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Rui Shi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

Chemical Engineering

Institutes of Energy and Environment

229 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

rms6987@psu.edu

814-863-6590

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Research Areas:

Energy and Environment

Interest Areas:

Life cycle assessment; sustainable design; biofuels & bioproducts; food-energy-water-waste nexus; advanced computational modeling; decision-making under uncertainty.

Education

Publications

Research Projects

May 2023 - September 2025, "Center for Bioenergy Innovation," (Sponsor: Battelle - Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

August 2021 - July 2025, "Collaborative Proposal: ECO-CBET: Putting entropy to work: Leveraging the role of water organization in peptide binding events to selectively recover rare earths," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

May 2022 - December 2024, "Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Analysis of Plant-base Ingredients Production," (Sponsor: Motif Foodworks, Inc.).

January 2023 - December 2024, "FMSG: ECO: Towards Circular Manufacturing of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks from Plastic Waste," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

January 2022 - December 2024, "Chemical Recycling of Mixed PET/Polyolefin Streams Through Sequential Pyrolysis and Catalytic Upgrading," (Sponsor: The REMADE Institute).

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