Climate
Fuels
Life Cycle Assessment

Estimating life cycle carbon emissions of the global oil supply chain at a high-resolution using optimization in a network model

Yash Dixit
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2021

Fuels

Aviation CO2 emissions reductions from the use of alternative jet fuels.

Mark. D Staples, Robert Malina, Pooja Suresh, James I. Hileman, Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy Policy 114, pp 342-354, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.12.007

Atmospheric Modeling
Climate
Fuels

Impact of biofuels on contrail warming

Fabio Caiazzo, Akshat Agarwal, Raymond L. Speth and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 12 (11), 2017
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa893b

Fuels

Scenario based lifecycle analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum-derived transportation fuels in 2050

Cassandra Vivian Rosen
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111224

Fuels

A Stochastic Techno-Economic Comparison of Alternative Jet Fuel Production Pathways

Seamus J. Bann
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111238

Fuels

Bioenergy and its use to mitigate the climate impact of aviation

Mark D. Staples
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, February 2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108975

Fuels

The limits of bioenergy for mitigating global lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels

Mark D. Staples, Robert Malina, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Nature Energy 16202, 2017
doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.202

Fuels

The costs of production of alternative jet fuel: a harmonized stochastic assessment

Seamus J. Bann, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples, Pooja Suresh, Matthew Pearlson, Wallace E. Tyner, James I. Hileman, Steven Barrett
Bioresource Technology 227, pp 179-189, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.032

Fuels

The Evolution of the Biofuel Science

Pooya Azadi, Robert Malina, Markus Kraft, and Steven R. H. Barrett
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 76, pp 1479-1484, 2017
doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.181

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of transportation fuels from municipal solid waste

Pooja Suresh
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105567

Emissions
Fuels
Policy & Economics & Operations

The impact of advanced biofuels on aviation emissions and operations in the U.S.

N Winchester, R Malina, M Staples, Barrett S
Energy Economics 49, pp 482-91, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.024

Emissions
Fuels

The impact of advanced biofuels on aviation emissions and operations in the United States

Niven Winchester, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy Economics 49, pp 482-491, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.024

Fuels

Environmental and economic tradeoffs of using corn stover for liquid fuels and power production

Parthsarathi Trivedi, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy and Environmental Science 8, pp 1428-1437
doi: 10.1039/c5ee00153f

Fuels

Carbon, climate, and economic breakeven times for biofuel from woody biomass from managed forests

Mitch R. Withers, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Ecological Economics 112, pp 45-52, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.004

Fuels

Biomass logistics analysis for large scale biofuel production: case study of loblolly pine and switchgrass

Xiaoming Lu, Mitch R. Withers, Navid Seifkar, Randall P. Field, Steven R. H. Barrett and Howard J. Herzog
Bioresource Technology 183, pp 1-9, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.02.032

Emissions
Fuels

Black carbon emissions reductions from combustion of alternative jet fuels

Raymond L. Speth, Carolina Rojo, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Atmospheric Environment 105, pp 37-42, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.01.040

Fuels

Energy return on investment for alternative jet fuels

Parthsarathi Trivedi, Hakan Olcay, Mark D. Staples, Mitch R. Withers, Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett
Applied Energy 141, pp 167-174, 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.12.016

Fuels

Microalgae-derived HEFA Jet Fuel: Environmental and Economic Impacts of Scaled/Integrated Growth Facilities and Global Production Potential

Jacob L. Ames
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, October 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97363

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of alternative transportation fuels

Mitch Russell Withers
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90808

Climate
Fuels

Economic and environmental benefits of higher-octane gasoline

Raymond L. Speth, Eric W. Chow, Robert Malina, Steven R. H. Barrett, John B. Heywood and William H. Green
Environmental Science and Technology 48 (12), pp 6561-6568, 2014
doi: 10.1021/es405557p

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of producing hydroprocessed renewable jet fuel and diesel from waste oils and animal fats

Gonca Seber, Robert Malina, Matthew N. Pearlson, Hakan O. Olcay, James I. Hileman and Steven R. H. Barrett
Biomass and Bioenergy 67, pp 108-118, 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.04.024

Fuels

Environmental and economic tradeoffs of feedstock usage for liquid fuels and power production

Parthsarathi Trivedi
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90805

Fuels

Lifecycle greenhouse gas footprint and minimum selling price of renewable diesel and jet fuel from advanced fermentation production technologies

Mark D. Staples, Robert Malina, Hakan Olcay, Matthew N. Pearlson, James I. Hileman, Adam Boies and Steven R. H. Barrett
Energy and Environmental Science 7, pp 1545-1554
doi: 10.1039/C3EE43655A

