Data and Code for ‘GHG Mitigation and Land Use Change Implications of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the United States’

Wang, W. and Khanna, M. May 1, 2025. Data and code for: “GHG Mitigation and Land Use Change Implications of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the United States.” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-7387487_V1

BEPAM, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model, models the agricultural sector and determines economically optimal land-use and feedstock mix at the US scale by maximizing the sum of agricultural sector consumers’ and producers’ surplus subject to various resource balances, land availability, and technological constraints under a range of biomass prices, from zero to $140 Mg-1 over the 2016-2030 period. Here BEPAM is used to model SAF production using energy crops and crop residues. BEPAM uses the GAMS format and uses yield and GHG balance projections from the biogeochemical model, DayCent.

Illinois Data Bank:  BEPAM code and input data