Browsing by Author "Iseley, Tom"

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    ASSESSMENT OF WATER AND WASTE WATER IN RIVERSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Nasser, Eminou Mohamed; Iseley, Tom; Rochon, Jessica
    The Riverside Watershed Environmental Living Lab for Sustainability (RWELLS) is a research project initiated by D. Tom Iseley, the Director of CEMT program at IUPUI with assistance of Dr Dan Koo and two students Eminou Nasser and Jessica Rocho . Riverside neighborhood is a historic neighborhood that blossomed in the early years of the past century. This neighborhood is now subject to the urban decay, The data given by Census illustrates declining number of population, a shrinking income per household. Moreover The Riverside like many other areas in Indianapolis, it has an aged and poorly maintained underground utility system. Up to 25% of drinkable water is wasted because of the leakage in the pipes and line breaks; another 40% is infiltrated to the sewer system. Meters also need to be replaced. Such situation is unsustainable and costly for the community in the long run. RWELLS has many areas of consideration in the Riverside neighborhood. Such as employment, sustainable practices, but the main goal of this initia-tive is to assess the conditions of water and waste water systems in the Riv-erside neighborhood. This project intends to apply the principles of Asset Management and test their validity by using the Riverside living lab as a model. RWELLS will be a start point to bring entrepreneurship to the River-side neighborhood to encourage residents to start small businesses ( for ex. To change old meters to Automated Meter Readers AMR). RWELLS team is working with a wide network of partners, Polis Center, Imagis, and Citizen Energy Group to collect demographic and utilities data, interpret and analyze these data, and present practical solutions to the Riverside, especially those related to water and waste water utilities.
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    Camargo Waste to Energy Power Plant
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Zamenian, Hamed; Nasser, Eminou; Ray, Matt; Iseley, Tom
    The Camargo Waste to Energy Power plant project is being proposed to dispose of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) produced in Mexico. Currently, most urban Municipal Solid Wastes in Mexico are discarded in landfills. The Camargo Waste to Energy (WTE) power station is an opportunity to continue a green path of human ingenuity and technical advancement. The goal of this plant is to achieve a solution that can efficiently deal with the substantial percentages of solid waste, while also creating energy. The facility will be designed to handle 600 pound per hour of MSW collected from Camargo, Monterrey, and other Mexican municipalities. This facility has additional recycling capability by separating glass, ferrous, and non-ferrous metals from raw MSW feedstock. The pyrolytic thermal conversion (PTC) process uses pyrolysis technology to convert organic-based wastes into valuable products like pyro-gas, pyro-oil, and char. Over 99 percent of waste processed by PTC will convert to energy and other saleable and usable products. This facility provides a nearly zero-landfill carbon neutral solution to the waste management field.
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    AN INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT: TRANSFORMING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE TO ECONOMICALLY VIABLE ENERGY
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Zamenian, Hamed; Iseley, Tom; Ray, Matt; Rardin, Jake; Aslan, Bugra
    The world population is increasing daily, and waste is rising proportionally. The increase of the population, health development, economic growth and shifting population from rural life to urban life has made waste for municipalities an infrastructure concern. Currently, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage, is one of the challenging problems for municipalities. There have been three particular ways for discarding MSW: landfilling, burning, and recycling. The usual method for waste disposal has been landfilling which handles 54.3% of produced MSW in U.S. (Environmental Protection Agency, 2010). According to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP),“The increasing volumes of waste being generated would not be a problem if waste was viewed as a resource and managed properly” (2001). We can produce more waste; on the other hand we can generate more energy from that waste. Waste to Energy (WTE) technology is a green opportunity to continue the path of human ingenuity and technological advancement. The WTE goal defines a new solution that can efficiently deal with substantial percentages of waste, while also creating energy as a co-product. This study will evaluate common WTE technologies that are currently available: pyrolysis, gasification, plasma arc gasification, and anaerobic digestion. Pyrolysis, gasification and plasma arc gasification are all thermal decomposition technologies that can treat waste material in elevated temperature conditions; anaerobic digestion is a biological treatment process. Incineration is also a current WTE technology that is classified as a thermal treatment option but it is not environmentally friendly. Also, existing national and international technology providers will be discussed and their technologies in industry will be assessed while considering MSW as a feedstock and energy as a co-product.
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    Riverside Watershed Environmental Living Lab Systems (RWELLS): Water and Energy Project Development
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Iseley, Tom
    Climate change, carbon emissions, water, energy and jobs are global concerns, and inner city neighborhoods are severely impacted. To meet these challenges requires grassroots participation from the residents of these neighborhoods, businesses/industries, city governments, utilities, and academic institutions. While there are many excellent public and private programs to assist urban neighborhood residents, RWELLS is unique because it will involve neighbors helping neighbors in developing long-term sustainable solutions in which they have ownership. This initiative will instill hope back into families because it will create jobs through entrepreneurship. Solving problems related to climate change, carbon emissions, water and energy can create opportunities and result in new business start-ups. RWELLS will demonstrate how solving these problems can lead to new solutions, best practices, new jobs, etc. RWELLS is expected to become a nation and international model of a futuristic neighborhood with a goal of zero leakage of their water and sewer lines. This will be done by establishing a strategic and tactical water asset management program. The objective of RWELLS is to demonstrate a new model where IUPUI will work closely with the neighborhood leaders, residents, and families to start up and operate businesses to meet the major global challenges mentioned previously. A major focus will be to assist women and minorities who will own and operate these businesses. RWELLS will serve as a center of excellence for neighborhood, municipal and utility leaders to join with industry and researchers, using sound science to evaluate watershed, environmental and energy related issues to develop futuristic neighborhoods and cities which are energy neutral and free of contamination and pollution benefiting all stakeholders by protecting public health, improving the environment, maximizing asset life-cycle value, sustaining economic development, and enhancing the quality of life.