October 2, 2020
What is FD-CIC Tool?
U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) has supported the Systems Assessment Center
of the Energy Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory to examine carbon intensity (CI) variations of different farming
practices to grow agricultural crops for biofuel production and further develop a transparent and easy-to-use tool to calculate
feedstock-specific, farm-level CI of biofuel feedstock. The tool uses life cycle inventory (LCI) data of key farming inputs from
the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET) fuel-cycle model. The system boundary of FD-CIC
covers the cradle-to-farm-gate activities, including upstream emissions related to farming input manufacturing and feedstock production.
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