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Victor M. Zavala

University of Wisconsin-Madison

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Recycling of Printed Multilayer Plastic Packaging Films by Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Feb 2023
Kevin L. Sánchez-Rivera, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, Panzheng Zhou, Victor S. Cecon, Jiuling Yu, Kevin Nelson, Daniel Miller, Steve Grey, Zhuo Xu, Ezra Bar-Ziv, Keith L. Vorst, Greg W. Curtzwiler, Reid C. Van Lehn, Victor M. Zavala and George W. Huber
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Recycling, Dissolution, plastic, Polymer, Economics, environmental

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Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessment of Standalone Single-Stream Material Recovery Facilities in the United States

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Feb 2023
Olumide Olafasakin, Jiaze Ma, Sabrina L. Bradshaw, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Craig Benson, George W. Huber, Victor M. Zavala and Mark Mba Wright
Iowa State University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University
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Material Recovery Facility, Techno-economic analysis, Life cycle assessment, recycling, Waste management

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Assessing the Depletion of Fossil Fuels and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Consumption of Material Recovery Facilities (Mrfs) in the United States

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Sabrina L. Bradshaw, Craig Benson, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, Victor M. Zavala, Mark Mba Wright, Styliani Avraamidou, Olumide Olafasakin and George W. Huber
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Iowa State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Material recovery facility, energy consumption, GHG emissions, life cycle assessment

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From Automated to Autonomous Process Operations

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Sep 2024
Constantinos Pantelides, Michael Baldea, Apostolos T. Georgiou, Bhushan Gopaluni, Mercangöz Mehmet, Kiran Sheth, Victor M. Zavala and Christos Georgakis
Siemens Digital Industries Software, University of Texas at Austin, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC), Imperial College London, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tufts University
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Process Operations, Autonomous Operations, Process Sensors, Reinforcement Learning, Large-Language Models

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Endogenous Energy Contracts for Accelerating Industrial Decarbonisation Investment Planning under Uncertainty: an SDDP Approach

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Jun 2026
Mahdi Ahmed, Victor M. Zavala and Joan Cordiner
University of Sheffield, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Sheffield
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Stochastic programming, Energy contracts, Industrial decarbonisation, Counterparty risk, XVA, SDDP

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Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming for Industrial Decarbonisation Investment Planning with Ancillary Market Flexibility​

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Jun 2026
Mahdi Ahmed, Victor M. Zavala and Joan Cordiner
University of Sheffield, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Sheffield
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Industrial decarbonisation, Stochastic programming, Investment under uncertainty, Ancillary flexibility, Carbon trading, Real options