Toward an engineering that is economically feasible, ecologically viable, and socially desirable for present and future generations
Bakshi Lab
Overview
Our research is motivated by the following dilemma facing humanity. On the one hand, engineering plays an essential role in meeting our needs and enhancing our well-being. Evidence of this includes products like transportation fuels, vaccines, medicines, plastics, artificial fertilizers, etc. However, on the other hand, engineering also contributes to degradation of the very ecosystems that are essential for our well-being. Examples include climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions from mobilization of fossil fuels, harmful algal blooms due to runoff of artificial fertilizers, and plastic pollution due to littering and non-biodegradability.
To address this dilemma, we are developing systematic methods and tools to transform engineering so that its results are ecologically viable, socially desirable, and economically feasible for present and future generations. To prevent unintended harm from engineering activities, we consider a large system boundary from individual molecules and reactions, to manufacturing processes, their life cycles, the economy, and the biosphere. This is depicted in the adjacent figure. Our research is computational in nature and relies on advanced techniques from mathematical modeling, optimization, statistics, and machine learning. We adopt a transdisciplinary approach for convergence of engineering with disciplines such as environmental economics and ecosystem ecology.
Current projects are developing models, methods, and tools to enable industry transformation to net-zero emissions while ensuring that their decisions have a net-positive impact on ecosystems and society. This is resulting in multiscale models of the chemicals and materials industry including current and emerging technologies and novel approaches for identifying pathways and discovering innovations to help industry meet its pledges to have net-zero emissions. We also develop innovative designs based on seeking synergies between human and natural systems such that engineering respects nature’s capacity and ecosystems provide goods and services to sustain industrial activities. To account for social aspects in engineering decisions, we are developing approaches based on biophysical models and data to identify the ecologically safe and socially just space in selected regions across the world.
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Bhavik R. Bakshi
Julie Ann Wrigley Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Sustainability
School of Complex Adaptive Systems
News & Events
- Department seminars at University at Buffalo and Oklahoma State University
- Sunghoon Kim receives Hanwha Travel Award at AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2023
- Bhavik Bakshi receives Computing in Chemical Engineering award from CAST division of AIChE
Recent Publications
B. R. Bakshi, ed. Engineering and Ecosystems: Seeking Synergies Toward a Nature-Positive World. Springer, 2023.
A. Agrawal, B. R. Bakshi, H. Kodamana, and M. Ramteke. “Multi-objective Optimization of Food-Energy-Water Nexus via Crops Land Allocation”. Computers & Chemical Engineering (Jan. 2024), p. 108610.
V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. “Mapping the Path to a Net-Zero Chemicals Industry by Long-Term Planning with Changes in Technologies and Climate“. AIChE Journal, accepted, 2024
Here is the full list of publications.
Research
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Techno-Ecological Synergy
All industrial (and human) activities are sustained due to the availability of goods and services from nature. For example, as shown in the figure, vegetation cleans air pollution while wetlands remove water pollutants. In addition these ecosystems provide many benefits to industry and society such as pure water, oxygen, biomass, and recreation. However, most disciplines, including engineering have ignored this critical role of nature. Designs based on such ignorance invariably exceed nature’s carrying capacity, making them inherently unsustainable.
Our framework of techno-ecological synergy (TES) encourages harmony between human and natural systems: ecosystems provide goods and services, while human systems protect and restore nature. This framework provides methods for life cycle assessment, science-based metrics for absolute environmental sustainability, novel designs of manufacturing processes, industrial landscapes, and process operation. These designs are often economically and environmentally superior to designs provided by traditional techno-centric methods.
Net-Zero Emissions
With increasing realization of the need to urgently address the challenges of climate change, corporations, nations, and universities are pledging to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within a few decades. Similar targets are also being set for eliminating plastics pollution. Achieving such goals in an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable manner poses a formidable challenge and may require nothing less than reinventing industrial practice, government policies, and social norms. Due to accelerating research and innovation, a large number of alternatives are becoming available. These include technological solutions such as adoption of renewable energy, methods for chemical and mechanical recycling to enable a circular economy, and approaches for carbon capture, utilization and storage. In addition, innovations are also possible in corporate strategy, government policy, etc.
We are developing systematic methods and models to guide industry to meet their net-zero emission goals by a sustainable circular economy. This involves the development of models of the entire chemicals industry at global, regional, and corporate scales, and current and emerging innovations that may contribute to meeting net-zero emission goals. We are developing computational approaches to address the steps shown in the figure to determine potential solutions and a roadmap to achieve the goal in the specified time period. In addition to the global chemical industry, we are also focusing on specific plastics such as polyethylene terepthalate and polystyrene to guide their transformation to a net-zero emissions future.
Multiscale Sustainable Engineering
Innovation is essential for transforming conventional engineering to sustainable engineering. Usually, technology development is a reductionist exercise that has little connection with holistic goals such as net-zero emissions or nature-positive decisions. Conversely, holistic approaches are often not adequately informed about emerging technologies and their likely evolution. Systematic methods for bridging such gaps rely on a framework for multiscale sustainable engineering.
We have developed the Process to Planet (P2P) multiscale modeling framework to integrate the benefits of models from engineering, life cycle assessment, and economics. It enables integration of nonlinear and fundamental models of engineering systems with linear and empirical models of the life cycle and economy. The resulting model can be used to design processes and supply chains while accounting for their life cycle environmental impact. It can also be used to determine the effect of macro-economic changes such as a carbon tax and new technologies on individual processes and their life cycle. We are also developing ways of incorporating ecosystem services in this multiscale framework to enable landscape design. To enable discovery, we are integrating this framework with the molecular scale to benefit from knowledge about chemistry and reaction engineering. Our approches rely on machine learning techniques such as large language models to extract knowledge from scientific databases. We also consider scenarios and models of technology evolution to develop roadmaps toward net-zero emissions. Our approach is also capable of considering non-technological innovations including those in corporate strategy and economic policies.
People-Positive Engineering
Sustainable Engineering needs to ensure that engineering activities and its products have a net-positive impact on society. This means that the benefits of engineering should be felt equitably across society, and situtations where one group reaps the benefits while another one has to suffer the harm should be avoided.
We are using methods to quantify societal impact of engineering activities and devising approaches for ensuring that the benefits exceed any harm. Our recent work shows that by including ecosystems in engineering, it is possible to design and operate chemical processes in a manner that benefits nature and society with only a small additional cost to industry. Results from the application of our approach to a chlor-alkali process are shown in the figure. Point A is the lowest cost solution with conventional technologies. It is a people-negative solution due to the large negative societal health impact. In contrast, Point E costs a little more to the company but has net-zero societal health impact. Since this solution relies on vegetation and technology for improving air quality, it is both, nature- and people-positive. In other work related to the people-positive goal, we are developing methods to quantify when an activity is respecting nature’s limits while meeting societal needs in a just manner.
Education
Our research is closely related with our education activities since meeting the goals of sustainability require both. Professor Bakshi has developed and taught an elective course on Sustainable Engineering for more than two decades, which has resulted in a textbook on this subject. In addition to teaching this full-semester course, he also teaches courses on topics related to Sustainable Engineering across the world at various corporations, conferences and academic institutions. Such courses have been offered at institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, South China University of Technology, McGill University, Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai and New Delhi. These courses introduce the principles of sustainable engineering and related topics to practitioners, university faculty, and corporate executives.
