Liquid fuels - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM

Model Documentation - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
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AIM-Hub BLUES C3IAM COFFEE-TEA DNE21+ GCAM GRACE IFs IMACLIM MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS WITNESS
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Archive of MESSAGE-GLOBIOM version 1.0
Model information
Model link	https://docs.messageix.org http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/message-globiom/ https://github.com/iiasa/message ix https://github.com/iiasa/ixmp
Institution	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	Optimization
Anticipation

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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Liquid fuel production technologies in MESSAGE by energy source

Energy Source	Technology	Electricity cogeneration
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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