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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2022

Jeong, Seongeun, Marc L Fischer, Hanna Breunig, Alison R Marklein, Francesca M Hopkins, and Sebastien C Biraud."Artificial Intelligence Approach for Estimating Dairy Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 56.8 (2022) 4849 - 4858. DOI

Peng, Peng, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Kriston Brooks, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Mark E Bowden, Jeffrey R Long, Tom Autrey, and Hanna Breunig."Cost and potential of metal–organic frameworks for hydrogen back-up power supply."Nature Energy (2022). DOI

Deng, Hang, Hanna Breunig, Joshua S Apte, and Yue Qin."An Early Career Perspective on the Opportunities and Challenges of Team Science."Environmental Science & Technology (2022). DOI

Peng, Peng, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Sean D Lubner, Hanna Breunig, and Lin Yang."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power." (2022).

Peng, Peng, Lin Yang, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Hanna Breunig, and Sean D Lubner."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power."Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry (2022). DOI

2021

Deng, Hang, Peter Nico, Stephanie Huang, Markus Kleber, Hanna Breunig, Isabelle Sauter, Maegen Simmonds, and Alan Di Vittorio."Enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands for carbon removal: a reactive transport modeling perspective."AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (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

Breunig, Hanna."Systems‐level strategies for development and integration of novel CO2 capture and utilization technologies."U of IL webinar (2021).

Anastasopoulou, Aikaterini, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Brandon R Barnett, Henry Z.H Jiang, Jeffrey R Long, and Hanna Breunig."Technoeconomic analysis of metal–organic frameworks for bulk hydrogen transportation."Energy & Environmental Science (2021). DOI

2020

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas and Upgrading Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. DOI

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna Breunig, and Corinne D Scown."Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of Integrating Biogas Upgrading and Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries."Environmental Science & Technology 54.20 (2020) 12810 - 12819. 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

2018

Breunig, Hanna, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D Scown."Dynamic Geospatial Modeling of the Building Stock To Project Urban Energy Demand."Environmental Science & Technology 52.14 (2018) 7604 - 7613. 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

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration."Environmental Modelling & Software 75 (2016) 153 - 162. DOI

2014

Wei, Max, Timothy E Lipman, Ahmad Mayyas, Joshua Chien, Shuk Han Chan, David Gosselin, Hanna Breunig, Michael Stadler, Thomas E McKone, Paul Beattie, Patricia Chong, Whitney G Colella, and Brian D James."A Total Cost of Ownership Model for Low Temperature PEM Fuel Cells in Combined Heat and Power and Backup Power Applications." (2014).

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Phillip N Price, Curtis M Oldenburg, and Thomas E McKone."Assessment of Brine Management for Geologic Carbon Sequestration." (2014).

2013

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Curtis M Oldenburg, Phillip N Price, and Thomas E McKone."Regional evaluation of brine management for geologic carbon sequestration."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14 (2013) 39 - 48. DOI

2012

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).