Articles

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Renewable Energy, Sustainable Technology Park at California Polytechnic State University - Handbook of Guidelines: Ecology Meets Technology (2006)
 

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Renewable Materials and Construction Waste Management, Sustainable Technology Park at California Polytechnic State University - Handbook of Guidelines: Ecology Meets Technology (2006)
 

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Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment, Sustainable Technology Park at California Polytechnic State University - Handbook of Guidelines: Ecology Meets Technology (2006)
 

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Energy Efficient Resource Recovery Project (with Daniel Panetta; Douglas Williams; Walter Bremer; Gary Karner; Harap Mallareddy; Margot McDonald; Bailey Green; Henry Hammer; William J. Oswald; and William Roley, Jr.), Architecture Magazine (1998)
 

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Microcomputer Model for Solid Waste Planning (with Jane A. Zevely and Roy Yeaman), Public Works Magazine (1987)
 

Conference Proceedings

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Development of a Laboratory Based Sustainability Course for Engineers, Sustainability Conference 2008 (2008)

This track seeks to highlight examples of how academic and research programs are engaging students,...

 

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Development of a Laboratory Based Sustainability Course for Environmental Engineers, Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: Portland, OR (2008)

An understanding of sustainability is important for all engineering students, but especially for Environmental Engineers...

 

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Recyclability Index for Automobiles (with Alexander Tsuji, Yarrow Nelson, and Andrew Kean), Proceedings of the 99th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: New Orleans, LA (2006)

A rating system was developed to quantify the environmental impacts of light-duty motor vehicles at...

 

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Environmental Management of Wastes in the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries, Proceedings of International Symposium on Advanced Waste and Emission Management (ResCWE 2000): Nagoya University, Japan (2000)

The management of wastes in the semiconductor and electronics industries requires a multidisciplinary approach that...

 

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Environmental Applications of GPS (with Dora Zueck), Proceedings of the 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: St. Louis, MO (1999)

The use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized air travel, ocean navigation, land...

 

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Techniques for Modeling Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions from Landfills (with Robert J. Lang and Henryk Melcer), Proceedings of the 91st Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: San Diego, CA (1998)

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Air Estimation Model (LAEEM), combined with either the AP-42 or...

 

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Evaluation of the US EPA Recommended Approach to Predicting Air Emissions From Pulp and Paper Industry Landfills, Proceedings of the TAPPI International Conference & Exhibit: Vancouver, B.C. (1998)

There is growing indication that the pulp and paper industry will be required to comply...

 

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Environmental Engineering Design (with Harold M. Cota), Proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1997)

This paper outlines the capstone environmental engineering design course that has been used effectively at...

 

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Source Reduction and Recycling Programs at a Joint Venture Automobile Assembly Plant (with Stuart E. Rupp), Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: Nashville, TN (1996)

New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) is a vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California. NUMMI...

 

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PC Windows Finite Element Modeling of Landfill Gas Flow (with Stephen R. Mull, Robert L. Lang, and Harold M. Cota), Proceedings of the 17th Biennial National Waste Processing and NAWTEC-IV Waste-to-Energy Conference: Atlantic City, NJ (1996)

A two dimensional demonstration program, GAS, has been developed for the solution of landfill gas...

 

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Development of a Graduate Integrated Waste Management Course Using the Case Study Approach, Proceedings of the 88th Air & Waste Management Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition: San Antonio, TX (1995)

Solid waste management is an integral part of the environmental engineering profession. At California Polytechnic...

 

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Application of Macro Material Flow Modeling to the Decision Making Process for Integrated Waste Management Systems (with Gregory M. Holter), Proceedings of the Initial Conference on Solid Waste Management: Thermal Treatment and Waste to Energy Technologies: Washington, D.C. (1995)

Computer models have been used for almost a decade to model and analyze various aspects...

 

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Comparison of the Environmental Effects of Aerobic and Anaerobic Composting Technologies (with George Tchobanoglous), Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: Cincinnati, OH (1994)

The biological conversion of yard wastes and municipal solid waste by aerobic composting is an...

