Nick Behling, P.E., C.E.M. Email & Phone Number

Livermore, California, United States

Supporting the CA Net Zero organization.

Tucson, Arizona

Supporting the RMD business unit.

Evanston, Illinois

As a mechanical engineering master’s student, I assisted Dr. Jennifer Dunn in analyzing and evaluating whether producing sodium hydroxide (NaOH) from seawater- and brackish groundwater-reverse osmosis (SW-RO, BGW-RO) desalination brine, posed any energy/environmental advantages to conventional methods of NaOH production, as co-product valuation is a potential route for making desalination more viable; this research project involved reviewing extensive published literature for information on material and water intensity of conventional NaOH production and desalination, and comparing conventional- and desalination-based methods for NaOH production using Argonne National Laboratory’s Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation (GREET®) model.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

I worked under Dr. Neelesh Patankar and graduate student Tom Zhao, I graded homeworks, midterms, and final exams for Dr. Patankar’s undergraduate engineering fluid mechanics course (ME 373-0) for the Winter 2019 Quarter.

8217 Shoal Creek Blvd Suite 200, Austin, Tx 78757

Geosyntec Consultants further showed me the relationship between water and energy. I assisted with a State CCR (Coal Combustion Residuals) permit application for the regulatory closure of a large ash pond at a Confidential Utility in the southeastern United States. The permit application included development of design for stormwater and contact water management systems (including pre-development and post-development analysis), detention pond design, culvert design, open channel flow design, and energy dissipation design using HydroCAD and Federal Highway Administration HY-8 modeling software, as well as area calculations using AutoCAD.Next, I helped design a stormwater bypass channel and an emergency spill for an existing small dam owned by a Confidential Client at an oil and gas production site in South Texas. Analysis included stormwater modeling using HydroCAD, and emergency spillway design for the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) event.Then, I performed data review and management of groundwater elevation measurements at regulatory wells for quarterly and annual reporting to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for permit compliance at an industrial wastewater treatment plant landfarm application site along the Texas coast.Additionally, I prepared electronic boring logs from subsurface geologic investigation associated with a lateral landfill expansion permit application for an existing landfill in east Austin.I also conducted open records file searches at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for landfill permit surface water management, as well as water well ownership and registration records.Finally, I conducted field work and engineering oversight for contractor installation of geomembrane liner system for wet pond facilities in south Austin, Texas.

Webber Energy Group - The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineeringhttp://www.webberenergygroup.com/Assisted Ph.D. students Bruk Berhanu and Anna Schleifer in developing a modeling framework to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of decentralized water supplies (on-site collection, treatment, and reuse of rain-, gray-, and black-water on a land parcel), to offset demand for potable water and wastewater services and reduce physical extent of centralized water and wastewater infrastructure. Assisted Scott Vitter, Ph.D., in identifying high-potential customer segments for energy and water savings in the residential sector, and identifying least-cost appliance retrofit strategies for said consumer segments in support of sustainability initiatives across the United States.Research involved extensive literature review, data analyzation using Python, AnyLogic (Java), and Microsoft Excel, and assisting Scott, Bruk, and Anna in the completion of their dissertations.

Tutored fellow engineering students the fundamentals of fluid mechanics in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Required to work in both classroom and laboratory settings.

1101 Satellite View #301, Round Rock, Tx 78665

LRE Water, LLC - a Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. company.LRE Water, LLC taught me the importance of water and how finite a resource it is. I worked on multiple projects that involved allocating water rights between the Gulf Coast Water Authority and its municipal and industrial customers, including DowDuPont, Valero, Thomas S. Mackey Water Treatment Plant, and the surrounding Texas City areas. Additionally, I assisted in performing topographic and bathymetric surveys of the settling pond at Brushy Creek Municipal Utility District's water treatment plant, and the stormwater pond at Shirley McDonald Park. These projects involved extensive data analyzation using MATLAB and the Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP) Modeling System, field measurements of important hydraulic parameters, writing reports, and creating presentations for the client(s).

13809 Research Blvd #300, Austin, Tx 78750

CP&Y, Inc. showed me the importance of energy usage and economics in designing water treatment alternatives. One of the major projects I worked on evaluated the feasibility of replacing a gravity belt thickener (used to thicken/dewater wastewater sludge prior to conversion into compost) with a high-efficiency centrifuge dewatering system at the Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant, after comparing capital and operating costs, process and energy efficiencies, quality of processed sludge, and health and environmental concerns. Another project that I worked on involved providing solutions in controlling the amount of dissolved oxygen added in the wastewater in one of the aeration basins at the Cedar Park Water Reclamation Facility.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Specialization: Energy and Sustainability (Industrial Energy Management, HVAC/R Design, Energy and Environmental Law, Research.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Webber Energy Group, UT Club Tennis (Social Chair Officer), Chi Epsilon (Social Chair Officer), American Society.