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The CCSI² FOQUS development team is proud to announce the 3.19 release of FOQUS.
3.19 Release Highlights
Gradient generation tool to support GENN models
Support for Surrogate Modeling Toolbox Machine Learning (GENN) Models
Simpler...
The CCSI² FOQUS development team is proud to announce the 3.18 release of FOQUS.
3.18 Release Highlights
FOQUS Cloud support for User plugins
Updated the ODoE tutorials to reflect the latest changes in the UI flow
Fixing plot...
The CCSI² FOQUS development team is proud to announce the 3.17.1 release of FOQUS.
3.17.1 Release Highlights
Improved Optional Software Install and Tutorial Notes documentation, clarifying usage of Turbine and SimSinter in installation...
The CCSI² FOQUS development team is proud to announce the 3.16.0 release of FOQUS.
3.16.0 Release Highlights
Support For PyTorch Neural Network Models
Support For Scikit-Learn Machine Learning Models
Enhancements to SDoE & NUSF...
The CCSI² FOQUS development team is proud to announce the 3.15.0 release of FOQUS.
3.15.0 Release Highlights:
NUSF bug fix to improve design generation and be able to run it with or without a previous data file.
SDoE plotting fixes...
The FOQUS development team is pleased to announce the 3.14.0 release of FOQUS.
3.14.0 Release Highlights:
Switch PyQt5 requirement to 5.12
Improved Logging Output for node Failures: Bogus Steady State Error
Sphinx Documentation Build...
The FOQUS development team is pleased to announce the 3.13.1 release of FOQUS.
3.13.1 Release Highlights:
Incorporate changes for multi-platform compatibility of FOQUS dependencies (#1023)
3.13.0 Release Highlights:
SDoE...
The FOQUS development team is pleased to announce the 3.12.0 release of FOQUS.
3.12.0 Release Highlights:
Turbine: compatibility issues have been fixed with the latest released version of SimSinter (2.1.0.1) and the Turbine Science Gateway...
The FOQUS development team is pleased to announce the 3.10.0 release of FOQUS.
3.10.0 Release Highlights:
New MATLAB interface
New data imputation feature in SDoE
Updated Vector Variable support
Various minor bug-fixes, documentation...
Hello all,
On behalf of the FOQUS development team, I'm pleased to announce the 3.9.0 release of FOQUS.
3.9.0 Release Highlights:
Addition of the Robust Optimality-based Design of Experiments (ODoE) to the SDoE module
PSUADE-Lite...
Hello all,
On behalf of the FOQUS development team, I'm pleased to announce the 3.8.0 release of FOQUS.
3.8.0 Release Highlights:
Addition of new SDoE capability: Input-Response Space Filling (IRSF)
Improvements to SDoE UI and...
Hello all,
On behalf of the FOQUS development team, I'm pleased to announce the 3.7.2 release of FOQUS.
This is a patch to the 3.7.0 release with a few small bug fixes as well as a dramatic improvement on SDoE NUSF runtimes.
For...
The combined CCSI2–IDAES Stakeholder Workshop, originally planned for Washington DC in May and postponed by Covid-19 to October, is being delivered as an online series of events beginning October 1. The series includes four focused CCSI2...
We are proud to announce that the NETL-led Carbon Capture Simulation for Industry Impact (CCSI2) reached a significant milestone on March 30, 2018. The entire Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) Toolset was released for open source use...
Please join the CCSI2 team in congratulating Christine Anderson-Cook. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) has selected Christine to receive the 2018 Shewhart Medal for her “exemplary leadership, service, training, research and...
The Carbon Capture Simulation for Industry Impact (CCSI2) Industrial and Academic Stakeholders Board (IASB) Meeting is scheduled for August 23-24, 2017 at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA.
You are cordially invited to...
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) – a ministerial-level initiative focused on the development of improved, cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS) – has recognized two U.S. Department of...
The CCSI2 and Toolset Support Leadership Team held the first 2017 Leadership Team meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 19-20, 2017. This meeting presented results of ongoing and plans for future work in: materials...
Dr. David Miller has been selected as the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) Senior Fellow for Systems Engineering and Analysis. In this position, Dr. Miller serves as the NETL’s resident expert in this area. His...
Dr. Joel D. Kress, Deputy Division Leader of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Division will be honored as a newly appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions to computational scattering, materials,...
A meeting of the CCSI2 and CCSI Toolset Support Technical Leadership Team will be held on April 19–20, 2017 in Berkeley, CA. The meeting objectives are to review FY17 activities, ensure alignment with Fossil Energy (FE) Mission, and...
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) Toolset received a 2016 R&D 100 Award on November 3rd in Oxon Hill, MD. The R&D 100 Awards, known in the research community as the “Oscars of Invention,” identify and celebrate some...
