Clean Energy Technology Economics & Emissions Model (CETEEM)
Project Summary
| Full Title: |
Clean Energy Technology Economics & Emissions Model (CETEEM) |
| Project ID: |
153 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Tim Lipman |
| Brief Description: |
Models economics and emissions of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells with natural gas reformers; models stationary generation and is expandable to vehicle forecourts and mobile systems |
| Keywords: |
Cost; economics; greenhouse gas; emissions |
Purpose
Assess the economics and emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) associated with the use of clean energy technologies for distributed power generation.
Performer
| Principal Investigator: |
Tim Lipman |
| Organization: | University of California Berkeley |
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| Address: | Energy and Resources Group, 310 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3050 |
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| Telephone: | 510-642-4501 |
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| Email: | telipman@socrates.berkeley.edu |
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Project Description
| Type of Project: |
Model |
| Category: |
Environmental, Hydrogen Fuel Pathways |
| Objectives: |
Simulate the variable-load efficiency of distributed electricity generating systems; Estimate the economic implications of combined heat and power generation; Characterize up to 10 individual energy systems at a given location, or 10 "proxy groups" of any number of similar energy systems; Calculate the costs of electricity, fuel costs, and operating efficiencies for individual energy subsystems and for the overall electricity generating system; Model varying operational strategies, including load-following and partial load-following operation, as well as excess "grid supply" operation; Analyze system economics in response to hour-by-hour variations in electricity purchase prices and sales prices (or net-metering "credit" rates); Characterize energy system operating efficiencies under varying system operating conditions; Calculate fuel upstream and system operating emissions (including criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases) divided into approximate "in-basin" and "out-of-basin" components;
Allow for specification and sensitivity analysis of a number of key economic input variables such as natural gas purchase prices, hours of operation per year, and system capital, installation, operation and maintenance costs, as well as capital cost recovery factors and financing arrangements;
Analyze the case of a hydrogen "energy station" where excess hydrogen is produced, compressed, stored, and then sold to fuel vehicles |
| Hardware/Software Requirements: |
MATLAB/Simulink/Excel |
| Outputs: |
Cost of hydrogen; greenhouse gas emissions; criteria pollutant emissions |
Products/Deliverables
Date Last Updated: 03/13/2008
