{"581875":{"#nid":"581875","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\u2019s Valerie Thomas and Team Win Judges\u2019 Choice Award from MIT\u2019S Climate CoLab","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESuriya Arulselvan (MSCE 2015) and Valerie Thomas, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), have been awarded the Judges\u2019 Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate CoLab. They accepted the award and presented their research at the MIT Climate CoLab\u0027s Crowds \u0026amp; Climate Conference, September 28-29, 2016, on MIT\u2019s campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe pair submitted their proposal, \u201cStrategic Investment to Scale-up Aviation Biofuel,\u201d to the Climate CoLab\u2019s Aviation contest category. They proposed that one large country (the U.S., China, or Brazil) or coordinated region (e.g., the EU) intensely ramp up aviation biofuel production, along with associated coproducts such as diesel fuel, to a level of about 120 million tons of biomass by the year 2030. They specifically focused on the feasibility of China to contribute to this initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmphasizing technology development for aviation biofuel within a particular country would result in gaining expertise in the most efficient pathway. Plausible ways to develop a stable supply and demand for biofuel include the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECollaborating with neighboring countries to establish an efficient supply chain.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWorking with suppliers and airlines that are taking initiatives to use biofuel.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA common fuel distribution system can be established in the airports of China, similar to the bioports implemented in Amsterdam, Holland and Oslo, Norway. This way all the operators flying into these airports will be refueled by biofuel.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWith the European Union including the aviation industry in its emission trading system since 2012, a strategic alignment could be made between the EU and China to substantiate the investment.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulselvan and Thomas\u2019s proposal was particularly commended by the contest judges for its potential impact to considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the pair\u2019s proposal, read here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2cJQPjU\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2cJQPjU\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch a video about the pair\u2019s work here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/un9Ve3V5w8M\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/un9Ve3V5w8M\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Valerie Thomas and Suriya Arulselvan \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESuriya Arulselvan\u003C\/strong\u003E is a process modeling engineer at Aspen Technology in Bedford, MA. She has a Master of Science in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech, and a Bachelor of Technology in chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchipappalli.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EValerie Thomas\u003C\/strong\u003E is the Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems in ISyE, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy. Her research interests are energy and materials efficiency, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. Current research projects include the environmental impacts of biofuels and electricity system policy and planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Climate CoLab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address global climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence has developed this crowdsourcing platform where people work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy constructively engaging a broad range of scientists, policy makers, business people, investors, and concerned citizens, the hope is that the Climate CoLab will help to develop, and gain support for, climate change plans that are better than any that would have otherwise been developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnyone can join the Climate CoLab community and participate. Community members are invited to submit and comment on proposals outlining ideas for what they think should be done about climate change. In some contests, members create proposals for specific kinds of actions such as generating electric power with fewer emissions or changing social attitudes about climate change. In other contests, members combine ideas from many other proposals to create integrated climate action plans for a country, a group of countries, or the whole world. Experts evaluate the entries and pick finalists, and then both experts and community members select the most promising proposals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESuriya Arulselvan (MSCE 2015) and Valerie Thomas, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), have been awarded the Judges\u2019 Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate CoLab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Suriya Arulselvan (MSCE 2015) and Valerie Thomas, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering (ISyE), have been awarded the Judges\u2019 Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol"}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-09-29 14:21:57","changed_gmt":"2024-01-22 21:40:21","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"581862":{"id":"581862","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1475155087","gmt_created":"2016-09-29 13:18:07","changed":"1475155087","gmt_changed":"2016-09-29 13:18:07","alt":"Valerie Thomas","file":{"fid":"221789","name":"valerie082b.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valerie082b.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valerie082b.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":973860,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/valerie082b.jpg?itok=WR8vjege"}},"581863":{"id":"581863","type":"image","title":"Suriya Arulselvan","body":null,"created":"1475155195","gmt_created":"2016-09-29 13:19:55","changed":"1475155195","gmt_changed":"2016-09-29 13:19:55","alt":"Suriya Arulselvan","file":{"fid":"221790","name":"Suriya_Photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Suriya_Photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Suriya_Photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":153127,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Suriya_Photo.jpg?itok=pBB9QRDf"}}},"media_ids":["581862","581863"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1135","name":"valerie thomas"},{"id":"166911","name":"Suriya Arulselvan"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"166912","name":"Climate CoLab"},{"id":"1173","name":"aviation"},{"id":"2056","name":"biofuel"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.385.4745\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}