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NATIONAL FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS PROJECT
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Division is starting a new project funded by DOE's
Fossil Energy Office to develop a comprehensive, detailed
simulation of the national fossil fuel industrial infrastructure
to address a wide variety of fossil fuel related policy questions.
This capability will allow us to understand, in depth, the entire
fossil-fuel infrastructure including its components and their
couplings, and to assess policy impacts on fossil fuel infrastructure
and electric grid reliability.
This analysis tool will include
all of the important industry components and their interactions.
The physical components would include mining, transportation
of fuel, fuel use (electricity, heat, etc.), electricity transmission
and distribution, and waste transportation and disposal. The
model will also include the actions of the various humans that
impact (and are impacted by) the fossil-fuel industry such as
consumers, regulators, national, state, and local officials,
investors, and CEOs.
The first year's tasks include
a complete model architecture, a requirements document, an assessment
of existing fossil fuel models, and a program plan to bring the
model to completion. If funds are available, during the second
and third years we plan to develop a proof-of-concept prototype
of the model. Thereafter we will develop the rest of the model
and begin policy analyses of fossil fuel issues of importance
to the sponsors.
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 See a few slides containing
an overview.
Download 0.5 Mb pdf.
Booth, S.R. (2000)
Preliminary strategic data model for internatinal coal markets
- Mexico and Vietnam test cases, LA-UR-00-1314.
Download
0.8 Mb pdf.
Booth, S.R. and R.H.
Drake (2001) White paper: Natural gas and coal supply reliability
for electricity generation in the U.S., LA-UR-01-0951.
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1.4 Mb pdf.
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