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GREET Publications Listing

  • Publications of the GREET Model Development and Applications (March 2009, 166 kB pdf)
    This document provides the title, authors, publication date, venue of availability, and a description of the content of each GREET model report, which are listed in chronological order.

Articles

Brochures

Model Introduction Reports

  • Development and Applications of GREET 2.7 – The Transportation Vehicle-Cycle Model (February 2007, 5.5 MB pdf)
  • Operating Manual for GREET: Version 1.7 (November 2005, Revised February 2007, 1.6 MB pdf)
  • Stochastic Tool Loading Instructions (769 kB pdf)
  • User Manual for Stochastic Simulations (December 2005, 1.1 MB pdf)
  • Development and Use of GREET 1.6 Fuel-Cycle Model for Transportation Fuels and Vehicle Technologies (June 2001, 716 kB pdf)
  • GREET 1.5a: Changes from GREET 1.5 (January 2000, 91 kB pdf)
  • The Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) Model Version 1.5 (August 1999, 184 kB pdf)

Technical Analysis Reports

  • Well-to-Wheels Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (February 2009, 831 kB pdf)
  • Consumptive Water Use in the Production of Ethanol and Petroleum Gasoline (January 2009, 1.0 MB pdf)
  • Fuel Cycle Comparison of Distributed Power Generation Technologies (November 2008, 302 kB pdf)
  • Full Fuel-Cycle Comparison of Forklift Propulsion Systems (October 2008, 2.0 MB pdf)
  • Update of Distillers Grains Displacement Ratios for Corn Ethanol Life-Cycle Analysis (September 2008, 169 kB pdf)
  • Estimation of Energy Efficiencies of U.S. Petroleum Refineries (March 2008, 54 kB pdf)
  • Life-Cycle Assessment of Energy and Greenhouse Gas Effects of Soybean-Derived Biodiesel and Renewable Fuels (March 2008, 1.1 MB pdf)
  • Life-Cycle Assessment of Corn-Based Butanol as a Potential Transportation Fuel (November 2007, 653 kB pdf)
  • Projection of Chinese Motor Vehicle Growth, Oil Demand, and CO2 Emissions through 2050 (December 2006, 1.7 MB pdf)
  • Fuel-Cycle Assessment of Selected Bioethanol Production Pathways in the United States (November 2006, 2.7 MB pdf)
  • Mobility Chains Analysis of Technologies for Passenger Cars and Light-Duty Vehicles Fueled with Biofuels: Application of the GREET Model to the Role of Biomass in America’s Energy Future (RBAEF) Project (July 2005, 377 kB pdf)
  • GM Study: Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Advanced Fuel/Vehicle Systems — A North American Study of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Criteria Pollutant Emissions (May 2005, 1.4 MB pdf)
  • Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emission Impacts of Ethanol-Diesel Blends in Urban Buses and Farming Tractors, (July 2003, 992 kB pdf)
  • Soil Carbon Changes for Bioenergy Crops (September 2002, 521 kB pdf)
  • The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol: An Update (July 2002, 135 kB pdf)
  • GM Study: Well-to-Wheel Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Advanced Fuel/Vehicle Systems - North American Analysis (June 2001)
  • Fuel-Cycle Emissions for Conventional and Alternative-Fuel Vehicles: An Assessment of Air Toxics (August 2000, 523 kB pdf)
  • A Full-Fuel-Cycle Analysis of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas (December 1999, 922 kB pdf)
  • Technical Report: GREET 1.5 -- Transportation Fuel-Cycle Model (August 1999)
    NOTE: This report contains more than 400 pages in two volumes. It is presented here both by volume and by chapter. Some of the files are quite large and may be slow to download. You may wish to save the files to your hard drive instead of viewing them online.
    • Volume 1: Methodology, Development, Use, and Results
    • Volume 2: Appendixes of Data and Results
      • Entire volume in one file (15 MB pdf)
      • Introduction (139 kB pdf)
      • Appendix A: Emissions Factors of Fuel Combustion (94 kB pdf)
      • Appendix B: Per-Mile Fuel-Cycle Energy Use and Emissions (430 kB pdf)
      • Appendix C: Graphic Presentation of Changes in Per-Mile Fuel-Cycle Energy Use and Emissions by Use of Alternative Transportation Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Technologies: Lighty-Duty Trucks 1 and Light-Duty Trucks 2 (9 MB pdf)
      • Appendix D: Changes in Per-Mile Fuel-Cycle Energy Use and Emissions (5.5 MB pdf)
  • Effects of Fuel Ethanol Use on Fuel-Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (January 1999, 357 kB pdf)
  • Fuel-Cycle Fossil Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Fuel Ethanol Produced from U.S. Midwest Corn (December 1997, 457 kB pdf)
  • GREET 1.0 — Transportation Fuel Cycles Model: Methodology and Use (June 1996, 4.4 MB pdf)

