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Infrastructure System Analysis

The goal of this research is to develop a detailed understanding of production facilities and infrastructure at different scales for biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, conventional, and unconventional liquid fuels using tools and models being developed including geographical information systems (GIS), mathematical programming tools, and engineering economic models for infrastructure components. This research also includes an assessment of key inputs such as water, energy resources, electricity, and land.

Research Leaders: Christopher Yang, Yueyue Fan, and Joan Ogden
Graduate Student Researchers:
Steven Chen, Ryohei Hinokuma, Eric Huang, Nils Johnson, Xuping Li, Ryan McCarthy, David McCollum, Mike Nicholas, Nathan Parker, Jie (Jesse) Zheng
Collaborating Researchers: Rob Braun


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Primary Objectives

  • Develop detailed technical understanding of fuel infrastructure components and pathways (models and technical and economic analyses)
  • Develop tools for design and layout of fuel production, distribution and refueling infrastructure to assess costs, inputs and environmental impacts
  • Investigate infrastructure transition options for different fuel pathways and consideration of geography, demand scenarios, risk, uncertainty, reliability and other important factors
  • Investigate scale factors(Individual infrastructure components, Single fuel full pathway, Multi-fuel full pathways, and transition modeling)
  • Enable cross-comparison between infrastructure costs and development challenges for different fuel pathways


Major Project Areas


Structure of "Cross-Comparison" in this research

Infrastructure requirements are modeled for a variety of different primary energy/fuel/vehicle pathways. This will allow us to compare important metrics such as delivered fuel cost, capital cost, feedstock and energy requirements and emissions for different pathways.


Relevant Posters and Presentations