Deborah Sills
deborahsills.com
My name is Deborah Sills, and I'm an Associate Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Bucknell University. I am a teacher scholar at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI) with interests in community engaged research, sustainability, and humanisitic engineering. My students and I are working with the Buffalo Creek Watershed Alliance to better understand the sources of bacterial pollution in Union County's waterways. My group also uses modeling techniques—such as life cycle assessment—to develop and improve the environmental performance of waste to resource processes.
Professional
Teaching
CEEG 340 Environmental Engineering
CEEG 242 Sustainability Principles for Engineers
CEEG 443 Sustainable Design of Engineered Technologies
Selected Publications
Citations via Google Scholar
- Coupling a rotating biological contactor with an anaerobic baffled reactor for sustainable energy recovery from domestic wastewater.
- Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, vol.8, pp.1822–1835, 2022.
- The effect of functional unit and co-product handling methods on life cycle assessment of an algal biorefinery.
- Algal Research, vol.46, p.101770, 2020.
- Prospects for Energy Recovery During Hydrothermal and Biological Processing of Waste Biomass.
- Bioresource Technology, vol.225, pp.67–74, 2017.
- Comparative Life Cycle and Technoeconomic Assessment for Energy Recovery from Dilute Wastewater.
- Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 33, pp. 861–872, 2016.
- Target Cultivation and Financing Parameters for Sustainable Production of Fuel and Feed from Microalgae.
- Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 50, pp. 3333–3341, 2016.
- Quantitative uncertainty analyis of life cycle assessment for algal biofuel production.
- Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 47, pp. 687–692, 2013.
- Using FTIR spectroscopy to model alkaline pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of six lignocellulosic biomasses.
- Biotechnology & Bioengineering, vol. 109, pp. 894–903, 2012.
- Using FTIR to predict saccharification from enzymatic hydrolysis of alkali-pretreated biomasses.
- Biotechnology & Bioengineering, vol. 109, pp. 352–363, 2012.
- Assessment of commercial hemicellulases for saccharification of alkaline pretreated perennial biomass.
- Bioresource Technology, vol. 102, pp. 1389–1398, 2011.
Office: 068 Breakiron
Phone (570) 577-3367
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Email: deborah.sills@bucknell.edu