Workshop for Developing Evaluation Metrics

to Advance a National Water Resource

Resource Recovery Facility Test Bed Network May 16-17, 2016

James R. Mihelcic, PhD, BCEEM

Samuel L. and Julia M. Flom Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Director, Peace Corps Master’s International Program

Director, EPA National Research Center for Reinventing Aging

Infrastructure for Nutrient Management

University of South Florida

The Organizing Committee James Mihelcic (evaluation metrics workshop chair) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of South Florida Aaron Fisher Technology and Innovation Manager, Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Adriane Koenig Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Research Participant, assigned to Environmental Protection Agency Office of Science and Technology Jeff Moeller Director of Water Technologies at the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Mark Philbrick Waste-to-Energy Coordinator, Bioenergy Technologies Office, Department of Energy Jason Ren (structures workshop chair), Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder Bob Rose Policy Analyst for EPA Office of Water, Water Policy Staff

Brandi L. Schottel Science Analyst for Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS), Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division, National Science Foundation A.J. Simon Energy Systems Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Seth Snyder Water Initiative Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Jason Turgeon Physical Scientist, Energy and Climate Unit, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1

Acknowledgements NSF, EPA, DOE, USDA, WERF

Molly Mayo, Facilitator, Meridian Institute

Pablo Cornejo

This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET 1622770. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Welcomes Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director, Engrg.

Directorate, NSF

Diana Bauer, Office of Policy and International Affairs, DOE

Bob Rose, Policy Analyst for EPA Office of Water, Water Policy Staff

James Dobrowolski, National Program Leader, Division of Environ. Systems, USDAUSDA

Amit Pramanik, Director of Research, WERF

DOB* – 1989

Merger

DOB – 2016

DOB – 1990

* DOB = Date of Birth

How we got here

Where are we going? Water Resource Recovery Facility of the Future

Energy Efficiency and

Resource Recovery

Smart Systems

Integrated Production

Engaged and Informed

Communities

Slide courtesy of Water Environment &

Reuse Foundation

National Test Bed Network Facilities

• Level 1

• Level 2

• Level 3

• Level 4

www.werf.org/testbeddirectory

45+ across North America

Our workshop’s primary

objective is to:

define several key metrics that every new

technology (or process) evaluated at the

national test bed network that impacts the

operations of a water resource recovery

facility should measure and report.

There is a follow up “Structures” Workshop

June 20-21, 2016 Denver, CO (chaired by Jason Ren)

1. That workshop focuses on envisioning the structure of the

national test bed network and specific action plans.

Specifically, the workshop will

2. Identify the stakeholders and their needs for the test bed

network

3. Develop network pathways, functions, and structures to

meet the needs and objectives

4. Develop action plans for the formation, operation, and

assessment of the testbed network

WEF Municipal Resource Recovery Design Committee project:

“Development of Standardized Definitions and Metrics for Resource Recovery

Municipal wastewater focus

Mass balance / % recovered

July 2016 report deliverable

Our job over the next two days

Address Five Charge Questions in Facilitated

Breakout Sessions

What to Expect over the Next Day and a Half

Day 1 - Monday Morning

• Keynote 1: Utility Perspective: Assessing the Performance of Innovative Technologies for Treatment and Resource Recovery (Charles Bott, Hampton Roads Sanitation District)

• Keynote 2: Choosing the Appropriate Metric from Small to Large Facilities (Diego Rosso, University of California-Irvine)

• Keynote 3: Integrating a Sustainability Framework with Assessment of Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies (Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida)

• Keynote Panel Discussion: Local to Federal Perspectives on Appropriate Metrics for Assessing Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies (chaired by Sudhir Murthy, DC Water)

Day 1 - Monday Afternoon

• Breakout Session One: Defining Appropriate Metrics • Charge Question #1: a) What will we be able to achieve

with a common set of metrics, b) what is an appropriate set of common metrics that should be measured across a national test bed network and reported for all technologies that impact the performance of a wastewater resource recovery and treatment technologies, c) what standard procedures exist to measure these metrics?