Climate
Fuels

Quantifying the climate impacts of albedo changes due to biofuel production: a comparison with biogeochemical effects

Fabio Caiazzo, Robert Malina, Mark D. Staples, Philip J. Wolfe, Steve H. L. Yim and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Research Letters 9 (2), 2014
doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/024015

Fuels

Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass

Jesse Q. Bond, Aniruddha A. Upadhye, Hakan Olcay, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Jungho Jae, Rong Xing, David Martin Alonso, Dong Wang, Taiying Zhang, Rajeev Kumar, Andrew Foster, S. Murat Sen, Christos T. Maravelias, Robert Malina, Steven R. H. Barrett, Raul Lobo, Charles E. Wyman, James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber
Energy and Environmental Science 7, pp 1500-1523, 2014
doi: 10.1039/C3EE43846E

Fuels

Water consumption footprint and land requirements of large-scale alternative diesel and jet fuel production

Mark D. Staples, Hakan Olcay, Robert Malina, Parthsarathi Trivedi, Matthew N. Pearlson, Kenneth Strzepek, Sergey V. Paltsev, Christoph Wollersheim and Steven R. H. Barrett
Environmental Science and Technology 47 (21), pp 12557-12565, 2013
doi: 10.1021/es4030782

Fuels

Water consumption footprint and land requirements of alternative diesel and jet fuel production

Mark D. Staples
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81130

Fuels

A techno‐economic review of hydroprocessed renewable esters and fatty acids for jet fuel production

Pearlson M, Wollersheim C, Hileman J
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 7 (1), pp 89-96, 2013
doi: 10.1002/bbb.1378

Air Quality
Climate
Fuels

Benefit-cost assessment of aviation environmental policies

Christopher K. Gilmore
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76166

Fuels

Environmental and economic assessment of microalgae-derived jet fuel

Nicholas A. Carter
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76099

Air Quality
Climate
Fuels

Environmental cost-benefit analysis of ultra low sulfur jet fuel

Christopher K. Gilmore, Steven R. H. Barrett, Steve H. L. Yim, Lee T. Murray, Stephen R. Kuhn, Amos P. K. Tai, Robert M. Yantosca, Daewon W. Byun, Fong Ngan, Xiangshang Li, Jonathan I. Levy, Akshay Ashok, Jamin Koo, Hsin Min Wong, Olivier Dessens, Sathya Balasubramanian, Gregg G. Fleming, Matthew N. Pearlson, Christoph Wollersheim, Robert Malina,, Sarav Arunachalam, Francis S. Binkowski, Eric M. Leibensperger, Daniel J. Jacob, James I. Hileman and Ian A. Waitz
A report on PARTNER project 27 submitted to the US Federal Aviation Administration
http://nehalem001.mit.edu/uploads/LAE_report_series/2011/LAE-2011-006-R.pdf

Fuels

Impact of aviation non-CO2 combustion effects on the environmental feasibility of alternative jet fuels

Stratton R, Wolfe P, Hileman J
Environmental Science and Technology 45 (24), pp 10736-10743, 2011
doi: 10.1021/es2017522

Fuels

A techno-economic and environmental assessment of hydroprocessed renewable distillate fuels

Matthew N. Pearlson
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65508

Fuels

Quantifying variability in life cycle greenhouse gas inventories of alternative middle distillate transportation fuels

Stratton RW, Wong HM, Hileman JI
Environmental Science & Technology 45 (10), pp.4637-4644, 2011
doi: 10.1021/es102597f

Fuels

Energy content and alternative jet fuel viability

Hileman JI, Stratton RW, Donohoo PE
Journal of Propulsion and Power 26 (6), pp.1184-1196, 2010
doi: 10.2514/1.46232

Air Quality
Fuels

Scaling air quality effects from alternative jet fuel in aircraft and ground support equipment

Pearl Donohoo-Vallett
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59779

Fuels

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from alternative jet fuels

Russel W. Stratton, Hsin Min Wong, James I. Hileman
A report on PARTNER project 28 submitted to the US Federal Aviation Administration, 2010

Fuels

Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and non-CO2 combustion effects from alternative jet fuels

Russel W. Stratton
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, May 2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59694

Fuels

Life-cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from alternative jet fuels

Hsin Min Wong
SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, September 2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50611

Fuels

Environmental performance of algal biofuel technology options

Vasudevan V, Stratton R, Pearlson M, Jersey G, Beyene A, Weissman J, Rubino M, Hileman J
Environmental Science and Technology 46 (4), pp 2451–2459, 2012
doi: 10.1021/es2026399

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