Technical Papers

  • Life-Cycle Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emission Implications of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Simulated with the GREET Model (2008, 83 kB pdf)
  • Potential Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Effects of Hydrogen Production from Coke Oven Gas in U.S. Steel Mills (2008, 72 kB pdf)
  • Life-Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts of Different Corn Ethanol Plant Types (2007) (abstract, 70 kB pdf; full paper, 606 kB pdf)
  • Well-to-Wheels Results of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Criteria Air Pollutant Emissions of Selected Vehicle/Fuel Systems (abstract) (2007, 24 kB pdf)
  • Energy and Emission Benefits of Alternative Transportation Liquid Fuels Derived from Switchgrass: A Fuel Life Cycle Assessment (abstract) (2006, 20 kB pdf)
  • Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Hydrogen Produced with Nuclear Energy (abstract) (2006, 27 kB pdf)
  • Vehicle-Cycle Energy and Emission Effects of Conventional and Advanced Vehicles (abstract) (2006, 23 kB pdf)
  • Updated Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Results of Fuel Ethanol (September 2005, 466 kB pdf)
  • Might Canadian Oil Sands Promote Hydrogen Production for Transportation? - Greenhouse Gas Emission Implications of Oil Sands Recovery and Upgrading (abstract) (2005, 26 kB pdf)
  • Allocation of Energy Use in Petroleum Refineries to Petroleum Products: Implications for Life-Cycle Energy Use and Emission Inventory of Petroleum Transportation Fuels (ecomed publishers) (2003, 611 kB pdf)
  • Fuel Choices for Fuel-Cell Vehicles: Well-to-Wheels Energy and Emission Impacts (2002, 84 kB pdf)
  • Contribution of Feedstock and Fuel Transportation to Total Fuel-Cycle Energy Use and Emissions (2000, 76 kB pdf)
  • Corn-Based Ethanol Does Indeed Achieve Energy Benefits (February 2000, 103 kB pdf)

Presentations

  • GREET User Workshop Presentations
  • Updated Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Results of Fuel Ethanol (Septemer 2005, 456 kB pdf)
  • The Debate on Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Fuel Ethanol (August 2005, 2 MB pdf)
  • Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Hydrogen Produced with Nuclear Energy (June 2004, 333 kB pdf)
  • Might Canadian Oil Sands Promote Hydrogen Production Technologies for Transportation? - Greenhouse Gas Emission Implications of Oil Sands Recovery and Upgrading (April 2004, 440 kB pdf)
  • Well-to-Wheels Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Criteria Pollutant Emissions -- Hybrid Electric and Fuel-Cell Vehicles, by M. Wang (July 2003, 784 kB pdf)
  • Fuel-Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Emission Impacts of Fuel Ethanol, by M. Wang (May 2003, 992 kB pdf)
  • Well-to-Wheels Energy and Emission Impacts of Vehicle/Fuel Systems, by M. Wang (April 2003, 1 MB pdf)
  • Benefits and Costs of Hydrogen Fuels, by M. Wang and M. Mintz (January 2003, 784 kB pdf)
  • Fuel Choices for Fuel-Cell Vehicles: Well-to-Wheels Energy and Emission Impacts, by M. Wang (November 2002, 393 kB pdf)
  • Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Effects of Fuel Ethanol, by M. Wang (July 2002, 199 kB pdf)
  • Transportation Fuel-Cycle Analysis: What Can the GREET Model Do?, by M. Wang (May 1999, 44 kB pdf)

Posters

  • GREET in Action (3.11 MB pdf)
  • Argonne's Standard-Setting GREET Tool Models Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emissions Performance (451 kB pdf)

 

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