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School of Earth Sciences

Adam Brandt

Brandt
Title:Acting Assistant Professor
Primary Affiliation:Department of Energy Resources Engineering
Office Location:Green Earth Sci.  062A
Research Lab:Wyoming Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Phone:(650) 724-8251
Fax:(650) 725-2099
E-mail:abrandt@stanford.edu

Education

  • 2008 | Ph.D. Energy and Resources University of California, Berkeley
  • 2005 | M.S. Energy and Resources University of California, Berkeley
  • 2003 | B.S. Environmental Studies, emphasis Physics University of California, Santa Barbara

Professional Experience

  • 2009 - Present  | Acting Assistant Professor Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

Honors & Awards

  • 2006 | Student paper award, United States Association for Energy Economics

Professional Activities

  • 2009 | Invited Speaker: Energy, Environment and Society Speaker Series, Humboldt State University, CA, April 2009
  • 2007 | Invited Speaker: Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, CA, December 2007

Courses Taught

  • 2010 (Winter) |    ENERGY 191/291     OPTIMIZATION OF ENERGY SYSTEMS     [Enrolled 23] 
  • 2010 (Spring) |    ENERGY 104     TECHNOLOGY IN THE GREENHOUSE 
  • 2010 (Fall)  |     ENERGY 293A    FUNDAMENTALS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROCESSES  

