Sets and Parameters - iea-etsap

External regions
Internal region
UTOPIA
IMPEXP
OIL HYD URN FEQ HCO
GSL DSL
ELC RH RL TX NOX
E01
E51
RHE
E21
SRE
E31
E70
RL1
RHO
TXD
MINRNW
TXE
TXG
Figure 1: Example of internal and external regions in TIMES
2.2.1.1 Processes
A process may represent an individual plant, e.g. a specific existing nuclear power plant, or a
generic technology, e.g. the coal-fired IGCC technology. TIMES distinguishes three main
types of processes:
• Standard processes;
• Inter-regional exchange processes, and
• Storage processes.
2.2.1.1.1 Standard processes
The so-called standard processes can be used to model the majority of the energy
technologies, e.g., condensing power plants, heat plants, CHP plants, demand devices such as
boilers, coal extraction processes, etc. Standard processes can be classified into the following
groups:
• PRE for generic energy processes;
• PRW for material processing technologies (by weight);
• PRV for material processing technologies (by volume);
• REF for refinery processes;
• ELE for electricity generation technologies;
• HPL for heat generation technologies;
• CHP for combined heat and power plants;
• DMD for demand devices;
• DISTR for distribution systems;
• MISC for miscellaneous processes
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