Publications
Publications By Research Area
X Author: Prakash Rao
2025
Office, U.S Department of Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization, Heidi Fuchs, Unique Karki, Tae-Hwan Lim, Peng Peng, Prakash Rao, Arman Shehabi, and Jibran Zuberi."Transformative Pathways for U.S. Industry: Unlocking American Innovation."
(2025). DOI
Rao, Prakash, Thomas P Hendrickson, Elizabeth Wachs, Shubhankar Upasani, and Alberta Carpenter."Testing a method for developing facility-level greenhouse gas emissions intensities of U.S. traded goods."
(2025).
2024
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Jeff Davis, Josh Weissert, Mike Christianson, and Katie Roessler."FIELD VALIDATION OF A Pilot-Scale Black Liquor Membrane for Water Removal."
(2024). DOI
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Jeff Davis, Josh Weissert, Mike Christianson, and Katie Roessler."Field Validation of a Pilot-scale Black Liquor Membrane for Water Removal at Ahlstrom-Munksjö Paper Mill in Mosinee, WI."
(2024).
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert."FIELD VALIDATION OF Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Automotive Plants."
(2024). DOI
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert."Field Validation of Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Nissan Manufacturing Plant in Canton, Mississippi."
(2024). DOI
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert."Field Validation of Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant in Blue Springs,Mississippi."
(2024).
Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, CD Nayak, and Amit Kanungo."FIELD VALIDATION OF Electrocoagulation Treatment for Oily Wastewater at a Steel Mill."
(2024). DOI
Earni, Shankar, Unique Karki, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, CD Nayak, and Amit Kanungo."Field Validation of Electrocoagulation Treatment for Oily Wastewater at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Mill in Cleveland, Ohio."
(2024).
2023
Karki, Unique, and Prakash Rao."Techno-economic analysis of the water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions impacts from the adoption of water efficiency practices in the U.S. manufacturing sector."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
196 (2023) 107054. 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
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
2022
Moudio, Marie Pelagie Elimbi, Richard Bolin, Alberta Carpenter, Samantha Bench Reese, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing sector disruptions with targeted mitigation strategiesAbstract."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
2.4 (2022) 042001. DOI
Rao, Prakash, Paul Sheaffer, Yuting Chen, Unique Karki, and Patrick Fitzgerald."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 3: Energy Saving Opportunity."
(2022). DOI
2021
Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Survey of Available Information on U.S. Manufacturing Wastewater and Energy Requirements for Reuse."
(2021). DOI
Newkirk, Alexander, Prakash Rao, and Paul Sheaffer."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 2: Advanced Motors and Drives Supply Chain Review."
(2021). DOI
McCall, James, Prakash Rao, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Sachin Nimbalkar, Sujit Das, Sarang Supekar, and Joe Cresko."U.S. Manufacturing Water Use Data and Estimates: Current State, Limitations, and Future Needs for Supporting Manufacturing Research and Development."ACS ES&T Water
(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
Booten, Chuck, Prakash Rao, Vi H Rapp, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Theoretical Minimum Thermal Load in Buildings."Joule
5.1 (2021) 24 - 46. DOI
Rao, Prakash, Paul Sheaffer, Yuting Chen, Miriam L Goldberg, Benjamin Jones, Jeff Cropp, and Jordan Hester."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 1: Characteristics of the Installed Base."
(2021). DOI
2019
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
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
McKane, Aimee T, Peter L Therkelsen, Anna Scodel, Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Simon Hirzel, Ruiqin Zhang, Richard Prem, Alberto Fossa, Ana M Lazarevska, Marco Matteini, Bettina Schreck, Fabian Allard, Noé Villegal Alcántar, Karel Steyn, Ertaç Hürdoğan, Thomas Björkman, and John O'Sullivan."Predicting the quantifiable impacts of ISO 50001 on climate change mitigation."Energy Policy
107 (2017) 278 - 288. DOI