README.md

This directory contains the GBOML models used in the paper

Synthetic methane for closing the carbon loop: Comparative study of three carbon sources for remote carbon-neutral fuel synthetization

Michaël Fonder, Pierre Counotte, Victor Dachet, Jehan de Séjournet, and Damien Ernst

In this repository, we use the following denomination for our three carbon sourcing configurations:

• scenario 1 : DAC in Morocco
• scenario 2 : PCCC in Morocco
• scenario 3 : PCCC in Belgium + DAC in Morocco

The sizing of the RREH can be optimized for all the configurations described in the paper by running:

python run_models.py

Most of the data presented in the tables of the paper are derived from the output json file generated for each configuration. Computing the unit cost of each commodity requires some model alterations and cannot be simply derived from these data. To get the commodity cost for our models, we provide the commodity_costs.py script which can be run to get the table of the commodity costs:

python commodity_cost.py

Output files will be located in a new commodity_cost_results directory.

Dependencies