Commodity Description¶
MUSE handles a configurable number and type of commodities which are primarily used to represent energy, services, pollutants/emissions. The commodities for the simulation as a whole are defined in a csv file with the following structure.
Commodity |
CommodityType |
CommodityName |
CommodityEmissionFactor_CO2 |
HeatRate |
Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coal |
Energy |
hardcoal |
94.6 |
29 |
PJ |
Agricultural-residues |
Energy |
agrires |
112 |
15.4 |
PJ |
- Commodity
represents the extended name of a commodity
- CommodityType
defines the type of a commodity (i.e. energy, material or environmental)
- CommodityName
is the internal name used for a commodity inside the model.
- CommodityEmissionFactor_CO2
is CO2 emission per unit of commodity flow
- HeatRate
represents the lower heating value of an energy commodity
- Unit
is the unit used as a basis for all the input data. More specifically the model allows a totally flexible way of defining the commodities. CommodityName is currently the only column used internally as it defines the names of commodities and needs to be used consistently across all the input data files. The remaining columns of the file are only relevant for the user internal reference for the original sets of assumptions used.