Publications

  • (Submitted) * |    Kirchofer, A. J. Van der Bruggen, N. Alvarez, W.W. Ng, E. Dicharry, A.R. Brandt, J. Wilcox (2012) Assessing the potential of mineral carbonation with industrial alkalinity sources. In review: Environmental Science & Technology
  • (Submitted) * |    Kirchofer, A. A.R. Brandt, S. Krevor, V. Priggiobe, J. Wilcox (2012) Impact of alkalinity sources on the life-cycle energy efficiency of mineral carbonation technologies. In review: Energy & Environmental Science.
  • 2011 * |    Kang C., A.R. Brandt, L. Durlofsky (2011). Optimal operation of an integrated energy system including fossil fuel power generation, CO2 capture and wind. Energy 36(2011): 6806-6820.
  • 2011 * |    Brandt, A.R. (2011). Variability and uncertainty in life cycle assessment models for greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian oil sands production. Environmental Science & Technology DOI:10.1021/es202312p
  • 2011 * |   Brandt, A.R., M. Dale (2011). A general mathematical framework for systems-scale efficiency of energy extraction and conversion: Energy return on investment (EROI) and other energy return ratios. Energies 2011(4): 1211-1245. DOI:10.3390/en408121
  • 2011 * |    Nemet, G., A.R. Brandt (2011). Willingness to pay for a climate backstop: Liquid fuel producers and direct CO2 air capture. The Energy Journal 33(1): 53-81. DOI:10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ- Vol33-No1-3
  • 2011 * |    Mulchandani, H., A.R. Brandt (2011). Oil shale as an energy resource in a CO2 constrained world: The concept of electricity production with in-situ carbon capture (EPICC). Energy & Fuels. 25(4): 16331641. DOI:10.1021/ef101714x
  • 2011 * |    Brandt, A.R. (2011).  Oil depletion and the energy efficiency of oil production: The case of California. Sustainabilities. 3(10): 1833-1844. DOI:10.3390/su3101833
  • 2010 * |    Yeh, S., S.M. Jordaan, A.R. Brandt, M. Turetsky, S. Spatari (2010). Land use greenhouse gas emissions from conventional and unconventional oil production. Submitted to Environmental Science & Technology.  44 pp. 8766-8772, DOI:10.1021/es1013278 
  • 2010 * | Brandt, A.R. J. Boak, and A.K. Burnham (2010). Carbon dioxide emissions from oil shale derived liquid fuels. In Oil shale: A solution to the liquid fuels dilemma, O. Ogunsola, Editor. ACS Symposium Series 1032. American Chemical Society: Washington, D.C. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2010-1032.ch011 
  • 2010 * | Brandt A.R., R.J. Plevin and A.E. Farrell (2010). Dynamics of the oil transition: Modeling capacity, depletion, and emissions. Energy: The International Journal. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.03.0142010 * | Lemoine D.M., R.J. Plevin, A.S. Cohn, A.D. Jones, A.R. Brandt, S.E. Vergara, D.M. Kammen (2010). The climate impacts of bioenergy systems depend on market and regulatory policy contexts. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/es100418p
  • 2010 * | Brandt A.R. (2010). Review of mathematical models of future oil supply: Historical overview and synthesizing critique. Energy: The International Journal. DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2010.04.045
  • 2010 * | Brandt, A.R. and S. Unnasch (2010). Energy intensity and greenhouse gas emissions from thermal enhanced oil recovery. Energy & Fuels. DOI: 10.1021/ef100410f
  • 2009 * | Brandt, A.R. Converting oil shale to liquid fuels with the Alberta Taciuk Processor: Energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions. Energy & Fuels, 2009. DOI:10.1021/ef900678d
  • 2009 | Brandt, A.R. Methods of forecasting future oil supply. Technical report 6, UKERC Review of Evidence for Global Oil Depletion, UK Energy Research Centre.
  • 2009 * | Sorrell, S. J. Speirs, R. Bentley, A. Brandt, R. Miller. An assessment of the evidence for a near-term peak in global oil production. UK Energy Research Centre, 2009.
  • 2008 | Farrell, A.E., A.R. Brandt, S. Arons. The race for 21st century automobile fuels. In Physics of Sustainable Energy: Using Energy Efficiently and Producing it Renewably. D Hafemeister, B. Levi, Mlevine, and P. Schwartz, eds. American Institute of Physics: 235-250, 2008.
  • 2008 * | Brandt, A.R. Converting oil shale to liquid fuels: Energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions of the Shell in situ conversion process. Environmental Science & Technology, 42(19), 7489-7495.
  • 2008 | Brandt, A.R. and A.E. Farrell. Dynamics of the oil transition: Modeling capacity, costs, and emissions. University of California Energy Institute, Energy Policy and Economics Working Paper 021, 2008.
  • 2007 | Farrell, A.E., D. Sperling et al. A low carbon fuel standard for California, part 1: Technical analysis. California Energy Commission, 2007.
  • 2007 * | Brandt, A.R. and A.E. Farrell. Scraping the bottom of the barrel: CO2 emissions consequences of a transition to low-quality and synthetic petroleum resources. Climatic Change, 84(3-4), 241-263, 2007.
  • 2007 * | Brandt, A.R. Testing Hubbert. Energy Policy, 35(May), 3074-3088, 2007.
  • 2007 | Brandt, A.R. Converting Green River oil shale to liquid fuels with ATP and ICP technologies. Life-cycle comparison of energy efficiency and GHG emissions. 27th Oil Shale Symposium Proceedings, Golden, CO, 2007.
  • 2007 | Farrell, A.E., D. Sperling et al. A low carbon fuel standard for California, part 2: Policy analysis. California Energy Commission, 2007.
  • 2006 * | Farrell, A.E. and A.R. Brandt. Risks of the oil transition. Environmental Research Letters 1(1) 014004, 2006.
  • 2006 | Farrell, A.E. and A.R. Brandt. Greenhouse gas emissions from a transition to oil substitutes. Modeling the oil transition: A DOE/EPA workshop on the economic and environmental implications of global energy transitions, 2006.
  • 2005 | Farrell, A.E., A. Kerr, A.R. Brandt, M. Torn. Research roadmap for greenhouse gas inventory methods. California Energy Commission Report CEC-500-2005-097, 2005.
  • 2005 | Brandt, A.R. and A.E. Farrell. Scraping the bottom of the barrel: CO2 emissions consequences of a transition to low-quality and synthetic petroleum resources. 25th North American Conference of the International Association for Energy Economics, Denver, CO, 2005.

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