Sources of Funding
Our research is funded by various federal agencies and organizations including,
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Energy
- Department of Agriculture
- Global Kaiteki Center at Arizona State University
- Ford Motor Company
- Coca-Cola
- Holcim
Group Members
Graduate Students
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Avan Kumar
Reena Sharma
Doctoral
Kevin Donnelly
Sunghoon Kim
Shuangxiu (Max) Ma (co-advised with Prof. Li-Chiang Lin)
Aniket Mali
Farshid Nazemi
Amrita Sen
Ying Xue
Xinyu Zhen
Advisee Awards and Honors (recent)
- Michael Charles wins best student paper award from AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum, 2023
- Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology, Newry, ME, travel award to Ms. Amrita Sen, 2022
- Ray travel award, Ohio State University to Vyom Thakker for travel to the 14th Process Systems Engineering Conference, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-23, 2022
- Best poster award, second place to Michael Charles from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference, 2020
- Best paper award from the Sustainable Engineering Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2020, to Kyuha Lee and Tapajyoti Ghosh
- Foundations of Computer Aided Process Design, Copper Mountain, CO travel award to Mr. Tapajyoti Ghosh, 2019
- International Society for Industrial Ecology, Beijing, China, travel award to Mr. Kyuha Lee, 2019
- Leo Award for best student paper at 26th CIRP conference on Life Cycle Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, May 7-9, 2019 to Xinyu Liu and Michael Charles
- International Society for Industrial Ecology, Beijing, China, travel award to Mr. Michael Charles, 2019
- 13th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, San Diego, CA travel award to Mr. Tapajyoti Ghosh, 2018
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to Michael Charles, 2017
- W. David Smith Jr. best student paper award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2016, to Rebecca Hanes
Alumni and Previous Visitors
Name | Degree and Year | Immediate Affiliation |
Prof. Diogo Silva | Visiting professor, 2023 | Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil |
Mr. Fabio Sporchia | Visiting student, 2023 | University of Siena, Italy |
Dr. Soomin Chun | Ph.D., 2023 (co-advisor, Prof. Jeff Bielicki) | National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO |
Dr. Vyom Thakker | Ph.D., 2023 | Dow Chemical, Lake Jackson, TX |
Dr. Yazeed Aleissa | Ph.D., 2022 | King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
Dr. Utkarsh Shah | Ph.D., 2022 | Amazon, Seattle, WA |
Dr. Michael Charles | Ph.D., 2021 | The Ohio State University |
Ms. Amrita Sen | M.S., 2021 | The Ohio State University |
Mr. Vivek Vattyam | M.S., 2021 | Tesla, Fremont, CA |
Mr. Kevin Do | M.S., 2020 | Matrix Meats, Columbus, OH |
Dr. Kyuha Lee | Ph.D., 2020 | Argonne National Laboratory |
Dr. Monika Varga | Visiting Fulbright scholar, 2019 | Kaposvar University, Hungary |
Dr. Bela Csukas | Visiting scholar, 2019 | Kaposvar University, Hungary |
Dr. Tapajyoti Ghosh | Ph.D., 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mr. Shubhankar Upasani | M.S., 2019 | Kohler, Milwaukee, WI |
Ms. Jingying Hu | M.S., 2019 | The Ohio State University |
Ms. Ruonan Zhao | M.S., 2019 | Maersk, Beijing, China |
Dr. Xinyu Liu | Ph.D., 2018 | Argonne National Laboratory |
Mr. Xiangming Gu | M.S., 2018 | The Ohio State University |
Dr. Shelly Bogra* | Ph.D., 2017 | Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai |
Dr. Varsha Gopalakrishnan | Ph.D., 2017 | Ramboll Environ, San Francisco, CA |
Mr. Muzhapaer Motianlifu | M.S., 2017 | PetroChina Company Ltd. |
Mr. Fabrizio Saladini | Visiting Scholar, 2016 | University of Siena, Italy |
Mr. Don Irby | M.S., 2016 | Catalent Pharma Solutions |
Mr. Stefan Heglas | M.S., 2016 | Arkema |
Ms. Emily Helber | M.S., 2016 | Accenture |
Dr. Prasad Mandade* | Ph.D., 2015 | Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India |
Dr. Sachin Jadhao* | Ph.D., 2015 | Geist Research Pvt. Ltd., Goa, India |
Dr. Rebecca Hanes | Ph.D., 2015 | National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado |
Ms. Xiang Zhang | MS, 2014 | Indiana University |
Dr. Erin Gibbemeyer | Ph.D., 2014 | University of Dayton |
Mr. Diego Martinez | Visiting Scientist, 2014 | Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia |
Ms. Hyoseon Kim | Visiting Scientist, 2012-13 | POSCO, Korea |
Dr. Laura Merugula | Ph.D., 2013 | USEPA, Columbus, Ohio |
Dr. Berrin Kursun | Ph.D., 2013 | Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey |
Dr. Oleg Mishchenko | Programmer, 2010-13 | Halliburton, TX |
Dr. Nathan Cruze | Ph.D., 2012 | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Statistics Service |
Dr. Robert Urban | Ph.D., 2012; Post-Doctoral research associate, 2012-2013 | Integrated Mill Systems, Cleveland, Ohio |
Dr. Shweta Singh | Ph.D., 2012 | USEPA, Corvalis, Oregon |
Dr. Geoffrey Grubb | Ph.D., 2010 | OARDC, Wooster, Ohio |
Dr. Vikas Khanna | Ph.D., 2009 | Conoco Philips, Oklahoma |
Dr. Anil Baral | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2006-2009 | International Council on Clean Transportation, Washington, DC |
Dr. Jun-Ki (Dominick) Choi | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2007-2009 | Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York |
Dr. Yi Zhang | Ph.D., 2008 | American Electric Power, Columbus, Ohio |
Dr. Lixin Lang | Ph.D., 2008 (Statistics, co-advisor, Prof. P. K. Goel) | Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ |
Dr. Hongshu Chen | Ph.D., 2007 (co-advisor, Prof. P. K. Goel) | Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA |
Dr. Heui-Seok Yi | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2003-06 | N/A |
Dr. Roberto Ridolfi | Visiting Scientist, May-June, 2006 | University of Siena, Italy |
Dr. Jorge L. Hau | Ph.D., 2005 | University of Surrey, UK |
Dr. Nandan U. Ukidwe | Ph.D., 2005 | Solutia, Springfield, MA |
Mr. Daniel Arthur | M.S., 2005 | General Electric, Cleveland |
Dr. Wen-Shiang Chen | Ph.D., 2004 | The Ohio State University |
Dr. Jingqin Su | Visiting Fulbright Scholar, 2002-2003 | Dalian University, China |
Mr. Srinivasan Ganesan | M.S., 2002 | Capital Resin Co., Columbus |
Mr. Marco Seabra | Visiting Student, June-August, 2001 | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Dr. Hrishikesh B. Aradhye | Ph.D., 2001 (co-advisor, Prof. J. F. Davis) | SRI International, Palo Alto, CA |
Dr. Mohamed N. Nounou | Ph.D., 2000 | PDF Solutions, San Jose, CA |
Mr. Oscar Lara | M.S., 2000 | Graduate Student, OSU |
Mr. Ramon Strauss | M.S., 2000 | PDVSA, Venezuela |
Dr. Manabu Kano | Visiting Faculty, 1999-2000 | Kyoto University, Japan |
Dr. Sridhar Ungarala | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 1999 | Cleveland State University |
Ms. Sermin Top | M.S., 1998 | Becton Dickinson and Company, NJ |
Mr. Raja Chatterjee | M.S., 1998 | Lucent Technologies, Columbus |
Mr. Noel Cabigon | Visting Scholar, 1997-98 | De LaSalle University, Philippines |
Mr. Zafar Ali | M.S., 1997 (co-advisor, Prof. J. F. Davis) | Aspen Technology, Houston |
Mr. Pranay Gupta | M. S., 1996 (co-advisor, Prof. J. F. Davis) | UOP, Chicago |
Mr. Prakhar Bansal | M.S., 1996 | Morningstar, Chicago |
Mr. Huan Zhong | M.S., 1996 (co-advisor, Prof. L.-S. Fan) | Elsag-Bailey, Cleveland |
Mr. Utomo Utojo | M.S., 1996 | Battelle, Columbus |
* Co-advised PhD students at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and TERI University, New Delhi, India
Publications
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Books and Book Chapters
Books
- B. R. Bakshi (editor), Engineering and Ecosystems: Seeking Synergies Toward a Nature-Positive World. Springer, 2023.
