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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Case van Genuchten

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Contact Information

Email: CMvanGenuchten@lbl.gov

Phone: 510-486-4651

Education

Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, UC Berkeley, 2013

Civil and Environmental Engineering, MSc, UC Berkeley, 2009

Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, San Diego State University, 2008

Awards

5th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, Creativity Prize - October 8th 2012

The award citation noted that Gadgil received his recognition for “research [relating to] one of the greatest problems currently facing the water supply: the arsenic contamination of groundwater.” The citation continues: “The Creativity Prize is being awarded to Dr. Ashok Gadgil’s team at UC Berkley for developing an economical and effective way to treat arsenic contamination and restore the groundwater supply to potability for millions of poor people around the globe. Together, these achievements promise to save countless lives.”

Affiliations: Susan Addy and Case van Genuchten, UC Berkeley; Professor Joyashree Roy from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India; and Ashok Gadgil and Robert Kostecki from EETD/Berkeley Lab.

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The Prince Sultan prize announcement

Publications

2020

Rapid and Efficient Arsenic Removal by Iron Electrocoagulation Enabled with in Situ Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide

Authors: Bandaru, Siva R.S; Case M van Genuchten; Arkadeep Kumar; Sara Glade; Dana Hernandez; Mohit Nahata, and Ashok J Gadgil.

04/2020

2016

Bacteria attenuation by iron electrocoagulation governed by interactions between bacterial phosphate groups and Fe(III) precipitates

Authors: Delaire, Caroline; Case M van Genuchten; Susan Amrose, and Ashok J Gadgil.

10/2016

Formation of macroscopic surface layers on Fe(0) electrocoagulation electrodes during an extended field trial of arsenic treatment

Authors: van Genuchten, Case M; Siva R.S Bandaru; Elena Surorova; Susan Amrose; Ashok J Gadgil, and Jasquelin Peña.

06/2016

2015

Escherichia coli Attenuation by Fe Electrocoagulation in Synthetic Bengal Groundwater: Effect of pH and Natural Organic Matter

Authors: Delaire, Caroline; Case M van Genuchten; Kara L Nelson; Susan Amrose, and Ashok J Gadgil.

07/2016

Production and Transformation of Mixed-Valent Nanoparticles Generated by Fe(0) Electrocoagulation

Authors: Dubrawski, Kristian L; Case M van Genuchten; Caroline Delaire; Susan Amrose; Ashok J Gadgil, and Madjid Mohseni.

01/2015

2012

Modeling As(III) Oxidation and Removal with Iron Electrocoagulation in Groundwater

Authors: Li, Lei; Case M van Genuchten; Susan E Addy; Juanjuan Yao; Naiyun Gao, and Ashok J Gadgil.

11/2012

Removing Arsenic from Synthetic Groundwater with Iron Electrocoagulation: An Fe and As K-Edge EXAFS Study

Authors: van Genuchten, Case M; Susan E Addy; Jasquelin Peña, and Ashok J Gadgil.

01/2012