Draft2:Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines Initiative
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The Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines Initiative (Co-Optima) is accelerating the introduction of clean, affordable, and scalable high-performance fuels and engines. This first-of-its-kind effort is simultaneously tackling fuel and engine R&D to maximize light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicle fuel economy and performance, while mapping lower-cost pathways to reduce emissions, leveraging diverse domestic fuel resources, boosting U.S. economic productivity, and enhancing national energy security.
Co-Optima brings together DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, nine National Laboratories and numerous universities, industry, and government stakeholders.[1]
Goals
Building on decades of advances in fuels and engines, the Co-Optima initiative’s three-pronged, integrated approach is providing American industry with the scientific underpinnings needed to identify and develop:
- Engines designed to run more efficiently on affordable, scalable, and sustainable fuels
- Fuels designed to enable high-efficiency, low-emission engines
- Strategies that can shape the success of new fuels and vehicle technologies with industry and consumers.[2]
Timeline
- December 29, 2016 - DOE Announces Up to $7 Million for the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines
- February 15, 2018 - Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines: Breakthrough Research
- June 24, 2019 - Co-Optima Identifies Innovation Needed to Continue Momentum in Fuel Economy Gains
- December 16, 2019 - Co-Optima Research Yields Potential Bioblendstock for Diesel Fuel
- November 13, 2020 - Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines Call for White Papers—Directed Funding Opportunity for Collaboration with National Laboratories
Background
The Co-Optima team views fuels not as standalone elements in the transportation system, but as dynamic design variables that can work with modern engines to optimize and revolutionize the entire on-road fleet, from light-duty passenger cars to heavy-duty freight trucks. Top scientists, engineers, and analysts from national laboratories, universities, and industry are collaborating on this first-of-its-kind effort to combine biofuels and combustion research and development.[2]
Stakeholders
The broad range of fuel and engine innovations necessary for Co-Optima success cannot be achieved by any single institution. It requires the combined expertise of the country's leading researchers across multiple national laboratories, universities, and industries, with the active engagement of key stakeholders, including:
- Light- and heavy-duty vehicle original equipment manufacturers
- Energy companies and refiners
- Fuel producers, fuel distributors, and retailers
- Federal, state, and non-government agencies
- Universities and other research institutions.[2]
National Laboratory Consortium
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
Contact
For more information on the Co-Optima initiative and related partnership opportunities, contact the project leadership team at Co-Optima-Information@googlegroups.com
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External links
References
- ↑ Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines, Department of Energy, https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/co-optimization-fuels-engines, retrieved March 25, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Co-Optima Partners, Department of Energy, https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/co-optima-partners, retrieved March 25, 2021