JBEI develops biofuels research wiki
In California, at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) based in San Francisco, researchers have developed a wiki for the biofuels research community to help streamline cost-efficient biorefinery operations by simulating such critical factors as production costs and energy balances under different processing scenarios. The wiki runs a technoeconomic model to help with the simulation.
In the JBEI technoeconomic model, each unit of operation in the biofuels process flow sheet has a dedicated discussion thread, making it possible for experts in different fields to collectively and publicly address issues associated with different sections of the biorefinery. To make the model interactive and dynamic, and to ensure its accuracy, parameters and assumptions will be updated in response to feedback obtained from users in the biofuels research community.
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