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Biositing Tool: A web-based geospatial tool for assessing
local biomass, organic waste, and waste plastic resources
available for conversion across the continental United
States.
Separations Decision Tool: A web-based decision tool
for designing product separations and recovery processes
and estimating capital and operating costs for biological
conversion processes based on product properties and
microbial host.
VirtualMRF: A Python-based model for designing and
simulating materials recovery facilities based on varying
incoming waste streams and target recovery rates and
target plastic bale specifications.
Indoor Air Quality and Air
Transport Modeling
Berkeley-Trent Continental-Scale Pollutant Fate and
Transport Model (BETR North America and BETR
Global): Analyzes how persistent organic pollutants
move and accumulate.
California Greenhouse Gas Emission Measurement
(CALGEM): Quantifies California greenhouse gas emissions
from anthropogenic activities and natural environments
using atmospheric measurements and analysis.
Residential Diagnostics Database (ResDB): A residential
envelope and duct leakage database used for energy and
indoor air quality assessments.
Market, Economic, Financial,
and Policy Analysis and
Assessment Tools
China 2050 Demand Resources Energy Analysis
Model (DREAM): Comprehensive analysis of energy
policies, future scenarios, supply options, and energy,
emissions, and pollutants analysis.
eProject Builder: Enables Energy Services Companies
(ESCOs) and their contracting agencies to upload and
track project-level information; generate basic project
reports required by local, state and/or federal agencies;
and benchmark new Energy Savings Performance
Contract (ESPC) projects against historical data.
Financial Impacts of Distributed Energy Resources
Model (FINDER): Quantifies the impacts of energy
efficiency, demand response, and/or distributed
generation on utility shareholders and utility
customers.
Resource Planning Portal: Allows users to input
electric utility planning information in a consistent
format, benchmark planning assumptions across
jurisdictions, and output results in a standardized
format for deeper analysis.
50001 Ready Navigator: An online application that
provides step-by-step guidance for implementing
and maintaining an energy management system in
conformance with the ISO 50001 Energy Management
System Standard.
Transportation Sector Analysis
and Planning
Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM):
An agent-based transportation systems simulation
model that recreates regional travel patterns for work
and non-work activities including roadway vehicle and
transit flows for a synthetic population of agents including
individuals and households. BEAM also simulates daily
travel of all agents, by time of day and travel mode
subject to constraints about the timing, travel time,
and cost of alternate modes and routes within the
regional transportation system. BEAM reveals energy
consumption, emissions, travel time, and mode choice
impacts at the regional scale and at the level of individual
agents to emerging mobility services and technologies.
Mobiliti: An urban-scale transportation system simulator
that implements parallel discrete event simulation on
high-performance computers in order to provide insights
into transportation dynamics in minutes of compute time.
Integration of diffusion convolutional neural networks
trained with infrastructure sensors (inductive loops in
the highway) and a variety of optimization algorithms
for dynamic traffic assignment creates a rich platform
to engage the transportation community in the design
of next-generation active congestion control strategies,
including active control of vehicle routing across
connected fleets.
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