Distributed Energy Resources, Transportation Futures, and Air Quality in the Urban Environment
Seminar
Civil and Environmental Engineering
| By: | Donald Dabdub
Professor |
| From: | University of California, Irvine |
| When: | Friday, November 13, 2009
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Where: | Ryon Engineering Building
201 |
| Abstract: | Electricity generation is a major contributor to air pollutant emissions. Distributed energy resources (DER) provide an alternative means for electricity production or storage. DER is generally defined as the operation of many small stationary power generators throughout an urban air basin. Although DG has the potential to supply a significant portion of the increased power demands in California and the rest of the United States, it may lead to increased levels of in-basin pollutants and adversely impact urban air quality. This study focuses on two main objectives: (1) the systematic characterization of DG installation in urban air basins, and (2) the simulation of potential air quality impacts using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional computational model. This talk quantifies the potential benefits to air quality due to DER deployment in the South Coast Air Basin of California, which is likely to be one of the first areas of the country to meet a significant portion of its electricity production by using DER. Results focus on gas-phase air pollutants as well as atmospheric particulate matter. |
Donald Dabdub
Bio: | Donald Dabdub is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Professor, Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 1995. Dr. Dabdub's expertise is in mathematical modeling of air pollution dynamics and numerical algorithms using high performance parallel computation. His main research effort is to develop new physics and chemistry for air quality models, to design new
algorithms for the numerical solution of the governing equations of air pollution dynamics, and to study the impact of various energy-related scenarios on urban airsheds. He presented the Schiesser distinguished
lecture at Lehigh University. Furthermore, he was awarded the Prometheus Teaching award for excellence at the University of California, Irvine. Outside of academia, Dr. Dabdub has served as advisor to various state and federal agencies including: The Air Resources Board of California, the California Energy Commission, John Wayne Airport, Lake Tahoe Science Consortium and the U.S. Department of Defense. |