• Breakout Session Two: Developing a Framework for New Metrics

• Charge Question #2: a) How might metrics change across different levels of testbeds and b) what is the proper framework that would allow new metrics to be included in the future?

Monday Afternoon

Breakout Session One: Defining Appropriate Metrics Charge Question #1: a) What will we be able to achieve with a common set of metrics,

• b) what is an appropriate set of common metrics that should be measured across a national test bed network and reported for all technologies that impact the performance of a wastewater resource recovery and treatment technologies,

• c) what standard procedures exist to measure these metrics?

Breakout Session Two: Developing a Framework for New Metrics

Charge Question #2: a) How might metrics change across different levels of testbeds and b) what is the proper framework that would allow new metrics to be included in the future?

What is a metric? Goal—what is specifically sought to be achieved.

The goal is determined through the use of measured

indicators. Example: Reducing mercury emissions from

electric utility steam generating units.

Indicator—“A summary measure that provides information on

the state of, or change in, a system” (OECD 2011b), that is,

what is being measured. Example: Mass of mercury emitted

per heat energy input, for example, pounds per gigawatt hours.

Metric—“Defines the unit of measurement or how the indicator

is being measured” (OECD 2011a). Example: Using the first

definition, an example metric would be [grams Hg (of

mercury)/Kwh (of energy input)]. The description below

illustrates the metric in the latter sense—specifying exactly how

one arrives at the measure—so that any two individuals in

different institutions would come up with the same number.

What is a metric?

Metric—“Defines the unit of measurement or how

the indicator is being measured” (OECD 2011a).

Example: Using the first definition, an example

metric would be [grams Hg (of mercury)/Kwh

(of energy input)].

The description illustrates the metric in the latter

sense—specifying exactly how one arrives at the

measure—so that any two individuals in

different institutions would come up with the

same number.

Metrics

Tuesday

• Report out from First Day and Discussion

• Breakout Session Three: Storing the Data Generated During

Validation & Sharing Information After the Pilot Is Over

• Charge Question #3: What is most effective method to store data generated during testing.

• Charge Question #4: a) Who needs to have access to the data, b) what is the most effective way to share information after a pilot is over to ensure wide dissemination and public access?

• Charge Question 5: Are there any issues you would like added to the structure workshop that will follow in June?

So Lets Get Started…

• Keynote 1: Utility Perspective: Assessing the Performance of Innovative Technologies for Treatment and Resource Recovery (Charles Bott, Hampton Roads Sanitation District)

• Keynote 2: Choosing the Appropriate Metric from Small to Large Facilities (Diego Rosso, University of California-Irvine)

• Keynote 3: Integrating a Sustainability Framework with Assessment of Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies (Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida)

• Keynote Panel Discussion: Local to Federal Perspectives on Appropriate Metrics for Assessing Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies (moderated by Sudhir Murthy, DC Water)

Charles Bott

• Director of Water Technology and Research (Chief Technical Officer) at Hampton Roads Sanitation District

• Manages R&D efforts for HRSD’s thirteen wastewater treatment plants (249 MGD combined capacity) and collection system.

• Board Certified Environmental Engineer.

Diego Rosso

• Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Director Water Energy Nexus Center, University of California-Irvine

• Research interests include: environmental process engineering; water and wastewater engineering; carbon and energy footprints; energy conservation

Qiong Zhang

• Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida

• Research interests include: green engineering, sustainability, life cycle assessment, water-energy nexus, coupled environmental-human systems modeling

• NSF CAREER award from the Environmental Sustainability Program for the project Envisioning Integrated Wastewater Management through the Lens of Reverse Logistics

Keynote Panel Discussion: Local to Federal Perspectives on Appropriate Metrics for Assessing Treatment and

Resource Recovery Technologies

• Sudhir Murthy, DC Water (Moderator)

• Dan Murray, EPA, on detail to Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati

•Tania Ullah, National Institute of Standards & Technology

• Luke Mulford, Public Utilities, Hillsborough County, FL

• Jeanette Brown, Manhattan College

• Ken Williamson, Clean Water Services, Hillsboro, OR

• Kristen Jenkins, Water Research Center