- B. R. Bakshi, Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- B. R. Bakshi, T. G. Gutowski, and D. P. Sekulic (editors), Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources, Cambridge University Press, 2011
Book Chapters
- K. Dooley, V. Thakker, B. Bakshi, M. Scholz, F. Hafsa, G. Basile, and R. Buch. “A Multidisciplinary Assessment of Innovations to Improve Grocery Bag Circularity”. 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering. Ed. by Y. Yamashita and M. Kano. Vol. 49. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Elsevier, 2022, pp. 625–630.
- J. Fiksel and B. R. Bakshi. “Designing for Resilience and Sustainability: An Integrated Systems Approach”. Engineering and Ecosystems: Seeking Synergies Toward a Nature-Positive World. Ed. by B. R. Bakshi. Springer, 2022.
- A. Sen, G. Stephanopoulos, and B. R. Bakshi. “Mapping Anthropogenic Carbon Mobilization through Chemical Process and Manufacturing Industries”. 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering. Ed. by Y. Yamashita and M. Kano. Vol. 49. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Elsevier, 2022, pp. 553–558.
- G. Stephanopoulos, B. R. Bakshi, and G. Basile. “Reinventing the Chemicals/Materials Company: Transitioning to a Sustainable Circular Enterprise”. 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering. Ed. by Y. Yamashita and M. Kano. Vol. 49. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Elsevier, 2022, pp. 67–72.
- V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. “Guiding innovations and Value-chain improvements using Life-cycle design for Sustainable Circular Economy”. 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering. Ed. by Y. Yamashita and M. Kano. Vol. 49. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Elsevier, 2022, pp. 1945–1950.
- K. Lee and B. R. Bakshi. “Energy-Water-CO2 Nexus of Fossil Fuel Based Power Generation”. Advances in Carbon Management Technologies. Ed. by S. Sikdar and F. Princiotta. CRC Press, Mar. 2020, pp. 184–202.
- T. Ghosh, K. Lee, and B. R. Bakshi. “Integrating market models and price effects in a multiscale sustainable process design framework”. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. 47. Copper Mountain, CO, 2019, pp. 175–180.
- U. D. Shah and B. R. Bakshi. “Design and Operation of Technoecological Synergy: A NO2 Case Study”. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. 47. 2019, pp. 193–198.
- B. R. Bakshi. “Including Nature in Engineering for Innovation and Sustainability: Promise, Progress and Peril”. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Ed. by M. R. Eden, M. G. Ierapetritou, and G. P. Towler. Vol. 44. Elsevier, Jan. 2018, pp. 53–62.
- T. Ghosh, X. Liu, and B. R. Bakshi. “Including Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Process Design across Multiple Spatial Scales”. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Ed. by M. R. Eden, M. G. Ierapetritou, and G. P. Towler. Vol. 44. Elsevier, Jan. 2018, pp. 1837–1842.
- X. Liu and B. R. Bakshi. “Extracting Heuristics for Designing Sustainable Built Environments by Coupling Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization and Machine Learning”. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Ed. by M. R. Eden, M. G. Ierapetritou, and G. P. Towler. Vol. 44. Elsevier, Jan. 2018, pp. 2539–2544.
- V. Gopalakrishnan and B. R. Bakshi. “Including Nature in Engineering Decisions for Sustainability”. Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies. Ed. by Martin Abraham. 1st edition, Elsevier, 2017.
- B. Kursun and B. R. Bakshi. “Sustainability Assessment in a Geographical Region and of the Activities Performed, Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies.” Ed. by M. Mustafa Erdogdu, Thankom Arun, and Imran Habib Ahmad. IGI Global, 2016. Chap. 2, pp. 18–43.
- R. J. Hanes and B. R. Bakshi. “Comprehensive life cycle accounting in sustainable process design”. Sustainability of Products, Processes and Supply Chains: Theory and Applications. Ed. by Fengqi You. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Elsevier, 2015.
- S. Singh and B. R. Bakshi. “Carbon and Nitrogen Footprints of Chemical and Manufacturing Industry Sectors”. Sustainability in the Analysis, Synthesis and Design of Chemical Engineering Processes. Ed. by G. R. Mercado and H. Cabezas. Elsevier, 2015.
- S. Singh and B. R. Bakshi. “Carbon and Nitrogen Footprints of Engineering Activities”. Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impacts in Engineering. Ed. by Jiri J. Klemes. Elsevier, 2014.
- B. R. Bakshi and G. F. Grubb. “Implications of Thermodynamics for Sustainability”. Sustainability: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. by H. Cabezas and U. Diwekar. CRC Press, 2012.
- V. Khanna, L. A. Merugula, and B. R. Bakshi. “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Polymer Nanocomposites”. Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites. Ed. by F. Gao. Woodhead Publishing, 2012.
- E. Landers, R. A. Urban, and B. R. Bakshi. “Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment and Design”. Life Cycle Assessment: A Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Products. Ed. by Mary Ann Curran. Scrivener Publishing, 2012.
- B. R. Bakshi, A. Baral, and J. L. Hau. “Thermodynamic Methods for Resource Accounting”. Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources. Ed. by B. R. Bakshi, T. G. Gutowski, and D. P. Sekulic. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- B. R. Bakshi, P. K. Goel, and H. J. Kim. “Improving the Quality of Life Cycle Inventory Data by Reconciliation with the Laws of Thermodynamics”. Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources. Ed. by B. R. Bakshi, T. G. Gutowski, and D. P. Sekulic. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- N. U. Ukidwe and B. R. Bakshi. “Exergy and Materials Flow in Industrial and Ecological Systems”. Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources. Ed. by B. R. Bakshi, T. G. Gutowski, and D. P. Sekulic. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- A. Baral and B. R. Bakshi. “Comprehensive Study of Cellulosic Ethanol Using Hybrid Eco-LCA”. Biofuel and Bioenergy from Biowastes and Residues. Ed. by S. Khanal. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, Virginia, 2009.
- H. Chen, B. Li, B. R. Bakshi, and P. K. Goel. “Nonlinear Modeling: Linear Approaches for Nonlinear Modeling”. Comprehensive Chemometrics. Ed. by S. Brown, B.Walczak, and R. Tauler. Elsevier, 2009.
- B. Li, P. K. Goel, and B. R. Bakshi. “Nonlinear Regression: Other Methods”. Comprehensive Chemometrics. Ed. by S. Brown, B.Walczak, and R. Tauler. Elsevier, 2009.
- M. Seabra, B. R. Bakshi, and P. M. Saraiva. “Denoising and Signal to Noise (SNR) enhancement: Wavelet Transform and Fourier Transform”. Comprehensive Chemometrics. Ed. by S. Brown, B.Walczak, and R. Tauler. Elsevier, 2009.
- N. U. Ukidwe, J. L. Hau, and B. R. Bakshi. “Thermodynamic Input-Output Analysis of Economic and Ecological Systems”. Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology. Ed. by S. Suh. Springer, 2009.
- V. Khanna, Y. Zhang, G. F. Grubb, B. R. Bakshi, and L. J. Lee. “Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Nanofibres”. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Environmental and Health Impact. Ed. by V. H. Grassian. John Wiley, 2008.
- B. R. Bakshi. “Energy”. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. by P. Robbins. Sage Publications, 2007.
- B. R. Bakshi. “Life Cycle Analysis”. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. by P. Robbins. Sage Publications, 2007.
- B. R. Bakshi. “Thermodynamics”. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. by P. Robbins. Sage Publications, 2007.
- V. Norberg-Bohm, W. C. Clark, B. Bakshi, A. Berkenkamp, S. A. Bishko, M. D. Koehler, J. A. Marrs, C. P. Nielsen, and A. Sagar. “International comparisons of environmental hazards”. Global Environmental Risk. Ed. by J. X. Kasperson and R. E. Kasperson. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001, pp. 55–147.
- S. Ungarala and B. R. Bakshi. “Multiscale Estimation of Linear Dynamic Systems with and without Accurate Models”. Wavelets in Signal and Image Analysis. Ed. by A. Petrosian and F. Meyer. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
- B. R. Bakshi. “Multiscale Modeling and Model-Based Denoising”. Wavelets in Chemistry. Ed. by B. Walczak. Elsevier, 2000.
- [20] M. N. Nounou and B. R. Bakshi. “Multiscale Methods for Denoising and Compression”. Wavelets in Chemistry. Ed. by B. Walczak. Elsevier, 2000.
- J. F. Davis, M. J. Piovoso, K. A. Hoo, and B. R. Bakshi. “Process Data Analysis and Data Interpretation”. Advances in Chemical Engineering. Ed. by J. A. Wei. Vol. 25. Academic Press, 1999, pp. 1–103.
- B. R. Bakshi and G. Stephanopoulos. “Reasoning in Time; Modeling, Analysis and Pattern Recognition of Temporal Process Trends”. Paradigms of Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering. Ed. by George Stephanopoulos and Chonghun Han. Academic Press, 1995.
- C. Han, R. Lakshmanan, B. R. Bakshi, and G. Stephanopoulos. “Non-Monotonic Reasoning: The Synthesis of Operating Procedures in Chemical Plants”. Paradigms of Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering. Ed. by George Stephanopoulos and Chonghun Han. Academic Press, 1995.
- A. Koulouris, B. R. Bakshi, and G. Stephanopoulos. “Empirical Learning Through Neural Networks: The Wave-Net Solution”. Paradigms of Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering. Ed. by George Stephanopoulos and Chonghun Han. Academic Press, 1995.
- U. Utojo and B. R. Bakshi. “Connections Between Artificial Neural Networks and Multiariate Statistical Methods – An Overview”. Neural Networks in Bioprocessing and Chemical Engineering. Ed. by D. R. Baughman and Y. A. Liu. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1995.
- B. R. Bakshi, A Koulouris, and G. Stephanopoulos. “Learning at Multiple Resolutions: Wavelets as Basis Functions in Artificial Neural Networks and Inductive Decision Trees”. Wavelet Applications in Chemical Engineering. Ed. by R. Motard and B. Joseph. Kluwer Inc., Boston, 1994.
Journal Articles
- A. Agrawal, B. R. Bakshi, H. Kodamana, and M. Ramteke. “Multi-objective Optimization of Food-Energy-Water Nexus via Crops Land Allocation”. Computers & Chemical Engineering (Jan. 2024), p. 108610.
- V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. “Mapping the Path to a Net-Zero Chemicals Industry by Long-Term Planning with Changes in Technologies and Climate“. AIChE Journal, accepted, 2024
- R. Sharma, A. Haq, B. R. Bakshi, M. Ramteke, and H. Kodamana. “Designing Synergies between Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems and Ecosystems Developed by Different Afforestation Approaches”. Journal of Cleaner Production 434 (Jan. 2024). p. 139804.
- K. Lee, S. Chun, J. M. Bielicki, and B. R. Bakshi. “Spatially-Explicit Absolute Life Cycle Assessment by Multi-Regional Hybrid Modeling Computational Framework”. Journal of Cleaner Production 430 (Dec. 2023), p. 139789.
- Y. M. Aleissa and B. R. Bakshi. “Simulation Tools for Net-Positive Process Design: Trees as Unit Operations for Carbon Sequestration and Air Quality Regulation”. Comp. Chem. Eng. (Oct. 2023), p. 108455.
- A. Haq, R. Sharma, B. R. Bakshi, H. Kodamana, and M. Ramteke. “Forecasting sustainable power generation profiles to achieve net-zero emissions using multi-objective techno-ecological framework: A study in the context of India”. Computers and Chemical Engineering (Oct. 2023), p. 108439.
- A. Kumar, B. Bakshi, M. Ramteke, and H. Kodamana. “Recycle-BERT: Extracting Knowledge about Plastic Waste Recycling by Natural Language Processing”. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 11.32 (Aug. 2023), pp. 12123–12134.
- S. Ma, C. Zou, T.-Y. Chen, J. Paulson, L.-C. Lin, and B. Bakshi. “Understanding Rapid PET Degradation via Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Kinetic Modeling”. Journal of Physical Chemistry, Part A 127.35 (Aug. 2023), pp. 7323–7334.
- Y. M. Aleissa and B. R. Bakshi. “Possible but Rare: Safe and Just Satisfaction of National Human Needs in Terms of Ecosystem Services”. One Earth 6.4 (Apr. 2023), pp. 409–418.
- A. Sen and B. R. Bakshi. “Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Circular Phosphorus Systems in Agriculture”. Science of the Total Environment (Feb. 2023), p. 162016.
- V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. “Ranking Eco-innovations to Enable a Sustainable Circular Economy with Net-Zero Emissions”. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 11.4 (Jan. 2023), pp. 1363–1374.
- M. Varga, B. Csukas, S. Khanal, and B. R. Bakshi. “Lessons from the biosphere for the anthroposphere: Analysis of recycling structures of conservational measures”. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 192 (May 2023), p. 106919.
- B. R. Bakshi, M. Realff, Y. Arkun, and M. Morari. “Computers and Chemical Engineering Virtual Special Issue in honor of Professor George Stephanopoulos”. Computers & Chemical Engineering (2022), p. 107986.
- S. Kim, A. Beier, H. B. Schreyer, and B. R. Bakshi. “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of a novel cultivated meat burger patty in the United States”. Sustainability 14.23 (Dec. 2022), p. 16133.
- A. Agrawal, B. R. Bakshi, H. Kodamana, M. Ramteke, Renewables-Integrated Energy Systems Can Provide Electricity at Lower Cost with Less Environmental and Social Damage, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 10.40 (2022), pp. 13390–13401
- Y. Xue, B. R. Bakshi, Metrics for a Nature-Positive World: A multiscale approach for absolute environmental sustainability assessment, Science of the Total Environment, 846 (Nov. 2022), p. 157373.
- M. Charles, V. Vattyam, B. R. Bakshi, Designing Climate Action and Regulations for sustainaBility (DCARB): Framework and Campus Application, J. Cleaner Production, Apr, 131690, 2022
- V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. Multi-scale Sustainable Engineering: Integrated Design of Reaction Networks, Life Cycles, and Economic Sectors, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 156, 107578, 2022
- U. Shah and B. R. Bakshi. Improving Air Quality by Adapting Manufacturing to Pollution Uptake by Vegetation, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9, 49, 16709-16718, 2021
- V. Thakker and B. R. Bakshi. Designing Value-chains of Plastic and Paper Carrier Bags for a Sustainable and Circular Economy, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9, 49, 16687-16698, 2021
- K. Lee, S. Khanal and B. R. Bakshi. Techno-Ecologically Synergistic Food-Energy-Water Systems Meet Human and Ecosystem Needs, Energy and Environmental Science, 14, 7, 3700–3716, 2021
- M. Charles and B. R. Bakshi. Designing Industrial Landscapes for Mitigating Air Pollution with Spatially-Explicit Techno-Ecological Synergy, AIChE Journal, 67, 10, 2021
- Y. M. Aleissa and B. R. Bakshi, Constructed Wetlands as Unit Operations in Chemical Process Design: Benefits and Simulation, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 153, 107454, 2021
- K. D. Boutin, W. J. Mitsch, E. Everham, B. R. Bakshi, and L. Zhang. An evaluation of corn production within a WetlacultureTM system at Buckeye Lake, Ohio, Ecological Engineering, 171, 106366, 2021
- J. Hu, X. Gu, L.-C. Lin, and B. R. Bakshi, Toward Sustainable Metal-Organic Frameworks for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture by Life Cycle Assessment and Molecular Simulation, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9, 36, 12132–12141, 2021
- T. Yazbeck, G. Bohrer, C. Vines, F. De Roo, M. Mauder, and B. Bakshi, Effects of spatial heterogeneity of leaf density and crown spacing of canopy patches on dry deposition rates, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 306, 108440, 2021
- C. S. Adjiman, N. V. Sahinidis, D. G. Vlachos, B. Bakshi, C. T. Maravelias, and C. Georgakis, Process Systems Engineering Perspective on the Design of Materials and Molecules, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 60, 14, 5194-5206, 2021
- T. Ghosh, H.-C. Kim, R. DeKleine, T. J. Walington, B. R. Bakshi, Life Cycle Energy and Climate Change Implications of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Automotive Components: Front Subframe Case Study, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 28, e00263, 2021
- V. Thakker, B. R. Bakshi, Toward Sustainable Circular Economies: A Computational Framework for Assessment and Design, J. Cleaner Production, 295, 126353, 2021
- B. R. Bakshi, D. Shonnard, D. T. Allen, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Invites Contributions to a Virtual Special Issue on The Circular Economy of Plastics, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 9, 1425-1426, 2021
- S. L. Shah, B. R. Bakshi, J. Liu, C. Georgakis, Meeting the Challenge of Water Sustainability: The Role of Process Systems Engineering, AIChE Journal, 67, 2, e17113, 2021
- U. Diwekar, A. Amekudzi-Kennedy, B. Bakshi, R. Baumgartner, R. Boumans, P. Burger, H. Cabezas, M. Egler, J. Farley, B. Fath, T. Gleason, Y. Huang, A. Karunanithi, V. Khanna, A. Mangan, A. Mayer, R. Mukherjee, G. Mullally, V. Rico-Ramirez, D. Shonnard, M. Svanström, T. Theis, A perspective on the role of uncertainty in sustainability science and engineering, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105140, 2021
- K. Lee, J. P. Evans, S. Satagopan, Y. Sun, J. R. Parquette, V. B. Sundaresan, F. R. Tabita, and B. R. Bakshi, Carbon Footprint of Biomimetic Carbon Fixation by Immobilizing Nature’s CO2-sequestering Enzyme and Regenerating its Energy Carrier, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8, 45, 16833–16841, 2020
- T. Ghosh and B. R. Bakshi, Designing Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Models based on Uncertainty and Complexity, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 25, 2290–2308, 2020
- X. Liu, B. R. Bakshi, B. Rugani, D. M. De Souza, J. Bare, J. M. Johnston, A. Laurent F. Verones, Quantification and valuation of ecosystem services in life cycle assessment: Application of the cascade framework to rice farming systems, Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141278, 2020
- S. Bogra and B. R. Bakshi. Direct and indirect vulnerability of economic sectors to water scarcity: A hot-spot analysis of the Indian economy, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24, 1323-1337, 2020
- X. Zhang, L. Zhang, K. Y. Fung, B. R. Bakshi, and K. M. Ng. Sustainable Product Design: A Life-Cycle Approach, Chemical Engineering Science, 217, 115508, 2020
- M. Charles, G. Bohrer, G. Ziv, B. R. Bakshi, Connecting Air Quality Regulating Ecosystem Services with Beneficiaries through Quantitative Serviceshed Analysis, Ecosystem Services, 41, 101057, 2020
- V. Gopalakrishnan, G. Ziv, S. Hirabayashi, B. R. Bakshi. Nature-Based Solutions Can Compete with Technology for Mitigating Air Emissions Across the United States. Environmental Science and Technology, 53, 22, 13228-13237, 2019
- B. R. Bakshi, T. Ghosh, and K. Lee. Engineering, Markets, and Human Behavior: An Essential Integration for Decisions toward Sustainability, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 26, 164-169, 2019
- X. Liu, M. Charles, and B. R. Bakshi. Including Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment: Methodology and Application to Urban Farms, Procedia CIRP 80, 287-291, 2019
- B. Rugani, D. M. De Souza, J. Weidema B.and Bare, B. R. Bakshi, B. Grann, J. M. Johnston, A. L. Raymundo Pavan, X. Liu, A. Laurent, and F. Verones. Towards integrating the ecosystem services cascade framework within the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) cause-effect methodology, Science of the Total Environment 690, 1284–1298, 2019
- K. Lee, T. Ghosh, and B. R. Bakshi. Toward Multiscale Consequential Sustainable Process Design: Including the Effects of Economy and Resource Constraints with Application to Green Urea Production in a Watershed, Chemical Engineering Science, 207, 725–743, 2019
- T. Ghosh, B. R. Bakshi, Designing Biofuel Supply Chains while Mitigating Harmful Algal Blooms with Treatment Wetlands, Comp. Chem. Eng., 126, 113-127, 2019
- S. B. Jadhao, A. B. Pandit, B. R. Bakshi, Resource Utilization and Destruction in Indian Industrial Sectors: An Exergy Analysis, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 58, 26, 11566-11575, 2019
- U. Shah, B. R. Bakshi, Accounting for Nature’s Intermittency and Growth while Mitigating NO2 Emissions by Techno-Ecological Synergistic Design – Application to a Chloralkali Process, J. Adv. Manuf. and Proc., 1, 1-2, 2019
- B. R. Bakshi. Toward Sustainable Chemical Engineering: The Role of Process Systems Engineering, Annual Reviews of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 10, 1-26, 2019
- V. Gopalakrishnan, G. Ziv, B. R. Bakshi, Role of Vegetation in Mitigating Air Emissions Across Industrial Sites in the US, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 7, 4, 3783–3791, 2019
- Bakshi, B., Book Review of Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization by Robert Ayres, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23, 2, 510-511, 2019
- X. Liu and B. R. Bakshi, Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment while Encouraging Techno-Ecological Synergies, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23, 2, 347-360, 2019
- X. Liu, G. Ziv, B. R. Bakshi, Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment, Part 2: Adaptations to regional and serviceshed information, J. Cleaner Production, 197, 772-780, 2018
- X. Liu, G. Ziv, B. R. Bakshi, Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment, Part 1: A computational framework, J. Cleaner Production, 197, 314-322, 2018
- R. J. Hanes, V. Gopalakrishnan, B. R. Bakshi, Including nature in the food-energy-water nexus can improve sustainability across multiple ecosystem services, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 137, 214-228, 2018
- V. Gopalakrishnan, S. Hirabayashi, G. Ziv, and B. R. Bakshi, Air Quality and Human Health Impacts of Grasslands and Shrublands in the United States, Atmospheric Environment, 182, 193–199, 2018
- B. R. Bakshi, T. G. Gutowski, D. P. Sekulic, Claiming Sustainability: Requirements and Challenges, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6, 3, 3632–3639, 2018
- F. Saladini, V. Gopalakrishnan, S. Bastianoni, B. R. Bakshi, Synergies Between Industry and Nature – An Emergy Evaluation of a Biodiesel Production System Integrated with Ecological Systems, Ecosystem Services, 30B, 257-266, 2018
- X.Liu, S. Singh, E. L. Gibbemeyer, B. E. Tam, R. A. Urban, B. R. Bakshi, The Carbon-Nitrogen Nexus of Transportation Fuels, Journal of Cleaner Production, 180, 790-803, 2018
- V. Gopalakrishnan, and B. R. Bakshi, Ecosystems as Unit Operations for Local Techno-Ecological Synergy: Integrated Process Design with Treatment Wetlands, AIChE Journal, accepted, 2018
- T. Ghosh and B. R. Bakshi, Process to Planet approach to Sustainable Process Design: Multiple Objectives and Byproducts, Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering, 51, 6, 936-948, 2017
- S. B. Jadhao, A. B. Pandit, B. R. Bakshi, The Evolving Metabolism of a Developing Economy: India’s Exergy Flows over Four Decades, Applied Energy, 206, 851-857, 2017
- V. Gopalakrishnan, and B. R. Bakshi, Biosolids Management with Net-Zero CO2 Emissions: A Techno-Ecological Synergy Design, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 19, 8, 2099–2111, 2017
- R. J. Hanes, V. Gopalakrishnan, and B. R. Bakshi. Synergies and trade-offs in renewable energy landscapes: Balancing energy production with economics and ecosystem services. Applied Energy, 199, 25-44, 2017
- S. B Jadhao, S. G. Shingade, A. B. Pandit, B. R. Bakshi, Bury, Burn or Gasify: Assessing Municipal Solid Waste Management Options in Indian Megacities by Exergy Analysis, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, accepted, 2017
- A. Ramaswami, D. Boyer, A. Nagpure, A. Fang, S. Bogra, B. Bakshi, E. Cohen. and A. Rao-Ghorpade, An urban systems framework to assess the trans-boundary food-energy-water nexus: implementation in Delhi, India, Environmental Research Letters, 12, 025008, 2017
- J.-K. Choi, B. R. Bakshi, K. Hubacek, and J. Nader, A Sequential Input-Output Framework to Analyze the Economic and Environmental Implications of Energy Policies: Gas Taxes and Fuel Subsidies, Applied Energy, 184, 15, 830–839, 2016
- Mandade, P., B. R. Bakshi, G. D. Yadav, Ethanol from Indian Agro-Industrial Lignocellulosic Biomass – An Emergy Evaluation, Clean Technol. Env. Policy, 18, 2625–2634, 2016
- V. Gopalakrishnan, B. R. Bakshi, and G. Ziv. “Assessing the Capacity of Local Ecosystems to Meet Industrial Demand for Ecosystem Services.” AIChE Journal, 62, 9, 3319-3333 (2016).
- Bogra, S., B. R. Bakshi, R. Mathur, A Water Withdrawal Input-Output Model of the Indian Economy, Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 3, 1313–1321, 2016
- Chopra, S., B. R. Bakshi, V. Khanna, Economic Dependence of U.S. Industrial Sectors on Animal-mediated Pollination Service, Environmental Science and Technology, 49, 24, 14441–14451, 2015
- Mandade, P., B. R. Bakshi, G. D. Yadav, Ethanol from Indian Agro-Industrial Lignocellulosic Biomass – A Life Cycle Evaluation of Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Land and Water, Int. J. LCA, 20, 12, 1649-1658, 2015
- Hanes, R. J., B. R. Bakshi, Process to Planet: A Multiscale Modeling Framework Toward Sustainable Engineering, AIChE Journal, accepted, 2015
- Hanes, R. J., B. R. Bakshi, Sustainable Process Design Using the Process to Planet Framework, AIChE Journal, accepted, 2015
- Hanes, R., N. B. Cruze, P. K. Goel, B. R. Bakshi, Allocation Games: Addressing the ill-posed nature of allocation in life cycle inventories, Environmental Science and Technology, 49, 13, 7996–8003, 2015
- Kursun, B., B. R. Bakshi, M. Mahata, and J. F. Martin. Life Cycle and Emergy Based Design of Energy Systems in Developing Countries: Centralized and Localized Options, Ecological Modelling, accepted, 2015
- Bakshi, B. R., G. Ziv, M. D. Lepech, Techno-Ecological Synergy: A Framework for Sustainable Engineering, Environmental Science and Technology, 49, 3, 1752-1760, 2015
- Singh, S., B. R. Bakshi, Footprints of Carbon and Nitrogen: Revisiting the Paradigm and Exploring their Nexus for Decision Making, Ecological Indicators, accepted, 2015
- Winden, M., N. Cruze, T. Haab, B. Bakshi, Monetized value of the environmental, health and resource externalities of soy biodiesel, Energy Economics, 2014, accepted
- Bakshi, B. R., Methods and Tools for Sustainable Process Design, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 6, 69-74, 2014
- Cruze, N. B., P. K. Goel, B. R. Bakshi, Allocation in life cycle inventory: partial set of solutions to an ill-posed problem, Int. J. Life Cycle Assessment, 19, 11, 1854-1865, 2014
- Cruze, N. B., P. K. Goel, B. R. Bakshi, Revisiting Least Squares Techniques for the Purposes of Allocation in Life Cycle Inventory, Int. J. Life Cycle Assessment, 19, 10, 1733-1744, 2014
- Winden, M., N. Cruze, T. Haab, B. Bakshi, Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Choice Analysis for Alternative Fuel Valuation, Ecological Economics, accepted
- Kursun, B., S. Ramkumar, B. R. Bakshi, L.-S. Fan, A Life Cycle Comparison of Coal Gasification by Conventional versus Calcium Looping Process, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., accepted
- Woods, L., B. R. Bakshi, Reusable vs. Disposable Cups Revisited: Guidance in life cycle comparisons addressing scenario, model, and parameter uncertainties for the U.S. consumer, Int. J. Life Cycle Assessment, 19, 4, 931-940, 2014
- Singh, S., B. R. Bakshi, Accounting for Emissions and Sinks from the Biogeochemical Cycle of Carbon in the U.S. Economic Input-Output Model, J. Industrial Ecology, accepted
- Zhang, Y., E. Gibbemeyer, B. R. Bakshi, Empirical Comparion of Input-Output Methods for Life Cycle Assessment, J. Industrial Ecology, 18, 5, 734-746, 2014
- Singh, S., B. R. Bakshi, Accounting for the Biogeochemical Cycle of Nitrogen in Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment, Env. Sc. Technol., 47, 16, 9388-9396, 2013
- Zhuang, K., B. R. Bakshi, M. J. Herrgard, Multi-scale modeling for sustainable chemical production, Biotechnology Journal, 8, 9, 973–984, 2013
- Urban, R. A., B. R. Bakshi, Techno-Ecological Synergy as a Path Toward Sustainability of a North American Residential System, Env. Sc. Technol.,47 4, 1985–1993, 2013
- Cruze, N. B., P. K. Goel, B. R. Bakshi, On the “Rigorous proof of fuzzy error propagation with matrix-based LCI”, Int. J. LCA, 18, 2, 516-519, 2013
- Reinforced Wind Turbine Blades – An Environmental Life Cycle Evaluation
Merugula, L., V. Khanna, B. R. Bakshi, Env. Sc. Technol., 46, 17, 9785–9792, 2012 - Assessing Resource Intensity and Renewability of Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies using Eco-LCA
Baral, A., B. R. Bakshi, R. Smith, Environmental Science and Technology, 46, 4, 2436–2444, 2012 - Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Life Cycle Assessment
Bakshi, B. R., M. J. Small, J. Industrial Ecology, 15, 4, 477-478, 2011 - A life cycle framework for the investigation of environmentally benign nanoparticles and products,
Theis, T. L., B. R. Bakshi, R. Clift, D. Durham, V. M. Fthenakis, T. G. Gutowski, J. A. Isaacs, T. Seager, M. R. Wiesner, Physica Status Solidi, 5, 9, 312-317, 2011 - Appreciating the Role of Thermodynamics in LCA Improvement Analysis via an Application to Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles
Grubb, G. F., B. R. Bakshi, Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 7, 3054–3061, 2011 - Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Beneficial Applications for Scrap Tires
Fiksel, J., B. R. Bakshi, A. Baral, R. Rajagopalan, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 13, 19-35, 2011 - Emergy Analysis using US Economic Input-Output Models with Applications to Life Cycles of Gasoline and Corn Ethanol
Baral, A., B. R. Bakshi, Ecological Modelling, 221, 15, 1807-1818, 2010 - Towards sustainability of engineered processes: Designing self-reliant networks of technological-ecological systems
Urban, R. A., Bakshi, B. R., Grubb, G. F., Baral, A., Mitsch, W. J., Computers and Chemical Engineering, accepted 2010 - Effects of a carbon price in the U.S. on economic sectors, resource use, and emissions: An input-output approach
Choi, J.-K., Bakshi, B. R., Haab, T., Energy Policy, 38, 7, 3527-3536, 2010 - Prior Checking and Moving Horizon Smoothing for Improved Particle Filtering
Lang, L., Goel, P. K., Bakshi, B. R., Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 49, 9, 4197–4209, 2010 - Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment, Part I: A Critical Review
Zhang, Y., Singh, S., Bakshi, B. R., Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 7, 2232-2242, 2010 - Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment, Part II: Toward an Ecologically-Based LCA
Zhang, Y., Baral, A., Bakshi, B. R., Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 7, 2624-2631, 2010 - Life Cycle of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle Production – Impact of Emissions and Thermodynamic Analysis of Resource Use
Grubb, G. F., Bakshi, B. R., J. Industrial Ecology, accepted, 2010 - Thermodynamic Metrics for Aggregation of Natural Resources in Life Cycle Analysis: Insight via Application to Some Transportation Fuels,
Baral, A., Bakshi, B. R., Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2, 800-807, 2010 - Integrated Estimation of Measurement Error With Empirical Process Modeling – A Hierarchical Bayes Approach
Chen, H., Bakshi, B. R., Goel, P. K., AIChE Journal, 55, 11, 2883-2895, 2009 - 1,3-Propanediol from Fossils versus Biomass: A Life Cycle Evaluation of Emissions and Ecological Resources
Urban, R. A., Bakshi, B. R., Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 48, 17, 8068-8082, 2009 - Carbon Nanofiber Polymer Composites: Evaluation of Life Cycle Energy Use,
Khanna, V., Bakshi, B. R., Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 6, 2078-2084, 2009 - Carbon Nanofiber Production : Life Cycle Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact
Khanna, V., Bakshi, B. R., Lee, L. J., Journal of Industrial Ecology, 12, 3, 394-410, 2008 - Multiscale Statistical Process Control Using Wavelet Packets
Reis, M. S., Bakshi, B. R., Saraiva, P. M., AIChE Journal, 54, 9, 2366-2378, 2008 - Resource Intensities of Chemical Industry Sectors in the United States via Input-Output Network Models,
Ukidwe, N. U., Bakshi, B. R., Comp. Chem. Eng., 32, 9, 2050-2064, 2008 - Exergy: its potential and limitations in environmental science and technology,
Dewulf, J., Langenhove, H., Muys, B., Bruers, S., Bakshi, B. R., Grubb, G., Paulus, D., Sciubba, E., Environmental Science and Technology, 42, 7, 2221-2232, 2008 - Life Cycle Assessment of an Ionic Liquid versus Molecular Solvents and Their Applications,
Zhang, Y., Bakshi, B. R., and Sahle-Demessie, E., Environmental Science and Technology, 42, 5, 1724–1730, 2008 - Toward Bayesian Chemometrics – A Tutorial on Some Recent Advances
Chen, H., Bakshi, B. R., and Goel, P. K., Analytica Chimica Acta, 602, 1-16, 2007 - Bayesian Latent Variable Regression via Gibbs Sampling: Methodology and Practical Aspects,
Chen, H., Bakshi, B. R., and Goel, P. K., J. Chemometrics, 21, 12, 578-591, 2007 - Enhancing Life Cycle Inventories via Reconciliation with the Laws of Thermodynamics,
Hau, J. L., Yi, H.-S., and Bakshi, B. R., J. Industrial Ecology, 11, 4, 5-25, 2007 - Bayesian Estimation via Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling – Constrained Dynamic Systems
Chen, W.-S., Lang, L., Bakshi, B. R., Goel, P. K., and Ungarala, S., Automatica, 43, 1615-1622, 2007 - Rectification of Multiscale Data with Application to Life Cycle Inventories
Yi, H.-S., and Bakshi, B. R., AIChE Journal, 53, 4, 876-890, 2007 - Industrial and Ecological Cumulative Exergy Consumption of the United States via the 1997 Input-Output Benchmark Model
Ukidwe, N. U., and Bakshi, B. R., Energy, 32, 1560-1592, 2007 - Particle Filtering and Moving Horizon Estimation
Rawlings, J. B., and B R. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 30, 10-12, 1529-1541, 2006 - Flow of Natural versus Economic Capital in Industrial Supply Networks and its Implications to Sustainability
Ukidwe, N. U., and B. R. Bakshi, Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 24, 9759-9769, 2005 - Hierarchical Thermodynamic Metrics for Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Industrial Processes
Yi, H.-S., J. L. Hau, N. U. Ukidwe, and B. R. Bakshi, Environmental Progress, special issue on Sustainable Engineering, 23, 4, 302-314, 2004 - Thermodynamic Accounting of Ecosystem Contribution to Economic Sectors with Application to 1992 US Economy
Ukidwe, N. U., and B. R. Bakshi, Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 18, 4810-4827, 2004 - Clustering in Wavelet Domain: A Multiresolution ART Network for Anomaly Detection
Aradhye, H. B., B. R. Bakshi, J. F. Davis, and S. C. Ahalt, AIChE Journal, 50, 10, 2455-2466, 2004 - Promise and Problems of Emergy Analysis
Hau, J. L., and B. R. Bakshi, Ecological Modelling, special issue in honor of H. T. Odum, 178, 215-225, 2004
Paper - Bayesian Estimation via Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling: Unconstrained Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
Chen, W.-S., B. R. Bakshi, P. K. Goel, and S. Ungarala, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 43, 14, 4012-4025, 2004
Paper - Expanding Exergy Analysis to Account for Ecosystem Products and Services
Hau, J. L., and B. R. Bakshi, Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 13, 3768-3777, 2004
Paper - The Quest for Sustainability: Challenges for Process Systems Engineering
Bakshi, B. R., and J. Fiksel, AIChE Journal, cover article, 49, 6, 1350-1358, 2003
Paper, cover image - Multiscale SPC Using Wavelets – Theoretical Analysis and Properties
Aradhye, H. B., B. R. Bakshi, R. A. Strauss, and J. F. Davis, AIChE Journal, 49, 4, 939-958, 2003
Paper - ART-2 and Multiscale ART-2 for On-Line Process Fault Detection – Validation via Industrial Case Studies and Monte Carlo Simulation
