Prakash Rao

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2025

Fuchs, Heidi, Unique Karki, Arman Shehabi, Tiana Nishime, and Prakash Rao. "Geographic, sectoral, and constituent characteristics of US off‐site manufacturing wastewater disposal." Journal of Industrial Ecology 29.6 (2025) 2442–2456.

Geographic sectoral and constituent characteristics of US off‐site manufacturing

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Wesselkaemper, Jannis, Alex C Newkirk, Thomas P Hendrickson, Nadiyah Helal, Prakash Rao, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Andrew Z Haddad. "Enhancing supply resilience for critical materials: case study of gallium supply in the United States." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 222 (2025) 108436.

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Rao, Prakash, Heidi Fuchs, Amal Alsaffar, Kristina Armstrong, Sravan Chalasani, Sujit Das, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Diane J Graziano, Unique Karki, Mini Malhotra, James McCall, Sachin Nimbalkar, Frédéric Petit, Lino Sanchez, Rob Spencer, Sarang Supekar, and Kiran Thirumaran. Advancing Manufacturing Water Resilience: Addressing Risks through New Approaches and Technologies. 2025.

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Earni, Shankar, Alex Hubbard, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Sean Wynne, and Ross Charland. Field Validation of Thermoelectric Generation System at Holcim Cement Plant in Alpena, Michigan. 2025.

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Office, U.S Department of Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization, Jibran Zuberi, Unique Karki, Prakash Rao, Peng Peng, Tae-Hwan Lim, Arman Shehabi, and Heidi Fuchs. Transformative Pathways for U.S. Industry: Unlocking American Innovation. 2025.

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Rao, Prakash, Thomas P Hendrickson, Elizabeth Wachs, Shubhankar Upasani, and Alberta Carpenter. Testing a method for developing facility-level greenhouse gas emissions intensities of U.S. traded goods. 2025.

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2024

Zuberi, Jibran, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao. "Cross-sectoral assessment of CO2 capture from U.S. industrial flue gases for fuels and chemicals manufacture." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 135 (2024) 104137.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, CD Nayak, and Amit Kanungo. FIELD VALIDATION OF Electrocoagulation Treatment for Oily Wastewater at a Steel Mill. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Jeff Davis, Josh Weissert, Mike Christianson, and Katie Roessler. FIELD VALIDATION OF A Pilot-Scale Black Liquor Membrane for Water Removal at a Paper Mill. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert. FIELD VALIDATION OF Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Automotive Plants. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, CD Nayak, and Amit Kanungo. Field Validation of Electrocoagulation Treatment for Oily Wastewater at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Mill in Cleveland, Ohio. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Jeff Davis, Josh Weissert, Mike Christianson, and Katie Roessler. Field Validation of a Pilot-scale Black Liquor Membrane for Water Removal at Ahlstrom-Munksjö Paper Mill in Mosinee, WI. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Paul Sheaffer, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert. Field Validation of Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Nissan Manufacturing Plant in Canton, Mississippi. 2024.

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Earni, Shankar, Amy Pevzner, Unique Karki, Prakash Rao, Ross Charland, and Josh Weissert. Field Validation of Electrochemical Water Filtration System on an Open Loop Cooling Tower at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant in Blue Springs,Mississippi. 2024.

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2023

Karki, Unique, and Prakash Rao. "Techno-economic analysis of the water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions impacts from the adoption of water efficiency practices in the U.S. manufacturing sector." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 196 (2023) 107054.

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Fitzgerald, Patrick, Peter L Therkelsen, Paul Sheaffer, and Prakash Rao. "Deeper and persistent energy savings and carbon dioxide reductions achieved through ISO 50001 in the manufacturing sector." Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 57 (2023) 103280.

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Das, Sujit, Heidi Fuchs, Ritu Philip, and Prakash Rao. "A review of water valuation metrics: Supporting sustainable water use in manufacturing." Water Resources and Industry 29 (2023) 100199.

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2022

Moudio, Marie Pelagie Elimbi, Richard Bolin, Alberta Carpenter, Samantha Bench Reese, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao. "Characterizing manufacturing sector disruptions with targeted mitigation strategiesAbstract." Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 2.4 (2022) 042001.

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Rao, Prakash, Paul Sheaffer, Yuting Chen, Unique Karki, and Patrick Fitzgerald. U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 3: Energy Saving Opportunity. 2022.

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2021

McCall, James, Prakash Rao, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Sachin Nimbalkar, Sujit Das, Sarang Supekar, and Joe Cresko. "U.S. Manufacturing Water Use Data and Estimates: Current State, Limitations, and Future Needs for Supporting Manufacturing Research and Development." ACS ES&T Water (2021).

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Newkirk, Alexander, Prakash Rao, and Paul Sheaffer. U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 2: Advanced Motors and Drives Supply Chain Review. 2021.

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Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao. Survey of Available Information on U.S. Manufacturing Wastewater and Energy Requirements for Reuse. 2021.

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Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao. "Characterizing manufacturing wastewater in the United States for the purpose of analyzing energy requirements for reuse." Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021).

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Booten, Chuck, Prakash Rao, Vi H Rapp, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher. "Theoretical Minimum Thermal Load in Buildings." Joule 5.1 (2021) 24–46.

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