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Orner Research Group
Environmental Engineering & Sustainable Development
Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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Publications

  1. Aldaach, H., Zaki, M.T., and Orner, K.D. Improving prediction of nutrient recovery via struvite precipitation from organic waste digestate. Accepted. Environmental Engineering Science.
  2. Zaki, M.T., Rowles, L.S., Hallowell, J., and Orner, K.D. A data-driven framework to inform sustainable management of animal manure in rural agricultural regions using emerging resource recovery technologies. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 2024, 13, 100188. DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2024.100188.
  3. Zaki, M.T., Wilson, M., Yates, J., and Orner, K.D. A framework for informing context-sensitive sustainable management of organic waste in rural agricultural regions. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2024, 4, 015006. DOI: 10.1088/2634-4505/ad2376.
  4. Zaki, M.T., Rowles, L.S., Adjeroh, D., and Orner, K.D. A critical literature review of data science applications in resource recovery and carbon capture from organic waste.  ES&T Engineering, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsestengg.3c00043.
  5. Orner, K.D., Smith, S.J., Nordahl., S., Chakrabarti, A., Breunig, H.M., Scown, C.D., Leverenz, H., Nelson, K.L., and Horvath, A. Fertilizer demand and potential supply through nutrient recovery from organic waste digestate in California. Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56, 17256-17265. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c04020.
  6. Orner, K.D., Deleu, E, Rabaey, K., and Nelson, K.L. Impact of operating conditions on accelerating urea hydrolysis. Environmental Technology, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2022.2129456. 
  7. Maiga, Y., Young, S., Orner, K.D., Mihelcic, J.R., Harwood, V.J., and Ouattara, A.S. Isolation and assessment of cyanide biodegradation potential of indigenous bacteria from contaminated soil. Journal of Environmental Protection, 2022, 13, 716-731. DOI: 10.4236/jep.2022.1310046. 
  8. Kassouf, H., Orner, K.D., Garcia Parra, A., and Cunningham, J.A. Treatment of an aerobic digester side stream in a microbial fuel cell: nitrate removal and electricity generation. Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE), 2022. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE1943-7870.0001979. 
  9. Orner, K.D., Smith, S.J., Breunig, H.M., Scown, C.D., and Nelson, K.L. Fertilizer demand and potential supply through nutrient recovery from organic waste digestate in California. Water Research., 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117717.
  10. Orner, K.D., Symonds, E., Madrigal-Solis, H., Orozco-Montoya, R., Fonseca-Sanchez, A., Verbyla, M., and Cairns, M. Holistically managing pathogens and nutrients in urbanizing tropical towns: Can sanitation technologies create safer conditions for beach recreation? ES&T Water, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.0c00264.
  11. Orner, K.D., Tsegaye, S., Kassouf, H., Rathore, K., Sunol, A., and Cunningham, J.A. Case study for analyzing nutrient-management technologies at three scales within a sewershed. Urban Water Journal, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2021.1893361.
  12. Orner, K.D., Cornejo, P. Rojas Camacho, D., Alvarez, M., and Camacho-Céspedes, F. Improving life cycle economic and environmental sustainability of animal manure management in marginalized farming communities through resource recovery. Environmental Engineering Science, special issue on Global Environmental Engineering for and with Historically Marginalized Communities, 2021. DOI: 10.1089/ees/2020.0262.
  13. Orner, K.D., Camacho-Céspedes, F., Cunningham, J.A., and Mihelcic, J.R. Assessment of nutrient fluxes and recovery for a small-scale agricultural waste treatment system in Costa Rica. Journal of Environmental Management, 2020, 267, 110626. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110626.
  14. Orner, K.D., Cools, C., Zalivina, N., Balaguer-Barbosa, M., Mihelcic, J.R., Chen, G., and Cunningham, J.A. Energy recovery and nitrogen management from struvite precipitation effluent via microbial fuel cells. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2019, 145. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001500.
  15. Orner, K.D. and Mihelcic, J.R. A review of sanitation technologies to achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals that promote resource recovery. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2018, 4, 16-32. DOI: 10.1039/C7EW00195A.
  16. Orner, K.D., Ozcan, O., Saetta, D., Boyer, T.H., Yeh, D.H., Anderson, D., and Cunningham, J.A. House of quality planning matrix for evaluating wastewater nutrient management technologies at three scales within a sewershed. Environmental Engineering Science, 2017, 34, 773-784. DOI: 10.1089/ees.2017.0016.
  17. Orner, K.D., Calvo, A., Zhang, J., and Mihelcic, J.R. Effectiveness of in-line chlorination of developing world gravity-flow water supply. Waterlines, 2017, 36, 167-182. DOI: 10.3362/1756-3488.16-00016.