2025
Abbadi, Sahar H. El, Jianan Feng, Abigayle R Hodson, Maryam Amouamouha, Margaret Busse, Christina Polcuch, Pengxiao Zhou, Jordan Macknick, Jeremy S Guest, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Jennifer B Dunn."Benchmarking greenhouse gas emissions from US wastewater treatment for targeted reduction."Nature Water
(2025). DOI
2022
Peng, Peng, and Arman Shehabi."Regional economic potential for recycling consumer waste electronics in the United States."Nature Sustainability
(2022). DOI
2021
Orner, Kevin D, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Corinne D Scown, and Kara L Nelson."Fertilizer demand and potential supply through nutrient recovery from organic waste digestate in California."Water Research
206 (2021) 117717. DOI
DelRe, Christopher, Yufeng Jiang, Philjun Kang, Junpyo Kwon, Aaron Hall, Ivan Jayapurna, Zhiyuan Ruan, Le Ma, Kyle Zolkin, Tim Li, Corinne D Scown, R.O Ritchie, Thomas P Russell, and Ting Xu."Near-complete depolymerization of polyesters with nano-dispersed enzymes."Nature
592.7855 (2021) 558 - 563. DOI
Smith, Sarah Josephine, Andrew Satchwell, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."The implications of facility design and enabling policies on the economics of dry anaerobic digestion."Waste Management
128 (2021) 122 - 131. DOI
2020
Preble, Chelsea V, Sharon S Chen, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael D Sohn, Randy L Maddalena, Marion L Russell, Nancy J Brown, Corinne D Scown, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Air Pollutant Emission Rates for Dry Anaerobic Digestion and Composting of Organic Municipal Solid Waste."Environmental Science & Technology
(2020). DOI
Chambliss, Sarah E, Chelsea V Preble, Julien J Caubel, Troy Cados, Kyle P Messier, Ramon A Alvarez, Brian W LaFranchi, Melissa M Lunden, Julian D Marshall, Adam A Szpiro, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Joshua S Apte."Comparison of Mobile and Fixed-Site Black Carbon Measurements for High-Resolution Urban Pollution Mapping."Environmental Science & Technology
54.13 (2020) 7848 - 7857. DOI
Nordahl, Sarah L, Jay P Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea V Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy J Brown, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies."Environmental Science & Technology
54.15 (2020) 9200 - 9209. DOI
2019
Breunig, Hanna, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Corinne D Scown."Role of Digestate and Biochar in Carbon-Negative Bioenergy."Environmental Science & Technology
(2019). DOI
Baral, Nawa Raj, Eric R Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny C Mortimer, Steven W Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne D Scown."Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
7.10 (2019) 9062 - 9079. DOI
Martinez‐Hernandez, Elias, Xinguang Cui, Corinne D Scown, Myriam A Amezcua‐Allieri, Jorge Aburto, and Blake A Simmons."Techno‐economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
(2019). DOI
Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown."Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet fuel blendstocks."Energy & Environmental Science
12.3 (2019) 807 - 824. DOI
2018
Satchwell, Andrew, Corinne D Scown, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Ling Jin, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Nancy J Brown, and Chelsea V Preble."Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals."Environmental Science & Technology
52.23 (2018) 13663–13669. DOI
Cui, Xinguang, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D Scown."Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the U.S.."Environmental Research Letters
(2018). DOI
Taptich, Michael, Corinne D Scown, Kate Piscopo, and Arpad Horvath."Drop-in biofuels offer strategies for meeting California’s 2030 climate mandate."Environmental Research Letters
(2018). DOI
Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D Scown."Temporal and geographic drivers of biomass residues in California."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
139 (2018) 287 - 297. DOI
2017
Breunig, Hanna, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D Scown."Bioenergy Potential from Food Waste in California."Environmental Science & Technology
(2017). DOI
2016
Shylesh, Sankaranarayanapillai, Amit A Gokhale, Corinne D Scown, Daeyoup Kim, Christopher R Ho, and Alexis T Bell."From Sugars to Wheels: The Conversion of Ethanol to 1,3-Butadiene over Metal-Promoted Magnesia-Silicate Catalysts."ChemSusChem
9 (2016). DOI
Liszka, Michael J, Aram Kang, NVSN M Konda, Kim Tran, John M Gladden, Seema Singh, Jay D Keasling, Corinne D Scown, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Kenneth L Sale."Switchable ionic liquids based on di-carboxylic acids for one-pot conversion of biomass to an advanced biofuel."
18 (2016) 4012-4021. DOI
Sun, Jian, NVSN M Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Feng Xu, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Seema Singh."CO2 enabled process integration for the production of cellulosic ethanol using bionic liquids."Energy & Environmental Science
9 (2016) 2822-2834. DOI
Xu, Feng, Jianfeng Sun, NVSN M Konda, Jian Shi, Tanmoy Dutta, Corinne D Scown, and Seema Singh."Transforming biomass conversion with ionic liquids: process intensification and the development of a high-gravity, one-pot process for the production of cellulosic ethanol."Energy & Environmental Science
(2016).
2015
McManus, Marcell C, Caroline M Taylor, Alison Mohr, Carly Whittaker, Corinne D Scown, Aiduan Li Borrion, Neryssa J Glithero, and Yao Yin."Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
(2015) 1399-1414.
Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A Gokhale, Corinne D Scown, F. F Dean Toste, and Alexis T Bell."Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2015) 201508274. DOI
2014
Scown, Corinne D, Amit A Gokhale, Paul A Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology
48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI