RAMS (Research and Development Analysis Modeling System) Coal Model: Volume 2, User's Guide

摘要

The RAMS coal model was developed to aid the planning functions of the Office of Fossil Energy of the Department of Energy. The model was designed to simulate the market penetration of processes that use coal to produce liquid fuels. To simulate market penetration, we assume that the least cost process will have the largest share of the market. To evaluate the future income and costs for a process, we need to estimate the prices of all of the inputs and outputs for all of the coal processes and for all of the competing processes. After a literature review, we identified 26 types of energy, by-products, and factors of production that are potential inputs or outputs for a process. The coal model simulates the supply and demand for the 26 types of goods. The coal model input-output (I to O) structure has 13 sectors to produce the first 24 goods (the last 2 factors, labor and capital, are exogenous inputs). The first 10 sectors produce the first 10 goods, which are either primary or secondary forms of energy. Sector 11, the liquid fuels sector, produces refined petroleum products and by-products, the goods from 11 to 23. Sector 12 produces good 24, materials. The final sector, sector 13, is the trade sector. This report is a user's guide for the RAMS coal model. After a discussion of how to install and operate the model, the report provides a guided tour of the five input data sets and the six output data sets. One of the input data sets can be edited using LOTUS 1-2-3. The model has a menu-driven editor that displays graphical output for all of the variables in the model. 8 tabs. (ERA citation 13:020886)