Draft2:Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry

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Multiple U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories work with CCPC to provide solutions to multi-scale bioenergy challenges. Image courtesy of CCPC.

The Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry (CCPC) enables and accelerates the research and development of bioenergy technologies through the application of computational science. Using fundamental science-based models, and high-performance computing, researchers can explore ideas and concepts that are challenging to implement and measure experimentally.

The CCPC constructs and utilizes computational models to discover new materials for bioenergy applications and assist in the cost-effective scale-up of bioenergy technologies to commercially relevant scales.

Official Site - energy.gov

DOE's role

The research is performed in close collaboration with experimentalists in the Bioenergy Technologies Office (part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), and the combination of theoretical-based models and experimental approaches leads to a robust understanding of bioenergy technologies.

Mission/Objectives

The CCPC conducts computational simulations across multiple physical scales. The combined experience from scientists in the labs comprising the CCPC enable the multi-scale approach to address bioenergy challenges. Thus, a primary theme for the CCPC is “a multi-scale problem … a multi-lab solution.”

Modeling ranges from atomic scales where critical catalytic chemical conversion for fuel production occurs to reactor scales representative of commercial scale systems that can produce the large volumes of biofuels needed for U.S. energy security.

Mesoscale modeling activities focus on the middle-scale range where important mass and heat transfer phenomena occur for particles of biomass and catalysts. In addition to leveraging the combined computational science knowledge of multiple national labs, the CCPC leverages the U.S. Department of Energy's most advanced computers.

Members

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The CCPC operates the BETO-HPC user program that provides world-class computing resources including the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Image courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

While CCPC members utilize computing resources at their home national labs, the CCPC also provides computing resources to researchers at the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) in a program called BETO-HPC, where HPC stands for “High Performance Computing.”

https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/ccpc-partners

Supporting other consortium

The CCPC computational science team supports research and initiatives for the

• Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC)
• Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium (ChemCatBio)
• Bioprocessing Separations Consortium
• Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines Initiative

Contact

parksjeii@ornl.gov

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