Liquid fuels - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
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| Model information | |
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| Institution | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at. |
| Solution concept | General equilibrium (closed economy) |
| Solution method | Optimization |
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Apart from oil refining as predominant supply technology for liquid fuels at present a number of alternative liquid fuel production routes from different feedstocks are represented in MESSAGE (see <xr id="tab:MESSAGE-GLOBIOM_liqfuel"/>). Different processes for coal liquefaction, gas-to-liquids technologiesand biomass-to-liquids technologies both with and without CCS are covered. Some of these technologies include co-generation of electricity, for example, by burning unconverted syngas from a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in a gas turbine (c.f. Larson et al., 2012 MSG-GLB_larson_chapter_2012). Technology costs for the synthetic liquid fuel production options are based on Larson et al. (2012) (MSG-GLB_larson_chapter_2012).
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| Energy Source | Technology | Electricity cogeneration |
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| Biomass | Fischer-Tropsch biomass-to-liquids | yes |
| Fischer-Tropsch biomass-to-liquids with CCS | yes | |
| Coal | Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-liquids | yes |
| Fischer-Tropsch coal-to-liquids with CCS | yes | |
| coal methanol-to-gasoline | yes | |
| coal methanol-to-gasoline with CCS | yes | |
| Gas | Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids | no |
| Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids with CCS | no | |
| Oil | simple refinery | no |
| complex refinery | no |
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