Aradhye, H. B., J. F. Davis, B. R. Bakshi, Annual Reviews in Control, 26, 1, 113-127, 2002 - Bayesian Principal Component Analysis
Nounou, M. N., B. R. Bakshi, P. K. Goel, and X. Shen, Journal of Chemometrics, 16, 11, 576-595, 2002
Paper - Process Modeling by Bayesian Latent Variable Regression
Nounou, M. N., B. R. Bakshi, P. K. Goel, and X. Shen, AIChE Journal, 48, 8, 1775-1793, 2002
Paper - Multiscale and Bayesian Approaches to Data Analysis in Genomics High Throughput Screening
Yang, C., B. R. Bakshi, J. F. Rathman, P E. Blower, Jr., Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Delivery , 5, 3, 428-438, 2002 - Comparison of Statistical Process Monitoring Methods: Application to the Eastman Challenge Problem
Kano, M., K. Nagao, S. Hasebe, I. Hashimoto,H. Ohno, R. Strauss, and B. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, special issue on selected papers from PSE 2000, 26, 2, 161-174, 2002
Paper - A Thermodynamic Framework for Ecologically Conscious Process Systems Engineering
B. R. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, special issue on selected papers from PSE 2000, 26, 2, 269-282, 2002
Paper - Multiscale Bayesian Data Rectification of Linear Steady-State and Dynamic Systems without Accurate Models
Bakshi, B. R., M. N. Nounou, P. K. Goel, and X. Shen, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research , 40, 1, 261 -274, 2001
Abstract and Paper - Interplay of Large Materials Databases Semi-empirical Methods, Neuro-computing and First Principle Calculations for Ternary Compound Former/Nonformer Prediction
Villars, P., K. Brandenburg, M. Berndt, S. LeClair, A. Jackson, Y.-H. Pao, B. Igelnik, M. Oxley, B. Bakshi, P. Chen, and S. Iwata, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence , 13, 5, 497-505, 2000
Paper - Binary, Ternary and Quaternary Compound Former/Nonformer Prediction via Mendeleev Number
Villars, P., K. Brandenburg, M. Berndt, S. LeClair, A. Jackson, Y. H. Pao, B. Igelnik, M. Oxley, B. Bakshi, and P. Chen, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 317-318, 26-38, 2001
Paper - A Thermodynamic Framework for Ecologically Conscious Process Systems Engineering
B. R. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 24, 2-7, 1767-1773, 2000 (proceedings of PSE 2000, plenary talk)
Paper - A Multiscale, Bayesian and Error-In-Variables Approach for Linear Dynamic Data Rectification
Ungarala, S., and B. R. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 24, 2-7, 445-451, 2000 (proceedings of PSE 2000)
Paper - Comparison of Statistical Process Monitoring Methods: Application to the Eastman Challenge Problem
Kano, M., K. Nagao, S. Hasebe, I. Hashimoto, H. Ohno, R. Strauss, and B. Bakshi, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 24, 2-7, 175-181, 2000 (proceedings of PSE 2000, plenary talk)
Paper - Multiscale Analysis and Modeling Using Wavelets
Bakshi, B. R., Journal of Chemometrics, 13, 3-4, 415-434, 1999
Abstract , Paper - Online Multiscale Filtering of Random and Gross Errors Without Process Models
Nounou, M. N. and B. R. Bakshi, AIChE Journal, 45, 5, 1041-1058, 1999
Abstract , Paper - A Common Framework and Overview for the Unification of Neural, Chemometric and Statistical Modeling Methods
Bakshi, B. R. and U. Utojo, Analytica Chimica Acta, special issue on neural networks, 384, 227-247, 1999
Abstract , Paper - Unification of Neural and Statistical Methods that Combine Inputs by Linear Projection
Bakshi, B. R. and U. Utojo, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 22, 12, 1859-1878, 1998
Abstract , Paper - Unification of Neural and Statistical Methods as Applied to Materials Structure-Property Mapping
Bakshi, B. R. and R. Chatterjee, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 279, 1, 39-46, 1998
Abstract , Paper - Multiscale PCA with Application to Multivariate Statistical Process Monitoring
Bakshi, B. R., AIChE Journal , 44, 7, 1596-1610, 1998
Abstract , Text , Figures - Multiscale Rectification of Random Errors without Process Models
Bakshi, B. R., P. Bansal and M. Nounou, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 21, S1167-S1172, 1997
Abstract , Paper - Multifractal Characterization of Flow in Circulating Fluidized Beds
Zhong, H., Bakshi, B. R., Jiang, P., Fan, L.-S., The Chemical Engineering Journal, special issue on Chaos and Fractals in Chemical Engineering, 64, 107-115, 1996
Abstract, Paper - Compression of Chemical Process Data Through Functional Approximation and Feature Extraction
Bakshi, B. R., Stephanopoulos, G., AIChE Journal, 42, 2, 477-492, 1996
Abstract - A Method for an Automated Rule Extraction From Raw Process Data Part 1: Process Trends, Wavelet Transformation and Decision Trees (in German)
Locher, G., B. Bakshi, Geo. Stephanopoulos, Greg. Stephanopoulos and K. Schügerl, Automatisierungstechnik , 44, 2, 61-70, February 1996 - A Method for an Automated Rule Extraction From Raw Process Data Part 2: A Case Study (in German)
Locher, G., B. Bakshi, Geo. Stephanopoulos, Greg. Stephanopoulos and K. Schügerl, Automatisierungstechnik , 44, 3, 138-145, March 1996 - Analysis of Flow in Gas-Liquid Bubble Columns Using Multi-Resolution Methods
Bakshi, B. R., Zhong, H., Jiang, P., Fan, L.-S., Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng., Part A, 73, 608-614, August, 1995
Abstract - Representation of Process Trends, Part III. Multi-Scale Extraction of Trends from Process Data
Bakshi, B. R., Stephanopoulos, G., Computers and Chemical Engineering , 18, 4, 267-302, 1994
Abstract - Representation of Process Trends, Part IV. Induction of Real-Time Patterns from Operating Data for Diagnosis and Supervisory Control
Bakshi, B. R., Stephanopoulos, G., Computers and Chemical Engineering , 18, 4, 303-332, 1994
Abstract - Analysis of Operating Data for Evaluation, Diagnosis and Control of Batch Operations
Bakshi, B. R., Locher, G., Stephanopoulos, Greg., Stephanopoulos, Geo., Journal of Process Control , 4, 4, 175-194, 1994
Abstract - “Database mining” mit Hilfe von Trends, Wavelettransformation und Klassifizierungsbäumen
Locher, G., Bakshi, B., Stephanopoulos, Geo., Stephanopoulos, Greg., Schügerl, K., Chemie Ingenieur Technik , 66, 3, 541, 1994 - Wavelet Networks for Localized Learning in a Multi-Resolution Hierarchy
Bakshi, B. R. and G. Stephanopoulos, Communication and Cognition – Artificial Intelligence, 10, 1-2, 23-37, 1993 - Wave-Net: A Multi-Resolution, Hierarchical Neural Network with Localized Learning
Bakshi, B. R., Stephanopoulos, G., AIChE Journal, 39, 1, 57-81, 1993
Abstract
Technical Reports
- Hierarchical Thermodynamic Sustainability Metrics for an Ammonia Process
Yi, H.-S., B. R. Bakshi, contains details of study in “Hierarchical Thermodynamic Metrics for Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Industrial Processes”, Environmental Progress, 23, 4, 302-314, 2004 - A Multiresolution ART Network for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Non-Linearly Correlated Signals
Aradhye, H. B., B. R. Bakshi, J. F. Davis,and S. C. Ahalt - Multiscale and Bayesian Methods for Efficient Process Operation
Bakshi, B. R., keynote lecture at PSE Asia, Kyoto, Japan, December 2000 - Bayesian Error-in-Variables Rectification of Data from Linear Dynamic Systems
Ungarala, S., and B. R. Bakshi
Software
- Interactive maps from “Nature-Based Solutions can Compete With Technology for Mitigating Air Emissions Across the US”
- Ecologically-Based Life Cycle Assessment (an updated version with more current data is being developed)
- Software from our research may be requested by sending email to [email protected].