 

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The Naval Reserve Civil Engineer Corps Environmental Engineering Program (with William A. Heine), Proceedings of the 86th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association: Denver, CO (1993)

The Navy is engaged in a national effort to bring its shore facilities into compliance...

 

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Development of Solid Waste Management Courses at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level (with George Tchobanoglous), Proceedings of the 1992 National Waste Processing Conference: Detroit, MI (1992)

Management of solid wastes in a cost effective and environmentally sensitive manner has become one...

 

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Graphical Integrated Waste Management Model for Puerto Rico (with Hilary M. Theisen), Proceedings of the 1992 National Waste Processing Conference: Detroit, MI (1992)

The application of STELLA, a commercially available, graphically based simulation language for the Macintosh computer,...

 

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Surabaya Indonesia: Options in Solid Waste Management, Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Environmental Technology: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1987)

The Government of Indonesia requested assistance from the United States Trade and Development Program (TDP)...

 

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Microcomputer Solid Waste Financial Model (with Jane A. Zevely), Civil and Environmental Engineering (1986)
 

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Low Technology Recycling and RDF System at the U.S. Facility, Subic Bay, Philippines (with Donald E. Brunner), Energy '84 Proceedings (1984)

The U.S. Facility Subic Bay is located about 50 miles east of Manila, on the...

 

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Gasification of Densified Sludge and Wastepaper in a Downdraft Packed-Bed Gasifier (with George Tchobanoglous and Nelson W. Sorbo), Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Conversion of Municipal Sludge (1983)

The co-disposal of densified sludge and wastepaper in a co-current flow packed bed gasifier represents...

 

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The Use of Appropriate Technologies for Biomass Waste Conversion in Small Communities (with Douglas W. Williams, Robert E. Spitzka, and Hilary M. Theisen), 1st Pan American Congress on Energy and 2nd National Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies (1982)

This paper will describe several simple, appropriate technologies for biomass waste conversion which can be...

 

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Thermal Gasification of Densified Sewage Sludge and Solid Waste (with George Tchobanoglous), Presented at the 53rd Annual Water Pollution Control Federation Conference: Las Vegas, NV (1980)

The disposal of sewage sludge in an economic and environmentally acceptable manner is a problem...

 

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An Integrated System Employing Alternate Technologies for Liquid and Solid Waste Managment for Intermediate and Small Communities (with George Tchobanoglous, John E. Colt, and Robert G. Smith), Proceedings of the 1979 National Conference on Environmental Engineering: San Francisco, CA (1979)

Over the past 20 years , a variety of alternative, and in many cases innovative,...

 

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Application of Packed Bed Gasifiers to the Reduction of Solid Wastes and the Recovery of Energy (with George Tchobanoglous and Edward D. Schroeder), Proceedings of the 1979 National Conference on Environmental Engineering: San Francisco, CA (1979)
 

Technical Reports

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Solid Waste Resource Recovery Alternatives, U.S. Facility, Subic Bay, Philippines (with R. M. Roberts and Donald E. Brunner), Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory Technical Note TN-1721 (1985)

The U.S. Navy Public Works Center, Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines (PWC Subic Bay)...

 

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Performance and Economic Feasibility of a Sludge/Wastepaper Gasifier System (with N. W. Sorbo, George Tchobanoglous, and John R. Goss), EPA Project Summary - EPA-600/S2-84-063 (1984)

Thermal gasification of densified sludge/wastepaper fuels has been shown to be technically feasible for the...

 

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Thermal Gasification of Densified Sewage Sludge and Solid Waste (with George Tchobanoglous), UC Appropriate Technology Program Research Leaflet Series #16-78-02 (1983)

Disposing of sewage sludge in an economical and environmentally acceptable manner is a problem for...

 

Patents

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Method and Apparatus for Generating Electrical Energy From a Heated Gas Containing Carbon Particles (with Rick B. Spielman), United States Patent Number: 4,516,043 (1985)

Carbon particles entrained in the gas flow into a magnetohydrodynamic generator are electrostatically charged from...