Steubing, Bernhard, Dr.

ETH Zürich Dr. Bernhard Steubing Institute for Environmental Engineering HIF C 42 Schafmattstr. 6 8093 Zurich Telefon: +41 44 633 76 39 Fax: +41 44 633 10 61 E-Mail:

Background

Research Activities & Interests

• Life cycle management of wood resources combining material flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)
• LCA in the field of bioenergy
• Biomass availability assessments
• Agent based modelling of the energy wood market

Journal Publications

• Identifying environmentally and economically optimal bioenergy plant sizes and locations: a spatial model of wood-based SNG value chains
  Steubing B.; Ballmer I.; Gassner, M.; Gerber L.; Pampuri, L.; Bischof, S.; Thees O.; Zah R.
  submitted
• Heat, electricity, or transportation? the optimal use of residual and waste biomass in Europe from an environmental perspective
  Steubing B.; Zah R.; Ludwig C.
  Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46, 164-171.
• Life cycle assessment of SNG from wood for heating, electricity, and transportation
  Steubing B.; Zah R.; Ludwig C.
  Biomass and Bioenergy 2011>, 35(7), 2950-60.
• Bioenergy in Switzerland: Assessing the domestic sustainable biomass potential
  Steubing B.; Zah R.; Waeger P.; Ludwig C.
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2010, 14(8), 2256-65
• Assessing computer waste generation in Chile using material flow analysis
  Steubing B.; Böni H.; Schluep M.; Silva U.; Ludwig C
  Waste Management 2010, 30, 473-82.
• Ansätze für eine agentenbasierte Modellierung von Holzmärkten
  Olschewski R.; Steubing B.; Lemm R.; Thees O.
  In: Thees O, editor. Management zukunftsfähige Waldnutzung Grundlagen, Methoden und Instrumente: vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich und Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 2009, p. 225-46
• Influence of pH and ionic strength on transmission of plasmid DNA through ultrafiltration membranes
  Arkhangelsky E.; Steubing B.; Ben-Dov E.; Kushmaro A.; Gitis V.
  Desalination 2008, 227(1-3), 111-19

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

• An environmental optimization model for bioenergy plant sizes and locations for the case of wood-derived SNG in Switzerland
  Steubing B.; Ballmer I.; Thees O.; Gerber L.; Maréchal F.; Zah R. et al
  World Renewable Energy Congress. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2011 (Best Paper Award)
• What are the environmentally optimal uses of different biomass feedstocks - heating, electricity generation or transportation? (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Reinhard J.; Zah R.; Ludwig C.
  ISIE 2011, Berkeley, California, USA, 2011
• Agent-based modelling of a woodfuel market - factors that affect the availability of woodfuel (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Kostadinov F.; Ghorbani A.; Wäger P.; Thees O.; Ludwig C.
  ISIE 2011, Berkeley, California, USA, 2011
• Assessment of the biomass potential of residual and waste biomass and environmental impacts of different energy conversion pathways (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Reinhard J.; Zah R.; Ludwig, C.
  WasteEng, Peking, China, 2010
• Analysis of SNG-production as well as optimal plant sizes and locations from an environmental perspective for the case of Switzerland (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Reinhard J.; Zah R.; Ludwig, C.
  WasteEng, Peking, China, 2010
• Life Cycle Analysis of the Production of Synthetic Natural Gas from Wood and Considerations to the Optimal Plant Scale (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Reinhard, J.
  17th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition, Hamburg, 2009
• LCA of SNG from biomass: LCA of the Production of Bio-SNG from Wood and Considerations to the Optimal Plant Scale (Oral Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Reinhard, J.
  Bio-SNG'09, Zurich, 2009
• Assessing the critical factors that determine the availability of forest fuel in Switzerland with an agent based model (Poster Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Wäger P.; Zah R.
  International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, 2009 (Best poster award)
• Investigating the supply of forest fuels as a function of forest managers’ behavior (Poster Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Wäger P.; Zah R.
  8th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology, Zurich, 2009
• Untersuchung der kritischen Faktoren, welche die Verfügbarkeit von Energieholz beeinflussen mit einem agenten-basierten Modell (Poster Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Wäger P.; Zah R.
  Die Forstwirtschaft und die Heraus-forderungen globaler Entwicklungen, WSL, Birmensdorf, 2009
• Potenzial und Nutzungsszenarien von Bioenergie in der Schweiz (Poster Presentation)
  Steubing B.; Wäger P.; Zah R.
  Das Potenzial für erneuerbare Energien in der Schweiz, Empa, Dübendorf, 2009