CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education Plan to Navigate Tradeoffs in the Design of Sustainable and Resilient Water Reuse Systems

职业：综合研究和教育计划，以权衡可持续和有弹性的水再利用系统的设计

• 批准号: 2048213
• 负责人: Sherri Cook
• 金额: $ 50.93万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrated; Research; Education; Plan

This project will address a critical barrier to reliable access to safe water: the lack of widespread adoption of water reuse strategies. This barrier stems from an inability to upgrade, re-design, or integrate wastewater and drinking water treatment approaches without compromising public health or incurring unacceptably high financial or environmental costs. The research plan will generate a foundation of data, understanding, tools, and processes to advance widespread adoption of sustainable and resilient water reuse strategies. It will create a comprehensive assessment framework that integrates sustainability and resilience principles to help identify hidden barriers and important tradeoffs. It allows for the integration of wastewater and drinking water process models by establishing an expanded set of variables through experimentation and modeling. It characterizes the safe operating space of existing and novel water reuse technologies as well as demarcates a decision space that accounts for the stakeholder data that will be collected to improve understanding of diverse perspectives. Finally, the project will develop effective new teaching approaches via a rigorous multi-year, iterative effort to improve decision- making skill sets and retention.The research plan starts by building an understanding of the scope of reuse options by evaluating the performance of a portfolio of technologies to (1) elucidate the safe operating spaces of existing and novel water reuse technologies across a landscape of possible designs and operational conditions. Next, it expands beyond technology performance to (2) establish a comprehensive, quantitative assessment framework and integrates it with reuse process modelling and stakeholder perspectives in an adaptable decision-support model. Finally, it takes advantage of the integrated decision-support model by conducting a scenario analysis to (3) identify salient features and characteristics of sustainable water reuse applications, and seeks to leverage this insight to elucidate drivers, barriers, and levers of change. The applicability and adoption of the proposed research efforts will be enhanced by improved stakeholder engagement and engineering student training. The research objectives are combined with integral education and outreach objectives to: (1) improve communication and understanding of diverse perspectives, and (2) foster an ability to navigate uncertainty and tradeoffs. Outreach efforts include soliciting and incorporating input through a series of workshops, case studies, and online surveys from a diverse range of stakeholders (public consumers, industrial consumers, engineers, researchers, regulators, and utilities). Education efforts include evaluating different approaches to improve understanding of uncertainty and tradeoffs, in multiple contexts, by developing and assessing the effectiveness of undergraduate environmental engineering teaching modules and by developing a “wicked problems” card game.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将解决可靠获取安全水的关键障碍：缺乏宽度采用水资源策略。这种障碍从无法升级，重新设计或集成的废水和饮用水处理方法的障碍步骤，而不会损害公共卫生或产生令人难以置信的高财务或环境成本。该研究计划将为数据，理解，工具和流程提供基础，以提高对可持续和弹性水再利用策略的广泛采用。它将创建一个全面的评估框架，该框架整合了可持续性和弹性原则，以帮助确定隐藏的障碍和重要的权衡。它可以通过实验和建模来建立一组扩展的变量来整合废水和饮用水过程模型。它描述了现有和新颖的水再利用技术的安全操作空间，并划定了一个决策空间，该决策空间解释了利益相关者数据，该数据将收集以提高对潜水员观点的理解。最后，该项目将通过一项严格的多年迭代努力来开发有效的新教学方法，以提高决策技能和保留措施。该研究计划首先通过评估技术组合的性能来建立对重用选择范围的理解，以（1）阐明现有的水域和新型水域技术和新型水景的新型水平和可能的设计和操作。接下来，它将超越技术绩效扩展到（2）建立一个全面的定量评估框架，并将其与重用过程建模和利益相关者的观点相结合到适应性的决策支持模型中。最后，它通过对（3）确定可持续水再利用应用的显着特征和特征来利用综合决策支持模型，并试图利用这种见解来阐明变化的驱动因素，障碍和障碍。通过改善利益相关者的参与和工程学生培训，将增强拟议研究工作的适用性和采用。研究目标与整体教育和外展目标相结合：（1）提高对潜水员观点的沟通和理解，以及（2）培养不确定性和权衡的能力。推广工作包括通过一系列的研讨会，案例研究以及从潜水员范围的利益相关者（公共消费者，工业消费者，工程师，研究人员，监管机构和公用事业）征集和进口意见。 Education efforts include evaluating different approaches to improve understanding of uncertainty and tradeoffs, in multiple contexts, by developing and assessing the effectiveness of undergraduate environmental engineering teaching modules and by developing a “wicked problems” card game.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed honestly of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.