“Once I set my mind to a goal, I go after it and make it happen. I have learned to never give up, and to always find a way to turn challenges into opportunities.”
This issue features Aryandokht Azari, Research Fellow at the Global CO2 Initiative (GCI).
Dr. Azari is a civil/environmental engineer who researches technology readiness level (TRL) of carbon capture and utilization technologies and life cycle assessment of products. An experienced teacher and acclaimed researcher and author, she earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tehran.
I am part of the GCI research team, a team with extensive academic and industry experience that is focused on early stage carbon capture technology. We conduct integrated environmental and economic modeling in order to provide baseline data from which bespoke technologies can be developed with the intent to reduce carbon dioxide in the environment.
We offer a variety of evaluation services, usually with a 4-6 week turnaround time from the kickoff meeting:
- Order-of-magnitude estimates for LCA/TEA results.
- Sensitivity, uncertainty, and scenario analyses.
- LCA/TEA hotspot identification.
- Custom recommendations for optimizing environmental and economic performance of technology.
- Post-study support with Q&A.
- Receipt of actual LCA/TEA excel models for future use.
What are the benefits of collaborating with the GCI LCA/TEA group?
There are many advantages of collaborating with the GCI LCA/TEA group, not least of all is the fact we are experts in this area; we literally wrote the book on carbon utilization LCA/TEA assessment guidelines. We also created a website devoted to this topic–AssessCCUS (which features LCA/TEA templates and a web-based calculator.)
Collaborating with us provides many additional benefits:
- Integrated environmental and economic modeling.
- Transparent input–output linkage to provide insights.
- Capability to be integrated with technical teams.
- Systems approach for considering technology in context.
- High-level perspective of technical/economic/environmental risk.
- Full comparison to benchmark technologies or products.
- Instruction for the extended team on how to use and interpret models.
- Team members with a mix of business, technical, and environmental experience.
- Access to broader U-M technical network.
