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2025

Rao, Prakash, Heidi Fuchs, Amal Alsaffar, Kristina Armstrong, Sravan Chalasani, Sujit Das, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Diane J Graziano, Unique Karki, Mini Malhotra, James McCall, Sachin Nimbalkar, Frédéric Petit, Lino Sanchez, Rob Spencer, Sarang Supekar, and Kiran Thirumaran."Advancing Manufacturing Water Resilience: Addressing Risks through New Approaches and Technologies." (2025).
Earni, Shankar, Alex Hubbard, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Sean Wynne, and Ross Charland."Field Validation of Thermoelectric Generation System at Holcim Cement Plant in Alpena, Michigan." (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).

2023

Wan, Shanshan, Mengnan Zhao, Yimin Chen, Shuyue Yang, Dongwei Qiu, and James Lo."A novel data-driven relationship inference approach for automatic data tagging in building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems."Building and Environment Vol. No..246 (2023). DOI
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
Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Armando Casillas, Jin Wen, Zhelun Chen, Piljae Im, Sen Huang, and Jiazhen Ling."A labeled dataset for building HVAC systems operating in faulted and fault-free states."Scientific Data 10 (2023). 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

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
Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part II Field Evaluation."Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (2022). DOI

2021

Ahn, Hyeunguk, William Miller, Paul Sheaffer, Vestal Tutterow, and Vi H Rapp."Opportunities for installed combined heat and power (CHP) to increase grid flexibility in the U.S.."Energy Policy 157 (2021) 112485. DOI
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
Hedman, Bruce, David Jones, and Vestal Tutterow."Beneficial CHP – Is that a Thing? Considering CHP in the Context of Beneficial Electrification."ACEEE Summer Study for Energy Efficiency in Industry (2021).
Tutterow, Vestal, and Ethan Rogers."Energy Management and Product Sustainability Standards – A Key Link to Sustainable Supply Chains."ACEEE Summer Study for Energy Efficiency in Industry (2021).
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
Feldhausen, John J, David C Bell, Shane T Kosir, Joshua S Heyne, Corinne D Scown, Vi H Rapp, and Ana Comesana."The Co-Optimization of Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Cost, Emissions, and Performance."AIAA Scitech 2021 ForumAIAA Scitech 2021 Forum (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

2020

Liu, Jingjing, and Norman Bourassa."Continuously Improving Energy and Water Management."ASHRAE Journal (2020). DOI
Mathew, Paul A, Alison Farmer, and Jacob Werner."Best Practices Guide: Benchmarking Energy Efficiency in Laboratories." (2020).
Earni, Shankar, and Steve E Greenberg."The Installation of Direct Water-Cooling Systems to Reduce Cooling Energy Requirements for High-Performance Computing Centers."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C Diamond, Stephen E Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A Mathew, Iain S Walker, Alan K Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI

2019

Mayer, Morgan A, Tyler Huntington, Ana Comesana, Vi H Rapp, and Kyle Niemeyer."Can machine learning predict fuel properties accurately?."2019 WSSCI Fall Technical Meeting (2019).
Aghajanzadeh, Arian, and Peter L Therkelsen."Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid."Journal of Cleaner Production 220 (2019) 827 - 835. DOI