Computational Capabilities
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Automotive Deployment Options Projection Tool (ADOPT) and Biomass Scenario Model (BSM)
ADOPT is a vehicle consumer choice and stock model which estimates vehicle technology improvement impacts on future U.S. light-duty vehicle sales, energy use, and emissions; it is currently being expanded to also contain heavy-duty vehicles. The BSM is a dynamic model of the domestic bioenergy supply chain that integrates resource availability, physical/technological/economic constraints, behavior, and policy to track the deployment of bioenergy technologies. Read More
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Bioeconomy Air Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Energy Consumption Model (Bioeconomy AGE)
Bioeconomy AGE estimates the potential energy and environmental benefits of large-scale development and rollout of Co-Optima vehicle and fuel technologies for scenarios defined in part using ADOPT and the BSM. Read More
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Computational Tools to Identify Bio-Blendstocks with Advantageous Properties
Co-Optima researchers have expertise and tools to identify bioblendstock candidates with advantageous properties and potential routes to their production. Read More
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Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI)
The JEDI model estimates jobs, earnings, and output distributed across three categories, i.e., direct, indirect and induced effects, supported by biorefinery construction and operation. Read More
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
Life-cycle analysis (LCA) explores key sustainability metrics critical to ensure that an underlying integrated process will be an environmentally beneficial design, which is the ultimate desired outcome when pursuing biomass-derived fuels and chemicals. Read More
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Multi-Dimensional Simulations, Combustion Modeling and Data Analysis in Engines or under Engine-Relevant Conditions
High-fidelity multi-dimensional simulation capabilities and lower order one-dimensional and/or surrogate to multi-dimensional models can provide unique insights into fuel-engine interactions. Read More
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Physical and Chemical Fuel Property Prediction
Tools developed by Co-Optima researchers can be used to predict a large number of relevant physical, chemical and fuel properties. Read More
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Refinery Integration Analysis
The refinery integration analysis quantifies the economic values of bio-blendstocks to petroleum refiners and their environmental impacts. Read More
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Technoeconomic Analysis (TEA)
Techno-economic analysis (TEA) quantifies the impacts that R&D breakthroughs and discoveries have on the economic viability of a process and provides a benchmark for the near- to long-term feasibility of a proposed process. Read More