Tough transportation modes 

• Tackling the Energy Revolution One Sector at a Time

• Reducing Carbon Emissions from Long-haul Trucks

• MCSC Geospatial Tool Supports Strategic Decision-making for Decarbonizing Trucking Fleets

• Harnessing Hydrogen’s Potential to Address Long-haul Trucking Emissions

• Alternative Fuels and Powertrains to Decarbonize Heavy Duty Trucking

• Geospatial Tool Supports Strategic Decision-making for Decarbonizing Trucking Fleets

• Sankey Diagram: Exploring the Current Global Economy’s Major Material & Energy Flows

• Alternative Fuels and Powertrains to Decarbonize Heavy Duty Trucking

• Thought Experiment to Explore Potential Savings from Pooled Charging Infrastructure Investment

• Techno-Economic Outlooks for the Operation of Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Trucks: Their Implications on Fleet Operators, Cargo Shippers, and Vehicle Designers 

• Climate and Air Quality Impact of Using Ammonia as an Alternative Shipping Fuel

• Energy and Fuels: Perspective on Decarbonizing Long-Haul Trucks Using Onboard Dehydrogenation of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers

• Geospatial decision support for trucking fleet decarbonization (MacDonell)
  • Interactive geospatial mapping tool to support regional decision-making for stakeholders in the trucking industry considering the transition to alternative fuels and powertrains. Read more.
• Global biomass availability (Daehn, Coleman)
  • Quantifying global biomass availability, in particular from waste biomass streams, for estimating the global production capacity of biofuels
• Assessing the viability of the global low-carbon fuel supply chain for maritime applications (MacDonell, in collaboration with the MIT Energy Initiative)
  • Assessing the supply chain viability of alternative low-carbon maritime fuel pathways for the global shipping fleet based on science-informed technology and process improvement potential, and evaluating associated GHG and non-GHG impacts.

• Logistics electrification through scalable and inter-operable charging infrastructure: operations, planning, and policy (Jacquillat)
  • This project will contribute new models and algorithms for optimization of road freight, combining vehicle routing and facility location models. It will contribute new decision tools and policy recommendations to support the ongoing transition toward electrified logistics.
• Sustainable separation and purification of biochemicals and biofuels using membranes (Lienhard)
  • This investigation will begin by building a computational platform to predict the chemical potential of molecular species in complex multicomponent mixtures – combining group contribution and neural networks. Grand Canonical Monte Carlo combined with Gaussian process regression will be used to directly estimate and bound chemical potential estimates in multicomponent mixtures. The chemical potential model will be used to estimate the energy savings attainable using RO for two key biochemical and biofuel separations, guiding future membrane and materials development.
• Powertrain and system for LOHC-powered long-haul trucking (Green)
  • This team proposes a different energy carrier for long-haul trucks and certain ships: Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC), room-temperature liquids that can release gaseous hydrogen fuel. The proposed decarbonization concept for trucking and some shipping has the potential for relatively easy worldwide implementation, delivering needed reductions in GHG emissions from the transport sector.
• Hydrogen storage and delivery solutions for trucking (Winter)
  • This team is designing and prototyping new hydrogen storage design for heavy-duty hydrogen fuel-cell trucks.
• Climate and air quality impacts of ammonia in shipping (Selin, Barrett)
  • This team is studying the potential climate and air quality impacts of large-scale utilization of ammonia for maritime shipping.

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