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STREAM: A technology planning and capacity expansion model for the industrial sector

Year: 2025

Type: software-paper

Abstract: The Strategic Technology Roadmapping and Energy, Environmental, and Economic Analysis Model— STREAM —is an optimization-based modeling tool and analysis framework to assist with strategic planning and technology investments of the industrial sector. This open-source framework is written in Julia using the JuMP package, which enables users to model future “pathways” for incumbent and future production technologies, costs, fuels and energy carriers, and energy and non-energy environmental impacts from industries as they transform in pursuit of a robust and competitive manufacturing sector. The model starts with an initial stock of industrial production technologies and assets at a facility level and then determines pathways that minimize cost, subject to an array of possible constraints on demand, market shares, environmental flows, and other exogenously specified operational considerations such as capacity utilization rates or regional energy costs. Key features of the framework include flexibility to model a wide range of industries and industrial technologies/processes at varying levels of granularity, ability to perform parametric sensitivity analyses, and ability to visualize model results using visualization objects.

Source: SoftwareX

DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2025.102355

Authors: David Thierry, Sarang Supekar, Jeffrey A. Bennett, Joe Cresko

Institutions: Argonne National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Industrial Technologies Office

Language: English

Topic: Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,200