Overview of ENVE 990 Seminar Series – Spring 2021
Dr. Shaobin Li, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
“Developing an Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics Model to Simulate Food-Energy-Water Systems in Corn Belt Watersheds"
Seminar Time: 11:00 – 11:50 AM
General Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/93671622250
Meeting ID: 936 7162 2250
To help decision-makers in Corn Belt watersheds address interconnected challenges and opportunities of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems, we develop an Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics Model (ITEEM). In this talk, I will first present how the ITEEM is formulated as a spatially semi-distributed dynamic simulation model by connecting different models. Different data techniques are applied to develop
Shaobin Li suitable surrogates for computer-based models, including a response matrix method, artificial neural networks, and lookup tables. Then I will demonstrate ITEEM with a testbed watershed located in Central Illinois to quantify the impacts of various engineering technologies (point source removal and P recovery from wastewater treatment and grain processing plants), best agricultural management practices, and the tradeoffs among those measures considering the co-benefits of the FEW systems in the Corn Belt.
More details at: http://cee.unl.edu