The first meeting of the CCSI2 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) was held on August 9–10, 2016 in Pittsburgh, PA. The CCSI2 IAB meeting was held concurrently with the Carbon Capture Technology Project Review Meeting to familiarize both the IAB...
The CCSI Toolset has been named a finalist for an R&D 100 Award. These awards, presented annually by R&D Magazine, recognize 100 of the brightest and boldest technologies and services of the year across nine categories...
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) project released a minor update of the CCSI Toolset on July 14, 2016. The tools are available for download from https://www.acceleratecarboncapture.org/current-product-list for those entities...
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) project released a minor update of the CCSI Toolset on May 3, 2016. The tools are available for download from https://www.acceleratecarboncapture.org/current-product-list for those entities with an...
A meeting of the CCSI Technical Leadership Team was held on March 16–17, 2016 in Berkeley, CA. The meeting objectives were to determine activities that need to be completed to close out the first phase of CCSI and to plan the work that...
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) project released a minor update of the CCSI Toolset on February 29, 2016. The tools are available for download from https://www.acceleratecarboncapture.org/current-product-list for those...
Mike Matuszewski has joined the CCSI team in the role of Associate Technical Director. Mike is currently with the University of Pittsburgh serving as Director of External Relationships for the Chemical Engineering Department. He also serves as...
David Miller, alumnus of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, was recognized in an alumni newsletter article for his work on CCSI to reduce CO2 emissions.
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) released the fourth-generation of the CCSI Toolset on November 30, 2015. This is the final planned “major” release, and its capabilities are the culmination of nearly five years of development. The...
The semi-annual CCSI Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Program Review Meeting was held on September 23–24, 2015 in Reston, VA. The meeting was the ninth meeting for the project and the last in the current format of this phase of CCSI, which will...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Process Systems Enterprise, Ltd. (Cedar Lakes, NJ) to receive funding through its Crosscutting Research Program’s Technology Development to Enable Highly...
Larry Biegler has been selected to receive the 2015 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature. The award is presented to a member of AIChE who has made an outstanding contribution to chemical...
CCSI researchers from NETL and CMU published a paper in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research that describes how spatially distributed first-principles process models which provide an accurate physical description of chemical processes,...
Members of the CCSI Technical Leadership Team recently published an invited article in Power Engineering, which focuses on essential elements related to the development and validation of multi-scale models in order to help minimize risk and maximize...
CCSI researchers recently published an article in Power Engineering that discusses how advanced modeling capabilities can be used to accelerate the development and scale-up of carbon capture technologies.
The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration has selected David Miller as a recipient of the 2014 Arthur S. Flemming Award recognizing outstanding men and women in the federal government. Dr. Miller was chosen in recognition of...
CCSI Technical Director, David C. Miller, gave an invited presentation at the AspenTech conference describing the new capabilities for optimization and uncertainty quantification (UQ) that the CCSI Technical Team has developed. The presentation...
CCSI researchers from NETL and CMU published a paper in Computers and Chemical Engineering that describes a new simultaneous process optimization and heat integration approach, which can be used directly with the rigorous models in process...
The Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) released an updated version of several components of the Toolset and a new tool on April 22, 2015. The update includes a brand new Solvent Crossflow Heat Exchanger Calculator, an updated version...
The semi-annual CCSI Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Program Review Meeting was held on April 22–23, 2015 in Berkeley, CA. The meeting provided a review of the overall program, as well as reviews of capabilities of the computational tools and models...
CCSI researchers have developed an equation-based optimization framework to facilitate the design and optimization of large scale fossil energy systems. This framework is being initially demonstrated for oxycombustion power plants, which are ideal...
CCSI researchers recently published results describing multi-scale dynamic capture models and an innovative method to reduce the complexity of PDE-based and rate-based dynamic models, while preserving input-output behavior. Dynamic reduced models (D...
Recent advances by members of the CCSI technical team were published in Energy Procedia based on work presented at GHGT-12 in October 2014. The paper discusses a Framework for Optimization and Quantification of Uncertainty and Sensitivity (FOQUS),...
CCSI researchers recently published details of a new advanced approach for building models, which addresses a central theme of empirical model building: the incorporation of first-principles information in a data-driven model-building process. This...
CCSI researchers recently published details of a method for quantifying the effects of uncertainty in property models on model predictions and its application to CO2 loaded aqueous MEA solutions. This new method represents an important capability...
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), ESI North America, and WS Corporation (WSC) became the most recent companies to license the suite of computational tools and models developed by CCSI. The 3rd generation of the “CCSI Toolset” was...
NETL recently posted a funding opportunity announcement related to the CCSI Toolset. For details and timing, please see http://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0001238&agency=DOE, subtopic 4A.
On February 2, 2015, the Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI) launched its enhanced website that offers streamlined functionality and more efficient search capabilities. Project news, links to the CCSI Toolset, publications, and reports...